For if the word spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and bad instruction received the just payment of reward;

How shall we escape, having neglected such great salvation; which at the beginning taken to be spoken by the Lord, by them having heard was made firm to us;

And Christ as a son over his house: whose house are we, if we should hold freedom of speech and the boast of hope firm to the end.

See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in removing away from the living God.

For we have been partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our foundation firm to the end;

For we having believed come into the rest, as he said, As I sware in my wrath, if they shall come into my rest: although the works having been from the foundation of the world.

For he said somewhere of the seventh thus, And God ceased in the seventh day from all his works.

For he having come into his rest, he also has ceased from his works, as God from his own.

For every chief priest taken from men is appointed for men for things to God, that he bring both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

Who in the days of his flesh, both prayers and supplications to him able to save him from death, with strong crying and tears, having offered, and listened to by means of circumspection;

Although being a Son, he learned obedience from what he suffered;

For also ye ought to be teachers for the time, again ye have need for some one to teach you the elements of the beginning of the sayings of God; and have become those having need of milk, and not of firm food.

And firm food is of the perfected, of them by habit having the senses exercised for the separation of good and evil.

Therefore having left the word of the beginning of Christ, we should go on to perfection; not again laying down the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

For the earth drinking the rain coming often upon it, and bringing forth the vegetable fitting well to them by whom it is cultivated, receives commendation from God:

Which we have as an anchor of the soul, unshaken and firm, and entering into that further within the veil.;

For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, having met Abraham returning from the cutting off of the kings, and praised him;

To whom also Abraham divided a tenth from all; (first truly interpreted King of justice, and then also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;

And they truly of the sons of Levi, receiving the office of priest, have a command to take a tenth part from the people according to the law, that is, from their brethren, although having come out of the loins of Abraham:

And he not having his descent traced from them received a tenth from Abraham, and praised him having the promises.

And they truly are become many priests, by reason of death being hindered from remaining:

For such a chief priest became us, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and being higher than the heavens;

And they should not teach each his neighbor, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from their little even to their great ones.

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself blameless to God, purify your consciousness from dead works to serve the living God?

For a will is firm by the dead: since it has no power when he having willed lives.

(Since he must have suffered many times from the foundation of the world:) but now once at the termination of the times for the annulling of sin by the sacrifice of himself has he been shown clearly.

Let us approach with a true heart in complete certainty of faith, having our hearts besprinkled from an evil consciousness, and having our bodies washed with pure water.

Wherefore also from one were they born, and these of him having been dead, as the stars of heaven for multitude, and as the sand near the lip of the sea innumerable.

According to faith died all these, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and been persuaded, and having embraced, and assented that they are strangers and newly arrived from a foreign country upon earth.

And truly if they remembered that from which they came out, they had time to have returned.

Reckoning that God was also able to raise from the dead; whence he also received him in a parable.

Quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were strengthened from weakness, were strong in war, turned away the armies of strangers.

Women received their dead from rising up: and others were beaten, not receiving redemption; that they might attain a better resurrection.

See that ye refuse not him speaking. For if they escaped not, having refused him giving an intimation of the divine will on earth, much more we, who having turned back from him from the heavens:

The disposition exempt from avarice; being contented with present circumstances: for he has said, I will not send thee back, nor forsake thee.

With various and strange teachings be not carried about. For good the heart be rendered firm by grace; not by food, in which they having walked about were not profited.

And the God of peace, having brought up from the dead, the great Shepherd of the sheep, in the blood of the eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus Christ,

They from Italy greet you. Grace with you all. Amen.