It was little by little and in different ways that God spoke in old times to our forefathers through the prophets,

but in these latter days he has spoken to us in a Son, whom he had destined to possess everything, and through whom he had made the world.

For it was appropriate that he who is the great First Cause of the universe should, in guiding his many children to his glorious salvation, make their leader in it fully qualified through what he suffered.

For we have had good news preached to us, just as they did, but the message they heard did them no good because they did not agree through faith with what they heard.

he again fixes a new Today, saying long afterward through David, as already quoted, "If you hear his voice today, Do not harden your hearts!"

Let us, therefore, make every effort to be admitted to that Rest, so that none of us may fail through such disobedience as theirs.

For the message of God is a living and active force, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing through soul and spirit, and joints and marrow, and keen in judging the thoughts and purposes of the mind.

And although he was a son, he learned to obey, through what he suffered,

so that you may never grow careless, but may learn to follow the example of those who through their faith and endurance are the possessors of God's promises.

In one way of putting it, Levi himself, the collector of the tithes, through Abraham paid him tithes,

Now if anything final had been really accomplished through the Levitical priesthood, for even the giving of the Law was based upon it, what further need would there have been of appointing a different priest of the priesthood of Melchizedek, instead of choosing one of the priesthood of Aaron?

(for there was nothing final about the Law), and a better hope begins to dawn, through which we may approach God.

Therefore, he is able to save forever all who come to God through him, because he lives and intercedes for them forever.

but only the high priest could enter the inner part, and he but once a year, and never without taking some victim's blood, to offer on his own behalf and for the sins committed through ignorance by the people.

But when Christ came, as the high priest of the better system under which we live, he went once for all, through that greater, more perfect tent of worship not made by human hands nor a part of our material creation, into the sanctuary,

And it is through his doing of God's will that we have been once for all purified from sin through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ in sacrifice.

Since then, brothers, we have free access to the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus,

by the new, living way which he has opened for us, through the curtain, that is, his physical nature,

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

And he whom I accept as righteous will find life through his faith. But if a man draws back, my heart can take no pleasure in him."

Faith made Abel's sacrifice greater in the sight of God than Cain's; through faith he gained God's approval as an upright man, for God himself approved his offering, and through faith even when he was dead he still spoke.

of whom he had been told, "Your posterity is to arise through Isaac!"

You must not be carried away with strange varieties of teaching. The true way to steadfastness of heart is through God's mercy, not through scruples about food, which have never done their adherents any good.

May God, the giver of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus who through the blood by which he ratified the everlasting agreement has become the great shepherd of the sheep,

fit you by every blessing to do his will, and through Jesus Christ carry out in us what will please him. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.