but concerning the Son, "Your throne, O God, [is] {forever and ever}, and the scepter of righteous [is the] scepter of your kingdom.

they will perish, but you continue, and they will all become old like a garment,

and like a robe you will roll them up, and like a garment they will be changed; but you are the same, and your years will not run out."

But to which of the angels has he ever said, "Sit down at my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."

But someone testified somewhere, saying, "What is man, that you remember him, or the son of man, that you care for him?

you subjected all [things] under his feet. For in subjecting all [things], he left nothing [that was] not subject to him. But now we do not yet see all [things] subjected to him,

but we see Jesus, for a short [time] made lower than the angels, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that apart from God he might taste death on behalf of everyone.

For surely he is not concerned with angels, but he is concerned with the descendants of Abraham.

For every house is built by someone, but the one who built all [things] [is] God.

but Christ [was faithful] as a son over his house, whose house we are, if we hold fast to our confidence and the hope we can be proud of.

But encourage one another {day by day}, as long as it is called "today," so that {none of you become hardened} by the deception of sin.

{For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us}, just as those also [did], but the message {they heard} did not benefit them, [because they] were not united with those who heard [it] in faith.

And no creature is hidden in the sight of him, but all [things are] naked and laid bare to the eyes of him to whom {we must give our account}.

For we do not have a high priest who is not able to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who has been tempted in all [things] in the same way, without sin.

And someone does not take for himself the honor, but is called by God, just as Aaron also [was].

Thus also Christ did not glorify himself to become high priest, but the one who said to him, "You are my Son, today I have begotten you,"

But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have trained their faculties for the distinguishing of both good and evil.

But [if it] produces thorns and thistles, [it is] worthless and near to a curse, whose end [is] for burning.

But even if we are speaking in this way, dear friends, we are convinced of better [things] concerning you, and belonging to salvation.

in order that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and patience.

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God--he remains a priest for all time.

But see how great this man [was], to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth from the spoils!

But the one who did not trace [his] descent from them collected tithes from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises.

And in this case mortal men receive tithes, but in that case it is testified that he lives.

And, {so to speak}, even Levi, the one who receives tithes, has paid tithes through Abraham.

who has become [a priest] not according to a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

(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.

but he with an oath by the one who said to him, "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, 'You [are] a priest {forever}'"),

but he, because he continues {forever}, holds the priesthood permanently.

For the law appoints men [as] high priests who have weakness, but the statement of the oath, after the law, [appoints] a Son, who is made perfect {forever}.

But now he has attained a more excellent ministry, by as much as he is also mediator of a better covenant which has been enacted upon better promises.

but only the high priest [enters] into the second [tent] once a year, not without blood, which he offers on behalf of himself and the [sins] of the people committed in ignorance.

But Christ has arrived [as] a high priest of the good [things] to come. Through the greater and more perfect tent not made by hands, that is, not of this creation,

and not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered once for all into the [most] holy place, obtaining eternal redemption.

Therefore [it was] necessary [for] the sketches of the [things] in heaven to be purified with these [sacrifices], but the heavenly [things] themselves [to be purified] with better sacrifices than these.

For Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a [mere] copy of the true [one], but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf,

since it would have been necessary for him to suffer many times from the foundation of the world, but now he has appeared once at the end of the ages for the removal of sin by the sacrifice of himself.

But in them [there is] a reminder of sins {year by year}.

Therefore, [when he] came into the world, he said, "Sacrifice and offering you did not want, but a body you prepared for me;

But this one, [after he] had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God,

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.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that is about to consume the adversaries.

But remember the former days in which, [after you] were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings,

For you both sympathized with the prisoners and put up with the seizure of your belongings with joy [because you] knew that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession.

But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul is not well pleased with him."

But we are not among those who shrink back to destruction, but among those who have faith to the preservation of [our] souls.

These all died in faith without receiving the promises, but seeing them from a distance and welcoming [them], and admitting that they were strangers and temporary residents on the earth.

But now they aspire to a better [land], that is, a heavenly [one]. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

extinguished the effectiveness of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong from weakness, became mighty in battle, put to flight enemy battle lines.

Women received back their dead by resurrection. But others were tortured, not accepting release, in order that they might gain a better resurrection.

But if you are without discipline, in which all [legitimate sons] have become participants, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

For they disciplined [us] for a few days according to what seemed [appropriate] to them, but he [does so] for our benefit, in order that [we] can have a share in his holiness.

Now all discipline seems for the moment not to be joyful but painful, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness for those who are trained by it.

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame will not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to tens of thousands of angels, to the festal gathering

whose voice shook the earth at that time, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once [more] I will shake not only the earth but also heaven."

Marriage [must be] held in honor by all, and the marriage bed [be] undefiled, because God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

For here we do not have a permanent city, but we seek the [city] that is to come.