In these last days, He has spoken to us by His Son. God has appointed Him heir of all things and made the universe through Him.

You have loved righteousness
and hated lawlessness;
this is why God, Your God,
has anointed You
with the oil of joy
rather than Your companions.

Now to which of the angels has He ever said:

Sit at My right hand
until I make Your enemies Your footstool?

For He has not subjected to angels the world to come that we are talking about.

But one has somewhere testified:

What is man that You remember him,
or the son of man that You care for him?

For since He Himself was tested and has suffered, He is able to help those who are tested.

For Jesus is considered worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder has more honor than the house.

(for we who have believed enter the rest), in keeping with what He has said:

So I swore in My anger,
they will not enter My rest.

And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world,

for somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this way:

And on the seventh day
God rested from all His works.

For the person who has entered His rest has rested from his own works, just as God did from His.

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens—Jesus the Son of God—let us hold fast to the confession.

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

For ground that has drunk the rain that has often fallen on it and that produces vegetation useful to those it is cultivated for receives a blessing from God.

Jesus has entered there on our behalf as a forerunner, because He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

And in a sense Levi himself, who receives tenths, has paid tenths through Abraham,

For the One these things are spoken about belonged to a different tribe. No one from it has served at the altar.

For it has been testified:

You are a priest forever
in the order of Melchizedek.

but He became a priest with an oath made by the One who said to Him:

The Lord has sworn,
and He will not change His mind,
You are a priest forever.

So Jesus has also become the guarantee of a better covenant.

For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak, but the promise of the oath, which came after the law, appoints a Son, who has been perfected forever.

But Jesus has now obtained a superior ministry, and to that degree He is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been legally enacted on better promises.

By saying, a new covenant, He has declared that the first is old. And what is old and aging is about to disappear.

But the Messiah has appeared, high priest of the good things that have come. In the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands (that is, not of this creation),

Therefore, He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance, because a death has taken place for redemption from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

saying, This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded for you.

Otherwise, He would have had to suffer many times since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared one time, at the end of the ages, for the removal of sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the actual form of those realities, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year.

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

by a new and living way He has opened for us through the curtain (that is, His flesh),

How much worse punishment do you think one will deserve who has trampled on the Son of God, regarded as profane the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

For we know the One who has said, Vengeance belongs to Me, I will repay, and again, The Lord will judge His people.

So don’t throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

But My righteous one will live by faith;
and if he draws back,
I have no pleasure in him.

By faith we understand that the universe was created by God’s command, so that what is seen has been made from things that are not visible.

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

But they now desire a better place—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

keeping our eyes on Jesus, the source and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that lay before Him endured a cross and despised the shame and has sat down at the right hand of God’s throne.

His voice shook the earth at that time, but now He has promised, Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also heaven.

Your life should be free from the love of money. Be satisfied with what you have, for He Himself has said, I will never leave you or forsake you.

Be aware that our brother Timothy has been released. If he comes soon enough, he will be with me when I see you.