Therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us??aving thrown off every encumbrance and the easily besetting sin??et us run with patience the race lying before us;

Now faith is an assurance of things hoped for, a sure persuasion of things not seen;

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

And, apart from faith, it is impossible to please Him; for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He becomes a rewarder to those who seek after Him.

God, having in many parts and many ways spoken, of old, to the fathers in the prophets,

Let your disposition be without fondness for money; content with the present things; for He Himself hath said, "I will in nowise leave you, neither will I in any wise forsake you."

And inasmuch as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this comes judgment;

not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together, as is the custom of some, but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day approaching.

for we have not a High Priest, unable to sympathize with our infirmities, but One Who hath been tempted in all points like as we, apart from sin.

Who, being an effulgence of His glory and an exact expression of His substance, and upholding all things by the word of His power, having made a purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Jesus Christ is yesterday and today the same??nd forever.

and let us consider one another, to incite to love and good works;

looking away to the Author and Perfecter of our faith, Jesus; Who, in consideration of the joy lying before Him, endured the cross, despising shame, and hath taken a seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

Having, therefore, a great High Priest, Who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast the confession;

Pursue peace with all, and the holiness without which no one shall see the Lord;

Wherefore also there sprang from one, and one impotent as to these things, as many as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand, which is by the sea-shore, innumerable.

Whence also He is able to save completely those who come to God through Him, since He is ever living to intercede in their behalf.

Since, therefore, the children have partaken of blood and flesh, He Himself also in like manner took part of the same; that, through death, He might bring to nought him who had the power of death, that is, the Devil;

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

and, in this place, again: "They shall not enter into My rest."

Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places by the blood of Jesus,

Let us, therefore, come with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace for seasonable help.

Obey those who are your leaders, and submit to them; for they watch in behalf of your souls, as those who are to give an account; that they may do this with joy, and not with sighing; for this would be unprofitable for you.

And nearly all things are cleansed, according to the law, with blood; and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

Let brotherly love continue.

Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

at the end of these days spake to us in His Son, Whom He appointed Heir of all things, through Whom also He constituted the ages;

But we behold Him Who was made a little lower than angels, Jesus, on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that, by the grace of God, He might taste death for every one.

For as to those who were once enlightened, and tasted of the heavenly gift, and became partakers of the Holy Spirit,

By faith we perceive that the ages have been constituted by the word of God, so that what is seen has not arisen out of things that appear.

For, if we sin wilfully after we received the full knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

how much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

but respecting the Son, "Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever"; and, "A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Thy Kingdom;

For this reason, it is needful that we give the more earnest heed to the things heard, lest at any time we drift past them.

let us hold fast the confession of the hope without wavering (for faithful is He Who promised);

They shall perish, but Thou continuest; and they will all become old as does a garment;

Since, therefore, it remains for some to enter into it, and those to whom the Gospel was formerly proclaimed entered not in because of unbelief,

and make straight paths for your feet, that the lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.

as also, in another place, He saith, "Thou art a Priest forever according to the rank of Melchizedek";

Through Him, therefore, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually; that is, the fruit of our lips making confession to His name.

For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very likeness of the things, can never, with the same sacrifices, which they offer year by year continually, perfect those who come to them;

For the land which drank in the rain that often comes upon it, and brings forth an herb fit for those for whose sake also it is cultivated, receives blessing from God;

and ye have forgotten the exhortation which, indeed, reasons with you as with sons: "My son, do not lightly regard the chastening of the Lord; neither faint, when reproved by Him;

But Christ, having come as a High Priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made by hand (that is, not of this creation),

how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation; which, indeed, having at first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;

These all died according to faith, not having obtained the promises, but having seen them from afar, and having greeted them, and having confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a Heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus,

For even when, on account of the time, ye ought to be teachers, ye again have need that some one teach you the first elements of the oracles of God, and have become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food;

Do not forget to show love for strangers; for thereby some entertained angels unawares.

By faith Abraham, when called, obeyed to go forth into the place which he was about to receive for an inheritance; and he went forth, not knowing whither he was going.

