has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds,

who being the shining splendor of His glory, and the express image of His essence, and upholding all things by the word of His power, through Himself cleansing of our sins, He sat down on the right of the Majesty on high,

being made so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

For to which of the angels did He say at any time, "You are My Son, this day I have begotten You?" And again, "I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son?"

And again, when He brings in the First-born into the world, He says, "And let all the angels of God worship Him."

And of the angels He says, "Who makes His angels spirits and His ministers a flame of fire."

But to the Son He says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.

But to which of the angels, did He say at any time, "Sit on My right hand until I make Your enemies Your footstool?"

how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by those who heard Him;

For He has not put in subjection to the angels the world to come, of which we speak.

You subjected all things under his feet." For in subjecting all things to Him, He did not leave anything not subjected to Him. But now we do not see all things having been subjected to him.

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that He by the grace of God should taste death for all.

For both He who sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of One, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brothers,

Since then the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise partook of the same; that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death (that is, the Devil),

For truly He did not take the nature of angels, but He took hold of the seed of Abraham.

Therefore in all things it behoved him to be made like His brothers, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of His people.

For in that He Himself has suffered, having been tempted, He is able to rescue those who are being tempted.

Therefore, holy brothers, called to be partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,

For He was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who has built the house has more honor than the house.

For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.

But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

And to whom did He swear that they should not enter into His rest, but to those who did not believe?

For we who have believed do enter into the rest, as He said, "I have sworn in My wrath that they should not enter into My rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For He spoke in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested the seventh day from all His works."

He again marks out a certain day, saying in David, "Today," (after so long a time). Even as it is said, "Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts."

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

For he who has entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from His.

Since then we have a great High Priest who has passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

For we do not have a high priest who cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted just as we are, yet without sin.

For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in the things pertaining to God, so that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins,

who can have compassion on the ignorant and on those who are out of the way. For he himself also is compassed with weakness.

And because of this he should, as for the people, so also for himself, offer for sins.

And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called of God, as Aaron was.

So also Christ did not glorify Himself to be made a high priest, but He who said to Him, "You are My Son, today I have begotten You."

As He says also in another place, "You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."

For Jesus, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong cryings and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared,

though being a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.

And being perfected, He became the Author of eternal salvation to all those who obey Him,

being called by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek;

For everyone partaking of milk is unskillful in the Word of Righteousness, for he is an infant.

For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He swore by Himself,

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

where the Forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him.

To him Abraham also gave a tenth of all. He was first by interpretation king of righteousness, and after that also king of Salem, which is king of peace,

without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest continually.

Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.

But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.

And here men who die receive tithes; but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.

For he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.

For He of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no man gave attendance at the altar.

For He testifies, "You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."

And inasmuch as He was not made priest without an oath

but He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.

Therefore He is able also to save to the uttermost those who come unto God by Him, since He ever lives to make intercession for them.

For such a high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners and made higher than the heavens,

who does not need, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice daily, first for his own sins and then for the people's sins. For He did this once for all, when He offered up Himself.

For the Law appoints men high priests who have infirmity, but the word of the swearing of an oath, after the Law, has consecrated the Son forever, having been perfected.

Now the sum of the things which we have spoken is this: We have such a High Priest, who has sat down on the right of the throne of the Majesty in Heaven,

For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this One have something to offer also.

For if indeed He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the Law,

who serve the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was warned of God when he was about to make the tabernacle. For, He says "See that you make all things according to the pattern shown to you in the mountain."

But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much He is also the Mediator of a better covenant, which was built upon better promises.

For finding fault with them, He said to them, "Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, and I will make an end on the house of Israel and on the house of Judah; a new covenant shall be,

In that He says, A new covenant, He has made the first one old. Now that which decays and becomes old is ready to vanish away.

But once in the year into the second the high priest goes alone, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the errors of the people)

But when Christ had become a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building

nor by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered once for all into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

how much more shall the blood of Christ (who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God) purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

And for this cause He is the Mediator of the new covenant, so that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, those who are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,

And likewise he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry.

Nor yet that He should offer Himself often, even as the high priest enters into the Holy of Holies every year with the blood of others

(for then He must have suffered often since the foundation of the world), but now once in the end of the world He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many. And to those who look for Him He shall appear the second time without sin to salvation.

Therefore when He comes into the world, He says, "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You have prepared a body for Me.

Above, when He said, "Sacrifice and offering, and burnt offerings and offering for sin You did not desire, neither did You have pleasure in them" (which are offered according to the Law),

then He said, "Lo, I come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first so that He may establish the second.

But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right of God,

For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are sanctified.

The Holy Spirit also is a witness to us; for after He had said before,

also He adds, "their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more."

by a new and living way which He has consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, His flesh;

and having a High Priest over the house of God,

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering (for He is faithful who promised),

He who despised Moses' Law died without mercy on the word of two or three witnesses.

Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy of punishment, the one who has trampled the Son of God, and who has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

For "yet a little while, and He who shall come will come and will not delay."

Now, "the Just shall live by faith. But if he draws back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him."

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts. And by it he, being dead, yet speaks.

By faith Enoch was translated so as not to see death, and he was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

By faith Noah, having been warned by God of things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out into a place which he was afterward going to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he went.

By faith he lived in the land of promise as a stranger, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs of the same promise with him.

For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

But now they stretch forth to a better fatherland, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

By faith Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. And he who had received the promises offered up his only-begotten son,

concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from where he even received him, in a figure.

By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped, leaning upon the top of his staff.