Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve those who are going to inherit salvation?

We must, therefore, pay even more attention to what we have heard, so that we will not drift away.

For He has not subjected to angels the world to come that we are talking about.

and subjected everything under his feet.

For in subjecting everything to him, He left nothing that is not subject to him. As it is, we do not yet see everything subjected to him.

For the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers,

For it is clear that He does not reach out to help angels, but to help Abraham’s offspring.

do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,

for 40 years.
Therefore I was provoked with that generation
and said, “They always go astray in their hearts,
and they have not known My ways.”

So I swore in My anger,
“They will not enter My rest.”

As it is said:

Today, if you hear His voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.

And who was He provoked with for 40 years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

And who did He swear to that they would not enter His rest, if not those who disobeyed?

For we also have received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard did not benefit them, since they were not united with those who heard it in faith

(for we who have believed enter the rest), in keeping with what He has said:

So I swore in My anger,
they will not enter My rest.

And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world,

Since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news did not enter because of disobedience,

again, He specifies a certain day—today—speaking through David after such a long time, as previously stated:

Today, if you hear His voice,
do not harden your hearts.

For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tested in every way as we are, yet without sin.

In the same way, the Messiah did not exalt Himself to become a high priest, but the One who said to Him, You are My Son; today I have become Your Father,

Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the basic principles of God’s revelation again. You need milk, not solid food.

Therefore, leaving the elementary message about the Messiah, let us go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, faith in God,

For God is not unjust; He will not forget your work and the love you showed for His name when you served the saints—and you continue to serve them.

If then, perfection came through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need was there for another priest to appear, said to be in the order of Melchizedek and not in the order of Aaron?

but He became a priest with an oath made by the One who said to Him:

The Lord has sworn,
and He will not change His mind,
You are a priest forever.

For this is the kind of high priest we need: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

He doesn’t need to offer sacrifices every day, as high priests do—first for their own sins, then for those of the people. He did this once for all when He offered Himself.

a minister of the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that was set up by the Lord and not man.

not like the covenant
that I made with their ancestors
on the day I took them by their hands
to lead them out of the land of Egypt.
I disregarded them, says the Lord,
because they did not continue in My covenant.

And each person will not teach his fellow citizen,
and each his brother, saying, “Know the Lord,”
because they will all know Me,
from the least to the greatest of them.

The cherubim of glory were above it overshadowing the mercy seat. It is not possible to speak about these things in detail right now.

The Holy Spirit was making it clear that the way into the most holy place had not yet been disclosed while the first tabernacle was still standing.

But the Messiah has appeared, high priest of the good things that have come. In the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands (that is, not of this creation),

He entered the most holy place once for all, not by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood, having obtained eternal redemption.

For the Messiah did not enter a sanctuary made with hands (only a model of the true one) but into heaven itself, so that He might now appear in the presence of God for us.

He did not do this to offer Himself many times, as the high priest enters the sanctuary yearly with the blood of another.

so also the Messiah, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for Him.

Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the actual form of those realities, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year.

Therefore, as He was coming into the world, He said:

You did not want sacrifice and offering,
but You prepared a body for Me.

You did not delight
in whole burnt offerings and sin offerings.

After He says above, You did not want or delight in sacrifices and offerings, whole burnt offerings and sin offerings (which are offered according to the law),

not staying away from our worship meetings, as some habitually do, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day drawing near.

For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.

For yet in a very little while,
the Coming One will come and not delay.

But we are not those who draw back and are destroyed, but those who have faith and obtain life.

Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen.

By faith we understand that the universe was created by God’s command, so that what is seen has been made from things that are not visible.

By faith Enoch was taken away so he did not experience death, and he was not to be found because God took him away. For prior to his removal he was approved, since he had pleased God.

By faith Noah, after he was warned about what was not yet seen and motivated by godly fear, built an ark to deliver his family. By faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and went out to a place he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he was going.

But they now desire a better place—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

By faith he left Egypt behind, not being afraid of the king’s anger, for Moses persevered as one who sees Him who is invisible.

By faith he instituted the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch the Israelites.

Women received their dead—they were raised to life again. Some men were tortured, not accepting release, so that they might gain a better resurrection,

The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and on mountains, hiding in caves and holes in the ground.

All these were approved through their faith, but they did not receive what was promised,

since God had provided something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect without us.

In struggling against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons:

My son, do not take the Lord’s discipline lightly
or faint when you are reproved by Him,

Endure suffering as discipline: God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

But if you are without discipline—which all receive—then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated but healed instead.

For you have not come to what could be touched, to a blazing fire, to darkness, gloom, and storm,

to the blast of a trumpet, and the sound of words. (Those who heard it begged that not another word be spoken to them,

for they could not bear what was commanded: And if even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned!

Make sure that you do not reject the One who speaks. For if they did not escape when they rejected Him who warned them on earth, even less will we if we turn away from Him who warns us from heaven.

His voice shook the earth at that time, but now He has promised, Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also heaven.

This expression, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what is not shaken might remain.

Therefore, we may boldly say:

The Lord is my helper;
I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?

Don’t be led astray by various kinds of strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established by grace and not by foods, since those involved in them have not benefited.

We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle do not have a right to eat.

For we do not have an enduring city here; instead, we seek the one to come.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.