Now the God of peace, Who brought up from the dead the Great Shepherd of the sheep, in virtue of the blood of an eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus,

But ye have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the Living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,

so also Christ, having once for all been offered to bear the sins of many, will, to those who are eagerly waiting for Him; appear a second time apart from sin, unto salvation.

For ye have not come to a mount that is touched and burning with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

And here, indeed, men who die receive tithes; but there, one received them who receives witness that he lives.

Remember those who are your leaders, who spake to you the word of God; and, considering the issue of whose manner of life, imitate their faith.

in which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

For those who say such things make it manifest that they are seeking their paternal home.

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth for service, for the sake of those about to inherit salvation?

For Christ entered not into holy places made with hand, patterns of the true; but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God in our behalf;

For it was becoming Him, on Whose account are all things, and through Whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to perfect, through suffering, the Captain of their salvation.

but exhort one another daily, so long as it is called "To-day," lest anyone of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin;

But, when again He introduces the First-born into the inhabited earth, 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 to Him Who was able to save Him from death, and having been heard by reason of His godly fear,

Because this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Putting My laws into their mind, I will also write them upon their hearts, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people;

Wherefore, it behooved Him in all things to be made like His brethren, that He might become a merciful and faithful High Priest in the things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for 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 mantle Thou wilt roll them up, as a garment also they shall be changed; but Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail."

Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear;

though He was a Son, learned obedience from the things which He suffered;

Take heed, brethren, lest at any time there shall be in anyone of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

And, for this cause, He is the Mediator of a new covenant, that, death having taken place for redemption from the transgressions against the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having had our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our body washed with pure water,

for whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He acknowledgeth."

which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and firm, and entering into the place within the veil;

but now he hath obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much also as He is Mediator of a better covenant, which, indeed, has been enacted on better promises.

nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, entered, once for all, into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption.

Let us, therefore, fear, lest a promise still being left of entering into His rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.

Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit saith, "To-day, if ye hear His voice,

Consequently, there remains a sabbath-keeping for the people of God.

Now as a main point to the things being spoken, we have such a High Priest, Who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in Heaven,

but, if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected, and is near to a curse; whose end is to be burned.

And, if, indeed, they had been mindful of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.

For such a High Priest was befitting us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

By faith Abraham, when tried, has offered up Isaac; yea, he who gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten son,

And Moses, indeed, was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of the things to be afterward spoken;

By faith Noah, being divinely instructed concerning things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

to the general festal throng, and assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in Heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous ones made perfect;

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him,

but solid food is for full-grown men, who by practice have their senses trained for the discernment both of good and evil.

Cast not away, therefore, your boldness, which, indeed, has great recompense.

Wherefore, coming into the world, He saith, "Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not wish, but a body didst Thou prepare for Me;

again He designateth a certain day, "To-day" (saying in David, after so long a time, as has been before said), "To-day, if ye hear His voice, harden not your hearts."

but This Man, having offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;

And there is no creature that is not manifest in His presence; but all things are naked and laid bare to the eyes of Him with Whom is our account.

that, through two immutable facts, in which it is impossible that God should lie, we may have strong encouragement, who fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us;

and, having been made perfect, He became the Author of eternal life to all who obey Him;

looking carefully, lest there be any one falling short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness, springing up, trouble you, and through it many be defiled;

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he received witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he, being dead, is still speaking.

And, so to speak, through Abraham even Levi, who takes tithes, has paid tithes;

Remember the prisoners, as bound with them; those ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.

By faith Enoch was translated, so as not to see death; and he was not found, because God translated him; for, it has been witnessed to him that, before his translation, he had been well-pleasing to God.

else had it been needful for Him ofttimes to suffer since the founding of a world; but now, once for all, at the end of the ages, He hath been manifested for the putting away of sin through the sacrifice of Himself.

And what more am I to say? for the time will fail me, if I speak at length concerning Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David also, and of Samuel, and the prophets;

All chastening, indeed, for the present seems not to be joyous, but grievous; but afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained thereby.

Concerning Whom we have much to say and difficult to explain, since ye have become dull of hearing.

