Now when God put everything under him, he left nothing outside his control. However, at the present time we do not yet see everything put under him. But we do see someone who was made a little lower than the angels. He is Jesus, who is crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might experience death for everyone.

because both the one who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified all have the same Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers

Therefore, holy brothers, partners in a heavenly calling, keep your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone to heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us live our lives consistent with our confession of faith.

where Jesus, our forerunner, has gone on our behalf, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

but Jesus became a priest with an oath when God told him, "The Lord has taken an oath and will not change his mind. You are a priest forever."

In this way, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.

But because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood.

However, Jesus has now obtained a more superior ministry, since the covenant he mediates is founded on better promises.

By God's will we have been sanctified once and for all through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus, the Messiah.

Therefore, my brothers, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,

fixing our attention on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of the faith, who, in view of the joy set before him, endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better message than Abel's.

Jesus, the Messiah, is the same yesterday and today and forever!

That is why Jesus, in order to sanctify the people by his own blood, also suffered outside the city gate.

Now may the God of peace, who by the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the Great Shepherd of the sheep,

equip you with everything good to do his will, accomplishing in us what pleases him through Jesus, the Messiah. To him be glory forever and ever! Amen.