And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning, didst lay the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands.

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister to those who shall inherit salvation?

For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

For both he that sanctifies, and those who are sanctified, are all of one Father: for which reason, he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying:

Since, then, the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also, in like manner, partook of the same, that, through his death, he might deprive of power him that has the power of death, that is, the devil;

For, inasmuch as he himself has suffered in being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

but Christ, as a Son over his own house; whose house we are, if we hold the confidence and the joy of our hope firm to the end.

For we are partakers of the Christ, if we hold our begun confidence firm to the end;

For we who have believed are to enter into rest, as he said: So I swore in my anger, they shall not enter into my rest; namely, that rest from his works which had been finished from the foundation of the world.

And there is no creature which is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked, and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give an ac count.

Of him we have many things to say, and difficult to be explained, if we do say them, since you are slow in understanding.

For though you ought to be teachers, considering the time, yet you have need that some one teach you again what are the first elements of the oracles of God; and you have be come such as have need of milk, and not of strong food.

But strong food belongs to those who are of mature age, who, by use, have their internal senses exercised to the discerning of both good and evil.

But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you, and of things that tend to salvation, though we thus speak.

For he of whom these things are said, belongs to another tribe, from which no one attended upon the altar.

For if he were on earth, he could not be a priest; because there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

For, finding fault with them, he says: Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will ratify a new covenant for the house of Israel, and for the house of Judah:

which, as a symbol, remains to the present time, in which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that can not make perfect, as it respects the conscience, him that does the service;

And for this reason, he is the mediator of the new covenant: that, since his death has taken place for the redemption of transgressions that were under the former covenant, those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

for a testament goes into effect after men are dead: seeing that it has no validity at all while the testator lives.

And, indeed, according to the law, almost all things are cleansed by blood; and without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

After saying above, Thou didst neither desire, nor take pleasure in sacrifice and offering and whole burnt-offerings and offerings for sin, which are offered according to the law,

By which will, we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.

But we are not of those who draw back to perdition; but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

By faith we understand that the ages were set in order by the word of God, so that the things which are seen, have not come into being from things that appear.

and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as to sons: My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him.

But if you are without chastisement, of which all are par takers, then are you bastards, and not sons.

But no chastisement seems, at the time, to be a matter of joy, but of grief: yet afterward, it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.

to the general assembly and church of the first-born, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect,

And this prophecy, Yet once more, signifies the removing of the things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that the things which can not be shaken may remain.

Remember those who are in bonds, as if you yourselves had been bound, and those who suffer affliction, since you yourselves are in the body.

For the bodies of those animals whose blood, shed for sin, is carried by the high priest into the holiest, are burned with out the camp.