having become so much better than the messengers, as he did inherit a more excellent name than they.

how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation? which a beginning receiving -- to be spoken through the Lord -- by those having heard was confirmed to us,

all things Thou didst put in subjection under his feet,' for in the subjecting to him the all things, nothing did He leave to him unsubjected, and now not yet do we see the all things subjected to him,

and him who was made some little less than messengers we see -- Jesus -- because of the suffering of the death, with glory and honour having been crowned, that by the grace of God for every one he might taste of death.

in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;

so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest !')

See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

and we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

for we do enter into the rest -- we who did believe, as He said, 'So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- ;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,

again He doth limit a certain day, 'To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, 'To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,'

and because of this infirmity he ought, as for the people, so also for himself to offer for sins;

so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: 'My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;'

concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing,

and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise;

And see how great this one is, to whom also a tenth Abraham the patriarch did give out of the best of the spoils,

and so to speak, through Abraham even Levi who is receiving tithes, hath paid tithes,

by so much of a better covenant hath Jesus become surety,

who unto an example and shadow do serve of the heavenly things, as Moses hath been divinely warned, being about to construct the tabernacle, for 'See (saith He) thou mayest make all things according to the pattern that was shewn to thee in the mount;') --

so also the Christ, once having been offered to bear the sins of many, a second time, apart from a sin-offering, shall appear, to those waiting for him -- to salvation!

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain is, but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living,

By faith Enoch was translated -- not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to -- that he had pleased God well,

wherefore, also from one were begotten -- and that of one who had become dead -- as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that is by the sea-shore -- the innumerable.

By faith Moses, having been born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child comely, and were not afraid of the decree of the king;

having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin's pleasure for a season,

By faith they did pass through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians having received a trial of, were swallowed up;

And what shall I yet say? for the time will fail me recounting about Gideon, Barak also, and Samson, and Jephthah, David also, and Samuel, and the prophets,

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

and, (so terrible was the sight,) Moses said, 'I am fearful exceedingly, and trembling.'

See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking -- much less we who do turn away from him who speaketh from heaven,

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

Know ye that the brother Timotheus is released, with whom, if he may come more shortly, I will see you.