For to which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, to-day have I begotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father and he shall be to me a Son?

how shall we escape who have neglected so great a salvation? which began to be spoken by the Lord, and was affirmed to us by those who heard,

Since then the children have partaken of blood and flesh, he in like manner also partook of them, that through death he might destroy him that has the power of death, that is the devil,

for we have been made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of the confidence firm to the end.

For we have also received the good news as they did; but the word of the report did not profit them, not being accompanied with faith in those who heard.

For if Joshua caused them to rest he would not have spoken of another day afterwards.

For we have not a chief priest who cannot sympathise with our infirmities, but one tried in all respects as we are, without sin.

So also Christ did not put on himself the honor of being made a chief priest, but he that said to him, Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee;

Concerning whom we have much to say, and that which is difficult to explain, because you have become dull of hearing.

For you who ought on account of the time to be teachers, have need that one should teach you again what are the first rudiments of the oracles of God, and have need of milk and not solid food.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who fled to lay hold on the hope set before us,

which we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and entering within the vail,

And the sons of Levi who receive the priesthood, have a commandment to tithe the people according to the law, that is their brothers, although descended from Abraham;

BUT the chief thing in addition to what has been said is, that we have such a chief priest who sat on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens,

For every chief priest is constituted to offer gifts and sacrifices, whence it was necessary that this man also should have something to offer.

For if he had been on earth he would not have been a priest, there being priests to offer, the gifts according to the law,

For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for the second. [But it was not].

if they could, would they not have ceased to be offered, because those serving would have had no longer a knowledge of sins, having been once purified?

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

For you sympathized with those in bonds, and received with joy the plunder of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession, and one that endures.

For you have need of patience, that having done the will of God you may receive the promise.

By faith Enoch was translated without seeing death, and was not found because God translated him. For before the translation he was said to have pleased God;

And if they had remembered that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return;

choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to have an enjoyment of sin for a time,

You have not yet resisted to blood contending against sin.

And you have forgotten the exhortation which says to you as to sons, My son, despise not the correction of the Lord and faint not when rebuked by him,

Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us and we respected them; shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

For you have not come to a mountain that may be touched, and to a burning fire, and blackness and darkness and a tempest

and so fearful was the sight, that Moses said, I fear and tremble,??22 but you have come to Zion, the mountain and city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels in general assembly,

Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace through which we may serve God acceptably, with piety and fear;

Forget not hospitality; for by this some without knowing it have entertained angels.

Let your life be without avarice, and be contented with what you have; for he said, I will never leave you, I will never forsake you;

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

for we have not here a city that continues, but we seek that which is to come.

Pray for us; for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things wishing to live well.

And I beseech you, brothers, suffer the word of exhortation; for I have sent to you a letter in a few words.