But now, at the end of these days, it has come to us through his Son, to whom he has given all things for a heritage, and through whom he made the order of the generations;

The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of His nature, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After making purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

For to what angel did God ever say, "You are my Son, today I have become your Father"?

But of the Son he says, Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; and the rod of your kingdom is a rod of righteousness.

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated lawlessness, - For this cause, hath God, thy God, anointed thee with the oil of exultation, beyond thy partners;

They will come to their end; but you are for ever; they will become old as a robe;

But to what angel did He ever say: "Just keep your seat at my right hand, until I make your foes a footstool for your feet"?

Are not the angels all attending spirits sent forth to serve for the sake of those who are going to be unceasing possessors of salvation?

For this reason we must pay the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, for fear we should drift away.

For if the message spoken through angels proved to be valid, and every violation and infraction of it had its adequate penalty,

how will we escape, having neglected so great a salvation? Which first, having taken to be spoken by the Lord, was verified for us by those who heard;

For it was not to angels that He gave authority over that world to be, of which we are speaking.

For someone somewhere has solemnly said: "What is man that you should think of him, or the Son of Man that you should care for Him?

You made Him inferior to angels for a little while, yet you have crowned Him with glory and honor, you have set Him over the works of your hands,

Thou subordinated all things under his feet. For in subordinating all things to him, he left nothing not subordinate to him. But now we do not yet see all things subordinated to him.

but we do see Jesus, who was made inferior to the angels for a little while, crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by God's favor He might experience death for every human being.

For it was appropriate for Him, who is the Final Goal and the First Cause of the universe, in bringing many children to glory, to make the Leader in their salvation perfect through the process of sufferings.

For both He who is purifying them and those who are being purified all spring from one Father; so He is not ashamed to call them brothers,

saying,

“I will declare Your (the Father’s) name to My brethren (believers),
In the midst of the congregation I will sing Your praise.”

and again, "As for Me, I will be one whose trust reposes in God;" and again, "Here am I, and here are the children God has given Me."

Forasmuch, then, as the children were partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part with them, for to put down through death him that had lordship over death: that is to say, the devil.

For of course it is not angels but descendants of Abraham that He is to help.

Therefore He had to be made like His brothers, so that He could be a sympathetic High Priest, as well as a faithful one, in things relating to God, in order to atone for the people's sins.

For inasmuch as He has suffered Himself by being tempted, He is able to give immediate help to any that are tempted.

For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;

How faithful he was to the God who appointed him! For while Moses also was faithful in all God's house,

For just as the man who builds a house has greater glory than the house, by just so much is Jesus judged to be worthy of greater glory than Moses.

For every house is built by somebody, but the builder and furnisher of the universe is God.

And Moses was indeed faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of the things that were going to be spoken,

For this reason--as the Holy Spirit warns us, "To-day, if you hear His voice,

Where your forefathers found I stood their test, because they saw my works for forty years,

For this reason I was sore displeased with that generation, And said, "They are always wandering in their hearts; They have never learned my ways";

For we have become companions of the Christ, if only we keep in possession the primacy of the essence, steadfast until the end,

For some who heard rebelled, but not all those who came out of Egypt by Moses.

And with whom was he grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

So let us fear that when the promise for us to be admitted to His rest is still remaining valid some one of you may be found to have missed it.

For we also are having good-news preached, just as also those men, but the word of hearing did not benefit those men, not having been mixed together with faith in those who heard.

For those who believe enter into that rest, just as he said, So I swore in my wrath, They will not enter into my rest, although the works occurred from the foundation of the world.

For he spoke somewhere about the seventh this way, And God rested during the seventh day from all his works,

and again in this, “They shall not enter My rest.”

Since therefore it remains for some to enter into it, and those who formerly had good-news did not enter because of disobedience,

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken about another day after these things.

There remains therefore a Sabbath for the people of God.

For a man who has entered into his rest, he has also rested from his works, as God did from his own.

Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest [of God, to know and experience it for ourselves], so that no one will fall by following the same example of disobedience [as those who died in the wilderness].

