and as a covering shalt thou roll them up, and they shall be changed; but thou art the Same, and thy years shall not fail.

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out for service on account of those who shall inherit salvation?

For he has not subjected to angels the habitable world which is to come, of which we speak;

thou hast subjected all things under his feet. For in subjecting all things to him, he has left nothing unsubject to him. But now we see not yet all things subjected to him,

For both he that sanctifies and those sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

For he does not indeed take hold of angels by the hand, but he takes hold of the seed of Abraham.

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

Wherefore I was wroth with this generation, and said, They always err in heart; and they have not known my ways;

in that it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation;

(for who was it, who, having heard, provoked? but was it not all who came out of Egypt by Moses?

And with whom was he wroth forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who had not hearkened to the word?

And we see that they could not enter in on account of unbelief;)

For indeed we have had glad tidings presented to us, even as they also; but the word of the report did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard.

Seeing therefore it remains that some enter into it, and those who first received the glad tidings did not enter in on account of not hearkening to the word,

again he determines a certain day, saying, in David, 'To-day,' after so long a time; (according as it has been said before), To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

For if Jesus had brought them into rest, he would not have spoken afterwards about another day.

Let us therefore use diligence to enter into that rest, that no one may fall after the same example of not hearkening to the word.

And there is not a creature unapparent before him; but all things are naked and laid bare to his eyes, with whom we have to do.

For we have not a high priest not able to sympathise with our infirmities, but tempted in all things in like manner, sin apart.

Thus the Christ also has not glorified himself to be made a high priest; but he who had said to him, Thou art my Son, I have to-day begotten thee.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that one should teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of the Christ, let us go on to what belongs to full growth, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God,

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and still ministering.

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises.

If indeed then perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for the people had their law given to them in connexion with it, what need was there still that a different priest should arise according to the order of Melchisedec, and not be named after the order of Aaron?

who has been constituted not according to law of fleshly commandment, but according to power of indissoluble life.

And by how much it was not without the swearing of an oath;

(for they are become priests without the swearing of an oath, but he with the swearing of an oath, by him who said, as to him, The Lord has sworn, and will not repent of it, Thou art priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec;)

who has not day by day need, as the high priests, first to offer up sacrifices for his own sins, then for those of the people; for this he did once for all in having offered up himself.

minister of the holy places and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord has pitched, and not man.

If then indeed he were upon earth, he would not even be a priest, there being those who offer the gifts according to the law,

For if that first was faultless, place had not been sought for a second.

not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in the day of my taking 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, saith the Lord.

And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know me in themselves, from the little one among them unto the great among them.

and above over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy-seat; concerning which it is not now the time to speak in detail.

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

the Holy Spirit shewing this, that the way of the holy of holies has not yet been made manifest while as yet the first tabernacle has its standing;

But Christ being come high priest of the good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, (that is, not of this creation,)

For the Christ is not entered into holy places made with hand, figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:

nor in order that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy places every year with blood not his own;

For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually yearly, perfect those who approach.

Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?

Wherefore coming into the world he says, Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not; but thou hast prepared me a body.

Above, saying Sacrifices and offerings and burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou willedst not, neither tookest pleasure in (which are offered according to the law);

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the custom is with some; but encouraging one another, and by so much the more as ye see the day drawing near.

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense.

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

For yet a very little while he that comes will come, and will not delay.

But the just shall live by faith; and, if he draw back, my soul does not take pleasure in him.

But we are not drawers back to perdition, but of faith to saving the soul.

Now faith is the substantiating of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

By faith we apprehend that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that that which is seen should not take its origin from things which appear.

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he has the testimony that he had pleased God.

By faith, Noah, oracularly warned concerning things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for 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, being called, obeyed to go out into the place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and went out, not knowing where he was going.

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

but now they seek a better, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.

By faith Moses, being born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child beautiful; and they did not fear the injunction of the king.

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

By faith he celebrated the passover and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.

By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish along with the unbelieving, having received the spies in peace.

Women received their dead again by resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted deliverance, that they might get a better resurrection;

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

And these all, having obtained witness through faith, did not receive the promise,

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

For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.

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

And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when reproved by him;

Ye endure for chastening, God conducts himself towards you as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens not?

But if ye are without chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

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

and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned aside; but that rather it may be healed.

For ye have not come to the mount that might be touched and was all on fire, and to obscurity, and darkness, and tempest,

(for they were not able to bear what was enjoined: And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;

See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him who does so from heaven:

whose voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, saying, Yet once will I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.

But this Yet once, signifies the removing of what is shaken, as being made, that what is not shaken may remain.

Wherefore let us, receiving a kingdom not to be shaken, have grace, by which let us serve God acceptably with reverence and fear.

Be not forgetful of hospitality; for by it some have unawares entertained angels.

Let your conversation be without love of money, satisfied with your present circumstances; for he has said, I will not leave thee, neither will I forsake thee.

So that, taking courage, we may say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not be afraid: what will man do unto me?

Be not carried away with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the heart be confirmed with grace, not meats; those who have walked in which have not been profited by them.

for we have not here an abiding city, but we seek the coming one.

But of doing good and communicating of your substance be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Obey your leaders, and be submissive; for they watch over your souls as those that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not groaning, for this would be unprofitable for you.