God, having in many parts and many ways spoken, of old, to the fathers in the prophets,

But, when again He introduces the First-born into the inhabited earth, He saith, "And let all the angels of God worship Him."

but respecting the Son, "Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever"; and, "A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Thy Kingdom;

Thou lovedst righteousness, and hatedst iniquity; therefore, God, Thy God, anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows";

God testifying with them, both with signs and wonders and manifold miracles, and distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to His will?

But we behold Him Who was made a little lower than angels, Jesus, on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that, by the grace of God, He might taste death for every one.

And again, "I will put my trust in Him." And again, "Behold, I and the children whom God gave me."

Wherefore, it behooved Him in all things to be made like His brethren, that He might become a merciful and faithful High Priest in the things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people;

for every house is built by some one, but He Who built all things is God.

Take heed, brethren, lest at any time there shall be in anyone of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

For He hath spoken somewhere concerning the seventh day thus: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works;"

Consequently, there remains a sabbath-keeping for the people of God.

For He Who entered into His rest, Himself also rested from his works, as God did from His Own.

For the word of God is living, and effectual, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to a dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Having, therefore, a great High Priest, Who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast the confession;

For every high priest, taken from among men, is appointed in behalf of men in the things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;

And no one takes the honor to himself, but, when called by God, as was also Aaron.

having been addressed by God as "High Priest according to the rank of Melchizedek."

For even when, on account of the time, ye ought to be teachers, ye again have need that some one teach you the first elements of the oracles of God, and have become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food;

but solid food is for full-grown men, who by practice have their senses trained for the discernment both of good and evil.

Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

And this will we do, if, indeed, God permit.

and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the coming age,

and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying to themselves the Son of God afresh, and putting Him to open shame.

For the land which drank in the rain that often comes upon it, and brings forth an herb fit for those for whose sake also it is cultivated, receives blessing from God;

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye showed toward His name, in having ministered to the saints, and still ministering.

For God, when making a promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater by whom to swear, swore by Himself,

wherein God, more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of His counsel, interposed with an oath;

that, through two immutable facts, in which it is impossible that God should lie, we may have strong encouragement, who fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us;

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him,

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like to the Son of God), abides a priest continually.

(for the law perfected nothing), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Whence also He is able to save completely those who come to God through Him, since He is ever living to intercede in their behalf.

Because this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Putting My laws into their mind, I will also write them upon their hearts, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people;

But Christ, having come as a High Priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made by hand (that is, not of this creation),

how much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded in respect to you."

For Christ entered not into holy places made with hand, patterns of the true; but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God in our behalf;

For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very likeness of the things, can never, with the same sacrifices, which they offer year by year continually, perfect those who come to them;

Then said I, 'Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it has been written concerning Me), to do Thy will, O God.'"

but This Man, having offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;

and, having a Great Priest over the house of God;

and let us consider one another, to incite to love and good works;

of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be accounted worthy, who trampled under foot the Son of God, and accounted the blood of the covenant with which He was sanctified an unholy thing, and treated with contempt the Spirit of grace?

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God!

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

By faith we perceive that the ages have been constituted by the word of God, so that what is seen has not arisen out of things that appear.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he received witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he, being dead, is still speaking.

By faith Enoch was translated, so as not to see death; and he was not found, because God translated him; for, it has been witnessed to him that, before his translation, he had been well-pleasing to God.

And, apart from faith, it is impossible to please Him; for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He becomes a rewarder to those who seek after Him.

for he was waiting for the city which has the foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

But now they long for a better country, that is, a heavenly one; wherefore, God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for He prepared for them a city.

accounting that God is able to raise even from the dead; whence he did also, as in a figure, receive him back.

choosing rather to suffer evil with the people of God, than to have an enjoyment of sin for a season;

they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they perished in the slaughter of the sword; they went about in sheep-skins, in goat-skins, being destitute, suffering tribulation, maltreated

And these all, having received a good report through faith, obtained not the promise;

God having provided something better concerning us, that, apart from us, they should not be made perfect.

looking away to the Author and Perfecter of our faith, Jesus; Who, in consideration of the joy lying before Him, endured the cross, despising shame, and hath taken a seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

For chastening endure ye: God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chastens not?

For they, indeed, for a few days were chastening us, according to what seemed good to them; but He for our profit, that we may partake of His holiness.

looking carefully, lest there be any one falling short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness, springing up, trouble you, and through it many be defiled;

But ye have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the Living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,

to the general festal throng, and assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in Heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous ones made perfect;

Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear;

for, verily, our God is a consuming fire.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my Helper, I will not be afraid; what shall man do to me?"

Remember those who are your leaders, who spake to you the word of God; and, considering the issue of whose manner of life, imitate their faith.

Be not carried away by manifold and strange teachings; for it is good that the heart be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who occupied themselves were not profited.

Wherefore, Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered without the gate.

Through Him, therefore, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually; that is, the fruit of our lips making confession to His name.

But, of well-doing, and contributing, be not forgetful; for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased.

Pray for us; for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to deport ourselves honestly in all things.

Now the God of peace, Who brought up from the dead the Great Shepherd of the sheep, in virtue of the blood of an eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus,

make you perfect in every good thing to do His will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to Whom be the glory forever. Amen.