For to which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, to-day have I begotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father and he shall be to me a Son?

And again, when be brings the first-born into the world he says, And let all the angels of God worship him.

But one somewhere testified, saying, What is man that thou art mindful of him, or a son of man that thou visitest him?

Thou didst make him a little lower than angels, thou didst crown him with glory and honor,

thou didst subject all things under his feet. For in subjecting all things to him, he left nothing not subjected to him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him.

For it became him, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, to perfect by sufferings the prince of their salvation, bringing many sons to glory.

And again, I will trust in him. And again, Behold me and the children which God gave me.

Since then the children have partaken of blood and flesh, he in like manner also partook of them, that through death he might destroy him that has the power of death, that is the devil,

who is faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was in his house.

So also Christ did not put on himself the honor of being made a chief priest, but he that said to him, Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee;

Who in the days of his flesh having offered both prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, with loud cries and tears, [and being heard and delivered] from fear,??8 although he was a Son, learned obedience from what he suffered,

and being made perfect became to all who obey him an author of eternal salvation,

For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham as he returned from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

but he whose descent is not reckoned from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him who has the promises.

for he was yet in his father when Melchisedec met him.

And as he was not [constituted] without swearing,??21 for they were made priests without swearing, but he with swearing by him who says to him, The Lord swore, and he will not change, You are a priest forever;??22 by so much is Jesus the pledge of a better covenant.

whence also he is able to save forever those who come to God through him, always living to intercede for them.

so also Christ having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time without sin, to those who look for him for salvation.

For we know him that said, Judgment belongs to me, I will repay. And again, The Lord will judge his people.

but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he draws back my soul takes no pleasure in him.

By faith Enoch was translated without seeing death, and was not found because God translated him. For before the translation he was said to have pleased God;

but without faith it is impossible to please; for he that comes to God, must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of those that seek him.

By faith also Sarah herself received power to become a mother, even beyond the usual age, because she regarded him faithful that promised.

judging that God was able to raise even from the dead; whence also in a figure he received him.

By faith he left Egypt, not having feared the displeasure of the king; for he endured as seeing him that is invisible.

looking to the chief guide and perfecter of the faith, Jesus, who for the joy set before him despised the shame and endured the cross, and sat down on the right hand of God.

For consider him that has endured such a contradiction from sinners, that you may not become faint and weary in your minds.

And you have forgotten the exhortation which says to you as to sons, My son, despise not the correction of the Lord and faint not when rebuked by him,

See that you refuse not him that speaks; for if they did not escape who refused him that gave answers on earth, much more shall we [not escape] who turn ourselves away from him in heaven;

Let us therefore go out to him without the encampment, bearing his reproach;

Through him, therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise continually to God, that is, the fruit of lips confessing his name.