For to which of the angels said he ever, Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee? and again, I will be to him for father, and he shall be to me for son?

For this reason we should give heed more abundantly to the things we have heard, lest in any way we should slip away.

how shall we escape if we have been negligent of so great salvation, which, having had its commencement in being spoken of by the Lord, has been confirmed to us by those who have heard;

Wherefore I was wroth with this generation, and said, They always err in heart; and they have not known my ways;

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you might seem to have failed of it.

For indeed we have had glad tidings presented to us, even as they also; but the word of the report did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard.

For we enter into the rest who have believed; as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest; although the works had been completed from the foundation of the world.

For if Jesus had brought them into rest, he would not have spoken afterwards about another day.

And there is not a creature unapparent before him; but all things are naked and laid bare to his eyes, with whom we have to do.

For we have not a high priest not able to sympathise with our infirmities, but tempted in all things in like manner, sin apart.

Thus the Christ also has not glorified himself to be made a high priest; but he who had said to him, Thou art my Son, I have to-day begotten thee.

Concerning whom we have much to say, and hard to be interpreted in speaking of it, since ye are become dull in hearing.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that one should teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

but solid food belongs to full-grown men, who, on account of habit, have their senses exercised for distinguishing both good and evil.

For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those once enlightened, and who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

and have tasted the good word of God, and the works of power of the age to come,

and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves as they do the Son of God, and making a show of him.

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and still ministering.

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises.

that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

which we have as anchor of the soul, both secure and firm, and entering into that within the veil,

And they indeed from among the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is from their brethren, though these are come out of the loins of Abraham:

And they have been many priests, on account of being hindered from continuing by death;

Now a summary of the things of which we are speaking is, We have such a one high priest who has sat down on the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens;

For every high priest is constituted for the offering both of gifts and sacrifices; whence it is needful that this one also should have something which he may offer.

Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?

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

For ye both sympathised with prisoners and accepted with joy the plunder of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better substance, and an abiding one.

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

For in the power of this the elders have obtained testimony.

Wherefore also there have been born of one, and that of one become dead, even as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the countless sand which is by the sea shore.

And if they had called to mind that from whence they went out, they had had opportunity to have returned;

choosing rather to suffer affliction along with the people of God than to have the temporary pleasure of sin;

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin.

And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when reproved by him;

But if ye are without chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

For ye have not come to the mount that might be touched and was all on fire, and to obscurity, and darkness, and tempest,

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

Wherefore let us, receiving a kingdom not to be shaken, have grace, by which let us serve God acceptably with reverence and fear.

Be not forgetful of hospitality; for by it some have unawares entertained angels.

Remember your leaders who have spoken to you the word of God; and considering the issue of their conversation, imitate their faith.

Be not carried away with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the heart be confirmed with grace, not meats; those who have walked in which have not been profited by them.

We have an altar of which they have no right to eat who serve the tabernacle;

for we have not here an abiding city, but we seek the coming one.

Pray for us: for we persuade ourselves that we have a good conscience, in all things desirous to walk rightly.

But I beseech you, brethren, bear the word of exhortation, for it is but in few words that I have written to you.