and as a mantle Thou shall roll them together, and they shall be changed, and Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail.'

are they not all spirits of service -- for ministration being sent forth because of those about to inherit salvation?

For not to messengers did He subject the coming world, concerning which we speak,

all things Thou didst put in subjection under his feet,' for in the subjecting to him the all things, nothing did He leave to him unsubjected, and now not yet do we see the all things subjected to him,

for both he who is sanctifying and those sanctified are all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

for, doubtless, of messengers it doth not lay hold, but of seed of Abraham it layeth hold,

ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,

wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;

in its being said, 'To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,'

for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses;

but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? --

and we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,

since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief --

again He doth limit a certain day, 'To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, 'To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,'

for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things;

and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things are naked and open to His eyes -- with whom is our reckoning.

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but one tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin;

so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: 'My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;'

for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;

that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

and he who was not reckoned by genealogy of them, received tithes from Abraham, and him having the promises he hath blessed,

If indeed, then, perfection were through the Levitical priesthood -- for the people under it had received law -- what further need, according to the order of Melchisedek, for another priest to arise, and not to be called according to the order of Aaron?

who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,

And inasmuch as it is not apart from oath, (for those indeed apart from oath are become priests,

and he with an oath through Him who is saying unto him, 'The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou art a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;')

and he, because of his remaining -- to the age, hath the priesthood not transient,

of the holy places a servant, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord did set up, and not man,

for if, indeed, he were upon earth, he would not be a priest -- (there being the priests who are offering according to the law, the gifts,

for if that first were faultless, a place would not have been sought for a second.

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, --

and they shall not teach each his neighbour, and each his brother, saying, Know thou the Lord, because they shall all know Me from the small one of them unto the great one of them,

and over it cherubim of the glory, overshadowing the mercy-seat, concerning which we are not now to speak particularly.

and into the second, once in the year, only the chief priest, not apart from blood, which he doth offer for himself and the errors of the people,

the Holy Spirit this evidencing that not yet hath been manifested the way of the holy places, the first tabernacle having yet a standing;

which is a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to make perfect him who is serving,

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 --

whence not even the first apart from blood hath been initiated,

and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.

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;

For the law having a shadow of the coming good things -- not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,

since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?

Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, 'Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me,

in burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offerings, Thou didst not delight,

saying above -- 'Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering Thou didst not will, nor delight in,' -- which according to the law are offered --

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain is, but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,

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

for yet a very very little, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry;

and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

by faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of God, in regard to the things seen not having come out of things appearing;

By faith Enoch was translated -- not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to -- that he had pleased God well,

By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.

By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing whither he doth go;

In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,

but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.

By faith Moses, having been born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child comely, and were not afraid of the decree of the king;

by faith he left Egypt behind, not having been afraid of the wrath of the king, for, as seeing the Invisible One -- he endured;

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

by faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disbelieved, having received the spies with peace.

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

of whom the world was not worthy; in deserts wandering, and in mountains, and in caves, and in the holes of the earth;

and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,

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

for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls -- being faint.

Not yet unto blood did ye resist -- with the sin striving;

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, 'My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,

if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?

and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.

Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising us, and we were reverencing them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it -- it doth yield.

and straight paths make for your feet, that that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;

for ye know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for a place of reformation he found not, though with tears having sought it.

For ye came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

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,

for they were not bearing that which is commanded, 'And if a beast may touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or with an arrow shot through,'

See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking -- much less we who do turn away from him who speaketh from heaven,

whose voice the earth shook then, and now hath he promised, saying, 'Yet once -- I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven;'

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;

of the hospitality be not forgetful, for through this unawares certain did entertain messengers;

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, 'No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

so that we do boldly say, 'The Lord is to me a helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.'

with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for it is good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;

for we have not here an abiding city, but the coming one we seek;

and of doing good, and of fellowship, be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased.

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this is unprofitable to you.