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

"But My righteous one shall live by faith, and, if he draw back, My soul has no pleasure in him."

for he was waiting for the city which has the foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

But, beloved, we have become persuaded better things concerning you, and things accompanying salvation, even though we thus speak;

Pray for us; for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to deport ourselves honestly in all things.

for he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met him.

from henceforth awaiting until His foes shall be placed as a footstool for His feet.

having been addressed by God as "High Priest according to the rank of Melchizedek."

accounting that God is able to raise even from the dead; whence he did also, as in a figure, receive him back.

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

to whom it was said, "In Isaac shall your seed be called;"

make you perfect in every good thing to do His will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to Whom be the glory forever. Amen.

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

and they shall in no wise teach each one his fellow-citizen, and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord'; because all shall know Me, from a small one to a great one of them;

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

For He of Whom these things are spoken hath taken part in a different tribe from which no one gave attendance at the altar.

where your fathers tempted Me by proving Me, and saw My works, forty years.

For ye know that even after that, when wishing to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for repentance, although he earnestly sought it with tears.

Thou didst put all things in subjection under his feet." For in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing unsubjected to him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him.

For He Who entered into His rest, Himself also rested from his works, as God did from His Own.

But where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

and their sins and their iniquities I will in nowise remember any more."

For where there is a testament, there is a necessity that the death of the testator be brought in.

And the Holy Spirit also testifieth to us; for after He had said,

By faith Joseph, when approaching his end, made mention of the departure of the sons of Israel, and gave orders concerning his bones.

And we desire that each of you show forth the same diligence to the full assurance of the hope to the end;

lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau, who, for one meal, yielded up his own birth-right.

regarding the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking away to the recompense.

which He dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is, His flesh;

harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing Him Who is invisible.

Thou madest him a little less than angels; Thou crownedst him with glory and honor; and didst set him over the works of Thy hands;

For a testament over dead persons is of force; since it is never valid while the testator is living.

By faith he has instituted the passover, and the applying of the blood, lest the destroyer of the first-born should touch them.

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

Wherefore, I was displeased with that generation, and said, 'They do always err in their heart, and they did not know My ways;

saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded in respect to you."

and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice those who heard entreated that no word more should be added to them;

But I exhort you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation; for, indeed, I wrote to you in few words.

For it is evident that our Lord hath sprung out of Judah, respecting which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priests.

for, when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, taking the blood of the calves and of the goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

choosing rather to suffer evil with the people of God, than to have an enjoyment of sin for a season;

as I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter into My rest.'"

For surely He doth not succor angels, but He succoreth Abraham's seed.

Wherefore, not even has the first covenant been dedicated without blood;

And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

and might release all those who, through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

saying, "Surely, blessing, I will bless you; and multiplying, I will multiply you."

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

(for they, indeed, have been made priests without an oath; but He with an oath through Him Who said to Him, "The Lord swore, and will not repent, Thou art a Priest forever");

and so terrible was the appearance, Moses said, "I am exceedingly frightened and in fear!"

For, if the word spoken through angels became steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a righteous recompense,

Know ye that our brother Timothy has been set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.

Grace be with you all.

And again, "I will put my trust in Him." And again, "Behold, I and the children whom God gave me."

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

And it is yet far more evident; if, according to the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another Priest,

nor yet, that He should many times offer Himself, as the high priest enters into the Holies every year with blood not His own;

and, having a Great Priest over the house of God;

For there is verily an annulling of a previous commandment, on account of its weakness and unprofitableness

For they, indeed, for a few days were chastening us, according to what seemed good to them; but He for our profit, that we may partake of His holiness.

For He hath spoken somewhere concerning the seventh day thus: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works;"

where, as Forerunner in our behalf, Jesus entered, having become a High Priest forever, according to the rank of Melchizedek.

wherein God, more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of His counsel, interposed with an oath;

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

For men swear by the greater; and the oath for confirmation is an end, to them, of every dispute:

For who, after having heard, did provoke? nay, did not all who came out of Egypt through Moses?

while it is said, "To-day, if ye hear His voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation."

And to whom did He swear, that they should not enter into His rest, but to those who were disbelieving?

Salute all those who are your leaders, and all the saints. Those from Italy salute you.

for it is testified of Him, "Thou art a Priest forever according to the rank of Melchizedek."

for they could not bear that which was being commanded: "And, if a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned";

There was, therefore, a necessity that the copies of the things in Heaven should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves, with better sacrifices than these.

for in this the elders were well reported of.

