For to which of the angels did he say at any time, "You are my Son. Today have I become your father?" and again, "I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?"

But which of the angels has he told at any time, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?"

saying, "I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise."

Again, "I will put my trust in him." Again, "Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me."

where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my works for forty years.

Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, 'They always err in their heart, but they didn't know my ways;'

as I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"

For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

and in this place again, "They will not enter into my rest."

Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

So also Christ didn't glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, "You are my Son. Today I have become your father."

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn't continue in my covenant, and I disregarded 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 mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.

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

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, but you prepared a body 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.'"

then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,

"This is the covenant that I will make with them: 'After those days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;'" then he says,

For we know him who said, "Vengeance belongs to me," says the Lord, "I will repay." Again, "The Lord will judge his people."

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."

What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets;

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,