They shall perish; but you remain; and they all shall grow old as does a garment;

For, truly, he does not take on the life of angels, but that of the seed of Abraham.

For he who enters upon God's Rest does himself rest after his work, just as God did.

And besides, one does not appropriate for himself the honor [of being high priest], but he who is called by God, just as Aaron was.

For everyone who lives on milk is still a baby and does not yet know the difference between right and wrong.

But Melchizedek who does not share their ancestry collected a tithe from Abraham and blessed the one who possessed the promise.

who did not become a priest based on a legal command concerning physical descent but based on the power of an indestructible life.

And it is true that there have been a great number of those priests, because death does not let them go on for ever;

but he, by virtue of his immortal state, hath a priesthood that does not pass by succession.

And that is why he is able to save perfectly those who come to God through him, living for ever, as he does, to intercede of their behalf.

who does not need, as did the Levitical priests, to offer sacrifices, first for his own sins and then for those of the people; this latter is just what He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

Whereas God does find fault with the people of that covenant, when he says: The day is coming, saith the Lord, when I will conclude a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be on the lines of the covenant I made with their fathers,

which, as a symbol, remains to the present time, in which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that can not make perfect, as it respects the conscience, him that does the service;

But Christ appeared as a High Priest of the blessings that are soon to come by means of the greater and more perfect Tent of worship, a tent which has not been built with hands--that is to say does not belong to this material creation--

For such a Covenant takes effect only upon death, it does not come into force as long as the testator is alive.

And almost all things, according to the law, are cleansed with blood, and remission does not occur without bloodshed.

And He does not enter to offer Himself over and over again, as the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own;

(offerings regularly made under the law), and then it is added, Lo, I come to do thy will, he does away with the first, in order that he may establish the second.

And the Holy Ghost truly does witness to us: for afterward he said,

But the just shall live by faith; and, if he draw back, my soul does not take pleasure in him.

Through faith we understand that the worlds came into being, and still exist, at the command of God, so that what is seen does not owe its existence to that which is visible.

and apart from faith it is impossible to satisfy him, for the man who draws near to God must believe that he exists and that he does reward those who seek him.

Wherefore, since we are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin which does so easily embarrass us, and let us pursue with constancy the course that is proposed to us:

Because of chastening ye endure; God is treating you as with sons, for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?

For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is.

Now chastening for the present does not seem to be joyous, but grievous. Nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and {to the sprinkled blood} that speaks better than Abel's [does].

See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him who does so from heaven: