God having spoken in many parts and in many ways formerly to the fathers in the prophets,

and again, when he brings in the firstborn into the habitable world, he says, And let all God's angels worship him.

but as to the Son, Thy throne, O God, is to the age of the age, and a sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

Thou hast loved righteousness and hast hated lawlessness; therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with oil of gladness above thy companions.

God bearing, besides, witness with them to it, both by signs and wonders, and various acts of power, and distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to his will?

but we see Jesus, who was made some little inferior to angels on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste death for every thing.

And again, I will trust in him. And again, Behold, I and the children which God has given me.

Wherefore it behoved him in all things to be made like to his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people;

For every house is built by some one; but he who has built all things is God.

See, brethren, lest there be in any one of you a wicked heart of unbelief, in turning away from the living God.

For he has said somewhere of the seventh day thus, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works:

There remains then a sabbatism to the people of God.

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

For the word of God is living and operative, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to the division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Having therefore a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the confession.

For every high priest taken from amongst men is established for men in things relating to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;

And no one takes the honour to himself but as called by God, even as Aaron also.

addressed by God as high priest according to the order of Melchisedec.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that one should teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

but solid food belongs to full-grown men, who, on account of habit, have their senses exercised for distinguishing both good and evil.

Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of the Christ, let us go on to what belongs to full growth, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God,

and this will we do if God permit.

and have tasted the good word of God, and the works of power of the age to come,

and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves as they do the Son of God, and making a show of him.

For ground which drinks the rain which comes often upon it, and produces useful herbs for those for whose sakes also it is tilled, partakes of blessing from God;

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and still ministering.

For God, having promised to Abraham, since he had no greater to swear by, swore by himself,

and thus, having had long patience, he got the promise.

Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath,

that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

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

without father, without mother, without genealogy; having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but assimilated to the Son of God, abides a priest continually.

(for the law perfected nothing,) and the introduction of a better hope by which we draw nigh to God.

Whence also he is able to save completely those who approach by him to God, always living to intercede for them.

But now he has got a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is mediator of a better covenant, which is established on the footing of better promises.

Because this is the covenant that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for people.

But Christ being come high priest of the good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, (that is, not of this creation,)

how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worship the living God?

saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined to you.

For the Christ is not entered into holy places made with hand, figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:

For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually yearly, perfect those who approach.

Then I said, Lo, I come (in the roll of the book it is written of me) to do, O God, thy will.

But he, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down in perpetuity at the right hand of God,

and having a great priest over the house of God,

and let us consider one another for provoking to love and good works;

of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and esteemed the blood of the covenant, whereby he has been sanctified, common, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

It is a fearful thing falling into the hands of the living God.

For ye have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

By faith we apprehend that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that that which is seen should not take its origin from things which appear.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained testimony of being righteous, God bearing testimony to his gifts, and by it, having died, he yet speaks.

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 has the testimony that he had pleased God.

But without faith it is impossible to please him. For he that draws near to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them who seek him out.

for he waited for the city which has foundations, of which God is the artificer and constructor.

but now they seek a better, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.

counting that God was able to raise him even from among the dead, whence also he received him in a figure.

choosing rather to suffer affliction along with the people of God than to have the temporary pleasure of sin;

Women received their dead again by resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted deliverance, that they might get a better resurrection;

God having foreseen some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.

looking stedfastly on Jesus the leader and completer of faith: who, in view of the joy lying before him, endured the cross, having despised the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Ye endure for chastening, God conducts himself towards you as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens not?

For they indeed chastened for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he for profit, in order to the partaking of his holiness.

watching lest there be any one who lacks the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

but ye have come to mount Zion; and to the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem; and to myriads of angels,

the universal gathering; and to the assembly of the firstborn who are registered in heaven; and to God, judge of all; and to the spirits of just men made perfect;

Wherefore let us, receiving a kingdom not to be shaken, have grace, by which let us serve God acceptably with reverence and fear.

For also our God is a consuming fire.

Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

Remember your leaders who have spoken to you the word of God; and considering the issue of their conversation, imitate their faith.

Be not carried away with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the heart be confirmed with grace, not meats; those who have walked in which have not been profited by them.

Wherefore also Jesus, that he might sanctify the people by his own blood, suffered without the gate:

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise continually to God, that is, the fruit of the lips confessing his name.

But of doing good and communicating of your substance be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Pray for us: for we persuade ourselves that we have a good conscience, in all things desirous to walk rightly.

But the God of peace, who brought again from among the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, in the power of the blood of the eternal covenant,

perfect you in every good work to the doing of his will, doing in you what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for the ages of ages. Amen.