For to what angel did God ever say, Thou art my son; this day have I become thy Father? and again, I will be a father to him, and he shall be to me a son?

For this reason we must pay the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, for fear we should drift away.

For this reason I was sore displeased with that generation, And said, "They are always wandering in their hearts; They have never learned my ways";

Let us be on our guard, then, though there is a promise still standing of being admitted to his rest, lest any one of you should be found to have come short of it.

We are actually entering into that rest, we who have believed, as God has said,??n my wrath I swore??They shall not enter into my Rest

So even the Christ was not raised to the high glory of the priesthood by himself, but on the contrary by Him who said to him. Thou art my Son; this day have I become thy Father;

Concerning him I have much to say, and much that is hard to make clear to you, because you have grown dull of hearing.

But solid food is for adults, that is, for those who by constant practise have their faculties trained to discriminate between good and evil.

For in the case of those who have been once for all enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift,

that by means of two immutable things??is promise and his oath??n which it is impossible for God to break faith, we refugees may have strong encouragement to grasp the hope set before us.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, secure and strong, and passing into the sanctuary which is beyond the veil;

And they indeed have been made priests, many in number, because they have been prevented by death from continuing;

The pith of all that we have been saying is this; we do have such a High Priest; and he has taken his seat on the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens,

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; whence it follows that this High Priest also must have some offering to make.

For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need for a second.

For I will have mercy upon their wrong-doings, And their sins I will remember no more."

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

And because of this he is the Mediator of a new testament, in order that, since a death has taken place to atone for offenses committed under the first testament, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

(for in that case he would have needed to suffer repeatedly, ever since the foundation of the world;)but now, once for all, at the end of the ages, he has appeared to abolish sin, but the offering of himself.

Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshippers having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sin.

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

But when these have been remitted, there is no more any offering for sin.

Since, then, we have a cheerful confidence, brothers, to enter into the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,

and since we have a great High Priest over the house of God;

For if we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any other sacrifice for sins,

For yet a very, very little while, and then The Coming One will have come, without delay.

And if they had cherished the memory of that land from which they went out, they would have found an opportunity to return;

Not yet have you resisted unto blood in your fight against sin;

and have you forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as sons? My son, do not despise the training of the Lord, Nor faint when he corrects you;

Now no discipline seems for the present to be joyous, but grievous; but afterward it yields the peaceable fruits of righteousness to those who have been trained under it.

Do not neglect to show hospitality; for by it some have even entertained angels unawares.

Let your life be untainted by love of money; be content with such things as you have; for God himself has said, I will never leave thee; I will never forsake thee.

Do not allow yourselves to be swept away by various and strange teachings. For it is a beautiful thing to be established in heart by grace, and not by regulations regarding food, from which those that occupied themselves with them have derived no benefit.

We Christians have an altar from which those have no right to eat who minister in the Tabernacle.

For we have not here an abiding city, but we are earnestly seeking the city that is to be.

Keep on praying for me. I am persuaded that I have a clear conscience, and I desire in every way to live nobly.

But I entreat you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.