Hebrews 7:23
King James Version
“And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:”
Context
20And inasmuch as not without an oath
21(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
22By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
23And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
24But this because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
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.
26For such an high priest became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;