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;

(for the law perfected nothing), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Who hath been made Priest, not according to a law of a carnal commandment, but according to the power of an endless life;

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

And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying to themselves the Son of God afresh, and putting Him to open shame.

of the teaching of immersions, and laying on of hands, of a resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.

Who was faithful to Him Who appointed Him, as also was Moses in all His house.

able to bear with the ignorant and erring, since he himself also is encompassed with infirmity;

to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth of all (first, indeed, interpreted as "King of Righteousness," and then also "King of Salem"??hich is king of peace;

For This One has been accounted worthy of more glory than Moses, by as much as He Who built the house hath more honor than the house;

For a tabernacle was prepared; the first, in which were both the lamp-stand and the table, and the show-bread, which, indeed, is called "Holy;"

And no one takes the honor to himself, but, when called by God, as was also Aaron.

but into the second, the high priest alone, once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the ignorances of the people;

which, indeed, is a figure for the time present, according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices, which cannot, as to the conscience, make the worshiper perfect;

Anyone, having set aside Moses' law, dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses;

having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on every side with gold, in which was a golden pot containing the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

And inasmuch as it was not without the taking of an oath

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

and over it Cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat; concerning which things we cannot now speak in detail.

a Minister of the holy things, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

Now, these things having been thus prepared, the priests go continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services;

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fierceness of fire about to devour the opposers.

and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the coming age,

But the expression, "Yet once more," signifies the removal of the things shaken, as of things that have been made, that the things that are not shaken may remain.

And those, indeed, from among the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, (though having come out of the loins of Abraham);

And this will we do, if, indeed, God permit.

and, after the second veil, a tabernacle which is called the "Holy of Holies:"

If, therefore, He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are those offering the gifts according to the law,

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; wherefore, it is necessary that This One also have something which He may offer.

And, without any dispute, the less is blessed by the better.

and, on account of it, he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to make offering for sins.

For to whom of the angels said He at any time, "You are My Son; I this day have begotten you?" And again, "I will be to him a Father; and He shall be to me a Son?"

Verily, therefore, the first covenant used to have ordinances of divine service, and the sanctuary pertaining to the world.

For by one offering He hath perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

for the law constitutes men high priests who have infirmity, but the word of the oath, which was after the law, constitutes the Son perfected forever.

and, "Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of Thy hands.

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye showed toward His name, in having ministered to the saints, and still ministering.

For not to angels did He subject the future inhabited earth, of which we are speaking;

Wherefore, Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered without the gate.

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

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

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

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

for in that He Himself hath suffered, being tempted, He is able to succor those who are tempted.

By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, which the Egyptians, making an attempt to do, were swallowed up.

In that He saith, "A new covenant," He hath made the first old: but the thing that is becoming old, and is wearing out with age, is near vanishing away.

For both He Who sanctifieth and those who are sanctified are all of One; for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren,

For, if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctifies to the purification of the flesh;

else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshipers, having been cleansed once for all, would have had no more conscience of sins.

for, verily, our God is a consuming fire.

Then said I, 'Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it has been written concerning Me), to do Thy will, O God.'"

So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my Helper, I will not be afraid; what shall man do to me?"

And these all, having received a good report through faith, obtained not the promise;

for, finding fault with them, He saith, "Behold, the days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and the house of Judah;

For chastening endure ye: God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chastens not?

Be not carried away by manifold and strange teachings; for it is good that the heart be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who occupied themselves were not profited.

then hath He said, "Lo, I have come to do Thy will." He taketh away the first, that He may establish the second:

For God, when making a promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater by whom to swear, swore by Himself,

of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be accounted worthy, who trampled under foot the Son of God, and accounted the blood of the covenant with which He was sanctified an unholy thing, and treated with contempt the Spirit of grace?

For consider Him Who hath endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest ye become weary, fainting in your souls.

We have an altar, from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

but some one, somewhere, fully testified, saying, "What is man, that Thou rememberest him; or a son of man, that Thou visitest him?

but Christ as a Son over His own house; Whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

having become by so much superior to the angels, as He hath inherited a more excellent name than they.

