to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

For men make oath by something greater than themselves, and they accept an oath as settling finally any disagreement they may have.

You have put everything under his feet!" In thus making everything subject to man, God left nothing that was not subjected to him. But we do not as yet see everything made subject to him,

Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;

But we see Jesus who has been made a little something less than the heavenly agents, who, because of the suffering of death, has been crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God he would taste of death for every man.

For where a covenant is, a necessity is to present the death of the man who made the covenant.

For a covenant is effective with the dead, since it is never enforced while the man who made the covenant lives.

By faith Abel offered a sacrifice more acceptable to God than Cain did, for by it he was approved as an upright man, since God approved him for the offering he made; and by it he still continues to speak, though dead.

For he of whom these things are said comes of another tribe, of which no man has ever made offerings at the altar.

But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things.

Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;

And to Jesus by whom the new agreement has been made between God and man, and to the sign of the blood which says better things than Abel's blood.

for the law made no man perfect, but this was effected by introducing a better hope, which brings us nearer to the divine presence.

a priest of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle which the Lord made, and not man.