but in these latter days He has spoken to us through a Son, whom He had appointed lawful owner of everything, and through whom He had made the worlds.

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."

But God said [this] about the angels [Psa. 104:4 LXX], "He [i.e., God] makes His angels to be [like] winds and His servants [like] flames of fire." [Note: The idea is probably that angels obediently serve God's purpose similar to the way wind and lightening do].

But regarding the Son He says: "Your throne, O God, will stand forever and ever; a righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom.

They will perish, but you always remain; they all will grow old like a coat,

And you will fold them up just like a robe, and they will be changed like the changing of one's coat, but you are the same, and your years will never cease."

But to what angel did He ever say: "Just keep your seat at my right hand, until I make your foes a footstool for your feet"?

But a certain man has somewhere testified, saying, What is man, that thou remember him? Or a son of man, that thou help him?

You have put all things under His feet!" Now when He gave Him authority over everything, He did not leave a single thing that was not put under His authority. But as yet we do not see everything actually under His authority,

but we do see Jesus, who was made inferior to the angels for a little while, crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by God's favor He might experience death for every human being.

For of course it is not angels but descendants of Abraham that He is to help.

but as the architect is of much greater dignity than the house he has made; so the glory which Christ received was greater than that of Moses.

For every house is built by somebody, but the builder and furnisher of the universe is God.

Now Moses was faithful in [the administration of] all God’s house, [but only] as a ministering servant, [his ministry serving] as a testimony of the things which were to be spoken afterward [the revelation to come in Christ];

but Christ as a Son over his house, whose house we are, if only we keep in possession our confidence and pride of hope, firm until the end.

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "If you but hear His voice today,

Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways;

But as I made oath in my anger, They shall never be admitted to my Rest!"

But exhort each other during each day, while it is called Today, lest any of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

and yet the warning continues to be spoken: "If you but hear His voice, you must not harden your hearts as they did in provoking me."

For some who heard rebelled, but not all those who came out of Egypt by Moses.

But with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

But, unto whom, sware he, that they should not enter into his rest, - save unto them who were obstinate?

For we also are having good-news preached, just as also those men, but the word of hearing did not benefit those men, not having been mixed together with faith in those who heard.

But we which have believed, do enter into his rest, as contrariwise he said to the other, "As I have sworn in my wrath, 'They shall not enter into my rest.'" And that spake he verily long after that the works were made, and the foundation of the world laid.

but in this place 'tis said, "they shall not enter into my rest."

So, since it still remains for some people to enter into that rest, but those to whom the good news was previously proclaimed [See verse 2] failed to enter it because of disobedience [See 3:18]

He again fixes a definite day, saying long afterward through David, as has been quoted: "If you but hear His voice, you must not harden your hearts."

God's Message is a living and active power, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing its way till it penetrates soul and spirit--not the joints only but the very marrow--and detecting the inmost thoughts and purposes of the mind.

And there is no creature concealed from his presence, but all things are naked and vulnerable to his eyes, before whom is the word to us.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who was tempted in all things in the same way, without sin.

and so is obliged to offer sin-offerings, not only for the people but for himself as well.

And not any man takes the honor to himself, but being called by God, just as also Aaron.

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.

In the days of His earthly life, Jesus offered up both [specific] petitions and [urgent] supplications [for that which He needed] with fervent crying and tears to the One who was [always] able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverent submission toward God [His sinlessness and His unfailing determination to do the Father’s will].

but though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered: and being thus perfected,

I have much to say to you about Him, but it is difficult to make it clear to you, since you have become so dull in your spiritual senses.

For certainly enough time has elapsed so that [by now] you ought to be teachers, [but instead] you are in need of having someone teach you again the basic principles of God's message. You have become people who need "milk" and not "solid food." [Note: The fundamental truths of Christianity are here figuratively spoken of as "milk," while the more advanced teaching, such as Christ's priesthood being like Melchizedek's, is called "solid food"].

For every man that is fed with milk is inexpert in the word of righteousness: For he is but a babe.

But solid food is for mature men, those having their sensibilities trained through practice for the discernment of both good and evil.

