has in these last days spoken to us by a Son whom he appointed to be the heir of everything and through whom he also made the universe.

and became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is better than theirs.

Instead, someone has declared somewhere, "What is man that you should remember him, or the son of man that you should care for him?

And again, "I will trust him." And again, "I am here with the children God has given me."

Therefore, since the children have flesh and blood, he himself also shared the same things, so that by his death he might destroy the one who has the power of death (that is, the Devil)

because he is worthy of greater glory than Moses in the same way that the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.

We who have believed are entering that rest, just as he has said, "So in my anger I swore a solemn oath that they would never enter my rest,"

even though his actions had been finished since the creation of the world. Somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day as follows: "On the seventh day God rested from all his actions,"

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

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone to heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us live our lives consistent with our confession of faith.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses. Instead, we have one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet he never sinned.

where Jesus, our forerunner, has gone on our behalf, having become a high priest forever according to the order 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.

For the person we are talking about belonged to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever served at the altar.

This point is even more obvious in that another priest who is like Melchizedek has appeared

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

but Jesus became a priest with an oath when God told him, "The Lord has taken an oath and will not change his mind. You are a priest forever."

In this way, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.

But because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood.

He has no need to offer sacrifices every day like high priests do, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he sacrificed himself.

However, Jesus has now obtained a more superior ministry, since the covenant he mediates is founded on better promises.

In speaking of a "new" covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

This is why the Messiah is the mediator of a new covenant; so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance promised them, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the offenses committed under the first covenant.

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

Then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the creation of the world. But now, at the end of the ages, he has appeared once for all to remove sin by his sacrifice.

Since that time, he has been waiting for his enemies to be made a footstool for his feet.

For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

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

Instead, they were longing for a better country, that is, a heavenly one. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, because he has prepared a city for them.

fixing our attention on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of the faith, who, in view of the joy set before him, endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Once more I will shake not only the earth but also heaven."

The expression "once more" signifies the removal of what can be shaken, that is, what he has made, so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

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 or abandon you."

You should know that our brother Timothy has been set free. If he comes soon, he will be with me when I see you.