They will perish, but you continue. They all will grow old like a garment does.

For he does not indeed take hold of angels by the hand, but he takes hold 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, in this instance, one who does not trace his origin from them takes tithes from Abraham, and pronounces a blessing on him to whom the promises belong.

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, because He continues for ever, has a priesthood which does not pass to any successor.

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 every day} like the former high priests to offer up sacrifices for his own sins [and] then for the [sins] of the people, because he did this 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.

Nor was it necessary for Him to offer Himself [to God] often, like the head priest does, who enters the Holy of Holies year after year with blood that belongs to others [i.e., the blood of animal sacrifices].

then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will.” [And so] He does away with the first [covenant as a means of atoning for sin based on animal sacrifices] so that He may inaugurate and establish the second [covenant by means of obedience].

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.

Therefore seeing we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily ensnare us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

You must submit to [correction for the purpose of] discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

For they disciplined [us] for a few days according to what seemed [appropriate] to them, but he [does so] for our benefit, in order that [we] can have a share in his holiness.

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: