who being a brightness from his glory and an image of his being, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself accomplished a cleansing of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

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

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast our first confidence firm to the end.

For we who believed enter into the rest, as he hath said: "So I swore in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For he hath spoken in a certain place of the seventh day thus: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works;"

For he that hath entered into his rest, hath himself rested from his works, as God did from his own.

For every highpriest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;

Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, to him that was able to save him from death, and was heard by reason of his godly reverence,

though a son yet learned his obedience from what he suffered;

Let us then, leaving the first principles of the doctrine of Christ, press on to perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

For the earth which hath drunk in the rain that cometh often upon it, and beareth plants useful to those for whose sake it is tilled, receiveth blessing from God;

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him,

but he whose descent is not reckoned from them took tithes of Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises.

And they indeed have been many priests, because they have been prevented from continuing by reason of death;

For such a highpriest also became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

And they shall not teach every one his fellowcitizen, and every one 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 by his everlasting spirit offered himself without spot to God, purify your conscience from dead works, for the worship of the living God!

And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that, death having taken place for redemption from the transgressions under the first covenant, they who have been called may receive the everlasting inheritance which was promised.

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

Wherefore there sprang even from one, and him become as dead, a race like the stars of heaven in multitude, and like the sand by the seashore which cannot be numbered.

These all died in faith, not having received the promised blessings, but having seen them from afar, and greeted them, and having professed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

And if indeed they had been mindful of that from which they came out, they would have had opportunity to return;

he to whom it was said, "From Isaac shall thine offspring be reckoned;"

accounting that God is able even to raise from the dead; whence also he did figuratively receive him back.

See that ye refuse not him who speaketh. For if they did not escape, who refused him who spoke his will on earth, much more shall not we, if we turn away from him who speaketh from heaven;

Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of an everlasting covenant, even our Lord Jesus,

Salute all your leaders, and all the saints. Those from Italy salute you.