But the land which drinks in the rain that often falls on it, and produces plants beneficial to those by whom it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God;

But producing thorns and thistles it is unfit and near a curse, the end of which is for burning.

But we are persuaded better things about you, beloved, and things that have salvation, even though we speak this way.

but I am longing that each of you continue to show the same diligence to realize the fulness of your hope, even to the end.

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

but God, in this wishing more abundantly to show forth to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to deceive us, we, who have no other refuge to fly to, but to maintain our present hopes,

To whom even a tenth of all Abraham apportioned, first, indeed, when translated, King of Righteousness, but, after that, King of Salem also, which is King of Peace, -

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but having been made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.

But observe how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the Patriarch, gave a tenth part of the spoils.

But the man who did not descend from them has received tithes from Abraham, and has blessed the man having the promises.

But there is no doubt that the less gets his blessing from the greater.

And here indeed, men who die receive tithes, but there, he who is testified about that he lives.

For the One of whom these things are said belonged [not to the priestly line of Levi but] to another tribe, from which no one has officiated or served at the altar.

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

For, the law, perfected, nothing; but there is the superinducing of a better hope, - through which we draw near unto God.

Besides those priests were establish'd without any oath: but this with an oath,

but he with an oath, because of him who says to him, The Lord swore and will not change his mind, Thou are a priest into the age according to the order of Melchizedek.

but he, because of his remaining into the age, has the priesthood unchangeable.

For the law appoints men high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath after the law, a Son who has been fully perfected into the age.

But in addition to the things which having been spoken this is the principal thing: We have such a high priest, who sat on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

a Minister (Officiating Priest) in the holy places and in the true tabernacle, which is erected not by man, but by the Lord.

But every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices, and so this high priest also must have some sacrifice to offer.

They serve as a pattern and foreshadowing of [what has its true existence and reality in] the heavenly things (sanctuary). For when Moses was about to erect the tabernacle, he was warned by God, saying, “See that you make it all [exactly] according to the pattern which was shown to you on the mountain.”

But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for the second. [But it was not].

But finding fault with them, He says. "There are days coming," says the Lord, "When I will establish with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant;

but this is the alliance that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

In that he saith, A new covenant he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.

Now even the first covenant had regulations for divine worship and for the earthly sanctuary.

But behind the second curtain is the tent that is called the holy of holies,

while above it, overshadowing the mercy-seat, were the cherubim of glory. But I must not speak about these in detail.

These things being thus disposed, the priests went at all times into the first part of the tabernacle, to officiate the divine service. but into the other part,

but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offereth for himself, and for the errors of the people:

but deal only with foods and drinks and various washings; they are regulations for the flesh imposed until the time of setting things right.

But Christ having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption.

For a testament is valid after men are dead, but is of no force while the testator is living.

It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:

Nor yet was it to offer himself may times, as year after year the High Priest entered the Sanctuary with an offering of blood--but not his own blood;

else must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once at the end of the ages hath he been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Indeed, just as men must die but once and after that be judged,

so Christ was offered once for all to take away the sins of many, but again He will appear, without having anything to do with sin, to save those who are eagerly waiting for Him to bring them final salvation.

For the law - which hath but the shadow of good things to come, and not the things in their own fashion - can never with the sacrifices which they offer year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

But in those'sacrifices there is a remembrance made of sins year by year.

Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, But a body didst thou prepare for me;

"Sacrifice and offering you did not wish, but a body you have prepared for me; in burnt-offerings and sin-offerings you never took delight.

but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

But even the Holy Spirit beareth us witness; for, after having said -

But when these have been remitted, there is no more any offering for sin.

and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good deeds ??25 not ceasing to meet together, as is the habit of some, but admonishing one another, all the more so, as you see the Day coming near.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another ; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries.

But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;

Partly, indeed, because, both with reproaches and tribulations, ye were being made a spectacle, but, partly, because, into fellowship with them who were so involved, ye were brought; -

For you not only showed sympathy with those who were imprisoned, but you even submitted with joy when your property was taken from you, being well aware that you have in your own selves a more valuable possession and one which will remain.

but you will need endurance if you are to carry out God's will and receive the blessing he has promised.

only wait but a little while, and he that is to come, will come without delay.