But Christ was faithful as a Son over his own house; whose house we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.

Take heed, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

For we who have believed do enter into the rest, as He said, "I have sworn in My wrath that they should not enter into My rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For He spoke in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested the seventh day from all His works."

For he who has entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from His.

For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in the things pertaining to God, so that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins,

For Jesus, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong cryings and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared,

Therefore, having left the discourse of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to full growth, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

(For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth plants fit for those by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God.

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

And truly they who are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priest, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the Law, that is, from their brothers, though they come out of the loins of Abraham.

But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.

For He of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no man gave attendance at the altar.

For such a high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners and made higher than the heavens,

And they shall not each man teach his neighbor, and each man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know Me, from the least to the greatest.

how much more shall the blood of Christ (who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God) purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

From which we see that neither was the first covenant dedicated without blood.

from then on expecting until His enemies are made His footstool.

let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies having been washed with pure water.

Because of this came into being from one, and that of one having died, even as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from where he even received him, in a figure.

See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape, those who refused him that spoke on earth, much more we shall not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from Heaven,

Now may the God of peace (who brought again our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant)

Greet all those leading you, and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you.