For to which of the angels did He ever say, "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee?" and again, "I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to me a Son?"

For this reason we ought the more earnestly to attend to what we have heard, least by any means we should be found deficient.

wherefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, They are always erring in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

For if Joshua had given them the rest, He would not afterwards have spoken of another day.

for we have not an high-priest who cannot sympathize with our infirmities, but was in all respects tempted in like manner with us, yet without sin.

who can have due compassion on the ignorant and those that are going astray; seeing he himself also is surrounded with infirmity:

So also Christ did not glorify himself to be made an high-priest; but He that said unto Him, "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee."

Concerning whom we have much to say and difficult to be explained, since ye are become dull of hearing.

For whereas ye ought for the time to be teachers of others, ye have need again of some one to teach you the first rudiments of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk and not of solid food.

but firm food is for persons come to age, who by habit have their senses exercised to a discernment both of good and evil.

who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the holy Spirit,

For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love, which ye have shewn to his name, by having ministred to the saints, and yet ministring.

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

which we have as an anchor of the soul safe and stedfast, and which entereth within the veil.

And those indeed of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment according to the law to take tithes of the people, that is, of their brethren, though they came out of the loins of Abraham:

For the law appointeth men high-priests, who have infirmity; but the oath, recorded since the law, appointeth the Son to be priest for ever, being fully perfected for it.

Now the sum of the things that have been said is this, that we have such an high-priest, who is 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; wherefore it was necessary that He also should have something to offer.

(for then He must indeed have suffered often since the foundation of the world) but now once at the conclusion of the ages He hath been made manifest for the abolishing of sin by the sacrifice of himself.

For then they would have ceased to be offered, because the sacrificers, being once purified, would no longer retain any consciousness of sins.

for ye sympathized with me in my bonds, and ye took joyfully the plundering of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

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

and the just shall live by faith, but if any draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

and if they had been mindful of that from which they came, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to have the temporary enjoyment of sin:

for ye have not resisted unto blood in striving against sin.

Have ye forgotten the exhortation, which speaketh to you as to sons, saying, "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor saint when rebuked by Him?

For ye know that, when he would afterwards have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no room for repentance, though he sought it earnestly even with tears.

Wherefore since we receive a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and holy fear:

Be not forgetful of hospitality; for thereby some have entertained angels, not knowing it.

Let your conversation be free from covetousness, and be contented with what ye have: for He hath said, I will not leave thee; I will never, never forsake thee.

be not then carried about by various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the heart be established by grace, and not in meats, in which those that have been most exact, have not profited by them.

We have an altar, of which those who perform service in the tabernacle have no right to eat.

Let us then go out unto Him without the camp, bearing his reproach: for we have here no continuing city,

Pray for us; for we are confident that we have a good conscience, desiring in all things to behave well.

I beseech you, brethren, bear with this word of exhortation: as I have written to you in brief.