and as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art always, and thy years shall not fail."

Are they not all spirits to do service, sent for to minister for their sakes, which shall be heirs of salvation?

He hath not unto the angels put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak:

Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet." In that he put all things under him, he left nothing that is not put under him.

Nevertheless, we yet see not all things subdued unto him. But him that was made less than the angels, we see that it was Iesus: which is crowned with glory and honour for the suffering of death; that he, by the grace of God, should taste of death for all men.

Forasmuch as he that sanctifieth, and they which are sanctified, are all of one. For which cause's sake he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

harden not your hearts, after the rebellion in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation and said, 'They ever err in their hearts: they verily have not known my ways,'

so that I sware in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest."

so long as it is said, "Today if ye hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as when ye provoked."

For some, when they heard, rebelled: howbeit, not all that came out of Egypt under Moses.

But with whom was he displeased forty years? Was he not displeased with them that sinned: whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert?

To whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but unto them that believed not?

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

For unto us was it declared, as well as unto them. But it profited not them that they heard the word, because they which heard it coupled it not with faith.

But we which have believed, do enter into his rest, as contrariwise he said to the other, "As I have sworn in my wrath, 'They shall not enter into my rest.'" And that spake he verily long after that the works were made, and the foundation of the world laid.

And in this place again, "They shall not come into my rest."

Seeing therefore it followeth that some must enter thereinto, and they to whom it was first preached, entered not therein for unbelief's sake.

Again he appointeth in David a certain present day after so long a time, saying as it is rehearsed, "This day if ye hear his voice, be not hard hearted."

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

For we have not a high priest, which cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but was in all points tempted, as we are: but yet without sin.

Let us therefore go boldly unto the seat of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Even so, likewise, Christ glorified not himself, to be made the high priest: but he that said unto him. "Thou art my son, this day begat I thee."

For when as concerning the time, ye ought to be teachers, yet have ye need again that we teach you the first principles of the word of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat:

For it is not possible that they which were once lighted, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were become partakers of the holy ghost,

For God is not unrighteous that he should forget your work and labour that proceedeth of love, which love showed in his name, which have ministered unto the saints, and yet minister.

that ye faint not, but follow them which through faith and patience inherit the promises.

But he whose kindred is not counted among them, received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

If now therefore perfection came by the priesthood of the Levites - for under that priesthood the people received the law - what needed it furthermore that another priest should rise, after the order of Melchizedek, and not after the order of Aaron?

which is not made after the law of the carnal commandment: but after the power of the endless life.

And for this cause it is a better hope, that it was not promised without an oath.

Those priests were made without an oath: but this priest with an oath, by him that said unto him, "The Lord sware, and will not repent: Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."

And among them, many were made priests, because they were not suffered to endure by the reason of death.

Which needeth not daily - as yonder high priests - to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's sins. For that did he at once for all, when he offered up himself:

and is a minister of holy things, and of the very tabernacle which God pitched, and not man.

For he were not a priest, if he were on the earth where are priests that according to the law offer gifts,

not like the testament that I made with their fathers at that time, when I took them by the hands, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they continued not in my testament, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

And they shall not teach, every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'know the Lord': For they shall know me, from the least to the most of them.

Over the ark were the cherubims of glory shadowing the seat of grace. Of which things, we will not now speak particularly.

But into the second went the high priest alone, once every year: and not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the ignorance of the people.

Wherewith the holy ghost this signifying, that the way of holy things was not yet opened, while as yet the first tabernacle was standing,

which was a similitude for the time then present, and in which were offered gifts and sacrifices that could not make them that minister perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

But Christ being a high priest of good things to come, came by a greater, and a more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands: that is to say, not of this manner building,

It is then need that the similitudes of heavenly things, be purified with such things: but the heavenly things themselves are purified with better sacrifices than are those.

For Christ is not entered into the holy places, that are made with hands, which are but similitudes of true things: but is entered into very heaven, for to appear now in the sight of God for us.

