being made so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

For to which of the angels did He say at any time, "You are My Son, this day I have begotten You?" And again, "I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son?"

But to which of the angels, did He say at any time, "Sit on My right hand until I make Your enemies Your footstool?"

how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by those who heard Him;

You subjected all things under his feet." For in subjecting all things to Him, He did not leave anything not subjected to Him. But now we do not see all things having been subjected to him.

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that He by the grace of God should taste death for all.

when your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.

So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest."

So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

He again marks out a certain day, saying in David, "Today," (after so long a time). Even as it is said, "Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts."

So then there remains a rest to the people of God.

For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in the things pertaining to God, so that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins,

And because of this he should, as for the people, so also for himself, offer for sins.

So also Christ did not glorify Himself to be made a high priest, but He who said to Him, "You are My Son, today I have begotten You."

of whom we have much to say, and hard to be explained since you are dull of hearing.

and who have fallen away; it is impossible, I say, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify the Son of God afresh to themselves and put Him to an open shame.

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

so that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us,

And if I may say so, Levi, also, who receives tithes, paid tithes in Abraham.

by so much was Jesus made a surety of a better covenant.

who does not need, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice daily, first for his own sins and then for the people's sins. For He did this once for all, when He offered up Himself.

who serve the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was warned of God when he was about to make the tabernacle. For, He says "See that you make all things according to the pattern shown to you in the mountain."

But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much He is also the Mediator of a better covenant, which was built upon better promises.

having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid all around with gold, in which was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.

But when Christ had become a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building

And for this cause He is the Mediator of the new covenant, so that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, those who are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

From which we see that neither was the first covenant dedicated without blood.

so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many. And to those who look for Him He shall appear the second time without sin to salvation.

then He said, "Lo, I come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first so that He may establish the second.

by a new and living way which He has consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, His flesh;

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

indeed being exposed both by reproaches and afflictions, and while you became companions of those who lived so.

For you have need of patience, so that after you have done the will of God you might receive the promise.

By faith we understand that the ages were framed by a word of God, so that the things being seen not to have come into being out of the things that appear.

By faith Enoch was translated so as not to see death, and he was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

For they who say such things declare plainly that they seek a fatherland.

By faith Moses, having been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child. And they were not afraid of the king's commandments.

Having become great, Moses by faith refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,

By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, which the Egyptians attempting to do were drowned.

And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah; also David, and Samuel and the prophets,

Therefore since we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Follow peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord;

for they could not endure the thing commanded, "And if so much as a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart,"

and so fearful was the sight that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake).

See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape, those who refused him that spoke on earth, much more we shall not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from Heaven,

And this word, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, so that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.

so that we may boldly say, "The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me."

Therefore Jesus also, so that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.

But I beseech you the rather to do this, so that I may be more quickly restored to you.

Know that our brother Timothy has been set at liberty, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.