He is as much superior to the angels as the name that he has inherited surpasses theirs.

For inasmuch as he himself has suffered, being tempted, he is also able instantly to succor those who are tempted, he is also able instantly to succor those who are tempted.

Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built a house has higher honor than the house itself.

And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, bearing testimony to a witness about to be spoken;

but Christ as a Son in his own house; and we are that house, if we retain the cheerful courage and pride of our hope firm unto the end.

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says. If you hear God's voice today,

Continue not to harden your hearts as in the Provocation, On the day of temptation in the wilderness,

On the contrary, encourage each other daily, so long as there is a "Today," so that no one of you is hindered by the deceitfulness of sin.

In the words of Scripture, Today, if you hear his voice, Do not continue to harden your hearts as at the Provocation.

For the Good News is come to us just as it did to them. But the message they heard was of no benefit to them, because they did not share the faith of those who gave heed to it.

We are actually entering into that rest, we who have believed, as God has said,??n my wrath I swore??They shall not enter into my Rest

Again no one takes this honorable office for himself, but he is called by God, just as Aaron was.

For God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you showed for his cause, in sending help to your fellow Christians, as you are still doing.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, secure and strong, and passing into the sanctuary which is beyond the veil;

whither Jesus himself is entered as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.

and it was to him that Abraham apportioned a tithe of all the spoil. He was first, as his name signifies, King of righteousness, and then King of Salem, that is, King of Peace;

Now were he on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there are here those who present the gifts according to the Law??5 those priests who serve a mere outline and shadow of the heavenly reality, just as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to build the Tabernacle. "See", he says, "that you make everything on the pattern showed you on the mountain."

But Jesus has obtained a better ministry, by so much as he is also Mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted upon better promises.

This is a parable, for the present time, according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered that are not able, as far as conscience is concerned, to perfect the worshiper;

For a testament is only of force in case of the dead, being never valid so long as the testator lives.

Nor did he enter to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest entered into the sanctuary, year after year, with blood that was not his own;

henceforth waiting until his enemies be put as the footstool of his feet.

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the custom of some, but exhorting one another; all the more as you behold the Day drawing near.

It was by faith that he sojourned in the promised land as an alien, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, his fellow heirs of the same promise.

By faith he left Egypt, not because he feared the wrath of the king, but he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.

By faith the people crossed over the Red Sea as on dry land; and when the Egyptians tried to do this they were swallowed up.

and have you forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as sons? My son, do not despise the training of the Lord, Nor faint when he corrects you;

It is for discipline that you are enduring these sufferings. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

For they only disciplined us for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, that we may share his holiness.

Remember those who are in prison, as if you were fellow prisoners; remember too, those who are being ill-treated, since you too, are in the body.

Let your life be untainted by love of money; be content with such things as you have; for God himself has said, I will never leave thee; I will never forsake thee.

Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who must give account; that they may do thus with joy and not with lamentation, for this would be unprofitable to you.

I the more earnestly ask for your prayers, that I may be the more speedily restored to you.