Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which easily besetteth us, and run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith;

Now faith is the subsistence of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder both of the soul and spirit, both of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

But without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that cometh to God, must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake of old to the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son;

Let your disposition be without covetousness: be content with the things that are present; for he hath said, No, I will not leave thee: verily I will not forsake thee.

And as it is appointed for men once to die, and after this the judgment:

Not forsaking the assembling ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another, and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

let us hold fast our profession, For we have not an high-priest who cannot sympathize with our infirmities, but who was in all points tempted like as we are: yet without sin.

Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and sustaining all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high,

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

to provoke one another to love and to good works:

who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right-hand of the throne of God.

Having therefore a great high priest, that is passed thro' the heavens, Jesus the son of God,

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Therefore there sprang even from one, and him as it were dead, as the stars of heaven for multitude, and as the sand which is on the sea-shore innumerable.

Wherefore he is able also, to save them to the uttermost who come to God thro' him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

Since then the children partake of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner took part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil:

Marriage is honourable in all men, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Seeing then it remaineth that some enter into it,

Having therefore, brethren, free liberty to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves; for they watch over your souls, as they that must give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with groans: for that is unprofitable for you.

And almost all things are according to the law purified with blood, and withoutshedding of blood there is no remission.

Let brotherly love continue.

Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works,

Whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom he also made the worlds:

But we see Jesus crowned with glory and honour, for the suffering of death, who was made a little lower than the angels, that by the grace of God he might taste death for every man.

For it is impossible for those who were once inlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and been made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were made of things which do not appear.

For when we sin wilfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

But unto the Son, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; the sceptre of thy kingdom is a sceptre of righteousness:

Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering (for he is faithful that hath promised) And let us consider one another,

They shall perish, but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

and they to whom the gospel was preached before,

And make strait paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed.

As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedeck:

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise continually to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name.

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices which they offer year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect.

For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh often upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them for whom it is tilled, receiveth blessing from God.

And yet ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh to you as to sons, My son, despise not thou the chastning of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him.

But Christ being come, an high-priest of good things to come, through a greater and more perfect tabernacle,

How shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation, which began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by them that had heard him?

All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and embraced them, and confest that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high-priest of our profession,

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

Forget not to entertain strangers, for hereby some have entertained angels unawares.

By faith Abraham, being called to go out into the place which he was to receive for an inheritance, obeyed and went out, not knowing whither he went.

Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus, by the blood of the everlasting covenant,

But ye are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem,

So Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, will appear the second time, without sin, to them that look for him, unto salvation.

For ye are not come to the mountain that could be touched, and the burning fire,

And here men that die receive tithes: but there, he of whom it is witnessed, that he liveth.

Remember them that had the rule over you, who spake to you the word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

By which will we are sanctified, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

For they who speak thus, shew plainly, that they seek their own country.

Are they not all ministring spirits, sent forth to serve for them who shall inherit salvation?

For Christ did not enter into the holy place made with hands, the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.

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

But exhort one another daily, while it is called to day, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin:

And again, When he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.

Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, unto him that was able to save him from death, and being heard from his fears; Tho' he was a son,

For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.

Wherefore it behoved him to be made in all things like his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high-priest, in things pertaining to God, to expiate the sins of the people.

Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

Therefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us hold fast the grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear.

yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered, And being perfected,

Take heed, brethren, left there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God:

And for this end he is the Mediator of a new covenant, that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

For whom the Lord loveth, he chastneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil,

And now he hath obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much better a covenant he is a mediator of, which is established upon better promises.

not made with hands, that is, not of this building, And not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entring into his rest, any of us should altogether come short of it.

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith) To day,

There remaineth therefore a rest for the people of God.

The sum of what hath been spoken is, We have such an high priest, who is set down at the right-hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

But that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected and nigh unto a curse, whose end is to be burned.

And truly if they had been mindful of that from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to return.

