and as a covering You shall fold them up, and they shall be changed. But You are the same, and Your years shall not fail."

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation?

For He has not put in subjection to the angels the world to come, of which we speak.

You subjected all things under his feet." For in subjecting all things to Him, He did not leave anything not subjected to Him. But now we do not see all things having been subjected to him.

For both He who sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of One, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brothers,

For truly He did not take the nature of angels, but He took hold of the seed of Abraham.

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

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

So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest."

while it is said, "Today if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation."

For some, when they had heard, did provoke; however, not all who came out of Egypt by Moses.

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

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

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

For also we have had the gospel preached, as well as them. But the Word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.

For we who have believed do enter into the rest, as He said, "I have sworn in My wrath that they should not enter into My rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

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

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,

He again marks out a certain day, saying in David, "Today," (after so long a time). Even as it is said, "Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts."

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

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.

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.

Therefore let us come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

So also Christ did not glorify Himself to be made a high priest, but He who said to Him, "You are My Son, today I have begotten You."

For indeed because of the time, you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again what are the first principles of the oracles of God. And you have become in need of milk, and not of solid food.

Therefore, having left the discourse of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to full growth, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

that you be not slothful, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.

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?

who is made, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life.

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,")

And they truly were many priests, because they were not allowed to continue because of death;

who does not need, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice daily, first for his own sins and then for the people's sins. For He did this once for all, when He offered up Himself.

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

For if indeed He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the Law,

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day I took hold of their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt," because they did not continue in My covenant, and I did not regard them, says the Lord.

And they shall not each man teach his neighbor, and each man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know Me, from the least to the greatest.

But once in the year into the second the high priest goes alone, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the errors of the people)

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,

But when Christ had become a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building

For Christ has not entered into the Holy of Holies made with hands, which are the figures of the true, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.

For the Law which has a shadow of good things to come, not the very image of the things, appearing year by year with the same sacrifices, which they offer continually, they are never able to perfect those drawing near.

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers, when they had been once for all purged, would have had no more conscience of sin.

For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

Therefore when He comes into the world, He says, "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You have prepared a body for Me.

Above, when He said, "Sacrifice and offering, and burnt offerings and offering for sin You did not desire, neither did You have pleasure in them" (which are offered according to the Law),

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.

Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great recompense of reward.

For you have need of patience, so that after you have done the will of God you might receive the promise.

For "yet a little while, and He who shall come will come and will not delay."

But we are not of those withdrawing to destruction, but of those who believe to the preserving of the soul.

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

By faith we understand that the ages were framed by a word of God, so that the things being seen not to have come into being out of the things that appear.

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 Noah, having been warned by God of things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

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.

These all died by way of faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. And they were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

But now they stretch forth to a better fatherland, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

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.

By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.

By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace.

Women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

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

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, did not receive the promise,

for God had provided some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.

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

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons, "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him;

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

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

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

Now chastening for the present does not seem to be joyous, but grievous. Nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.

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).

For you have not come to the mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, nor to blackness and darkness and tempest,

and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words (which voice they who heard begged that a word should not be spoken to them any more,

for they could not endure the thing commanded, "And if so much as a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart,"

See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape, those who refused him that spoke on earth, much more we shall not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from Heaven,

whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will not only shake the earth, but also the heavens."

Do not be forgetful of hospitality, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Let your way of life be without the love of money, and be content with such things as you have, for He has said, "Not at all will I leave you, not at all will I forsake you, never!"

so that we may boldly say, "The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me."

Do not be carried about with different and strange doctrines, for it is good for the heart to be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who have walked in them were not helped.

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

Yield to those leading you, and be submissive, for they watch for your souls, as those who must give account, that they may do it with joy and not with grief; for that is unprofitable for you.