But one testified in a certain place, saying, "What is man, that You are mindful of him; or the son of man, that You visit 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.

Since then the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise partook of the same; that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death (that is, the Devil),

Therefore in all things it behoved him to be made like His brothers, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of His people.

For in that He Himself has suffered, having been tempted, He is able to rescue those who are being tempted.

Therefore I was grieved with that generation and said, They always err in their heart, and they have not known My ways.

And to whom did He swear that they should not enter into His rest, but to those who did not believe?

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

For we who have believed do enter into the rest, as He said, "I have sworn in My wrath that they should not enter into My rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Since then it remains that some must enter into it, and since they to whom it was first preached did not enter in because of unbelief,

Therefore let us labor to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of unbelief.

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight, but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.

Therefore let us come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

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,

For Jesus, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong cryings and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared,

For indeed because of the time, you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again what are the first principles of the oracles of God. And you have become in need of milk, and not of solid food.

(For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth plants fit for those by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God.

But that which bears thorns and briers is rejected and is a curse, whose end is to be burned.)

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you and things that accompany salvation, though we speak in this way.

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

And we desire that each one of you show the same eagerness to the full assurance of hope to the end,

that you be not slothful, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

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,

which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters into that within the veil,

To him Abraham also gave a tenth of all. He was first by interpretation king of righteousness, and after that also king of Salem, which is king of peace,

And truly they who are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priest, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the Law, that is, from their brothers, though they come out of the loins of Abraham.

And here men who die receive tithes; but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.

Therefore if perfection were by the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the Law), what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this One have something to offer also.

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."

For if that first covenant had been without fault, then no place would have been sought for the second.

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day I took hold of their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt," because they did not continue in My covenant, and I did not regard them, says the Lord.

"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My Laws into their mind and write them in their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

In that He says, A new covenant, He has made the first one old. Now that which decays and becomes old is ready to vanish away.

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.

the Holy Spirit signifying by this that the way into the Holiest of all was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing.

For it was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him who did the service perfect as regards the conscience,

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.

Therefore it was necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves were purified with better sacrifices than these.

Nor yet that He should offer Himself often, even as the high priest enters into the Holy of Holies every year with the blood of others

For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

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

"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put My Laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,"

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

For you both sympathized with my bonds and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in Heaven a better and an enduring substance.

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 Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts. And by it he, being dead, yet speaks.

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.

But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

Because of this came into being from one, and that of one having died, even as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

These all died by way of faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. And they were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

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

And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

But now they stretch forth to a better fatherland, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

of whom it was said that in Isaac your Seed shall be called,

concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from where he even received him, in a figure.

Women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

for God had provided some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.

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,

looking to Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right of the throne of God.

For truly they chastened us for a few days according to their own pleasure, but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness.

And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed.

For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he did not find any place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears).

For you have not come to the mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, nor to blackness and darkness and tempest,

and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words (which voice they who heard begged that a word should not be spoken to them any more,

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

and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

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.

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear,

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.

By Him, then, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, confessing His name.

Yield to those leading you, and be submissive, for they watch for your souls, as those who must give account, that they may do it with joy and not with grief; for that is unprofitable for you.

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

Now may the God of peace (who brought again our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant)

make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

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