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Hebrews 7:18

WEB

18For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

KJV

18For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

BSB

18[+] So the former commandment is set aside because it was weak and useless

FBV

18[+] So the previous rule has been set aside because it was powerless and didn't work,


Extra References

Romans 8:3

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 13:39

39and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.


Hebrews 7:11-12

11Now if perfection was 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? 12For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law.


Galatians 4:9

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?


Hebrews 7:19

19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.


Hebrews 8:7-13

7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8For finding fault with them, he said, Behold,[+] the days are coming”, says the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; 9not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them,” says the Lord. 10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the Lord: I will put my laws into their mind; I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 11They will not teach every man his fellow citizen[+] and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know me, from their least to their greatest. 12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.”

13In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first obsolete. But that which is becoming obsolete and grows aged is near to vanishing away.


1 Timothy 4:8

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.


Galatians 3:17

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.


Hebrews 13:9

9Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.


Romans 3:31

31Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.