For the word of God is living, and potent, and sharper, above every two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division both of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and discernible of the thoughts and intentions of the hear

Neither is there any creature invisible in the sight of it. For all things are naked and bare unto the eyes of him, of whom we speak.

who is passed into the heavens, Jesus the son of God, let us hold fast our profession. for we have

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who was tempted in all things in the same way, without sin.

Let us therefore come near with boldness to the throne of grace, so that we may take mercy, and may find grace for timely help.

For every high priest taken from men is appointed for men in things toward God, so that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

He is able to have feeling for those who have no knowledge and for those who are wandering from the true way, because he himself is feeble;

And because of this he is obligated, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

Again no one takes this honorable office for himself, but he is called by God, just as Aaron was.

In the same way Christ did not take for himself the glory of being made a high priest, but was given it by him who said, You are my Son, this day I have given you being:

As he says in another place, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

For during His human life He offered up prayers and entreaties, crying aloud with tears to Him who was always able to save Him out of death, and because of His beautiful spirit of worship His prayer was heard.

for tho' he was the son of God, yet he found by his own sufferings what it was to obey,

and because He was perfectly qualified for it He became the author of endless salvation for all who obey Him,

For God Himself addresses Him as a High Priest for ever, belonging to the order of Melchizedek.

On this point I have a great deal to say, which it is hard to make intelligible to you. For you have grown dull of hearing.

For also men who ought to be teachers because of the time, ye have need again for some man to teach you the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and have become men who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

For every man partaking of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is childlike.

But solid food is for mature men, those having their sensibilities trained through practice for the discernment of both good and evil.

So then let us once for all quit the elementary teaching about Christ and continue progressing toward maturity; let us stop relaying a foundation of repentance from works that mean only death, and of faith in God,

for it is impossible that those,

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and who tasted of the heavenly gift, and who became partakers of Holy Spirit,

and then fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance. For they repeatedly crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and expose him to an open shame.

For the soil that has drunk the rain often coming upon it, and bringing forth vegetation useful for those by whom also it is cultivated, partakes of a blessing from God.

But producing thorns and thistles it is unfit and near a curse, the end of which is for burning.

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak for your caution.

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labor of love that ye showed toward his name, having served the sanctified, and who are serving.

And we desire for each one of you to show the same diligence [all the way through] so as to realize and enjoy the full assurance of hope until the end,

For God who promised to Abraham, since he had none greater to swear by, swore by himself,

And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.

For men certainly swear by the greater, and of every dispute with them the oath is final for confirmation.

for which cause, God wishing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his purpose, interposed with an oath,

So that by two immutable events, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have strong encouragement, having fled for refuge to seize the hope being openly displayed.

This hope we have as an anchor for our souls, secure and safe, which reaches up behind the heavenly veil,

where the forerunner, Jesus, entered for us, having become a high priest into the age according to the order of Melchizedek.

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

Being without father or mother, or family, having no birth or end to his life, being made like the Son of God, is a priest for ever.

For indeed, the descendants of Levi, who are appointed to the priesthood, are commanded by the law of Moses to collect a tenth [of the income] of the Israelites, who are their brothers, even though these brothers are [also] descendants of Abraham.

For without contradiction the less is blessed by the better.

for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.

If indeed therefore perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people had received the law), what further need is there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be designated

For the priesthood being changed, of necessity a change of law also occurs.

For he of whom these things are spoken pertains to another tribe, from which no man has attended to the altar.

For it is evident that our Lord arose out of Judah, regarding which tribe Moses spoke nothing about the priesthood.

And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,

for he is appointed not for possessing any legal physical qualifications, but by virtue of a life that cannot end.

For he testifies, Thou are a priest into the age according to the order of Melchizedek.

For indeed there becomes an annulment of a preceding commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

(for the law made nothing fully perfect), and an introduction of a better hope, through which we approach God.

And inasmuch as it is not without an oath. For actually those who become priests are so without an oath,

for the Levitical priests were appointed without His taking an oath, but He with His oath, when He said to Him: "The Lord took oath and will not change, You are a priest forever" --

And for that cause was Jesus an establisher of a better testament.

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 this priest, because his life goes on for ever, is unchanging.

Therefore, because He Himself lives always to intercede for them always, He is able to save completely any and all who come to God through Him.