For to what angel did God ever say, "You are my Son! I have today become your Father"? Or again, "I will become his Father, and he shall become my Son"?

So even Christ did not claim for himself the dignity of the high priesthood, but he was appointed to it by him who said to him, "You are my Son! I have today become your Father!"

I have much to say to you about this, but it is difficult to make it clear to you, because you have become so slow of apprehension.

where Jesus has gone ahead of us, and become forever a high priest of the priesthood of Melchizedek.

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,