GOD, who in many parts and in many ways spoke in ancient times to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by his Son,

in these last days has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

He being an emanation of God's glory and stamp of his substance, and upholding the universe by the utterances of his power, after by himself making purification of our sins, has taken his seat on the right hand of the Majesty on High.

having become so much better than the angels, as he has inherited a more excellent name than they have.

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

"And thou from the beginning, O Lord, hast founded the earth, and the heavens are the works of thine hands.

But which of the angels has he told at any time, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?"

how shall we escape if we have been negligent of so great salvation, which, having had its commencement in being spoken of by the Lord, has been confirmed to us by those who have heard;

For he has not subjected to angels the habitable world which is to come, of which we speak;

But one has somewhere testified, saying, "What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?

"Thou hast made him for a little while lower than angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour, and hast placed him over the works of thy hands:

thou hast subjected all things under his feet." Now in subjecting all things to him, he left nothing unsubjected to him; but at present we see not yet all things subjected to him.

But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

Again, "I will put my trust in him." Again, "Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me."

Since then the children mentioned share our mortal nature, He too took on Himself a full share of the same, in order that He by His death might put a stop to the power of him who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

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

has been to the God who appointed him, just as Moses was, in all the house of God.

For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who built the house has more honor than the house.

For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God.

See to it, my brothers, that no one of you has a wicked, unbelieving heart, that turns away from the ever-living God,

For we [believers] have become partakers of Christ [sharing in all that the Messiah has for us], if only we hold firm our newborn confidence [which originally led us to Him] until the end,

As it has been said [Psa. 95:7], "Today, if you hear His [i.e., God's] voice, do not have a stubborn heart like you did when you provoked [God]."

Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still remains and is freely offered today, let us fear, in case any one of you may seem to come short of reaching it or think he has come too late.

For Good News has been brought to us as truly as to them; but the message they heard failed to benefit them, because they were not one in faith with those who gave heed to it.

For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works;"

And in this again he has said, They shall not enter into my rest.

he again defines a certain day, "Today," saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."

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

Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.

For we do not have a high priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

And being feeble, he has to make sin-offerings for himself as well as for the people.

Nor does any one take that high office upon himself, till he has been called to do so by God, as Aaron was.

Thus the Christ also has not glorified himself to be made a high priest; but he who had said to him, Thou art my Son, I have to-day begotten thee.

For although you ought to be teachers of others because you have been Christians so long, you actually need someone to teach you over and over again the very elements of the truths that God has given us, and you have gotten into such a state that you are in constant need of milk instead of solid food.

For every one who still has to take 'milk' knows nothing of the Teaching of Righteousness; he is a mere infant.

For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.

So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;

where Jesus has gone ahead of us, and become forever a high priest of the priesthood of Melchizedek.

He has no father, mother, or genealogy, no birth date recorded for him, nor a date of death. Like the Son of God, he continues to be a priest forever.

but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

Now at the present time, men over whom death has power take the tenth; but then it was taken by one of whom it is witnessed that he is living.

We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes,

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

For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priests.

And this is even more clear if a second priest has come up who is like Melchizedek,

who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

For it has been witnessed of him, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

Indeed, because it was weak and ineffective, the former commandment has been annulled,

for God took no oath in appointing the old priests, but he made oath to his appointment, when he said to him, "The Lord has sworn it and he will not change; You are a priest forever!"

By so much, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.

But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable.

so that he has an uninterrupted power to save those, that come to God by him, because he ever lives to make intercession for them.

one who has no need, like the high priests, to offer up daily sacrifices, first for his own sins, then for those of the people. For his sacrifice was made once for all, when he offered up himself.

For the Law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the Law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.

The pith of all that we have been saying is this; we do have such a High Priest; and he has taken his seat on the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens,

minister of the holy places and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord has pitched, and not man.

(who serve the representation and shadow of heavenly things, according as Moses was oracularly told when about to make the tabernacle; for See, saith He, that thou make all things according to the pattern which has been shewn to thee in the mountain.)

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as Law.

In that he says, "A New Covenant," he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

The Holy Spirit teaching by this that the way into the Holiest has not yet been disclosed while the first tent is still standing.

But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,

And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal [Holy] Spirit willingly offered Himself unblemished [that is, without moral or spiritual imperfection as a sacrifice] to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works and lifeless observances to serve the ever living God?

For this reason he is the mediator of a New Covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Because where there is a testament, there has to be the death of the man who made it.

For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.

Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.

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

For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

Nor has he entered, that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with the blood of another:

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

For since the Law has only a shadow [just a pale representation] of the good things to come—not the very image of those things—it can never, by offering the same sacrifices continually year after year, make perfect those who approach [its altars].

Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, "Sacrifice and oblation thou hast not chosen, but thou hast exactly fashioned a body for me:

thou hast had no delight in whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin:

Then said I, 'Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it has been written concerning Me), to do Thy will, O God.'"

Having said before that sacrifice, and oblation, and whole burnt-offerings and sin-offerings thou hast not chosen, nor takest pleasure in, (which are offered according to the law,)

then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,

in consequence of which WILL we are sanctified by the oblation which Jesus Christ has made once for all of his own body.

And truly every priest has stood daily, serving and bringing in many times the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

But Christ has offered for all time one sacrifice for sin, and has taken his seat at God's right hand,

And has been waiting there from that time, till all who are against him are made a foot-rest for his feet.

For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

Now where forgiveness of sins has taken place, there is no longer [a need for an] offering for sin.

by the new, living way which he has opened for us, through the curtain, that is, his physical nature,

and since we have a great Priest who has authority over the house of God,

Let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we profess, for he who has given us his promise may be trusted.

A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses:

How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

For we know who it is that has said, "Vengeance belongs to me! I will pay back!" and in another place, "The Lord will be the judge of his people!"

Therefore do not throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

but you will need endurance if you are to carry out God's will and receive the blessing he has promised.

But my righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he would not see death, and he was not found, because God took him away. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

And unless one has faith, it is impossible for him to be pleasing to God, for the person who comes to God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who seek Him.

By faith [with confidence in God and His word] Noah, being warned by God about events not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his family. By this [act of obedience] he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which comes by faith.

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

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