for, doubtless, of messengers it doth not lay hold, but of seed of Abraham it layeth hold,

but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,

for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses;

but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,

and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things are naked and open to His eyes -- with whom is our reckoning.

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but one tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin;

and no one to himself doth take the honour, but he who is called by God, as also Aaron:

so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: 'My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;'

that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,

for the law doth appoint men chief priests, having infirmity, but the word of the oath that is after the law appointeth the Son -- to the age having been perfected.

neither through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, did enter in once into the holy places, age-during redemption having obtained;

for not into holy places made with hands did the Christ enter -- figures of the true -- but into the heaven itself, now to be manifested in the presence of God for us;

since it had behoved him many times to suffer from the foundation of the world, but now once, at the full end of the ages, for putting away of sin through his sacrifice, he hath been manifested;

but in those sacrifices is a remembrance of sins every year,

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain is, but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers;

and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.

In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,

but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.

for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;

and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it -- it doth yield.

and straight paths make for your feet, that that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;

But, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,

whose voice the earth shook then, and now hath he promised, saying, 'Yet once -- I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven;'

for we have not here an abiding city, but the coming one we seek;