Are they not all spirits engaged in special service, sent on assignment for the sake of those who are going to inherit salvation?

how will we escape [if we] neglect so great a salvation which had [its] beginning [when it] was spoken through the Lord [and] was confirmed to us by those who heard,

For in that which he himself suffered [when he] was tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

And with whom was he angry [for] forty years? [Was it] not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

And to whom did he swear [they would] not enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

{For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us}, just as those also [did], but the message {they heard} did not benefit them, [because they] were not united with those who heard [it] in faith.

being able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and led astray, since he himself also is surrounded by weakness,

and being perfected, he became the source of eternal salvation to all those who obey him,

For [it is] impossible [concerning] those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and become sharers of the Holy Spirit,

For ground that drinks the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth vegetation usable to those [people] {for whose sake} [it is] also cultivated, shares a blessing from God.

in order that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and patience.

And indeed those of the sons of Levi who receive the priesthood have a commandment to collect a tenth from the people according to the law, that is, from their brothers, although {they are descended from Abraham}.

Therefore also he is able to save completely those who draw near to God through him, [because he] always lives in order to intercede on their behalf.

Now if he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, [because there] are those who offer the gifts according to the law,

For this [is] the covenant that I will decree with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I am putting my laws in their minds and I will write them on their hearts, and I will be {their} God and they will be {my} people.

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled sanctify [them] for the ritual purity of the flesh,

And because of this, he is the mediator of a new covenant, in order that, [because] a death has taken place for the redemption of transgressions [committed] during the first covenant, those who are the 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.

thus also Christ, having been offered once in order to bear the sins of many, will appear for the second time without reference to sin to those who eagerly await him for salvation.

For the law, possessing a shadow of the good [things] that are about to come, not the form of things itself, [is] never able {year by year} by means of the same sacrifices which they offer without interruption to make perfect those who draw near.

For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.

"This [is] the covenant that I will decree for them after those days, says the Lord: I am putting my laws on their hearts, and I will write them on their minds."

sometimes being publicly exposed both to insults and to afflictions, and sometimes becoming sharers with those who were treated in this way.

But we are not among those who shrink back to destruction, but among those who have faith to the preservation of [our] souls.

Now without faith [it is] impossible to please [him], for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and is a rewarder of those who seek him.

For those who say such [things] make clear that they are seeking a homeland.

By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, [because she] welcomed the spies in peace.

Now all discipline seems for the moment not to be joyful but painful, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness for those who are trained by it.

and to the noise of a trumpet, and to the sound of words which those who heard begged [that] not [another] word be spoken to them.

Watch out that you do not refuse the one who is speaking! For if those did not escape [when they] refused the one who warned [them] on earth, much less [will] we [escape], [if we] reject the [one who warns] from heaven,

Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings, for [it is] good [for] the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods by which those who participate have not benefited.

We have an altar from which those who serve in the tabernacle do not have the right to eat.

For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sins are burned up outside the camp.

Obey your leaders and submit [to them], for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not [with] groaning, for this [would be] unprofitable for you.

Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you.