God, who at many times and in many ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,

And again, when He brings in the First-born into the world, He says, "And let all the angels of God worship Him."

But to the Son He says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.

You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity, therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows."

God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with different kinds of miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?

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 all.

And again, "I will put My trust in Him." And again, "Behold Me and the children whom God has given Me."

Therefore in all things it behoved him to be made like His brothers, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of His people.

For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.

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

For He spoke in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested the seventh day from all His works."

So then there remains a rest to the people of God.

For he who has 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 apart of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Since then we have a great High Priest who has passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

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

And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called of God, as Aaron was.

being called by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek;

For indeed because of the time, you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again what are the first principles of the oracles of God. And you have become in need of milk, and not of solid food.

But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, even those who because of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Therefore, having left the discourse of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to full growth, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

And this we will do, if God permits.

and have tasted the good Word of God and the powers of the world to come,

and who have fallen away; it is impossible, I say, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify the Son of God afresh to themselves and put Him to an open shame.

(For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth plants fit for those by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God.

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

For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He swore by Himself,

In this way desiring to declare more fully to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, God interposed by an oath,

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

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him.

without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest continually.

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

Therefore He is able also to save to the uttermost those who come unto God by Him, since He ever lives to make intercession for them.

who serve the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was warned of God when he was about to make the tabernacle. For, He says "See that you make all things according to the pattern shown to you in the mountain."

"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 their God, and they shall be My people.

Now when these things were ordained in this way, the priests always went into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.

But when Christ had become a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building

how much more shall the blood of Christ (who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God) purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

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

For Christ has not entered into the Holy of Holies 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 the Law which has a shadow of good things to come, not the very image of the things, appearing year by year with the same sacrifices, which they offer continually, they are never able to perfect those drawing near.

Then I said, Lo, I come (in the volume of the Book it is written of Me) to do Your will, O God."

then He said, "Lo, I come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first so that He may establish the second.

But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right of God,

and having a High Priest over the house of God,

and let us consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,

Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy of punishment, the one who has trampled the Son of God, and who has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

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

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

For by it the elders obtained a good report.

By faith we understand that the ages were framed by a word of God, so that the things being seen not to have come into being out of the things that appear.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts. And by it he, being dead, yet speaks.

By faith Enoch was translated so as not to see death, and he 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 who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

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

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

But now they stretch forth to a better fatherland, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from where he even received him, in a figure.

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

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, did not receive the promise,

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

looking to Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right of the throne of God.

If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons, for what son is he whom the father does not chasten?

looking diligently lest any fail of the grace of God, or lest any root of bitterness springing up disturb you, and by it many are defiled,

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

to the general assembly and church of the first-born who are written in Heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear,

for also, "Our God is a consuming fire."

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Remember those leading you, who have spoken to you the Word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of their conduct:

Do not be carried about with different and strange doctrines, for it is good for the heart to be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who have walked in them were not helped.

Therefore Jesus also, so that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.

By Him, then, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, confessing His name.

But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Pray for us; for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

Now may the God of peace (who brought again our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant)

make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.