but Christ as a Son set over the house of God was faithful; and we are that house, if we keep up our courage and the joy that hope inspires to the very end.

For we have become real sharers in Christ, if we keep firm to the end the faith we had at first,

And we desire each one of you to continue to show the same earnestness to the very end, that you may enjoy your hope to the fullest,

with no father, no mother, no ancestry; no beginning to his days, no end to his life, but, like the Son of God, as priest continues on and on with no successor.

who is appointed not on the basis of a physical qualification but on the basis of a power flowing from a life that cannot end.