And like a robe You will roll them up;
Like a garment they will be changed.
But You are the same [forever],
And Your years will never end.”

how will we escape [punishment] if we neglect such a great salvation? [For it was] first announced [to people] by the Lord and then confirmed to us [i.e., the writer and other Christians] by those who heard Him [i.e., the original apostles].

but one in a certain place witnessed, saying, "What is man, that thou art mindful of him: other the son of man, that thou visitest him?

For having been put to the test himself, he is able to give help to others when they are tested.

Therefore, holy brethren, sharers with others in a heavenly invitation, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest whose followers we profess to be.

But exhort each other during each day, while it is called Today, lest any of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

But we which have believed, do enter into his rest, as contrariwise he said to the other, "As I have sworn in my wrath, 'They shall not enter into my rest.'" And that spake he verily long after that the works were made, and the foundation of the world laid.

On the other hand, we read in that passage-- ' They shall never enter upon my Rest.'

For although you ought to be teachers of others because you have been Christians so long, you actually need someone to teach you over and over again the very elements of the truths that God has given us, and you have gotten into such a state that you are in constant need of milk instead of solid food.

that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to deceive us, we, who have no other refuge to fly to, but to maintain our present hopes,

In the one case, mortal men collect the tenth, in the other, one who, as the witness states, lives on.

(for the law [made] nothing perfect), but on the other hand [there is] the introduction of a better hope through which we draw near to God.

None of this happened without an oath. For others became priests without an oath,

And the others who became priests were numerous, because death prevented them from continuing in office,

but He, on the other hand, because He Himself lives on forever, enjoys the only priesthood that has no successors in office.

who has no day by day need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices, first of all for his own [personal] sins and then for those of the people, because He [met all the requirements and] did this once for all when He offered up Himself [as a willing sacrifice].

If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;

These things being thus disposed, the priests went at all times into the first part of the tabernacle, to officiate the divine service. but into the other part,

So, on the one hand, the copies of the original things in heaven had to be purified with such sacrifices; but on the other hand, the original things themselves in heaven with better sacrifices than these.

Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;

On the other hand, through these sacrifices there is given a real reminder of their sins,

Every other priest stands officiating day after day and over and over again offering the same sacrifices, although they are unable to take away our sins.

And let us examine each other for provocation of love and good works.

not abandoning {our meeting together}, as [is] the habit of some, but encouraging [each other], and by so much more as you see the day drawing near.

For if we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any other sacrifice for sins,

sometimes by being made a spectacle, publicly exposed to insults and distress, and sometimes by becoming companions with those who were so treated.

By faith he made his temporary home in the land that God had promised him, although a land inhabited by others, living merely in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were to share the promise with him.

for they. that make such a declaration, show plainly that they seek some other country.

Women received their dead by a resurrection: and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

but if you were exempted from that discipline which others are subject to, then are you bastards, and not sons.

But go on doing good and giving to others, because God is well-pleased with such offerings.