And you will fold them up just like a robe, and they will be changed like the changing of one's coat, but you are the same, and your years will never cease."

but Christ as a Son set over the house of God was faithful; and we are that house, if we keep up our courage and the joy that hope inspires to the very end.

Since then we have in Jesus, the Son of God, a great High Priest who has gone right up to heaven itself, let us continue to keep a firm hold on our profession of faith in Him.

For during His human life He offered up prayers and entreaties, crying aloud with tears to Him who was always able to save Him out of death, and because of His beautiful spirit of worship His prayer was heard.

Although He was a Son, He learned from what He suffered how to obey,

and because He was perfectly qualified for it He became the author of endless salvation for all who obey Him,

and then have fallen by the wayside -- it is impossible, I say, to keep on restoring them to their first repentance, since they continue to crucify the Son of God to their detriment and hold Him up to contempt.

This hope we have as an anchor for our souls, secure and safe, which reaches up behind the heavenly veil,

who does not need, as did the Levitical priests, to offer sacrifices, first for his own sins and then for those of the people; this latter is just what He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

as officiating Priest in that sanctuary, which is also the true tent of worship, which the Lord and not man set up.

But this One offered up once for all and for all time one sacrifice for sins, and once for all took His seat at God's right hand,

So you must never give up your confident courage, for it holds a rich reward for you.

By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as a son of Pharaoh's daughter,

and you have forgotten the encouragement which is addressed to you as sons: "My son, refrain from thinking lightly of the discipline the Lord inflicts, and giving up when you are corrected by Him.

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 --

Continue to obey and to be submissive to your leaders, for they are ever watching in defense of your souls, as men who will have to give account of their trust. Treat them in this way, so that they may work with joy and not with grief.