Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of exultation above those who partake with thee."

But of which of the angels has he said at any time, Take your seat at my right hand till I put all those who are against you under your feet?

Are not they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;

God also testified, along with those people, by [giving them] both signs and wonders and various miracles, and by [supernatural] gifts distributed [to them] by the Holy Spirit, as He desired.

For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

and deliver those, even as many as through their whole life were subjects of bondage to the fear of death.

Wherefore he ought in all things to be made like to his brethren, in order to become a merciful and faithful high-priest in those things which relate to God, to make a propitiation for the sins of the people:

For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, did not all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?

With whom was he displeased forty years? Was not it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

To whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard did not profit them, because they were not united by faith with those who heard.

For those of us who have belief come into his rest; even as he has said, As I said in my oath when I was angry, They may not come into my rest: though the works were done from the time of the making of the world.

Since then it is still true that somebody will be admitted to it, and those who had a gospel preached to them before were not admitted because of their disobedience,

For the one who has once entered His rest has also rested from [the weariness and pain of] his [human] labors, just as God rested from [those labors uniquely] His own.

Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.

FOR, every high-priest taken from among men, is constituted on behalf of men for those services which relate to God, that he should offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.

For that reason he is obligated to offer sacrifices for his own sins as well as for those of the people.

And though he were God's son, yet learned he obedience, by those things which he suffered,

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

For though ye ought for the time to be teachers of others, ye have again need that some one teach you the leading principles of the oracles of God; and are become as those who need milk, and not solid food.

By people who live on milk I mean those who are imperfectly acquainted with the teaching concerning righteousness.

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

Therefore omitting for the present the principles of the christian doctrine, we shall proceed to something more sublime, without mentioning those fundamental articles of repentance from destructive vices, and of divine faith:

for it is impossible that those,

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

if those, I say, fell away, it would be impossible to bring them again to repentance; they would be crucifying the Son of God over again for themselves, and exposing him to open contempt.

For the earth which imbibes the rain which often falls upon it, and bringeth forth herbage suitable for those by whom it is cultured, receiveth a blessing from God;

that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

Therefore, God in his desire to make it perfectly clear to those to whom he made his promise, that his purpose was unalterable, bound himself with an oath,

which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast. Which hope also entereth in, into those things which are within the veil,

Now those of the sons of Levi who are appointed to the priesthood, are authorized by the Law to take tithes of the people, that is, of their brothers, and that too, although these are descended from Abraham.

And inasmuch as it is not apart from oath, (for those indeed apart from oath are become priests,

For although those priests became such without an oath, He had an oath form God who said to him, The Lord hath sworn and will not change, Thou art a priest forever.

And it is true that there have been a great number of those priests, because death does not let them go on for ever;

Therefore he is also able to save completely those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

who does not need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

Now the principal thing among those of which we are speaking is this: We have such a highpriest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are those who offer the gifts according to the law;

"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, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

but into the second once in every year entered the high-priest alone, not without blood, which he offered for his own inadvertencies, and for those of the people:

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:

For this reason he is the mediator of a New Covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For a will [is] in force concerning those who are dead, since [it is] never in force when the one who made the will is alive.

It is then need that the similitudes of heavenly things, be purified with such things: but the heavenly things themselves are purified with better sacrifices than are those.

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

For the Law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to offer these sacrifices, because those who offered them, having once been purified, would have had no further consciousness of sin?

But in those sacrifices there is yearly reminder of sins.

Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you did not desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the Law),

For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

"This is the covenant that I will make with them: 'After those days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;'" then he says,

but a kind of awful and terrifying expectation of [divine] judgment and the fury of a fire and burning wrath which will consume the adversaries [those who put themselves in opposition to God].

How much worse then, think you, will be the punishment deserved by those who have trampled underfoot the Son of God, who have treated the blood that rendered the Covenant valid--the very blood by which they were purified--as of no account, and who have outraged the Spirit of Love?

But you must remember those early days when after you had received the light you had to go through a great struggle with persecution,

partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.

For you showed sympathy with those who were in prison, and you put up with it cheerfully when your property was taken from you, for you knew that you had in yourselves a greater possession that was lasting.

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Wherefore also there were born of one, and those of one dead, [a posterity] like the stars of heaven for multitude, and like the sands on the sea-shore innumerable.

For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood [on the doorposts], so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch them (the firstborn of Israel).

By faith, Rahab the prostitute, did not perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.

Need I add anything more? Time would fail me if I attempted to relate the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, and those of David, Samuel, and the Prophets.

Think of the opposition that he encountered from those sinners against themselves, if you would not grow weary and faint-hearted.

For it is those whom the Lord loves that he disciplines, And he chastises every son that he acknowledges."

For those men indeed for a few days chastened us according to that which seemed good to them, but he for that which is advantageous, in order to be partakers of his holiness.

All discipline seems for the moment painful, not joyful; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,

For those people could not stand [hearing] the command [Ex. 19:12f], "If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned [to death]."

To the great meeting and church of the first of those who are named in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of good men made complete,

See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?

This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

Let marriage be kept honorable in every way, and the marriage bed undefiled. For God will judge those who commit sexual sins, especially those who commit adultery.

Keep in mind those who were over you, and who gave you the word of God; seeing the outcome of their way of life, let your faith be like theirs.

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.

For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp.

For by him offer we the sacrifice of praise always to God: that is to say, the fruit of those lips, which confess his name.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy send you greetings.