But about the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the scepter of your kingdom is a righteous scepter.

They will come to an end, but you will remain forever. They will all wear out like clothes.

You will roll them up like a robe, and they will be changed like clothes. But you remain the same, and your life will never end."

But to which of the angels did he ever say, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet"?

For he did not put the coming world we are talking about under the control of angels.

and put everything under his feet."

Now when God put everything under him, he left nothing outside his control. However, at the present time we do not yet see everything put under him. But we do see someone who was made a little lower than the angels. He is Jesus, who is crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might experience death for everyone.

After all, every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.

but the Messiah was faithful as the Son in charge of God's household, and we are his household if we hold on to our courage and the hope in which we rejoice.

because we have had the good news told to us as well as to them. But the message they heard did not help them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened to it.

No creature can hide from him, but everyone is exposed and helpless before the eyes of the one to whom we must give a word of explanation.

No one takes this honor upon himself but he is called to it by God, just as Aaron was.

We have much to say about this, but it is difficult to explain because you have become too lazy to understand.

But solid food is for mature people, whose minds are trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

But we want each of you to continue to be diligent to the very end, in order to give full assurance to your hope.

But this man, whose descent is not traced from them, collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed the man who had received the promises.

Mortal men collect tithes, but we are informed by Scripture that Melchizedek keeps on living.

One might even say that Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham,

who was appointed to be a priest, not on the basis of a genealogical registry, but rather on the power of an indestructible life.

but Jesus became a priest with an oath when God told him, "The Lord has taken an oath and will not change his mind. You are a priest forever."

But because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood.

For the Law appoints as high priests men who are weak, but the promised oath, which came after the Law, results in a Son who is eternally perfect.

but God found something wrong with his people when he said, "Look! The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

But only the high priest went into the second part, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins committed by the people in ignorance.

But when the Messiah came as a high priest of the good things that have come, he went through the greater and more perfect tent that was not made by human hands and that is not a part of this creation.

Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood he went into the Most Holy Place once for all and secured our eternal redemption.

This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.

Thus it was necessary for these earthly copies of the things in heaven to be cleansed by these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves are made clean with better sacrifices than these.

For the Messiah did not go into a sanctuary made by human hands that is merely a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, to appear now in God's presence on our behalf.

Then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the creation of the world. But now, at the end of the ages, he has appeared once for all to remove sin by his sacrifice.

so the Messiah was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people. And he will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly wait for him.

For this reason, the Scriptures say, when the Messiah was about to come into the world: "You did not want sacrifices and offerings, but you prepared a body for me.

But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, "he sat down at the right hand of God."

"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts and will write them on their minds,

not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another even more as you see the day of the Lord coming nearer.

but only a terrifying prospect of judgment and a raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.

But you must continue to remember those earlier days, how after you were enlightened you endured a hard and painful struggle.

but my righteous one will live by faith, and if he turns back, my soul will take no pleasure in him."

Now, we do not belong to those who turn back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.

put out raging fires, escaped death by the sword, found strength in weakness, became powerful in battle, and routed foreign armies.

Women received their dead raised back to life. Other people were brutally tortured, but refused to be ransomed, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

All these people won approval for their faith but they did not receive what was promised,

For a short time they disciplined us as they thought best, but God does it for our good, so that we may share in his holiness.

No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, for those who have been trained by it, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace.

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

At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Once more I will shake not only the earth but also heaven."

Let marriage be kept honorable in every way, and the marriage bed undefiled. For God will judge those who commit sexual sins, especially those who commit adultery.

For here we have no permanent city but are looking for the one that is coming.