For it is not to angels that he subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.

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

Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear lest any one of you be judged to have come short of it.

and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,

For the Law appoints men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the Law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, he entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation.

For since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices which are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near.

Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me;

Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,' as it is written of me in the roll of the book."

then he said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first in order to establish the second.

"For yet in a very little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay.

For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind,

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the joyful assembly

For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city which is to come.

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