For to which of the angels did He ever say, "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee?" and again, "I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to me a Son?"

But to which of the angels hath He ever said, "Sit thou at my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?"

saying, "I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the congregation will I praise Thee."

And again, "I will trust in Him:" and again, "Behold, I, and the children which God hath given me."

harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness, when your fathers tempted me,

proved me, and saw my works forty years:

wherefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, They are always erring in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

so I sware in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest."

Take heed, my brethren, least there be in any of you a wicked heart of unbelief in departing from the living God:

but exhort one another daily, while it is called to-day; that none of you may be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin:

For we who believe shall enter into rest, as He said above, "So I sware in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest:" though the works of creation were finished from the foundation of the world:

And yet in this place, "They shall not enter into my rest."

Let us therefore come with freedom to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace for our seasonable help.

For every high-priest taken from among men, is appointed for the sake of men in things relating to God, that he may offer gifts and sacrifices for sins:

So also Christ did not glorify himself to be made an high-priest; but He that said unto Him, "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee."

And (as one may say) even Levi, who receiveth tithes, paid tithes in Abraham:

not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their mind, and I will inscribe them on their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.

And they shall not teach every one his neighbour, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the lest even to the greatest of them.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works, that ye may serve the living God?

Wherefore upon his coming into the world He saith, "Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, but a body hast thou prepared me:

then said I, Lo I come, as in the volume of the book it is written of me, to do thy will, O God."

"Lo I come to do thy will, O God." (He taketh away the first, that He may establish the second.)

for after He had said, "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and on their minds will I inscribe them;

For we know who hath said, "To me belongeth vengeance, I will recompense, saith the Lord:" and again, "The Lord will judge his people."

for ye sympathized with me in my bonds, and ye took joyfully the plundering of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

For ye have need of patience, that having done the will of God ye may receive the promise.

and the just shall live by faith, but if any draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

And what need I say more? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and Barak, and Sampson, and Jephthah, and David, and Samuel, and of the prophets:

Wherefore consider Him who endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, that ye may not give out, fainting in your minds:

Have ye forgotten the exhortation, which speaketh to you as to sons, saying, "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor saint when rebuked by Him?

For they indeed corrected us for a while, as seemed good to them; but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

And make strait paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be turned out of the way, but rather be healed.

Now this expression "yet once more" signifieth the removing of the things that are shaken, as of things which had been appointed only for a season, that those which cannot be shaken may remain.

Wherefore since we receive a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and holy fear:

So that we may say with courage, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

Be ruled by those that are your guides, and submit to them: for they watch for your souls; (as those that must give an account) that they may do it with joy and not with uneasiness: for this were unprofitable for you.

And I the more earnestly intreat you to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.