For unto which of the messengers said he at any time - My Son, art, thou, I, this day have begotten thee? and again - I, will become, his father, and, he, shall become my Son?

And further, when he brought the firstborn into the habitable world, he said, Let all the angels of God worship him.

While of the angels he said, He makes his angels into winds, His ministering servants into flames of fire.

while of the Son he said-- 'God is thy throne for ever and ever; The scepter of his Kingdom is the scepter of Justice;

But to which of the heavenly agents has he ever said, Sit thou by my right hand until I place thine enemies a footstool of thy feet?

For someone somewhere has solemnly said: "What is man that you should think of him, or the Son of Man that you should care for Him?

And Moses certainly kept faith as a servant, in all his house, and as a witness of those things which were to be said later;

So, even as the Holy Spirit said [Psa. 95:7-11], "Today, if you hear His [i.e., God's] voice,

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, They are always led astray in their heart, and they did not know my ways.

for we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold fast our first confidence firm unto the end; inasmuch as it is said,

while it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.

For those who believe enter into that rest, just as he said, So I swore in my wrath, They will not enter into my rest, although the works occurred from the foundation of the world.

For in one place he has said of the seventh day, And God had rest from all his works on the seventh day;

and again in this, “They shall not enter My rest.”

again he appoints a certain day, Today, saying in David after so long a time (as it is said), Today if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have said anything about another day.

So also Christ did not glorify himself to become a high priest, but it was he who said to him, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee.

also said in another passage, You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

and said, "I will certainly bless you richly, and greatly increase your numbers."

And it could be said that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid a tithe through Abraham.

Thus if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood, for on the basis of it the people received the law, what further need [is there] for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek and not said to be according to the order of Aaron?

For He of whom this is said became a member of a different tribe no member of which ever officiated at the altar.

For it is very clear that our Lord sprang from Judah, a tribe about which Moses said nothing as to priests.

for it is said, "thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec."

for the Levitical priests were appointed without His taking an oath, but He with His oath, when He said to Him: "The Lord took oath and will not change, You are a priest forever" --

What we have said amounts to this; we have an high priest, who sits in heaven on the right hand of the throne of the divine majesty.

and yet they officiate in a sanctuary that is a mere copy and shadow of the heavenly one, as Moses, when he was about to make the tent of worship, was warned, for, said He, "See to it that you make it all just like the pattern shown you on the mountain."

For, because He was dissatisfied with His people, He said: "'See; the time is coming,' says the Lord, 'When I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,

When he said, "A new covenant," he has made the first obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep."

So, when Christ was coming into the world, He said:

Then said I, Lo, I am come (In the roll of the book it is written of me) To do thy will, O God.

Although at first He said, "You never wished or took delight in sacrifices and offerings, burnt-offerings and sin-offerings" -- all of which are repeatedly offered in accordance with the law --

then hath he said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

And the Holy Spirit also beareth witness to us; for after he hath said,

This is the agreement which I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws in their hearts, writing them in their minds; he said,

For we know him that said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

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 Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.

even he to whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called:

concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the grave; from whence, in a figurative sense, be may be said to have been recover'd.

By faith Joseph, when his end was near, said that the children of Israel would go out of Egypt; and gave orders about his bones.

And to the sound of a horn, and the voice of words, the hearers of which made request that not a word more might be said to them:

For the order which said, If the mountain is touched even by a beast, the beast is to be stoned, seemed hard to them;

and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:

Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.

But, brothers, take kindly the words which I have said for your profit; for I have not sent you a long letter.