By so much becoming superior to the messengers, by as much as, going beyond them, he hath inherited a more distinguished name.

“You have loved righteousness [integrity, virtue, uprightness in purpose] and have hated lawlessness [injustice, sin].
Therefore God, Your God, Has anointed You
With the oil of gladness above Your companions.”

And deliver them, as many as by fear of death were always to live bound by slavery.

For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the point of dividing soul from spirit, and joints from marrow; it is able to judge the desires and thoughts of the heart.

and by reason thereof is bound, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

On this point I have a great deal to say, which it is hard to make intelligible to you. For you have grown dull of hearing.

Therefore we must progress beyond the elementary instructions about Christ and move on to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,

But we, even while we speak in this tone, have a happier conviction concerning you, my dearly-loved friends--a conviction of things which point towards salvation.

Men, of course, swear by what is greater than themselves, and with them an oath is accepted as putting a matter beyond all dispute.

In the same way God, in His desire to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable nature of His purpose, intervened and guaranteed it with an oath,

And this hope is like a strong band for our souls, fixed and certain, and going in to that which is inside the veil;

But beyond all gainsaying, the inferior is blessed by the better.

This point is even more obvious in that another priest who is like Melchizedek has appeared

and that he was appointed, not under a Law regulating only earthly matters, but by virtue of a life beyond the reach of death;

Now in the things which we are saying the chief point is this : We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

Behind the second veil there was another tabernacle [the inner one or second section] known as the Holy of Holies,

By faith also Sarah herself received strength for the conception of seed, and that beyond a seasonable age; since she counted him faithful who promised.

Through faith Abraham, as soon as God put him to the test, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had joyfully welcomed the promises was on the point of sacrificing his only son

You have not yet struggled to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.