For to which of the angels did He ever say, You are My Son; today I have become Your Father, or again, I will be His Father, and He will be My Son?

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.

We must, therefore, pay even more attention to what we have heard, so that we will not drift away.

For the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers,

Now since the children have flesh and blood in common, Jesus also shared in these, so that through His death He might destroy the one holding the power of death—that is, the Devil—

for 40 years.
Therefore I was provoked with that generation
and said, “They always go astray in their hearts,
and they have not known My ways.”

For we have become companions of the Messiah if we hold firmly until the end the reality that we had at the start.

For we also have received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard did not benefit them, since they were not united with those who heard it in faith

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

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.

In the same way, the Messiah did not exalt Himself to become a high priest, but the One who said to Him, You are My Son; today I have become Your Father,

We have a great deal to say about this, and it’s difficult to explain, since you have become too lazy to understand.

But solid food is for the mature—for those whose senses have been trained to distinguish between good and evil.

and who have fallen away, because, to their own harm, they are recrucifying the Son of God and holding Him up to contempt.

so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us.

We have this hope as an anchor for our lives, safe and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain.

The sons of Levi who receive the priestly office have a command according to the law to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their brothers—though they have also descended from Abraham.

Now many have become Levitical priests, since they are prevented by death from remaining in office.

Now the main point of what is being said is this: We have this kind of high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

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

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

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),

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.

Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, once purified, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?

Then I said, “See—
it is written about Me
in the volume of the scroll—
I have come to do Your will, God!”

He then says, See, I have come to do Your will. He takes away the first to establish the second.

By this will of God, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all.

Therefore, brothers, since we have boldness to enter the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus,

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

For you sympathized with the prisoners and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, knowing that you yourselves have a better and enduring possession.

For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.

But we are not those who draw back and are destroyed, but those who have faith and obtain life.

If they were thinking about where they came from, they would have had an opportunity to return.

Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us,

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

And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons:

My son, do not take the Lord’s discipline lightly
or faint when you are reproved by Him,

No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields the fruit of peace and righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

For you have not come to what could be touched, to a blazing fire, to darkness, gloom, and storm,

Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God (the heavenly Jerusalem), to myriads of angels in festive gathering,

to the assembly of the firstborn whose names have been written in heaven, to God who is the Judge of all, to the spirits of righteous people made perfect,

Don’t neglect to show hospitality, for by doing this some have welcomed angels as guests without knowing it.

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.

Remember your leaders who have spoken God’s word to you. As you carefully observe the outcome of their lives, imitate their faith.

Don’t be led astray by various kinds of strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established by grace and not by foods, since those involved in them have not benefited.

We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle do not have a right to eat.

For we do not have an enduring city here; instead, we seek the one to come.

Pray for us; for we are convinced that we have a clear conscience, wanting to conduct ourselves honorably in everything.

Brothers, I urge you to receive this message of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.