[Although] God spoke long ago in many parts and in many ways to the fathers by the prophets,

For it was fitting for him for whom [are] all [things] and through whom [are] all [things] in bringing many sons to glory to perfect the originator of their salvation through sufferings.

And indeed many {have become} priests, because they were prevented by death from continuing [in office],

and not in order that he can offer himself many times, as the high priest enters into the sanctuary {year by year} with blood not his own,

since it would have been necessary for him to suffer many times from the foundation of the world, but now he has appeared once at the end of the ages for the removal of sin by the sacrifice of himself.

thus also Christ, having been offered once in order to bear the sins of many, will appear for the second time without reference to sin to those who eagerly await him for salvation.

And every priest stands every day serving and offering the same sacrifices many times, which are never able to take away sins.

Take care [that] no one falls short of the grace of God; [that] no one growing up [like] a root of bitterness causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;