For unto which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, this day have I begotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

And, you, Lord, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands:

And as a mantle shall you fold them up, and they shall be changed: but you are the same, and your years shall not fail.

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister to them who shall be heirs of salvation?

But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man, that you visit him?

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

For both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

Since then the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help them that are tempted.

But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end;

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

For we have not a high priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our weaknesses; but was in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are wayward; for he himself also is beset with weakness.

So also Christ glorified not himself to be made a high priest; but he that said unto him, You are my Son, today have I begotten you.

As he says also in another place, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to explain, seeing you are dull of hearing.

For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

But solid food belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they are descendants of Abraham:

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

For he testifies, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord swore and will not change, you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek:)

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

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new covenant, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they who are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

For a will is in force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the maker lives.

And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

For Christ has not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin you desired not, neither had pleasure in them; which are offered by the law;

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

For by one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified.

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

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

Therefore seeing we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily ensnare us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:

But if you be without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then are you illegitimate children, and not sons.

Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them who are trained by it.

For you are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, who are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them who suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.