But to the Son: Thy throne, God, is from age to age: a scepter of rectitude is the scepter of thy kingdom.

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

For we who have believed are to enter into rest, as he said: So I swore in my anger, they shall not enter into my rest; namely, that rest from his works which had been finished from the foundation of the world.

For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day, thus: And God did rest on the seventh day from all his works;

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

For every high priest chosen from among men, is appointed for men, in things pertaining to God, that he may offer gifts and sacrifices for sins:

In the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, to him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard with respect to that which he feared,

although he was a Son, he yet learned obedience from the things which he suffered;

Therefore, omitting the elementary Christian teaching, let us go on to the perfection of Christian instruction, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

For the land which drinks up the rain that comes often upon it, and produces herbs suitable for those for whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God.

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

but he who does not count his genealogy from them, received tithes from Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

For he of whom these things are said, belongs to another tribe, from which no one attended upon the altar.

For it is very clear that our Lord sprung from Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

And those priests, indeed, have been many, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office.

For such a high priest is suited to us, who is holy, harm less, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens;

and they shall not teach, every one his citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest;

how much more will the blood of the Christ, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works, in order that you may serve the living God?

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

By faith we understand that the ages were set in order by the word of God, so that the things which are seen, have not come into being from things that appear.

And if indeed they had been mindful of that from which they came, they could have had an opportunity to return.

for he concluded that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; wherefore he received him even in like manner.

See that you reject not him that speaks: for if they es caped not who rejected that earthly man who gave the oracles, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that is from heaven,

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the eternal covenant,

perfect you in every good work, in order that you may do his will, working in you that which is acceptable in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory from age to age. Amen.