and like a mantle thou shalt fold them up, and they shall be changed, but thou art the same and thy years shall not fail.

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to serve on account of those who are about to inherit salvation?

For he did not subject to angels the world to come, of which we speak.

thou didst subject all things under his feet. For in subjecting all things to him, he left nothing not subjected to him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him.

For both he that sanctifies and the sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

For indeed he helped not angels, but he helped the descendants of Abraham.

harden not your hearts as in the provocation, in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

Wherefore I was displeased with that generation and said, They always err in mind, and they did not know my ways,

so I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

See, brothers, that there be not at any time in any one of you an evil mind of unbelief in departing from the living God;

It was said, To-day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation;

for who having heard committed provocation? Did not all indeed who came out of Egypt with Moses?

And with whom was he displeased forty years? Was it not with those that sinned? whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest? was it not to them that disobeyed?

And we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

For we have also received the good news as they did; but the word of the report did not profit them, not being accompanied with faith in those who heard.

For we enter into the rest who believed, as he said, I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest, although of works made from the foundation of the world.

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

Since then it remains that some entered into it, and those to whom it was first preached entered not in on account of unbelief,

again he defines a certain day, To-day, saying in David, after so long a time, as it was said before, To-day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

For if Joshua caused them to rest he would not have spoken of another day afterwards.

and there is nothing which is not manifest in his sight; for all things are naked and exposed to his eyes, to whom our discourse relates.

For we have not a chief priest who cannot sympathise with our infirmities, but one tried in all respects as we are, without sin.

So also Christ did not put on himself the honor of being made a chief priest, but he that said to him, Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee;

For you who ought on account of the time to be teachers, have need that one should teach you again what are the first rudiments of the oracles of God, and have need of milk and not solid food.

Wherefore leaving the account of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of a change of mind from dead works, and of faith in God,

For God is not unjust, to forget your work, and the love which you showed for his name, having served the saints and [still] serving them.

that you be not stupid, but followers of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

For God haying promised Abraham, when he could not swear by a greater, swore by himself,

but he whose descent is not reckoned from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him who has the promises.

If therefore there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood,??or the people received the law under it,??hat need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedec and not to be called after the order of Aaron?

who was not a priest after the law of an external commandment, but after the power of imperishable life.

And as he was not [constituted] without swearing,??21 for they were made priests without swearing, but he with swearing by him who says to him, The Lord swore, and he will not change, You are a priest forever;??22 by so much is Jesus the pledge of a better covenant.

but he, on account of his continuing for ever, has a priesthood which passes not away,

who has no need daily as the chief priests first to present sacrifices for their sins, then for those of the people; for this he did once for all, having offered himself.

a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord set up, not man.

For if he had been on earth he would not have been a priest, there being priests to offer, the gifts according to the law,

For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for the second. [But it was not].

not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, for they continued not in my covenant, and I neglected them, says the Lord.

And they shall not teach every one his [fellow] citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest of them.

and over it were the cherubs of glory, overshadowing the propitiation; of which it is not necessary now to speak particularly.

but into the second once a year only the chief priest [enters], not without blood, which he offers for his errors and those of the people,

the Holy Spirit showing this, that the way into the sanctuary is not made manifest while the first tabernacle yet has a standing,

But Christ having come, a chief priest of the good times that were to come, with a greater and a more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

not with blood of goats and bullocks, but with his own blood, entered once into the sanctuary having found eternal redemption.

whence also the first [covenant] was not initiated without blood.

For Christ did not enter into the sanctuary made with hands, a type of the true, but into heaven itself, and already has appeared before God for us,

not that he may often present himself, as the chief priest enters into the sanctuary once a year with the blood of another [being];

For the law having a shadow of the good things that were to come, not the very likeness of the things, could not by the sacrifices which they offered continually every year perfect the offerers;

if they could, would they not have ceased to be offered, because those serving would have had no longer a knowledge of sins, having been once purified?

Wherefore, coming into the world, he says, A sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, but a body didst thou prepare me.

Whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou wast not pleased with;

Saying before, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou didst not desire and wast not pleased with, which are offered according to the law,

not forsaking our own congregation as some are in the habit of [doing], but exhorting [others], and so much the more as you see the day approaching.

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has a great reward.

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

For yet a very little while, and he that is to come will come and will not delay;

But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of faith to the saving of the soul.

But faith is a confidence in respect to things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen.

We know by faith that the worlds were made by the word of God, that the seen was not made from the apparent.

By faith Enoch was translated without seeing death, and was not found because God translated him. For before the translation he was said to have pleased God;

By faith Noah having been divinely instructed concerning things not yet seen, fearing built the ark for the salvation of his house, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness by faith.

By faith Abraham being called obeyed and went out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and went out not knowing where he was going.

All these died in faith not having received the promises, but having seen and saluted them from a distance, and having professed that they were foreigners and strangers on the earth.

but now they seek a better, that is a heavenly [country]. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.

By faith Moses when he was born was hid three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they feared not the command of the king.

By faith he left Egypt, not having feared the displeasure of the king; for he endured as seeing him that is invisible.

By faith he observed the passover and the pouring out of blood, that the destroyer of the first-born might not touch them.

women received their dead from a resurrection, others were tortured having not accepted redemption, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

of whom the world was not worthy, wandering in deserts and mountains, and in caves and openings of the earth.

God having provided something better for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

For consider him that has endured such a contradiction from sinners, that you may not become faint and weary in your minds.

You have not yet resisted to blood contending against sin.

And you have forgotten the exhortation which says to you as to sons, My son, despise not the correction of the Lord and faint not when rebuked by him,

If you endure correction, God deals with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not correct?

But if you are without correction of which all are partakers, then you are of foreign birth, and not sons.

Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us and we respected them; shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

and make straight courses for your feet, that the lame may not be turned out of the way, but may rather be healed.

For you have not come to a mountain that may be touched, and to a burning fire, and blackness and darkness and a tempest

and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which those who heard desired that the word might not be spoken to them any more,??20 for they could not bear what was commanded, And if a beast touches the mountain it shall be stoned;

See that you refuse not him that speaks; for if they did not escape who refused him that gave answers on earth, much more shall we [not escape] who turn ourselves away from him in heaven;

whose voice then shook the earth, but now it has been promised, saying, Hereafter once for all I will shake not only the earth, but also heaven.

And this, Hereafter once for all, signifies the removal of the things shaken as of things made, that those not shaken may continue.

Forget not hospitality; for by this some without knowing it have entertained angels.

so that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear; what can man do to me?

Be not carried about with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the mind should be established with grace, not with aliments, in which those walking are not profited.

for we have not here a city that continues, but we seek that which is to come.

And forget not beneficence and liberality; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Obey your guides and be in subjection; for they watch for your souls as having to give an account, that they may do this with joy and not with grief; for this is unprofitable for you.