Hebrews 7 on good news bible

Here is Hebrews 7 in the Good News Bible (GNB):

Hebrews 7

1 This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham, who was returning from defeating the kings, and blessed him. 2 Abraham gave him a tenth of everything he had won in battle. (The name "Melchizedek" means "king of righteousness," and "Salem" means "peace.")

3 There is no record of his father or mother or of his birth or death. He remains a priest forever, like the priestly order of Melchizedek.

4 Consider how great he was. Even Abraham, the great leader, gave him a tenth of everything he had won. 5 Those who are descendants of Levi, who receive the law, have a command to collect a tenth from the people, that is, from their brothers and sisters. But those whose ancestor is Melchizedek have received a promise. 6 He remains a priest forever, and his priestly office is without end.

7 If the law of Moses had given a perfect way of making people right with God, there would have been no need for another priest to come. 8 But God has found something better, so that those who are made right with God might have hope.

9 And it is not possible for anyone to make a new agreement with God, because every agreement is based on the law. But we have been made right with God through faith in Jesus Christ, even though it is not based on law, but on faith in his blood.

10 For Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were going to be spoken. 11 But Christ is faithful as the Son, over God's house. We are his house, if we hold on to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.

12 And we have this hope as an anchor for our souls, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, 13 where our great priest Jesus Christ is sitting at the right side of God's throne.

14 So Jesus has become the guarantee of a better agreement. 15 And since there is no longer any chance of death for him to die again, he has become the one who lives forever to bring us to God through his blood.

16 This is why he is the mediator of a new agreement, so that those who are called may receive the promise that God guaranteed to his people. Jesus has become the guarantee of a better agreement.

17 And since this is so, the old agreement is set aside as obsolete and is about to disappear.

18 So there is no longer any chance of death for him to die again, but he has become the one who lives forever to bring us to God through his blood.

19 And so, my friends, we have been made right with God through faith in Jesus Christ, and it is through him that we have access to God.

20 So we have this boldness and confidence to enter God's sanctuary in the blood of Jesus, 21 by a new and living way that he opened up for us through the curtain, that is, through his own body.

22 And since we have a great priest over the house of God, 23 let us hold on to our confidence and the hope of which we boast, and let us think about how we can encourage each other to love and good deeds.