He is the reflection of God's glory and the perfect representation of His being, and continues to uphold the universe by His mighty word. After He had procured man's purification from sins, He took His seat at the right hand of God's majesty,

For the law appoints imperfect men as high priests, but the assertion about the taking of an oath, which was spoken after the time of the law, appoints a Son who is perfectly qualified to be High Priest forever.

And this is why He is the Mediator of a new covenant, in order that, after He had suffered death for securing redemption from the offenses committed under the first covenant, those who had been invited to share it might obtain the eternal inheritance promised them.

For a will is valid only after a man is dead, since it has no force whatever while the one who made it is alive.

For after every regulation in the law had been spoken by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, crimson wool, and a bunch of hyssop, and sprinkled the book containing the law and all the people,

And He does not enter to offer Himself over and over again, as the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own;

Indeed, just as men must die but once and after that be judged,

For since the law cast only a shadow of the blessings to come and did not possess the reality itself of those blessings, the priests with the same sacrifices that are perpetually offered year after year cannot make perfect those who come to worship.

Every other priest stands officiating day after day and over and over again offering the same sacrifices, although they are unable to take away our sins.

Now the Holy Spirit, too, gives us the testimony, for after saying:

For if we go willfully sinning after we have received full knowledge of the truth, there is no sacrifice left to be offered for our sins,

By faith the walls of Jericho collapsed, after being surrounded each of seven days.

Continue to look after one another, that no one fails to gain God's spiritual blessing; or some evil like a bitter root may spring up and trouble you, and many of you be contaminated by it --