Hebrews 7:19

The law made nothing perfect, but a better hope is introduced through which we draw near to God. Christ's priesthood brings the access to God the law could never provide.

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• Acts 13:39And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
• Heb 9:9Which 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;
• Heb 4:16Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
• Rom 8:3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
• Heb 6:18That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
• Heb 10:1For 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 comers thereunto perfect.
• Rom 5:2By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
• Heb 11:40God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
• Gal 2:16Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
• Ps 73:28But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.
• Heb 8:6But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
• Heb 10:19–22Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
• John 14:6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
• Eph 2:13–18But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
• Heb 7:25Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
• Rom 3:20–21Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
• 1 Tim 1:1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;
• Heb 7:11If 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 Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
• John 1:17For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
• Gal 3:24Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
• Col 1:27To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
• Eph 3:12In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

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