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 everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
• Heb 9:9which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect;
• Heb 4:16Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.
• 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;
• Heb 6:18that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
• Heb 10:1For 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.
• Rom 5:2through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
• Heb 11:40God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
• Gal 2:16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
• Ps 73:28But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
• Heb 8:6But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.
• Heb 10:19–22Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
• John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
• Eph 2:13–18But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.
• Heb 7:25Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
• Rom 3:20–21Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
• 1 Tim 1:1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;
• Heb 7:11Now 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?
• John 1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
• Gal 3:24So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
• Col 1:27to whom God was pleased to make known what are 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 in confidence through our faith in him.

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