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

having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

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

But to which of the angels has he ever said, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies a stool for your feet"?

But there is a place where someone has testified, "What is man that you are mindful of him, or the son of man that you care for him?

And again, "I will put my trust in him." And again, "Here am I, and the children God has given me."

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same nature, that through death he might destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

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

Yet Jesus has been counted worthy of as much more glory than Moses as the builder of a house has more honor than the house.

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall never enter my rest,'" although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works."

God again set a certain day, "Today," saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."

Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

Because of this he has to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people.

where Jesus has entered as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

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

who has become a priest not on the basis of a law of carnal requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

Those who formerly became priests took their office without an oath, but he became a priest with an oath through the One who said to him, "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever.'"

Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

For the Law appoints men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the Law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.

But as it is, he has obtained a ministry which is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.

When he said, "A new covenant," he has made the first obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

For a will is in force only when somebody has died, since it never takes effect while the one who made it is living.

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

For then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

For since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices which are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near.

For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

Anyone who has rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

How much severer punishment do you think a man will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as an unclean thing the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

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

But my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."

for he was looking forward to the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

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

Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also heaven."

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said, "I will never leave you, nor will I forsake you."

You should know that our brother Timothy has been released, with whom I will see you if he comes soon.