having become by so much better than the angels, as he hath inherited a more excellent name than they.

For to which of the angels did He ever say, You are My Son; today I have become Your Father, or again, I will be His Father, and He will be My Son?

Or again, "I will become His Father, and He shall become my Son"? But when He brings again His first-born Son into the world, He says, "And let all the angels worship Him."

these shall perish, and Thou dost remain, and all, as a garment, shall become old,

for if the word being spoken through messengers did become stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience did receive a just recompense,

Wherefore it behooved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

“Therefore I was angered with this generation,
And I said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they did not know My ways [nor become progressively better and more intimately acquainted with them]’;

But encourage one another {day by day}, as long as it is called "today," so that {none of you become hardened} by the deception of sin.

for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:

so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: 'My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;'

and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,

Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

But "solid food" is for mature people, who because of using their [spiritual] senses, have become able to distinguish good from evil.

For [it is impossible to restore to repentance] those who have once been enlightened [spiritually] and who have tasted and consciously experienced the heavenly gift and have shared in the Holy Spirit,

and become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the Future Age,

But, beloved, we have become persuaded better things concerning you, and things accompanying salvation, even though we thus speak;

that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

whither as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

And this becomes even more evident if another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,

who has become [a priest] not according to a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

For indeed there becomes an annulment of a preceding commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

And inasmuch as it is not apart from oath, (for those indeed apart from oath are become priests,

(for they are become priests without the swearing of an oath, but he with the swearing of an oath, by him who said, as to him, The Lord has sworn, and will not repent of it, Thou art priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec;)

by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.

and those indeed are many who have become priests, because by death they are hindered from remaining;

For such a high priest became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and become higher than the heavens:

Because, this, is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: - giving my laws into their understanding, upon their hearts also, will I inscribe them: and I will become their God, and, they, shall become my people;

in the saying 'new,' He hath made the first old, and what doth become obsolete and is old is nigh disappearing.

But when Christ had become a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building

partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living,

By faith, Enoch was translated, so as not to see death, and was not found, because that, God, had translated him; for, before the translation, he had received witness that he had become well-pleasing unto God; -

And, apart from faith, it is impossible to please Him; for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He becomes a rewarder to those who seek after Him.

Through faith even Sarah herself received strength to become a mother--although she was past the time of life for this--because she judged Him faithful who had given the promise.

Wherefore also there have been born of one, and that of one become dead, even as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the countless sand which is by the sea shore.

By faith Moses, when he had become great, refused to be called son of Pharaoh's daughter;

Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.

Think about the one who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you may not become tired and give up.

And have ye forgotten the exhortation that reasons with you as with sons, My son, do not disparage the chastening of Lord, nor become disheartened when punished by him?

and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.

For our earthly fathers disciplined us for only a short time as seemed best to them; but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.

and straighten the paths of your life, so that your lameness may not become worse, but instead may be healed.

See to it that no one falls short of God’s grace; that no root of resentment springs up and causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;

and [see to it] that no one is immoral or godless like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

and to the church of the firstborn ones [i.e., those who have received an inheritance from their Father], whose names are recorded in heaven. [See Luke 10:20]. [You have come] to God, who is the Judge of all people, and to the spirits of righteous people who have become [morally] perfect [i.e., that great company of God's people who have gone on to their heavenly reward],

Bear in mind them who are in bonds, as having become jointly bound, - them who are suffering ill-treatment, as being yourselves also in the body.

May God, the giver of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus who through the blood by which he ratified the everlasting agreement has become the great shepherd of the sheep,