Being made so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

They shall perish; but you remain; and they all shall grow old as does a garment;

And as a mantle shall you fold them up, and they shall be changed: but you are the same, and your years shall not fail.

Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.

And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later;

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

Therefore (as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you will hear his voice,

Harden not your hearts, as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness:

While it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

For we who have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Again, he limits a certain day, saying in David, Today, after so long a time; as it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

And for this reason he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

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

As he says also in another place, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

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

Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters into that within the veil;

And as I may so say, Levi also, who receives tithes, paid tithes in Abraham.

Who needs not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, says he, that you make all things according to the pattern showed to you in the mount.

Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place every year with blood of others;

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

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

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

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

Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable.

By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

By faith they passed through the Red sea as on dry land: which the Egyptians attempting to do were drowned.

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:

If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?

Lest there be any immoral, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.

(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as an animal touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a spear:

And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

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

Let your conduct be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.

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