For unto which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, this day have I begotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

And of the angels he says, Who makes his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;

For unto the angels has he not put in subjection the world to come, of which we speak.

You have put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

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

For both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the nature of Abraham.

Therefore in all things he had to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help them that are tempted.

For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who has built the house has more honor than the house.

For every house is built by some man; but he that built all things is God.

And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later;

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end;

For some, when they had heard, did provoke: yet not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

Let us therefore fear, lest, although a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

For we who have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, they shall 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 did rest the seventh day from all his works.

For if Joshua had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

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

For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

For we have not a high priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our weaknesses; but was in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

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

Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are wayward; for he himself also is beset with weakness.

And for this reason he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

For every one that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth plants fit for them by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God:

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which you have showed toward his name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

For when God made a promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,

For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

That by two immutable things, in that it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

Where the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

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;

For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met him.

If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

For he of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, of which no man has ever served at the altar.

For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah; of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

And it is yet far more evident: that after the similitude of Melchizedek there arises another priest,

For he testifies, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

For there is verily an annulment of the previous commandment because of the weakness and uselessness thereof.

For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by which we draw near unto God.

(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord swore and will not change, you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek:)

Therefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.

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

Who needs not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

For the law makes men high priests who have weakness; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, makes the Son, who is consecrated forevermore.

For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: therefore it is of necessity that this man have something also to offer.

For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, says he, that you make all things according to the pattern showed to you in the mount.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

For finding fault with them, he says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

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

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

For there was a tabernacle made; the first, in which was the lampstand, and the table, and the showbread; which is called the sanctuary.

But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:

Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh:

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new covenant, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they who are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

For where a will is, there must also of necessity be the death of the maker.

For a will is in force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the maker lives.

For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,

For Christ has not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the age has he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the ones approaching perfect.

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshipers once purged should have had no more consciousness of sins.

For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure.

Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin you desired not, neither had pleasure in them; which are offered by the law;

By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;

For by one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified.

The Holy Spirit also is a witness to us: for after this he had said before,

Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,

For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, says the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

For you had compassion on me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better and an enduring possession.

For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.

For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

For by it the elders obtained approval.

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved by fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

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

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

For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he has prepared for them a city.

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

Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;