GOD, who at many times and in many ways spoke anciently to the fathers by the prophets,

And again, when be brings the first-born into the world he says, And let all the angels of God worship him.

but of the Son, Thy throne, God, is forever and ever; the sceptre of thy kingdom is a sceptre of rectitude.

Thou hast loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, thy God, anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.

God bearing them witness with signs and prodigies, and various mighty works and gifts of the holy Spirit, according to his will.

But we see Jesus, made a little less than angels, on account of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste death for every [man].

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

Whence he ought in all things to be assimilated to the brothers, that he may be a merciful and faithful chief priest as to things relating to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

For every house is built by some one; but he that built all things is God.

See, brothers, that there be not at any time in any one of you an evil mind of unbelief in departing from the living God;

For we have also received the good news as they did; but the word of the report did not profit them, not being accompanied with faith in those who heard.

For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day, thus; And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.

Therefore a sabbatism remains for the people of God.

For he [Christ] who entered into his rest, also himself rested from his works, as God from his.

For the word of God is living, and effective, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and reaching even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrows, and distinguishes thoughts and intentions of mind;

HAVING therefore a great chief priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast the profession.

For every chief priest taken from men is appointed in behalf of men over things relating to God, that he may offer gifts and sacrifices for sins,

And no one takes the honor on himself but he that is called by God, even as Aaron also was.

being called by God a chief priest after the order of Melchisedec.

For you who ought on account of the time to be teachers, have need that one should teach you again what are the first rudiments of the oracles of God, and have need of milk and not solid food.

but solid food is for the perfect, having their perceptive faculties exercised by practice to distinguish both good and evil.

Wherefore leaving the account of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of a change of mind from dead works, and of faith in God,

And this we will do if God permits.

and having tasted of the good word of God and the powers of the life to come,

and having fallen away, it is impossible again to renew to a change of mind, they having crucified again and exposed to shame the Son of God.

But the land which drinks in the rain that often falls on it, and produces plants beneficial to those by whom it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God;

For God is not unjust, to forget your work, and the love which you showed for his name, having served the saints and [still] serving them.

For God haying promised Abraham, when he could not swear by a greater, swore by himself,

for which cause, God wishing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his purpose, interposed with an oath,

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who fled to lay hold on the hope set before us,

For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham as he returned from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither a beginning of days nor end of life, but being made like the Son of God, continues a priest forever.

for the law made nothing perfect, but was the introduction of a better hope through which we draw nigh to God.

whence also he is able to save forever those who come to God through him, always living to intercede for them.

This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws in their minds, and will write them in their hearts, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.

But Christ having come, a chief priest of the good times that were to come, with a greater and a more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who with an eternal spirit offered himself without fault to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined upon you.

For Christ did not enter into the sanctuary made with hands, a type of the true, but into heaven itself, and already has appeared before God for us,

For the law having a shadow of the good things that were to come, not the very likeness of the things, could not by the sacrifices which they offered continually every year perfect the offerers;

then I said, Behold, I come,??n the volume of the book it is written of me,??o do thy will, O God.

but this [priest] having offered one sacrifice forever for sins, sat down on the right hand of God,

and [having] a great priest over the house of God,

and let us observe one another for a provocation of love and of good works,

of how much greater punishment do you suppose he will be thought worthy, who has trodden down the Son of God, and accounted defiled the blood of the covenant with which he was purified, and treated injuriously the Spirit of grace.

It is fearful to fall into the hands of the living God.

For you have need of patience, that having done the will of God you may receive the promise.

For by it the ancients obtained a good repute.

We know by faith that the worlds were made by the word of God, that the seen was not made from the apparent.

By faith Abel offered to God a greater sacrifice than Cain, through which he was declared to be righteous, God testifying to his gifts, and through the same, having died, he speaks still.

By faith Enoch was translated without seeing death, and was not found because God translated him. For before the translation he was said to have pleased God;

but without faith it is impossible to please; for he that comes to God, must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of those that seek him.

for he looked for the city which has foundations [fixed abodes] whose designer and builder is God.

but now they seek a better, that is a heavenly [country]. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.

judging that God was able to raise even from the dead; whence also in a figure he received him.

choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to have an enjoyment of sin for a time,

they were stoned, they were cut to pieces with saws, they were tried, they died with the death of the sword, they wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated,

God having provided something better for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

looking to the chief guide and perfecter of the faith, Jesus, who for the joy set before him despised the shame and endured the cross, and sat down on the right hand of God.

If you endure correction, God deals with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not correct?

For they for a few days corrected us as seemed good to them, but he for the best, that we may partake of his holiness.

taking care that no one may come short of the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springing up may make trouble and by it many be defiled,

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,

and to the church of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge the God of all, and to spirits of the righteous made perfect,

Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace through which we may serve God acceptably, with piety and fear;

for our God is also a consuming fire.

Marriage is honorable in all, and married life without blame; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Remember your guides who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the end of their life follow the faith.

Be not carried about with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the mind should be established with grace, not with aliments, in which those walking are not profited.

Wherefore also Jesus, that he might purify the people through his blood, suffered without the gate.

Through him, therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise continually to God, that is, the fruit of lips confessing his name.

And forget not beneficence and liberality; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Pray for us; for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things wishing to live well.

And may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of the eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

perfect you in every good work to do his will, doing in you that which is pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever; amen.