God, formerly multifariously and abundantly having spoken to the fathers in the prophets,

And when again he should bring in the firstborn to the habitable globe, he says, And let all the angels of God worship him.

And truly to the angels of God he says, Who making his angels spirits, and his workmen flames of fire.

And to the Son, Thy throne, O God, for the time of time: a rod of uprightness the rod of thy kingdom.

Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity; for this God anointed thee, thy God, with the oil of lively joy above thy partakers.

God confirming the testimony, together with signs and wonders, and various powers, and partitions of the Holy Spirit, according to his will

But we see Jesus, made some little while less than angels by the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste of death for all.

And again, I will be confident in him. And again, Behold I and the young children which God gave me.

Wherefore in all things it was necessary to be made like to the brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful chief priest in things towards God, in order to propitiate for the sin of the people.

For every house is built by somebody; and he having built all things, God.

See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in removing away from the living God.

For we also were announced of the good news, as well as they: but the word of the report profited them not, not being mixed with faith to them having heard.

For he said somewhere of the seventh thus, And God ceased in the seventh day from all his works.

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

Therefore a celebration of a sabbath remains to the people of God.

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

For the word of God living, and effective, and more piercing than any two-mouthed sword, and penetrating even to the division both of soul and spirit, both the joints and marrows, and a critic of the reflections and thoughts of the heart.

Having therefore a great chief priest, passed to the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, we should hold firmly the assent.

For every chief priest taken from men is appointed for men for things to God, that he bring both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

And not any takes this honour to himself; but the called of God, as also Aaron.

Addressed by God the chief priest according to the order of Melchisedec.

For also ye ought to be teachers for the time, again ye have need for some one to teach you the elements of the beginning of the sayings of God; and have become those having need of milk, and not of firm food.

And firm food is of the perfected, of them by habit having the senses exercised for the separation of good and evil.

Therefore having left the word of the beginning of Christ, we should go on to perfection; not again laying down the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

And this will we do, if God even permit.

And tasted of the good word of God, and powers of the life about to be,

And having fallen, again to renew to repentance; crucifying to themselves the Son of God, and exposing to ignominy.

For the earth drinking the rain coming often upon it, and bringing forth the vegetable fitting well to them by whom it is cultivated, receives commendation from God:

For God is not unjust to forget your work and fatigue of love, which ye showed to his name, having served to the holy ones, and serving.

For God promising to Abraham, since he had none greater to swear by, sware by himself,

In which God, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the firmness of his counsel, he intervened by an oath:

That by two unalterable deeds, in which it is impossible for God to deceive we might have a strong consolation, taking refuge in holding firmly the hope set before:

For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, having met Abraham returning from the cutting off of the kings, and praised him;

Without father, without mother, of unknown origin, neither having beginning of days, nor end of life; and likened to the Son of God;) remains a priest perpetually.

(For the law completed nothing,) but the bringing in of a better hope; by which we draw near to God.

Wherefore he is able to save entirely those coming to God by him, always living to supplicate for them.

For this the covenant which I will set to the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; giving my laws into their mind, and upon their hearts will I write them: and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people:

And Christ being present, a chief priest of good things about to be, by a greater and more perfect tent, not made with hands, that is; not of this creation;

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself blameless to God, purify your consciousness from dead works to serve the living God?

Saying, This the blood of the covenant which God enjoined to you.

For Christ came not into the holy places made with hands, the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to be shown clearly to the face of God for us:

For the law having a shadow of good things about to be, not the same image of the things, with these sacrifices which they bring in yearly in continuance never can render perfect them coming thereto.

Then said I, Behold, I am here (in the head of the book it was written of me,) O God, to do thy will.

Then he said, Behold, I am here to do, O God, thy will. He takes away the first, that he might set up the second.

But this, having brought in one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;

And a great priest over the house of God;

And we should observe one another for the incitement of love and good works:

Of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be deemed worthy. having trodden down the Son of God, and deemed the blood of the covenant common, in which he was consecrated, and having outraged the Spirit of grace?

Terrible to fall into the hands of the living God.

For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

By faith we perceive that the times were adjusted by the word of God, so that things seen have been born not of things brought to light.

By faith Abel brought near a greater sacrifice to God than Cain, by which he was testified of to be just, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaks.

By faith Enoch was transferred not to see death; and was not found, because God had transferred him: for before his transferring he had been testified of, to have pleased God.

And without faith it is impossible to please: for he approaching to God must believe that he is, and is a remunerator to them seeking him out.

For he awaited a city having foundations, whose artificer and maker is God.

And now they feel an ardent desire for a better, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he prepared for them a city.

Reckoning that God was also able to raise from the dead; whence he also received him in a parable.

Having chosen rather to be treated ill with the people of God, than to have the enjoyment of sin for a time;

They were stoned, they were cut by sawing, they were tried, they died by the slaughter of the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being in want, pressed, treated ill;

God having foreseen something better for us, that without us they should not be completed.

Looking in the distance to Jesus the author and completer of the faith; who for the joy laid before him endured the cross, having despised the shame, and sat down on the right hand of the throne of God.

If ye endure correction, God treats you as sons; for who is the son which the father corrects not?

Observing narrowly lest any be failing of the grace of God: lest any root of bitterness springing forth aloft give trouble, and by this many be defiled;

But ye have come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,

To the assembly of people, and church of the firstborn, transcribed in the heavens, and to God the Judge of all, and. to the spirits of the just perfected,

Wherefore we receiving a kingdom unmoved; we should have grace by which we might serve God acceptably, with reverence and circumspection:

For also our God is a consuming fire.

Marriage honoured in all, and the bed unpolluted: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Remember them guiding you, who spake to you the word of God: of whom, observing narrowly the issue of the mode of life, imitate the faith:

With various and strange teachings be not carried about. For good the heart be rendered firm by grace; not by food, in which they having walked about were not profited.

By him therefore we should always bring up the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of the lips assenting to his name.

And the doing good and mutual participation forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Pray for us: for we have trusted that we have a good consciousness, in all things wishing to be well occupied.

And the God of peace, having brought up from the dead, the great Shepherd of the sheep, in the blood of the eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus Christ,

Put you in proper order in every good work for doing his will, doing in you the thing pleasing before him, by Jesus Christ; to whom glory for the time of times. Amen.