having become so much better than the angels, as he has inherited a more excellent name than they have.

For to which of the angels did he say at any time, "You are my Son. Today have I become your father?" and again, "I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?"

Or again, "I will become His Father, and He shall become my Son"? But when He brings again His first-born Son into the world, He says, "And let all the angels worship Him."

They will come to their end; but you are for ever; they will become old as a robe;

for if the word being spoken through messengers did become stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience did receive a just recompense,

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

“Therefore I was angered with this generation,
And I said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they did not know My ways [nor become progressively better and more intimately acquainted with them]’;

But encourage one another {day by day}, as long as it is called "today," so that {none of you become hardened} by the deception of sin.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

So also Christ did not glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, "You are my Son. Today I have become your father."

and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,

About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

For though ye ought for the time to be teachers of others, ye have again need that some one teach you the leading principles of the oracles of God; and are become as those who need milk, and not solid food.

But "solid food" is for mature people, who because of using their [spiritual] senses, have become able to distinguish good from evil.

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,

and become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the Future Age,

But, beloved, we have become persuaded better things concerning you, and things accompanying salvation, even though we thus speak;

Then do not become slack, but be imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

And this becomes even more evident if another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,

who has become such, not according to the law of a transitory enactment, but according to the energy of an indissoluble life.

For indeed there becomes an annulment of a preceding commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

And inasmuch as it is not apart from oath, (for those indeed apart from oath are become priests,

(for they indeed are become priests without the solemnity of an oath; but He with an oath, by Him who said unto Him, "The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:")

By so much, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.

And the Levitical priests, on the one hand, have become numerous, because they have been prevented by death from continuing in office,

For such a chief priest did become us -- kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens,

Because, this, is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: - giving my laws into their understanding, upon their hearts also, will I inscribe them: and I will become their God, and, they, shall become my people;

in the saying 'new,' He hath made the first old, and what doth become obsolete and is old is nigh disappearing.

But when Christ had become a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building

partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living,

By faith, Enoch was translated, so as not to see death, and was not found, because that, God, had translated him; for, before the translation, he had received witness that he had become well-pleasing unto God; -

And apart from faith it is impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must believe that he is, and becomes a rewarder of those who search for him.

By faith Sarah received strength to become pregnant, and actually gave birth to a child, although she was past the time of life for it, because she thought that He who made her the promise was to be trusted.

Wherefore even from one person, and he become dead in respect to these matters, there sprang a race, as the stars of heaven for multitude, and as the sand, which is on the shore of the sea, innumerable.

by faith Moses, having become great, did refuse to be called a son of the daughter of Pharaoh,

Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.

Think about the one who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you may not become tired and give up.

And have ye forgotten the exhortation that reasons with you as with sons, My son, do not disparage the chastening of Lord, nor become disheartened when punished by him?

and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.

For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is.

and straighten the paths of your life, so that your lameness may not become worse, but instead may be healed.

Look carefully that there be no one who falls back from the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up to trouble you, and by its means many become defiled.

and [see to it] that no one is immoral or godless like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

and to the church of the firstborn ones [i.e., those who have received an inheritance from their Father], whose names are recorded in heaven. [See Luke 10:20]. [You have come] to God, who is the Judge of all people, and to the spirits of righteous people who have become [morally] perfect [i.e., that great company of God's people who have gone on to their heavenly reward],

Bear in mind them who are in bonds, as having become jointly bound, - them who are suffering ill-treatment, as being yourselves also in the body.

May God, the giver of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus who through the blood by which he ratified the everlasting agreement has become the great shepherd of the sheep,