For to what angel did God ever say, "You are my Son! I have today become your Father"? Or again, "I will become his Father, and he shall become my Son"?

But to what angel did he ever say, 'Sit at my right hand, Until I make your enemies a footstool for you"?

Therefore, as the holy Spirit says, "If you hear his voice today,

but encourage one another every day, as long as we can still speak of Today, so that no one of you may have his heart hardened by the pleasantness of sin.

So while we can still speak of Today, if you hear him speak, do not harden your hearts, as they provoked him by doing.

And who was it with whom God was angry forty whole years? Was it not with those who had sinned, who dropped dead in the desert?

For we have had good news preached to us, just as they did, but the message they heard did them no good because they did not agree through faith with what they heard.

he again fixes a new Today, saying long afterward through David, as already quoted, "If you hear his voice today, Do not harden your hearts!"

For all who are admitted to God's Rest rest after their work, just as God did after his.

So even Christ did not claim for himself the dignity of the high priesthood, but he was appointed to it by him who said to him, "You are my Son! I have today become your Father!"

with the teaching of baptism and the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead and final judgment.

For when God made his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for him to make oath by, he did so by himself,

who does not need, as the old high priests did, to offer sacrifices every day, first for his own sins and then for those of the people??or this last he has done once for all, in offering up himself.

for a will is valid only in the case of a person who is dead; it has no force as long as the testator is alive.

For while the Law foreshadowed the blessings that were to come, it did not fully express them, and so the priests by offering the same sacrifices endlessly year after year cannot wholly free those who come to worship from their sins.

It is faith that enables us to see that the universe was created at the command of God, so that the world we see did not simply arise out of matter.

Faith made Abel's sacrifice greater in the sight of God than Cain's; through faith he gained God's approval as an upright man, for God himself approved his offering, and through faith even when he was dead he still spoke.

And so from one man, for any prospect of descendants as good as dead, there sprang a people in number like the stars in the heavens or the countless sands on the seashore.

For he believed that God was able to raise men even from the dead, and from the dead he did indeed, to speak figuratively, receive him back.

Women had their dead restored to them by resurrection. Others endured torture, and refused to accept release, that they might rise again to the better life.

Jesus Christ is the same today that he was yesterday, and he will be so forever.

May God, the giver of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus who through the blood by which he ratified the everlasting agreement has become the great shepherd of the sheep,