Having become so much better than the heavenly agents, as he has inherited a more excellent name than they.

For to what angel did God ever say, "You are my Son, today I have become your Father"?

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 perish, but thou are permanent. And they will all become old as a garment.

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 to be made like his brothers in accordance with all things, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things toward God, in order to make reconciliation 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 companions of the Christ, if only we keep in possession the primacy of the essence, steadfast until the end,

So also Christ did not glorify himself to become a high priest, but it was he who said to him, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee.

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

About whom, much subject matter from us is also difficult to explain, since ye have become sluggish in hearing.

For also men who ought to be teachers because of the time, ye have need again for some man to teach you the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and have become men who have need of milk, and not of 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 impossible to restore to repentance] those who have once been enlightened [spiritually] and who have tasted and consciously experienced the heavenly gift and have shared in the Holy Spirit,

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;

so that ye may not become lazy, but imitators of those who, through faith and longsuffering, inherit the promises.

where the forerunner, Jesus, entered for us, having become a high priest into the age according to the order of Melchizedek.

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

who has become, not according to a law of a carnal commandment, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

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

And inasmuch as it is not without an oath. For actually those who become priests are so without an oath,

(for they are become priests without the swearing of an oath, but he with the swearing of an oath, by him who said, as to him, The Lord has sworn, and will not repent of it, Thou art priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec;)

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

And of course those who have become priests are more, because of being prevented to continue by death,

For such a high priest is fitting for us, devout, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and having 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 made a spectacle, both by reviling and afflictions, and partly having become companions of those so treated.

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.

And therefore from one man, and these things having become deadened, were begotten as the stars of the heaven for multitude, and as the sand of the seashore, countless.

By faith Moses, having become great, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,

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

Now think about how Jesus endured such opposition against Himself from sinners, so that you do not grow weary and become discouraged [yourself].

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 without chastening, of which all have become participants, then ye are bastards, 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 the God of peace, who has raised from the dead our Lord Jesus (who by the blood of the eternal covenant is become the grand pastor of