For if the divine word spoken by angels held good, if transgression and disobedience met with due punishment in every case,

what we do see is Jesus who was put lower than the angels for a little while to suffer death, and who has been crowned with glory and honour that by God's grace he might taste death for everyone.

Since the children then share blood and flesh, he himself participated in their nature, so that by dying he might crush him who wields the power of death (that is to say, the devil)

For we have had the good news as well as they; only, the message they heard was of no use to them, because it did not meet with faith in the hearers.

so that by these two solid facts (the Promise and the Oath), where it is impossible for God to be false, we refugees might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us,

For Melchizedek, the king of Salem, a priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham on his return from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him ??2 who had a tenth part of everything assigned him by Abraham ??this Melchizedek is primarily a king of righteousness (that is the meaning of his name); then, besides that, king of Salem (which means, king of peace).

In fact, we might almost say that even Levi the receiver of tithes paid tithes through Abraham;

for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.

(for the Law made nothing perfect), and there is introduced a better Hope, by means of which we can draw near to God.

For the Law appoints human beings in their weakness to the priesthood; but the word of the Oath appoints a Son who is made perfect for ever.

Whereas God does find fault with the people of that covenant, when he says: The day is coming, saith the Lord, when I will conclude a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be on the lines of the covenant I made with their fathers,

But when Christ arrived as the high priest of the bliss that was to be, he passed through the greater and more perfect tent which no hands had made (no part, that is to say, of the present order),

In fact, one might almost say that by Law everything is cleansed with blood. No blood shed, no remission of sins!

For Christ has not entered a holy place which human hands have made (a mere type of the reality!); he has entered heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

to wait until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet.

For by a single offering he has made the sanctified perfect for all time.

and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good deeds ??25 not ceasing to meet together, as is the habit of some, but admonishing one another, all the more so, as you see the Day coming near.

It is by faith we understand that the world was fashioned by the word of God, and thus the visible was made out of the invisible.

It was by faith that he celebrated the passover and performed the sprinkling by blood, so that the destroying angel might not touch Israel's first-born.

Some were given back to their womankind, raised from the very dead; others were broken on the wheel, refusing to accept release, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

to the blare of a trumpet and to a Voice whose words made those who heard it refuse to hear another syllable

to the assembly of the first-born registered in heaven, to the God of all as judge, to the spirits of just men made perfect,