The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of His nature, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After making purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

Now to which of the angels has He ever said:

Sit at My right hand
until I make Your enemies Your footstool?

Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s household, as a testimony to what would be said in the future.

for 40 years.
Therefore I was provoked with that generation
and said, “They always go astray in their hearts,
and they have not known My ways.”

As it is said:

Today, if you hear His voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.

(for we who have believed enter the rest), in keeping with what He has said:

So I swore in My anger,
they will not enter My rest.

And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world,

In the same way, the Messiah did not exalt Himself to become a high priest, but the One who said to Him, You are My Son; today I have become Your Father,

also said in another passage, You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us.

For the One these things are spoken about belonged to a different tribe. No one from it has served at the altar.

Now it is evident that our Lord came from Judah, and Moses said nothing about that tribe concerning priests.

but He became a priest with an oath made by the One who said to Him:

The Lord has sworn,
and He will not change His mind,
You are a priest forever.

Now the main point of what is being said is this: We have this kind of high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

a minister of the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that was set up by the Lord and not man.

These serve as a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was warned when he was about to complete the tabernacle. For God said, Be careful that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.

For a tabernacle was set up, and in the first room, which is called the holy place, were the lampstand, the table, and the presentation loaves.

The cherubim of glory were above it overshadowing the mercy seat. It is not possible to speak about these things in detail right now.

With these things set up this way, the priests enter the first room repeatedly, performing their ministry.

Therefore, as He was coming into the world, He said:

You did not want sacrifice and offering,
but You prepared a body for Me.

Then I said, “See—
it is written about Me
in the volume of the scroll—
I have come to do Your will, God!”

But this man, after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God.

The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. For after He says:

For we know the One who has said, Vengeance belongs to Me, I will repay, and again, The Lord will judge His people.

the one it had been said about, Your seed will be traced through Isaac.

keeping our eyes on Jesus, the source and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that lay before Him endured a cross and despised the shame and has sat down at the right hand of God’s throne.

The appearance was so terrifying that Moses said, I am terrified and trembling.)

Your life should be free from the love of money. Be satisfied with what you have, for He Himself has said, I will never leave you or forsake you.

equip you with all that is good to do His will, working in us what is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ. Glory belongs to Him forever and ever. Amen.