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

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation?

For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and if every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward,

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 it became Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons into glory, to perfect the Captain of their salvation through sufferings.

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,

and deliver those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

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.

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.

And Moses truly was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken afterward.

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,

For some, when they had heard, did provoke; however, not all who came out of Egypt by Moses.

Therefore, a promise being left to enter into His rest, let us fear lest any of you should seem to come short of it.

For also we have had the gospel preached, as well as them. But the Word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.

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."

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.

For the Word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing apart of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

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.

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,

For indeed because of the time, you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again what are the first principles of the oracles of God. And you have become in need of milk, and not of solid food.

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

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

(For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth plants fit for those by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God.

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

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

For men truly swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

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

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.

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

Therefore if perfection were by the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the Law), what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made in the law also.

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

For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

And it is still far more evident, since there arises another priest after the likeness of Melchizedek,

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

For truly there is a putting away of the commandment which went before, because of the weakness and unprofitableness of it.

For the Law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did, by which we draw near to God.

(for those priests were made without an oath, but this one was made with an oath by Him who said to Him, "The Lord swore and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek,")

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.

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."

For if that first covenant had been without fault, then no place would have been sought for the second.

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,

"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My Laws into their mind and write them in their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

And they shall not each man teach his neighbor, and each man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know Me, from the least to the greatest.

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more."

For the first tabernacle was prepared, in which was both the lampstand, and the table, and the setting out of the loaves, which is called Holies.

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)

For it was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him who did the service perfect as regards the conscience,

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.

For if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh,

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 where a covenant is, the death of him covenanting must be offered.

For a covenant is affirmed over those dead, since it never has force when The one covenanting is living.

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,

For Christ has not entered into the Holy of Holies made with hands, which are the figures of the true, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.

(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.

For the Law which has a shadow of good things to come, not the very image of the things, appearing year by year with the same sacrifices, which they offer continually, they are never able to perfect those drawing near.

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers, when they had been once for all purged, would have had no more conscience of sin.

For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

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

In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have had no pleasure.

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),

By this will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

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,

Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

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

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

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,

but a certain fearful looking for judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

For we know Him who has said, "Vengeance belongs to Me, I will repay, says the Lord." And again, "The Lord shall judge His people."

For you both sympathized with my bonds and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in Heaven a better and an enduring substance.

For you have need of patience, so that after you have done the will of God you might receive the promise.

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

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

For by it the elders obtained a good report.

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.

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