because the one who enters God's rest has himself rested from his own actions, just as God did from his.

He is the reflection of God's glory and the exact likeness of his being, and he holds everything together by his powerful word. After he had provided a cleansing from sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Highest Majesty

And again, when he brings his firstborn into the world, he says, "Let all God's angels worship him."

He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was in all God's household,

Moses was faithful in all God's household as a servant who was to testify to what would be said later,

but the Messiah was faithful as the Son in charge of God's household, and we are his household if we hold on to our courage and the hope in which we rejoice.

In fact, though by now you should be teachers, you still need someone to teach you the basic truths of God's word. You have become people who need milk instead of solid food.

who have tasted the goodness of God's word and the powers of the coming age,

For the Messiah did not go into a sanctuary made by human hands that is merely a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, to appear now in God's presence on our behalf.

By God's will we have been sanctified once and for all through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus, the Messiah.

How much more severe a punishment do you think that person deserves who tramples on God's Son, treats as common the blood of the covenant by which it was sanctified, and insults the Spirit of grace?

For you need endurance, so that after you have done God's will you can receive what he has promised.

because he preferred being mistreated with God's people to enjoying the pleasures of sin for a short time.

Now if you are without any discipline, in which all sons share, then you are illegitimate and not God's sons.

Remember your leaders, those who have spoken God's word to you. Think about the impact of their lives, and imitate their faith.