Hebrews 7:18

The former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness. The old legal order could not accomplish what was needed and is now annulled.

Cross-references · 14

• Rom 8:3For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
• Acts 13:39and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
• Gal 4:9But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
• Heb 7:11–12Now if there were perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
• Heb 8:7–13For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
• Heb 7:19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
• 1 Tim 4:8For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
• Gal 3:17Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
• Heb 13:9Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
• Heb 10:1–9For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
• Gal 3:15Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.
• Gal 4:21Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?
• Rom 3:31Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
• Heb 9:9–10which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect;

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