In times past the word of God came to our fathers through the prophets, in different parts and in different ways;

But now, at the end of these days, it has come to us through his Son, to whom he has given all things for a heritage, and through whom he made the order of the generations;

They will come to their end; but you are for ever; they will become old as a robe;

And like a robe You will roll them up;
Like a garment they will be changed.
But You are the same [forever],
And Your years will never end.”

For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.

Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment;

What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;

For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.

But, as we know, a writer has solemnly said, "How poor a creature is man, and yet Thou dost remember him, and a son of man, and yet Thou dost come to him!

For, both the One who makes people holy [i.e., Jesus], and those who are made holy [i.e., Christians], all come from one [Father], and for this reason Christ is not ashamed to call them His brothers,

For it is clear that he did not come to help angels. No, he came to help Abraham's descendants,

For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted.

For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself!

While the faithful service of Moses in the whole House of God was that of a servant, whose duty was to bear testimony to a Message still to come,

And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,

So I was indignant with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have never come to know my ways.'

And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest.

For we have come to share in Christ if we hold our first confidence firm to the end,

As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.

For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?

And to whom did he make an oath that they might not come into his rest? was it not to those who went against his orders?

And we see they could not come in through unbelief.

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

For indeed we have had the good news [of salvation] preached to us, just as the Israelites also [when the good news of the promised land came to them]; but the message they heard did not benefit them, because it was not united with faith [in God] by those who heard.

For those of us who have belief come into his rest; even as he has said, As I said in my oath when I was angry, They may not come into my rest: though the works were done from the time of the making of the world.

And in the same place he says again, They will not come into my rest.

Since therefore it remains for some to come into it, and they before announced of the good news came not in through unbelief:

After a long time, again naming a certain day, he says in David, Today (as he had said before), Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart,

which shows that the people of God have a sabbath still to come.

For he having come into his rest, he also has ceased from his works, as God from his own.

Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

And though he was a Son, through the pain which he underwent, the knowledge came to him of what it was to be under God's orders;

For though by this time you ought to be teachers [because of the time you have had to learn these truths], you actually need someone to teach you again the elementary principles of God’s word [from the beginning], and you have come to be continually in need of milk, not solid food.

but firm food is for persons come to age, who by habit have their senses exercised to a discernment both of good and evil.

For if those who were once for all brought into the Light, and learned to appreciate the gift from Heaven, and came to share in the Holy Spirit,

And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

And so, having patiently waited, he realized the promise [in the miraculous birth of Isaac, as a pledge of what was to come from God].

For this Melchizedek, the king of Salem, a priest of the Most High God, who gave Abraham his blessing, meeting him when he came back after putting the kings to death,

And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:

Because he was still in his father's body when Melchizedek came to him.

If then, perfection came through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need was there for another priest to appear, said to be in the order of Melchizedek and not in the order of Aaron?

for the priesthood being changed, of necessity also, of the law a change doth come,

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

And this is even more clear if a second priest has come up who is like Melchizedek,

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

for a disannulling indeed doth come of the command going before because of its weakness, and unprofitableness,

(for the Law never made anything perfect); while on the other hand a better hope is introduced through which we now continually draw near to God.

Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak, but the promise of the oath, which came after the law, appoints a Son, who has been perfected forever.

For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

And these having been thus adjusted, the priests come continually into the first tabernacle, performing the services:

They served only for matters of food and drink and various washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.

But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

neither through the blood of goats and bullocks, but through his own blood, came once into the holies, having found eternal redemption.

And because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance,

(For where there is a testament, the death of the testator must needs come in.

For such a Covenant takes effect only upon death, it does not come into force as long as the testator is alive.

and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.

For Christ did not come into the sanctuaries made with hands, the pattern of the true; but into heaven itself, now to be made manifest unto the face of God in our behalf:

For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.

so Christ also, who was once [for all] offered [as a sacrifice] to take away the sins of many people, will come back a second time, not to take away sin, [but] to provide salvation to those who are waiting for Him.

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

Therefore, [when he] came into the world, he said, "Sacrifice and offering you did not want, but a body you prepared for me;

Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

First come the words-- 'Thou dost not desire, nor dost thou take pleasure in, sacrifices, offerings, burnt offerings, and sacrifices for sin' (offerings regularly made under the Law),

Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

let us approach [God] with a true and sincere heart in unqualified assurance of faith, having had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions, and at other times you came to share with others who were treated in that way.

For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

Now faith is the assurance that what we hope for will come about and the certainty that what we cannot see exists.

by faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of God, in regard to the things seen not having come out of things appearing;

But without faith it is impossible to [walk with God and] please Him, for whoever comes [near] to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists and that He rewards those who [earnestly and diligently] seek Him.

Faith led Noah, when he was warned by God of things no one then saw, in obedience to the warning to build an ark in which to save his family, and by such faith he condemned the world, and came to possess that uprightness which faith produces.

By faith, being called, Abraham obeyed - to come forth into a place he was destined to receive for an inheritance; and he came forth, not well knowing whither he was coming.

Through faith he came and made his home for a time in a land which had been promised to him, as if in a foreign country, living in tents together with Isaac and Jacob, sharers with him in the same promise;

Therefore from one man—in fact, from one as good as dead—came offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as innumerable as the grains of sand by the seashore.

All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.

And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;

He considered the reproach of the Christ [that is, the rebuke he would suffer for his faithful obedience to God] to be greater wealth than all the treasures of Egypt; for he looked ahead to the reward [promised by God].

By faith the walls of Jericho came down, after they had been circled for seven days.

Women had their dead given back to them living; others let themselves be cruelly attacked, having no desire to go free, so that they might have a better life to come;

because God had us in mind and had something better for us, so that they [these men and women of authentic faith] would not be made perfect [that is, completed in Him] apart from us.

For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,

Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;

Ye know how that afterward when that he would have inherited the blessing, he was put by, and he found no means to come thereby again: no, though he desired it with tears.

For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

and so fearful was the sight, that Moses said, I fear and tremble,??22 but you have come to Zion, the mountain and city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels in general assembly,

But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

and to the church of the firstborn ones [i.e., those who have received an inheritance from their Father], whose names are recorded in heaven. [See Luke 10:20]. [You have come] to God, who is the Judge of all people, and to the spirits of righteous people who have become [morally] perfect [i.e., that great company of God's people who have gone on to their heavenly reward],

See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and to-day, and to the ages to come.

Therefore we should come to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement,

Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.

Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who come from Italy send you greetings.