The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, says the LORD.

Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, says the LORD of hosts.

And you Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are not the least among the princes of Judah: for out of you shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.

And said unto him, Are you he that should come, or do we look for another?

The woman said unto him, I know that Messiah comes, who is called Christ: when he comes, he will tell us all things.

By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, of which you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

And we know that the Son of God is come, and has given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

Therefore in all things he had to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

For we have not a high priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our weaknesses; but was in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

So also Christ glorified not himself to be made a high priest; but he that said unto him, You are my Son, today have I begotten you.

As he says also in another place, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;

If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

For he of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, of which no man has ever served at the altar.

And it is yet far more evident: that after the similitude of Melchizedek there arises another priest,

For he testifies, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by which we draw near unto God.

(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord swore and will not change, you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek:)

And they truly were many priests, because they were not allowed to continue by reason of death:

Therefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.

Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the ones approaching perfect.

Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.

And behind the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;

And over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy seat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:

Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

For Christ has not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

Yet the most High dwells not in temples made with hands; as says the prophet,

God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands;

Neither is worshiped with men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he gives to all life, and breath, and all things;

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: