who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might -- through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

and him who was made some little less than messengers we see -- Jesus -- because of the suffering of the death, with glory and honour having been crowned, that by the grace of God for every one he might taste of death.

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death -- that is, the devil --

and might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage,

wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people,

and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,

For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself,

For this Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who did meet Abraham turning back from the smiting of the kings, and did bless him,

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, and being made like to the Son of God, doth remain a priest continually.

for he was yet in the loins of the father when Melchisedek met him.

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of My taking them by their hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt -- because they did not remain in My covenant, and I did not regard them, saith the Lord, --

in the saying 'new,' He hath made the first old, and what doth become obsolete and is old is nigh disappearing.

And Christ being come, chief priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands -- that is, not of this creation --

for not into holy places made with hands did the Christ enter -- figures of the true -- but into the heaven itself, now to be manifested in the presence of God for us;

partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living,

and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return,

by faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that He who is destroying the first-born might not touch them.

quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were made powerful out of infirmities, became strong in battle, caused to give way camps of the aliens.

Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive,

God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.

and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of sayings, which those having heard did entreat that a word might not be added to them,

to the company and assembly of the first-born in heaven enrolled, and to God the judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men made perfect,

and this -- 'Yet once' -- doth make evident the removal of the things shaken, as of things having been made, that the things not shaken may remain;

Wherefore, also Jesus -- that he might sanctify through his own blood the people -- without the gate did suffer;