what we do see is Jesus who was put lower than the angels for a little while to suffer death, and who has been crowned with glory and honour that by God's grace he might taste death for everyone.

Holy brothers, you who participate in a heavenly calling, look at Jesus then, at the apostle and high priest of our confession;

Jesus has been adjudged greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the founder of a house enjoys greater honour than the house itself.

As we have a great high priest, then, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession;

There Jesus entered for us in advance, when he became high priest for ever with the rank of Melchizedek.

And this makes Jesus surety for a superior covenant.

And it is by this will that we are consecrated, because Jesus Christ once for all has offered up his body.

Brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy Presence in virtue of the blood of Jesus,

our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith ??upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

to Jesus who mediates the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood whose message is nobler than Abel's.

Jesus Christ is always the same, yesterday, to-day, and for ever.

and so Jesus also suffered outside the gate, in order to sanctify the people by his own blood.

May the God of peace who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, with the blood of the eternal covenant,

furnish you with everything for the doing of his will, creating in your lives by Jesus Christ what is acceptable in his own sight! To him be glory for ever and ever: Amen.