He is as much superior to the angels as the name that he has inherited surpasses theirs.

It is as he suffered by his temptations that he is able to help the tempted.

For Good News has been brought to us as truly as to them; but the message they heard failed to benefit them, because they were not one in faith with those who gave heed to it.

Where Jesus has gone before us, as a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

There is no record of his father, or mother, or lineage, nor again of any beginning of his days, or end of his life. In this he resembles the Son of God, and stands before us as a priest whose priesthood is continuous.

And this is still more abundantly clear when we read that it is as belonging to the order of Melchizedek that a priest of a different kind is to arise,

But as it is, Christ has acquired a [priestly] ministry which is more excellent [than the old Levitical priestly ministry], for He is the Mediator (Arbiter) of a better covenant [uniting God and man], which has been enacted and rests on better promises.

Which entrance he hath consecrated for us, as a way recent and living, through the veil, that is, his flesh, -

for if we wilfully apostatize, after having received the knowledge of the truth, it is as a sin for which there is no sacrifice appointed.

So from one man, though he was [physically] as good as dead, were born as many descendants as the stars of heaven in number, and innumerable as the sand on the seashore.

In faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, as concerning things to come.

For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.