Not to offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with strange blood:

For the law - which hath but the shadow of good things to come, and not the things in their own fashion - can never with the sacrifices which they offer year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

For would not then those sacrifices have ceased to have been offered? Because that the offerers, once purged, should have had no more consciences of sins.

Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, "Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not have: but a body hast thou ordained me.

Above when he had said, "sacrifice, and offering, and burnt sacrifices, and sin offerings thou wouldest not have, neither hast allowed" - which yet are offered by the law -

and let us not forsake the fellowship that we have among ourselves, as the manner of some is: but let us exhort one another, and that so much the more, because ye see that the day draweth nigh.

Cast not away, therefore, your confidence; which hath great reward to recompense.

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

For yet a very little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry:

We are not which withdraw ourselves unto damnation, but pertain to faith, to the winning of the soul.

Faith is a sure confidence of things which are hoped for, and a certainty of things which are not seen.

Through faith we understand that the world was ordained, by the word of God: and that things which are seen, were made of things which are not seen.

By faith was Enoch translated that he should not see death; neither was he found, for God had taken him away. Before he was taken away, he was reported of that he had pleased God.

By faith Noah honoured God, after that he was warned of things which were not seen, and prepared the ark to the saving of his household, through the which ark he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which cometh by faith.

By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out into a place which he should afterward receive to inheritance, and he went out, not knowing whither he should go.

And they all died in faith, and received not the promises: but saw them afar off, and believed them, and saluted them: and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

But now they desire a better, that is to say a heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them, even to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

By faith he forsook Egypt, and feared not the fierceness of the king. For he endured, even as he had seen him which is invisible.

By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with unbelievers, when she had received the spies to lodging peaceably.

And the women received their dead raised to life again. Others were racked, and would not be delivered, that they might receive a better resurrection.

were stoned, were hewn asunder, were tempted, were slain with swords, walked up and down in sheep skins, in goat skins, in need, tribulation, and vexation,

which the world was not worthy of: They wandered in wilderness, in mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.

And these all, through faith, obtained good report, and received not the promise;

God providing a better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

For ye have not yet resisted unto blood shedding, striving against sin.

And ye have forgotten the consolation which speaketh unto you, as unto children, "My son despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither faint when thou art rebuked of him:

If ye shall endure chastening, God offereth himself unto you, as unto sons. What son is that whom the father chasteneth not?

If ye be not under correction - whereof all are partakers - then are ye bastards and not sons.

Moreover, seeing we had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: should we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spiritual gifts that we might live?

For ye are not come unto the mount that can be touched, and unto burning fire, nor yet to mist and darkness and tempest of weather,

neither unto the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words: which voice they that heard it, wished away, that the communication should not be spoken to them.

For they were not able to abide that which was spoken. If a beast had touched the mountain, it must have been stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

See that ye despise not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not which refused him that spake on earth; Much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

whose voice then shook the earth, and now declareth, saying "Yet once more will I shake, not the earth only, but also heaven."

No doubt the same that he sayeth, "yet once more," signifieth the removing away of those things which are shaken, as of things which have ended their course: that the things which are not shaken may remain.

Wherefore if we receive a kingdom which is not moved, we have grace, whereby we may serve God and please him with reverence and godly fear.

Be not forgetful to lodge strangers. For thereby have divers received angels into their houses unawares.

Let your conversation be without covetousness, and be content with that ye have already. For he verily said, "I will not fail thee, neither forsake thee."

That we may boldly say, "The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man doeth unto me."

Be not carried about with divers and strange learning. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, and not with meats, which have not profited them that have had their pastime in them.

We have an altar whereof they may not eat, which serve in the tabernacle.

To do good, and to distribute, forget not: for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

Obey them that have the oversight of you, and submit yourselves to them, for they watch for your souls, even as they that must give accounts for them: that they may do it with joy, and not with grief. For that is an unprofitable thing for you.