For to what angel did God ever say, "You are my Son, today I have become your Father"?

Or again, "I will become His Father, and He shall become my Son"? But when He brings again His first-born Son into the world, He says, "And let all the angels worship Him."

But to what angel did He ever say: "Just keep your seat at my right hand, until I make your foes a footstool for your feet"?

when He says: "I will announce your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise";

and again, "I too will put my trust in God"; and again, "Here I am and the children God has given me."

Therefore, my Christian brothers, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Messenger and High Priest whom we profess to follow,

You must not harden your hearts as they did in provoking me, as on the day in the desert they tested me,

Where your forefathers found I stood their test, because they saw my works for forty years,

So I was indignant with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have never come to know my ways.'

So in my anger I took oath, 'They shall not be admitted to my rest!'"

See to it, my brothers, that no wicked, unbelieving heart is found in any of you, as shown by your turning away from the ever-living God,

but day by day, as long as "Today" shall last, continue to encourage one another, so that not one of you may be hardened by sin's deceiving ways,

and yet the warning continues to be spoken: "If you but hear His voice, you must not harden your hearts as they did in provoking me."

So let us fear that when the promise for us to be admitted to His rest is still remaining valid some one of you may be found to have missed it.

For we who have believed are being admitted to that rest, just as He has said: "As in my anger I took oath, they shall not be admitted to my rest," although God's works had been completed at the creation of the world.

while in this passage again He says: "They shall not be admitted to my rest."

So let us do our best to be admitted to that rest, so that not one of us may fail through the same sort of disobedience.

So Christ too did not take upon Himself the glory of being appointed High Priest, but it was God who said: "You are my Son; I have today become your Father,"

But in your case, my dearly loved friends, even though we speak in such a tone, we are sure of better things, yea, things that point to salvation.

And we desire each one of you to continue to show the same earnestness to the very end, that you may enjoy your hope to the fullest,

so that you may not grow careless, but may follow the example of those who through their faith and patient endurance are now possessors of the blessings promised.

so that by these two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to prove false, we who have taken refuge with Him may have encouragement strong enough to make us seize upon the hope that lies ahead of us.

Unlike the one that I made with their forefathers the day I took them by the hand to lead them out from the land of Egypt, for they did not abide by their covenant with me, so I did not care for them,' says the Lord.

'For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel in those days,' says the Lord; 'I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they will be my people. And nevermore will each one need to teach his fellow-citizen,

And each one teach his brother, saying, "Know the Lord," For all will know me, from the lowest to the highest.

but into the second or inner part nobody but the high priest may go, and he only once a year, and never without blood which he offers for himself and for the sins committed in ignorance by the people.

saying, "This is the blood that ratifies the covenant which God commanded me to make with you."

"Sacrifice and offering you did not wish, but a body you have prepared for me; in burnt-offerings and sin-offerings you never took delight.

Then I said, 'See, I have come, just as the Scripture writes about me in the book, O God, to do your will.'"

"'This is the covenant that I will make with them: In those last days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws into their hearts, and write them on their minds,'"

Since then, my brothers, we have free access to the real sanctuary through the blood of Jesus,

For we know who it was that said, "Vengeance belongs to me, I will pay back!" and again, "The Lord will be His people's judge."

Meantime, my righteous servant will live by faith. But if a man draws back, my soul has no delight in him."

And why should I continue to mention more? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,

and you have forgotten the encouragement which is addressed to you as sons: "My son, refrain from thinking lightly of the discipline the Lord inflicts, and giving up when you are corrected by Him.

For they disciplined us only a short time, as it seemed proper to them, but He does it for our good, in order that we may share His holy character.

and keep your feet in straight paths, so that limbs may not be dislocated, but instead be cured.

Continue to look after one another, that no one fails to gain God's spiritual blessing; or some evil like a bitter root may spring up and trouble you, and many of you be contaminated by it --

So we can confidently say: "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can men do to me?"

Continue to obey and to be submissive to your leaders, for they are ever watching in defense of your souls, as men who will have to give account of their trust. Treat them in this way, so that they may work with joy and not with grief.

Pray for me, for I am sure that I have a clear conscience, and in everything I want to live a noble life.

And more especially do I beg you to do so, that I may very soon be brought back to you.

May God, who gives us peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, who through the blood by which He ratified the everlasting covenant, is now the Great Shepherd of the sheep,