For to what angel did God ever say, Thou art my son; this day have I become thy Father? and again, I will be a father to him, and he shall be to me a son?

While of the angels he said, He makes his angels into winds, His ministering servants into flames of fire.

To which of the angels has he ever said, Sit at my right hand, Till I make thy foes a footstool for thy feet?

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth for service in behalf of those who are about to inherit 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 word uttered through angels stood firm, so that every transgression and act of disobedience met with its just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?

But some one, somewhere, testified, saying. What is Man, that thou art mindful of him? Or any man, that thou carest for him?

Thou hast put all things under his feet. For this putting all things under man means leaving nothing not subject to him. But we do not yet see all things subject to him.

What we do see is Jesus, who was made for a time a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor, because of the suffering of death, in order that through God's grace he might taste death for every man.

For it befitted him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the Pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

For both he who sanctifies and those whom he is sanctifying are all from One; for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying.

And might deliver those who through fear of death had been subject to life-long bondage.

For assuredly it is not angels, nay, it is the offspring of Abraham, whom he is ever taking by the hand.

And so it was necessary that he should in all points be made like his brothers, so that he might become a compassionate and faithful high priest, in all that relates to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

For inasmuch as he himself has suffered, being tempted, he is also able instantly to succor those who are tempted, he is also able instantly to succor those who are tempted.

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

For every house has its builder; but he who built the universe is God.

When your forefathers tried my forbearance And saw my deeds 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 are become comrades of the Christ, if we hold our first title deed firm until the very end.

For who were they that heard and yet provoked him? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under the leadership of 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?

For the Good News is come to us just as it did to them. But the message they heard was of no benefit to them, because they did not share the faith of those who gave heed to it.

For every high priest chosen from time to time from among men is appointed on behalf of men, in matters relating to God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices on behalf of sins.

and because of this weakness he is bound to offer sin-offerings not only for the people, but also for himself.

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

For every one who feeds on milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness. He is still an infant.

But solid food is for adults, that is, for those who by constant practise have their faculties trained to discriminate between good and evil.

For in the case of those who have been once for all enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift,

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 land that has drunk the showers that now and again fall upon it, and produced vegetation useful for those for whom it was tilled, receives a blessing from God;

For God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you showed for his cause, in sending help to your fellow Christians, as you are still doing.

For when God make the promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself, saying.

I am referring to the oath because men swear by what is greater than themselves, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

that by means of two immutable things??is promise and his oath??n which it is impossible for God to break faith, we refugees may have strong encouragement to grasp the hope set before us.

for Levi was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met Abraham.

Now if there were perfection through the Levitical priesthood, (and it was under it that the people received the Law) why was it still necessary for another kind of priest to arise, after the order of Melchizedek, instead of being reckoned according to the order of Aaron?

For when the priesthood changes, of necessity the law also changes.

For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, a tribe of which Moses said nothing concerning the priesthood.

For the words are in evidence, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

For there is a setting aside of a foregoing commandment, because of its weakness and unprofitableness

(for the Law brought nothing to perfection); and there is the bringing in of a better hope by which we draw near to God;

For although those priests became such without an oath, He had an oath form God who said to him, The Lord hath sworn and will not change, Thou art a priest forever.

Hence also he is able to continue saving to the uttermost those who are ever drawing near to God through him, seeing that he is ever living to intercede for them.

For we needed just such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens;

one who has no need, like the high priests, to offer up daily sacrifices, first for his own sins, then for those of the people. For his sacrifice was made once for all, when he offered up himself.

For the Law appoints human beings to be high priests, men with all their weakness; but the word of the oath, which was later than the Law, appoints a Son, perfected forevermore.

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; whence it follows that this High Priest also must have some offering to make.

For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need for a second.

Not according tot he covenant which I made with their forefathers, On the day when I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt; For they did not continue in my covenant, And therefore I disregarded them," says the Lord.

"For this is the covenant which I will covenant with the house of Israel, After these days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their minds, And upon their hearts will I write them; And I will be their God, And they shall be my people;

And they shall not teach every man his fellow citizen, And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord; For all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them.

For I will have mercy upon their wrong-doings, And their sins I will remember no more."

For a tent was built, the outer one called the Holy Place, in which were the lamp and the table and the loaves of the Presence;

but into the inner tent the high priest only goes alone, once a year, and that not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the ignorances of the people.

This is a parable, for the present time, according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered that are not able, as far as conscience is concerned, to perfect the worshiper;

not taking the blood of goats and oxen, but his own blood, and entered once for all into the Holy Place, obtaining for us an eternal redemption.

For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleansing of the flesh,

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through his eternal spirit offered himself free from blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works unto the service of an ever-living God!

And because of this he is the Mediator of a new testament, in order that, since a death has taken place to atone for offenses committed under the first testament, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For where there is a testament, there must also be brought forward in evidence the death of the testator.

For a testament is only of force in case of the dead, being never valid so long as the testator lives.

For after every commandment according to the law had been spoken by Moses to the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.

For it was not into a Sanctuary made by hands, a mere type of the reality, that Christ entered, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the very presence of God on our behalf.

(for in that case he would have needed to suffer repeatedly, ever since the foundation of the world;)but now, once for all, at the end of the ages, he has appeared to abolish sin, but the offering of himself.

so also the Christ, after being once for all offered to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who wait for him for salvation.

For the Law, being only a shadow of the good things to come, and not their very substance, its priests cannot with the same sacrifice which year after year they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin.

It is for this reason that the Christ, on coming into the world, declared. Sacrifice and offerings thou dost not desire, But a body didst thou prepare for me;

First when it is said, Thou hast no longing for, thou takest no delight in Sacrifices and offerings, or whole burnt offerings and sin offerings,

And it is by this will that we have been sanctified by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

For while every priest stands, day after day, at his ministrations, and many times repeats the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,

this Priest, after offering one Sacrifice for sins, sat down forever on God's right hand;

For by one single offering he has perfected forever those whom he is sanctifying.

But when these have been remitted, there is no more any offering for sin.

by the way which he dedicated for us, that new and living way, through the veil (that is, his flesh);

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope, unwavering (for He is faithful who promised);

For if we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any other sacrifice for sins,

For we know Him who said, Vengeance is mine, I will repay, and again, The Lord will judge his people.

For you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you did take joyfully the confiscation of your goods; conscious that you had for yourselves greater, even lasting possessions.

Now do not fling away your bold confidence, for it has a great recompense of reward.

For you need stedfastness, so that after having done the will of God, you may receive the promise,

For yet a very, very little while, and then The Coming One will have come, without delay.

Now faith is the title-deed of things hoped for; the putting to the proof of things not seen.

For by it men of old times had witness borne to them.

now without faith it is impossible to please him; for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he ever rewards those who are seeking.

By faith Noah, warned of God of things not yet seen, reverently gave heed, and built an ark for the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is of faith.

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

For he continually looked for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed, although she was past the age for child-bearing, because she counted Him faithful who had promised;

For those who say such things make it plain that they are seeking a Fatherland.

but now they are longing for a better homeland, that is, a heavenly. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; and he has prepared a city for them.

For he accounted God able even to raise from the dead, from whence, figuratively speaking, he did indeed receive him back again.

By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,

choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.

He accounted the obloquy of Christ to be greater than the treasures of Egypt; for he fixed his eyes on the reward.

And what more shall I say? for time would fail me to tell of Gideon, of Barak, of Samson, and of Jeptha; of David and Samuel and the prophets,

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, proved valiant in warfare, and routed armies of aliens.

since it was for us that God had in store some better thing, so that apart from us they should not be perfected.

looking unto Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured a cross, despising shame, and has now taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.