For to which one of the angels at any time did he say, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? and again, I will be unto him a Father, and he shall be unto me a Son?

Therefore it behooves us the more earnestly to give heed to the things which we have heard, lest at some time we may leak out.

Then since the children have inherited blood and flesh, he likewise also received the same, in order that through death he might set at nought him who has the power of death, that is, the devil;

Therefore I was provoked with this generation, and I said, They do always err in their heart: and they have not known my way,

for we have been made partakers of Christ, if indeed we may hold fast the beginning of confidence firm unto the end.

Then let us fear, lest at some time, the promise to enter into his rest having been left, some of you may appear to have come short.

For we truly have had the gospel preached unto us, as they did also: but the word of hearing did not profit them, not being mixed with faith to those hearing.

For we who have believed, do enter into rest: as he has said, As I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest: the works truly having been from the foundations of the world.

And no creature is hidden in his presence: but all things are naked and have been laid open to the eyes of him to whom the word is unto us.

For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched with our infirmities; but one having been tempted as to all things like unto us, apart from sin.

Likewise Christ also did not glorify himself to become a high priest, but the one having spoken to him, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee:

For indeed you, who ought to be teachers so far as time is concerned, have need that some one again teach you what are the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God; and you have need of milk, not solid food.

For it is impossible that those having been once enlightened, and tasted the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

that through two immutable things in which it was impossible that God should lie, we who have fled may have a strong consolation to lay hold of the hope set before us,

which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is in the veil,

And those indeed of the sons of Levi receiving the priesthood have a commandment to tithe the people according to the law, that is, their brethren, even though having come out from the loins of Abraham:

Then indeed if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood, for unto it the people have been tithed, what need is there still that another priest shall rise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

And indeed many have been made priests, because they were prohibited by death from continuing:

But in addition to the things which having been spoken this is the principal thing: We have such a high priest, who sat on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices: whence it is necessary to have something even that which he may offer.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, a place would not have been sought for the second.

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctifies unto the purification of the flesh;

since in that case would they not have ceased being offered, because the worshipers having once been purified would have had no more conscience of sins?

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

For we sinning willingly after we have received the perfect knowledge of the truth, there is left no more sacrifice for sins,

For you suffered along with the prisoners, and received with joy the spoliation of your goods, knowing that you have a better and abiding possession.

For you have need of patience, in order that, having done the will of God, you will inherit the promise.

If indeed they remember that country from which they came out, they would have had an opportunity to return;

For you have not yet resisted unto blood, fighting against sin;

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art proven of him:

And if you are without chastisement, of which all have been partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.

Indeed no chastisement for the present seems to be truly joyful, but sorrowful: but afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them who have been disciplined by it.

For you have not come to the mountain that can be touched, and that is burnt with fire, and unto blackness and darkness, and tempest,

but you have come to mount Zion, and to the heavenly Jerusalem, to the city of the living God, and to myriads of angels,

to the whole company, and to the church of the first-born, who have been written in the heavens, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of justified people who have been made perfect,

Therefore receiving an unshaken kingdom, let us have grace, through which we may worship God acceptably with reverence and fear:

We have an altar, from which those ministering in the tabernacle have no right to eat.

for we have here no continuing city, but we are seeking unto one which is to come.

Pray for us: for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, wishing in all things to deport ourselves in harmony with the beauty of holiness.

But I exhort you, brethren, to receive the word of consolation: for I have indeed written unto you briefly.