in these last days hath spoken to us by a Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

made as much superior to the angels, as he hath inherited a more distinguished name than they.

"Thou hast made him for a little while lower than angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour, and hast placed him over the works of thy hands:

But we see Jesus for a little while made lower than angels, by the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour, that, by the grace of God, he might taste of death for every one.

Seeing therefore that the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he also himself, in exact resemblance, partook of the same, that by death he might destroy him who held the power of death, that is, the devil;

Wherefore he ought in all things to be made like to his brethren, in order to become a merciful and faithful high-priest in those things which relate to God, to make a propitiation for the sins of the people:

For it is not possible to renew again unto repentance those who have been once illuminated, and have tasted the celestial gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us;

into which the forerunner for us is entered, even Jesus, made after the order of Melchisedec an high-priest for ever.

FOR this Melchisedec, king of Salem, a priest of God most high, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;

For he was as yet in the loins of his father when Melchisedec met him.

who was not made such by the law of a carnal commandment, but by the power of a life indissoluble.

Moreover, forasmuch as he was not [made priest] without an oath,

(for they indeed were made priests without an oath; but he with an oath, by him who said unto him, "The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:")

And they indeed are many who were made priests, because by death they were prevented from abiding [in their office]:

For such an high-priest was suitable to us, holy, inoffensive, spotless, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

not according to that covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day when I laid hold upon their hand to lead them up out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I took no longer care of them, saith the Lord.

In calling it a new covenant, he hath made the first antiquated. Now what is antiquated and grown aged, is near evanescence.

the Holy Ghost thus signifying, that the way into the holies was not yet made manifest, whilst the first tabernacle held its station;

But Christ becoming the high-priest of future good things, through a better and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation;

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that, death being suffered for the redemption of transgressions committed against the first testament, they who are called might receive the promise of an eternal inheritance.

For Christ is not entered into the holies made with hands, the antitypes of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the presence of God for us:

else they would have discontinued to make the offering, because they who performed the service being once made clean, would have had no more sense of sins on their conscience.

For by one oblation he hath made those perfect for ever who are sanctified.

By faith we understand that the worlds were exactly formed by the word of God, so that the visible objects were not made out of things which now appear.

And if indeed they had fixed their minds on that from whence they had gone forth, they might have had opportunity to go back to it again.

By faith Joseph, approaching his end, made mention of the children of Israel's departure thence; and gave a charge respecting his bones.

By faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the first-born might not touch them.

extinguished the force of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, they were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in battle, routed the armies of aliens.

Women received by a resurrection their dead: but others were tortured, not accepting a release; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

For they indeed for a few days as seemed proper to themselves corrected us; but he for our own advantage, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words, which they who heard, earnestly begged that the discourse might not be directed to them:

Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.