For to which of the angels did He ever say,
“You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You”? And again,“I will be a Father to Him
And He shall be a Son to Me”?

But to which of the angels has He ever said,
“Sit at My right hand,
Until I make Your enemies
A footstool for Your feet”?

saying,
“I will proclaim Your name to My brethren,
In the midst of the congregation I will sing Your praise.”

And again,
“I will put My trust in Him.”And again,“Behold, I and the children whom God has given Me.”

Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me,
As in the day of trial in the wilderness,

Where your fathers tried Me by testing Me,
And saw My works for forty years.

“Therefore I was angry with this generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they did not know My ways’;

As I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’”

while it is said,
“Today if you hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts, as when they provoked Me.”

Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it.

For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said,
“As I swore in My wrath,
They shall not enter My rest,”
although His works were finished from the foundation of the world.

and again in this passage, “They shall not enter My rest.”

Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

So also Christ did not glorify Himself so as to become a high priest, but He who said to Him,
“You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You”;

Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers
On the day when I took them by the hand
To lead them out of the land of Egypt;
For they did not continue in My covenant,
And I did not care for them, says the Lord.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
After those days, says the Lord:
I will put My laws into their minds,
And I will write them on their hearts.
And I will be their God,
And they shall be My people.

“And they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen,
And everyone his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
For all will know Me,
From the least to the greatest of them.

For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says,
“Sacrifice and offering You have not desired,
But a body You have prepared for Me;

“Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come
(In the scroll of the book it is written of Me)
To do Your will, O God.’”

“This is the covenant that I will make with them
After those days, says the Lord:
I will put My laws upon their heart,
And on their mind I will write them,”
He then says,

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

But My righteous one shall live by faith;
And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.

And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets,

and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,
“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
Nor faint when you are reproved by Him;

For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.

and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe;

so that we confidently say,
“The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid.
What will man do to me?”

And I urge you all the more to do this, so that I may be restored to you the sooner.