Therefore, since the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also similarly partook of the same, in order that through death he might render powerless him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

He is able to deal gently with the ignorant and erring, since he himself also is encompassed with moral weakness,

For when God make the promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself, saying.

Now were he on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there are here those who present the gifts according to the Law??5 those priests who serve a mere outline and shadow of the heavenly reality, just as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to build the Tabernacle. "See", he says, "that you make everything on the pattern showed you on the mountain."

since they consist only in meats and drinks and various ablutions, carnal ordinances, imposed until the time of reformation.

And because of this he is the Mediator of a new testament, in order that, since a death has taken place to atone for offenses committed under the first testament, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

(for in that case he would have needed to suffer repeatedly, ever since the foundation of the world;)but now, once for all, at the end of the ages, he has appeared to abolish sin, but the offering of himself.

And since it is appointed to men once to die, and after that the judgment;

Since, then, we have a cheerful confidence, brothers, to enter into the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,

and since we have a great High Priest over the house of God;

since it was for us that God had in store some better thing, so that apart from us they should not be perfected.

Wherefore since we are receiving a kingdom which is unshakable, let us give thanks, and so offer acceptable worship to God, with holy awe and fear,

Remember those who are in prison, as if you were fellow prisoners; remember too, those who are being ill-treated, since you too, are in the body.