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

By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac, and he that had received the promises, offered up his only begotten son:

And Moses verily was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of the things, which were to be afterwards spoken:

By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his houshold, by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

and to an innumerable company, To the general assembly of angels, and to the church of the first born, who are inrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

For this Melchisedek king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him,

But strong meat belongeth to them of full age, to them who have their senses exercised by habit to discern both good and evil.

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

Therefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou hast not chosen, but a body hast thou prepared for me.

entered not in because of unbelief, He again, after so long a time, fixeth a certain day, saying by David, To-day; as it was said before, To day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

But he having offered one sacrifice for sins,

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight; but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

That by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled to lay hold on the hope set before us:

became the author of eternal salvation to all that obey him,

Looking diligently, lest any one fall from the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled: Lest there be any fornicator or profane person,

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained a testimony that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it, being dead he yet speaketh.

And even Levi, who receiveth tithes, paid tithes (so to speak) thro' Abraham.

Remember them that are in bonds, as being bound with them, and them that suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

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

For then he must often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once at the consummation of the ages hath he been manifested, to abolish sin by the sacrifice of himself.

And what shall I say more? For the time would fail me, to tell of Gideon, and Barak, and Sampson, and Jephthah, and David, and Samuel, and the prophets:

Now all chastning for the present is assuredly not joyous, but grievous; yet afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them that are exercised thereby.

Concerning whom we have many things to say, and hard to be explained, seeing ye are become dull of hearing.

For if Joshua had given them the rest, he would not have afterward spoken of another day.

Now the just shall live by faith; but if he draw back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.

For he looked for the city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

Pray for us; for we trust we have a good conscience, desiring to behave ourselves well in all things.

For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedek met him.

for ever sat down at the right hand of God, From thenceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

Called of God an high priest, after the order of Melchisedek.

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

By Faith Jacob when dying blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.

Of whom it had been said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called:

Make you perfect in every good work, to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight thro' Christ Jesus; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

For the priesthood being changed, there is also necessarily a change of the law.

And they shall not teach every one his neighbour, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least to the greatest.

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, concerning things to come.

For he of whom these things are spoken, pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man attended on the altar.

Where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

For ye know that afterward, even when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place for repentance, tho' he sought it diligently with tears.

Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. Now in putting all things in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him: but now we do not yet see all things put under him.

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

Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

And their sins, and their iniquities will I remember no more.

For where a testament is, there must also necessarily be the death of the testator.

And this the Holy Ghost also witnesseth to us,

By faith Joseph, when dying, made mention of the children of Israel, and gave commandment concerning his bones.

But we desire that every one of you would shew unto the end the same diligence, to the full assurance of hope,

as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright:

Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he looked off unto the recompence of reward.

By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us through the veil,

if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

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

Thou madest him a little lower than the angels, thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands.

For a testament is of force after men are dead; otherwise it is of no strength while the testator liveth.

By faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the first born should touch them.

And I beseech you to do this the more earnestly, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

Therefore I was grieved with that generation and said, They always err in their hearts, and they have not know my ways.

and sprinkled all the people, Saying, This is the blood of the testament, which God hath enjoined unto you.

and blackness, and darkness, and tempest, And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words, which they that heard intreated that the word might not be spoken to them any more.

I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation; for I have written a letter to you in few words.

For it is evident, that our Lord sprang out of Judah, of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning the priesthood.

For when Moses had spoken all the commandment according to the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wooll, and hyssop, and the book itself,

Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.

So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

For verily he taketh not hold of angels, but he taketh hold of the seed of Abraham.

Whence neither was the first testament consecrated without blood.

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

And deliver them, as many as through fear of death, were all their life-time subject to bondage.

he swore by himself, Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

And in like manner he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the service.

but this with an oath, by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedek:)

And so terrible was the appearance, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and tremble.

For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence:

Know that our brother Timotheus is set at liberty, with whom, if he come soon, I will see you.

They of Italy salute you. Grace be with you all.

And again, I will put my trust in him: And again, Behold I and the children whom God hath given me.

By faith the walls of Jericho, having been compassed seven days, fell down.

And it is still far more evident, because another priest is raised up, after the likeness of Melchidek, Who was made not after the law of a carnal commandment,

Nor did he enter, that he might offer himself often (as the high-priest entered into the holy place every year with the blood of others.)

that is, his flesh, And having an high-priest over the house of God;

For verily there is a disannulling of the preceding commandment, for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

For they, verily, for a few days chastned us as they thought good: but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

For he saith thus in a certain place, of the seventh day, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works: And in this again, They shall not enter into my rest.

Whither Jesus our fore-runner is entered for us, made an high-priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek.

Wherefore God being willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his counsel, interposed by an oath:

Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.

For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all contradiction.

For who, when they had heard, provoked God?

we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end) While it is said; To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

Whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he, that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints.

For it is testified, Thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedek.

For they could not bear that which was commanded, If even a beast touch the mountain, let it be stoned.

It was therefore necessary, that the patterns of things in heaven should be purified by these, but the heavenly things themselves by better sacrifices than these.

And by it the elders obtained a good testimony.

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint heirs of the same promise.

For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did, by which we draw nigh to God.

but after the power of an endless life.

Were they not all that came out of Egypt by Moses? And with whom was he grieved forty years? Was it not with them who had sinned?

So we see, they could not enter in, because of unbelief.

And have fallen away, to renew them again unto repentance, seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

and of faith in God, Of the doctrine of baptisms and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

Of so much better a covenant was Jesus made a surety.

Jesus, Faithful to him that appointed him, as was also Moses in all his house.

Who can have compassion on the ignorant and the wandering, seeing he himself also is compassed with infirmity,

To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all the spoils; being by interpretation, first king of righteousness, and then king of Salem also, which is king of peace;

For this person was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he that hath builded it hath more honour than the house.

For there was a tabernacle prepared, the first, in which was the candlestick, and the table, and the shew-bread; which is called The holy place.

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

But into the second, only the high-priest once a year, not without blood, which he offereth for himself and the errors of the people:

Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, which could not perfect the worshiper as to his conscience,

He that despised the law of Moses died without mercy, under two or three witnesses.

Having the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant, overlaid round about with gold, wherein was a golden pot having the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant:

And in as much as not without an oath he was made priest: (For those priests were made without an oath,

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

And over it were the Cherubim of glory, shadowing the mercy-seat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

A minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord hath fixed and not man.

Now these things being thus prepared, the priests go always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing their services.

But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which will devour the adversaries.

And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

And this word, Yet once more, sheweth the removal of the things which are shaken, as being made, that the things which are not shaken may remain.

And verily they of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment (according to the law) to take tithes of the people, that is, of their brethren, tho' they come out of the loins of Abraham.

And this we will do, if God permit.

And after the second veil, the tabernacle, which is called The holy of holies,

For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, there being priests that offer gifts, according to the law,

For every high priest is ordained to offer up gifts and sacrifices; whence it was necessary, that this also should have somewhat to offer.

And without all contradiction, the less is blessed of the greater.

And because hereof it behoveth him, as for the people, so also for himself to offer for sins.

For to which of the angels did he ever say, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

And verily the first covenant also had ordinances of worship and a worldly sanctuary.

For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

For the law maketh men high priests that have infirmity; but the word of the oath which was since the law, maketh the son, who is consecrated for evermore.

And, Thou, Lord, hast in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands.

For God is not unrighteous, to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

For he hath not subjected to the angels the world to come, whereof we speak.

Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people by his own blood, suffered without the gate.

For every high priest being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins,

By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,

But he whose pedigree is not from them, took tythes of Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises:

For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

For in that he hath suffered, being tempted himself, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

By faith they passed thro' the Red Sea, as by dry land, which the Egyptians trying to do, were drowned.

In saying, a new covenant, he hath antiquated the first; now that which is antiquated and decayed, is ready to vanish away.

For both he that sanctifieth, and all they that are sanctified, are of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, Saying, I will declare thy name to my brethren;

For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers, having been once purged, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

For our God is a consuming fire.

Then I said, Lo I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God.

So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper; I will not fear what man can do unto me.

And all these having obtained a good testimony thro' faith,

For finding fault with them he saith, Behold the days come, saith the Lord, when I will finish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

If ye endure chastning, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he, whom his father chastneth not?

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines; for it is good, that the heart be stablished with grace, not with meats, in which they that have walked have not been profited.

Then said he, Lo, I come, to do thy will. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second:

For when God made the promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater,

Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and counted the blood of the covenant, by which he hath been sanctified, an unholy thing, and done despite to the spirit of grace?

For consider him that endured such contradiction from sinners against himself, lest ye be weary and faint in your minds.

We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat who serve the tabernacle.

But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him, or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

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

Being made so much higher than the angels, as he hath by inheritance a more excellent name than they.

And every priest standeth daily ministring and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

They were stoned, were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheep-skins, in goat-skins, destitute, afflicted, tormented:

But to do good, and to distribute, forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Without father, without mother, without pedigree, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life, but being made like the son of God, remaineth a priest continually.

For it is impossible, that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

Let us then go forth to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

That ye be not slothful, but followers of them, who through faith and long suffering inherited the promises.

Who serve after the pattern and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God, when he was about to make the tabernacle; for, saith he, See thou make all things according to the pattern which was shewed thee on the mount.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

But if ye are without chastning, of which all are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons.

for after he had said before, This is the covenant which I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws into their hearts, and write them in their minds,

By faith Sarah also herself received power to conceive seed, even when she was past age, because she accounted him faithful who had promised.

Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering, and burnt-offerings and offering for sin thou hast not chosen, neither delighted in, which are offered by the law:

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months, by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

The Holy Ghost evidently shewing this, that the way into the holiest was not yet made manifest, while the first tabernacle was still subsisting,

But in those sacrifices, there is a commemoration of sins every year.

Moreover we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we reverenced them: Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment.

Who by faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with them that believed not, having received the spies with peace.

God also bearing them witness by signs, and wonders, and various miracles, and distributions of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will.

But call ye to mind the former days, in which, after ye were inlightened, ye endured so great a conflict of sufferings:

And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

For unto us hath the gospel been preached as well as unto them; but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixt with faith in those that heard it.

But to which of the angels did he ever say, Sit at my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?

Wherefore Lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees:

But they now desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared a city for them.

others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

(For we are made partakers of Christ, if

Burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast not delighted in.

For we know him that hath said, Vengeance is mine; I will recompence: and again, The Lord will judge his people.

So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest, but he that said to him, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.

Only with meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed till the time of reformation.

Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

For if the first had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second.

Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, then for those of the people: for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.

for if they escaped not who refused him that delivered the oracle on earth, much more shall not we, who turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

For yet a little while, and he that cometh will come and will not tarry.

For we that have believed, do enter into the rest; as he said, I have sworn in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest, though the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.

Let us labour, therefore, to enter into that rest, lest any one should fall, after the same example of unbelief.

If then perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law) what farther need was there that another priest should rise, after the order of Melchisedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

Now every house is built by some one: but he that built all things is God.

For every one that useth milk is unexperienced in the word of righteousness; for he is a babe.

For ye sympathized with my bonds, and received with joy the spoiling of your goods, knowing that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

But this, because he continueth for ever, hath a priesthood that passeth not away.

For we have here no continuing city; but we seek one to come.

And they truly were many priests, because they were hindered by death from continuing.

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, which speaketh better things than that of Abel. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh:

But we are not of them who draw back to perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest for sin, are burnt without the camp.

Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness was made strong, became valiant in fight, put to flight armies of the aliens; Women received their dead raised to life again:

did not receive the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they might not be perfected without us.

(Of whom the world was not worthy) they wandered in deserts, and mountains, and dens, and caves of the earth.

Partly being made a gazing-stock both by reproaches and afflictions; partly being partakers with them who were so used.