For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, This day have I begotten thee? and again, I will be to him a Father, And he shall be to me a 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;

Unto which indeed of the angels said he ever, "Sit at my right hand until I put thine enemies for 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 displeased with this generation, and said, 'They always err in their heart, but 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 you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."

For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works;"

but in this place 'tis said, "they shall not enter into my rest."

he again defines a certain day, "Today," saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you 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 be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, "You are my Son. Today I have become your father."

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 these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.

For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, a tribe of which Moses said nothing concerning the priesthood.

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

(for they indeed were made priests without an oath; but he with an oath, by him who said unto him, "The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:")

BUT the chief thing in addition to what has been said is, that we have such a chief priest who sat on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens,

who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, "See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain."

For finding fault with them, he said, "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.

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

That is why the Christ, when he was coming into the world, said, "You have not wished sacrifice or offering, but you have provided a body for me.

Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.'"

Having said before that sacrifice, and oblation, and whole burnt-offerings and sin-offerings thou hast not chosen, nor takest pleasure in, (which are offered according to the law,)

then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes 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 who said, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay." Again, "The Lord will 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 will your 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 am terrified and trembling."

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will never leave you or forsake you."

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