And every priest, indeed, stands daily ministering, and ofttimes offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;

they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they perished in the slaughter of the sword; they went about in sheep-skins, in goat-skins, being destitute, suffering tribulation, maltreated

But, of well-doing, and contributing, be not forgetful; for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased.

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like to the Son of God), abides a priest continually.

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

Not yet did ye resist unto blood, contending against sin;

Therefore, let us go forth to Him without the camp, bearing His reproach;

that ye may not become slothful, but imitators of those who, through faith and long-suffering, inherit the promises.

who, indeed, serve in the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses has been divinely warned, when about to make the tabernacle; for "See," saith He, "that you make all things according to the pattern which was showed you in the mount";

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

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

"This is the covenant that I will covenant with them after those days," saith the Lord, "Putting my laws on their hearts, I will also write them upon their mind;

By faith Sarah herself also received power to conceive seed, even when past the age of child-bearing, since she accounted Him faithful, Who promised.

Saving above, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt-offerings and offerings for sin," Thou didst not wish; neither hadst pleasure therein, which, indeed, are offered according to the law;

because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and I will remember their sins no more."

By faith Moses, when born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a comely child; and they were not afraid of the king's command.

the Holy Spirit signifying this, that the way into the Holies has not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle is yet standing;

But in these sacrifices there is a remembrance of sins year by year;

Furthermore, we used to have the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits, and live?

And others had trial of mockings and scourgings, and, moreover, of bonds and imprisonment:

who, through faith, subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions,

By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disbelieved; having received the spies with peace.

God testifying with them, both with signs and wonders and manifold miracles, and distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to His will?

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;

And respecting the angels He saith, "Who maketh His angels spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire";

For, indeed, we have had the Gospel proclaimed to us, even as also they; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not having been mingled with faith on the part of those who heard.

But to whom of the angels hath He ever said, "Sit on My right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?"

Wherefore, lift up the relaxed hands and the feeble knees,

But now they long for a better country, that is, a heavenly one; wherefore, God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for He prepared for them a city.

Women received their dead by a resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

for we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

in whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin Thou hadst no pleasure.

For we know Him Who said, To Me belongs vengeance; I will recompense," saith the Lord; and again, "The Lord will judge His people."

Thus Christ also glorified not Himself to become a high priest, but He Who spake to Him, "Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee";

being only (with meats and drinks and various immersions) ordinances of the flesh, imposed until a time of reformation.

Thou lovedst righteousness, and hatedst iniquity; therefore, God, Thy God, anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows";

For, if that first covenant had been faultless, place would not be sought for a second;

Who hath no necessity daily, as the high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for those of the people (for this He did once for all, when He offered up Himself);

See that ye refuse not Him Who speaketh; for, if those escaped not, when refusing him who warned them on earth, much more shall not we escape, who turn away from Him Who warneth us from Heaven;

"For yet a little while, how short! how short! The Coming One will come, and will not tarry."

For we who believed do enter into rest, even as He said, "As I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter into My rest; although the works were finished from the founding of a world."

saying, "I will declare Thy name to my brethren; in the midst of an assembly will I sing praise to Thee."

Let us, therefore, give diligence to enter into that rest, that no one fall after the same example of unbelief.

If, therefore, there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there, that another Priest should arise according to the rank of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned according to the rank of Aaron?

for every house is built by some one, but He Who built all things is God.

for every one who partakes of milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe;

for ye both sympathized with those in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your possessions; knowing that ye yourselves have a better possession and an abiding one.

but He, because of His abiding forever, hath His priesthood unchangeable.

For we have not here an abiding city, but we are seeking for the one about to come.

And they, indeed, have been made priests many in number, because by death they are hindered from continuing;

and to Jesus, the Mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than Abel.

But we are not of those who draw back to destruction; but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the holy place through the priest as an offering for sin, are burned without the camp.

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put to flight armies of aliens.

God having provided something better concerning us, that, apart from us, they should not be made perfect.

(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.

partly, indeed, when ye were made a spectacle both with reproaches and tribulations; and partly, when ye became partakers with those who were so used;