Who being the refulgence of his glory and the imprest image of his person, and sustaining all things by his powerful word, having by Himself performed the purging away of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high.

Seeing then the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also himself in like manner partook of them; that by death He might destroy him that had the empire of death, that is, the devil:

for as He himself hath suffered, in being tempted, He is able to succour those that are tempted.

for he that is entered into his rest, hath also himself ceased from his works, as God did from his.

who can have due compassion on the ignorant and those that are going astray; seeing he himself also is surrounded with infirmity:

and for this reason he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer sacrifice for sins.

And no one taketh this honor to himself, but he that is called by God, as Aaron was.

So also Christ did not glorify himself to be made an high-priest; but He that said unto Him, "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee."

For when God made the promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He sware by Himself, saying,

who hath no need, as the Levitical high-priests had, daily to offer sacrifices first for his own sins, and then for those of the people: for this He did once for all, in offering up Himself.

but into the second only the high-priest went once a year; and that not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the sins of the people committed through ignorance.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works, that ye may serve the living God?

nor to offer Himself often, as the high-priest entereth into the holy of holies every year with the blood of others;

(for then He must indeed have suffered often since the foundation of the world) but now once at the conclusion of the ages He hath been made manifest for the abolishing of sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Wherefore consider Him who endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, that ye may not give out, fainting in your minds: