You made him a little lower than the angels; you gave him a crown of glory and honour, and made him ruler over all the works of your hands:

For when God made his oath to Abraham, because there was no greater oath, he made it by himself,

(For those were made priests without an oath, but this one was made a priest with an oath by him who says of him, The Lord gave his oath, which he will not take back, that you are a priest for ever);

Because by one offering he has made complete for ever those who are made holy.

By faith Abraham made an offering of Isaac, when he was tested: and he with whom the agreement had been made gave up as an offering the only son of his body,

And in accordance with this will [of God] we [who believe in the message of salvation] have been sanctified [that is, set apart as holy for God and His purposes] through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed) once for all.

but in these last days he hath spoken unto us by his son, whom he hath made heir of all things: by whom also he made the world.

And in as much as not without an oath he was made priest: (For those priests were made without an oath,

Faith made even Sarah herself able to have a child, although she was past the time of life for it, because she thought, that he who had made the promise would keep it.

For Christ did not come into the sanctuaries made with hands, the pattern of the true; but into heaven itself, now to be made manifest unto the face of God in our behalf:

We know by faith that the worlds were made by the word of God, that the seen was not made from the apparent.

In saying new, he has made the first old. And that made old and becoming weak is near destruction.