They will come to an end, but you will remain forever. They will all wear out like clothes.

You will roll them up like a robe, and they will be changed like clothes. But you remain the same, and your life will never end."

thereby becoming like his brothers in every way, so that he could be a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God and could atone for the people's sins.

Even though we speak like this, dear friends, we are convinced of better things in your case, things that point to salvation.

That hope, firm and secure like an anchor for our souls, reaches behind the curtain

He has no father, mother, or genealogy, no birth date recorded for him, nor a date of death. Like the Son of God, he continues to be a priest forever.

Just look at how great this man was! Even Abraham the patriarch himself gave him a tenth of what he had captured!

This point is even more obvious in that another priest who is like Melchizedek has appeared

He has no need to offer sacrifices every day like high priests do, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he sacrificed himself.

If the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need to look for a second one,

but God found something wrong with his people when he said, "Look! The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors at the time when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not remain loyal to my covenant, I ignored them, declares the Lord.

When everything had been arranged like this, the priests always went into the first part of the tent to perform their duties.

By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who also inherited the same promise,

No one should be immoral or godless like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.