For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my son, today I have begotten you"? And again, "I will be a father to him and he shall be a son to me"?

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

Therefore we must pay more careful attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, 'They always go astray in their hearts; and they have not known my ways.'

For we have come to share in Christ if we hold our first confidence firm to the end,

Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear lest any one of you be judged to have come short of it.

For we also have had the good news preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.

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 if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later of another day.

And there is no creature hidden from his sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

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.

So also Christ did not exalt himself to become a high priest, but it was he who said to him, "You are my son, today I have begotten you";

About this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their sense trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

For it is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit,

and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,

and then have fallen away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put him to an open shame.

For God is not so unjust as to forget your work and the love which you have shown for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do.

so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.

We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,

And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take a tenth from the people, that is, from their brethren, though these also are descended from Abraham.

Now if perfection could have been through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the people received the Law), what further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not one designated according to the order of Aaron?

For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the heavens.

Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; and so it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no place sought for a second.

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, he entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation.

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh,

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.

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered? If the worshipers had once been cleansed, they would no longer have any consciousness of sins.

in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.

Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,' as it is written of me in the roll of the book."

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

And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

For if we sin deliberately after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and keep their souls.

And if they had been thinking of that country from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

And have you forgotten the exhortation which addresses you as sons? "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor lose courage when you are rebuked by him.

If you are left without discipline, in which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

Besides this, we have had fathers of our flesh to discipline us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind,

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the joyful assembly

Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.

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."

We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city which is to come.

Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as men who will have to give account. Let them do this with joy, and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.

Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

I urge you, brethren, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.