For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Since then the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

And deliver them, who, through fear of death, were all their life-time subject to bondage.

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

But exhort one another daily, while it is called To-day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

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.

But strong food belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is, from their brethren, though they come from the loins of Abraham:

And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is testified that he liveth.

If therefore 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 Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,

For there is verily a disannulling of the preceding commandment on account of its weakness and unprofitableness.

For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, seeing there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

For there was a tabernacle made; the first, in which was the candlestick, and the table, and the show-bread; which is called the sanctuary.

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.

By which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the vail, that is to say, his flesh;

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

He that despised Moses' law, died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which appeared.

Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

Therefore there sprang even from one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea-shore innumerable.

But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.

By faith Moses when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the first-born should touch them.

By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians essaying to do were drowned.

Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

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

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birth-right.

(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

Remember them who have the rule over you, who have spoken to you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their manner of life.

Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, 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 for ever and ever. Amen.