For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and if every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward,

how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by those who heard Him;

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that He by the grace of God should taste death for all.

who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all his house.

For He was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who has built the house has more honor than the house.

And Moses truly was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken afterward.

But Christ was faithful as a Son over his own house; whose house we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.

Therefore I was grieved with that generation and said, They always err in their heart, and they have not known My ways.

But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

Since then it remains that some must enter into it, and since they to whom it was first preached did not enter in because of unbelief,

For we do not have a high priest who cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted just as we are, yet without sin.

And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called of God, as Aaron was.

For Jesus, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong cryings and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared,

so that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us,

To him Abraham also gave a tenth of all. He was first by interpretation king of righteousness, and after that also king of Salem, which is king of peace,

Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.

For he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.

Therefore if perfection were by the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the Law), what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

And inasmuch as He was not made priest without an oath

(for those priests were made without an oath, but this one was made with an oath by Him who said to Him, "The Lord swore and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek,")

by so much was Jesus made a surety of a better covenant.

who serve the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was warned of God when he was about to make the tabernacle. For, He says "See that you make all things according to the pattern shown to you in the mountain."

But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much He is also the Mediator of a better covenant, which was built upon better promises.

For the first tabernacle was prepared, in which was both the lampstand, and the table, and the setting out of the loaves, which is called Holies.

And after the second veil was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid all around with gold, in which was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.

the Holy Spirit signifying by this that the way into the Holiest of all was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing.

For it was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him who did the service perfect as regards the conscience,

From which we see that neither was the first covenant dedicated without blood.

Therefore it was necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves were purified with better sacrifices than these.

so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many. And to those who look for Him He shall appear the second time without sin to salvation.

Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy of punishment, the one who has trampled the Son of God, and who has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts. And by it he, being dead, yet speaks.

By faith Enoch was translated so as not to see death, and he was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out into a place which he was afterward going to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he went.

By faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged Him who had promised to be faithful.

of whom it was said that in Isaac your Seed shall be called,

concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from where he even received him, in a figure.

By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped, leaning upon the top of his staff.

By faith Moses, having been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child. And they were not afraid of the king's commandments.

esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.

The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains and dens and caves of the earth.

looking to Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right of the throne of God.

For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he did not find any place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears).

and so fearful was the sight that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake).