and put everything in subjection under his feet." Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. As it is, we do not yet see everything subject to him.

Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later,

For we also have had the good news preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.

Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same example of disobedience.

And there is no creature hidden from his sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

And no one takes the honor upon himself, but he is called by God, just as Aaron was.

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,

Now if perfection could have been through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the people received the Law), what further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not one designated according to the order of Aaron?

For the one of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar.

Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no place sought for a second.

For he finds fault with them when he says: "The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not continue in my covenant, and so I paid no heed to them, says the Lord.

And they shall not teach every one his fellow or every one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest.

For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more."

When he said, "A new covenant," he has made the first obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.

and above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. But of these things we cannot now speak in detail.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

Indeed, under the law almost everything is cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.

For then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered? If the worshipers had once been cleansed, they would no longer have any consciousness of sins.

in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.

then he adds, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."

Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

by a new and living way which he opened for us through the curtain, that is, his flesh,

For if we sin deliberately after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge his people."

For you had compassion on the prisoners, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.

But my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."

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

By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in godly fear prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which comes by faith.

Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness spring up and cause trouble, and by it many become defiled;

that no one be immoral or godless like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.

and the blast of a trumpet, and the sound of a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further word be spoken to them.

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks better than the blood of Abel.

Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also heaven."

We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as men who will have to give account. Let them do this with joy, and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.

Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the eternal covenant,

You should know that our brother Timothy has been released, with whom I will see you if he comes soon.