"And thou from the beginning, O Lord, hast founded the earth, and the heavens are the works of thine hands.

Take heed, brethren, that there be not in any one of you a wicked heart of infidelity, [evident] in departure from the living God:

For we are partakers with Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end;

For we who have believed, have entered into the rest, even as he said, "So, I sware in my wrath, that they shall not enter into my rest;" and that notwithstanding the works were done from the foundation of the world.

For he said in a certain passage concerning the seventh day to this purport, "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works."

For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath rested from his works, as God did from his own.

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:

who in the days of his flesh, with strong crying and tears, having offered up prayers and supplications to him who was able to save him from death, and being heard for his reverential awe,

though he was a son, he learned obedience from the things which he suffered:

WHEREFORE, desisting from initiatory discourse respecting Christ, let us advance towards perfection; not again laying a foundation of repentance from dead works, and faith in God,

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;

FOR this Melchisedec, king of Salem, a priest of God most high, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;

For they indeed of the sons of Levi, who are admitted to priesthood, have an order to receive tithes from the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though also sprung from the loins of Abraham.

But he who derived not his genealogy from them, received tithes from Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises;

but without all dispute the inferior receives benediction from the superior.

For it is evident that our Lord sprang from Judah; to which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning the priesthood;

And they indeed are many who were made priests, because by death they were prevented from abiding [in their office]:

For such an high-priest was suitable to us, holy, inoffensive, spotless, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

And they shall no more teach every man his neighbour, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the mean man of them unto the great among them.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who, by the eternal Spirit, offered up himself in sacrifice without blemish to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, that we may perform divine service to the living God?

let us come to him with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and the body washed with pure water:

Recede not therefore from your boldness of profession, which brings a great recompence of reward.

Wherefore even from one person, and he become dead in respect to these matters, there sprang a race, as the stars of heaven for multitude, and as the sand, which is on the shore of the sea, innumerable.

And if indeed they had fixed their minds on that from whence they had gone forth, they might have had opportunity to go back to it again.

reasoning that God was able to raise him up again, even from the dead; from whence also figuratively he had received him.

Consider then attentively him that endured from sinners such opposition against himself, that ye be not wearied out, fainting in your souls.

Beware that ye reject not him that speaketh: for if they escaped not, who rejected him, that upon earth spake by divine influence, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him who speaks from heaven:

Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great pastor of the sheep, by the blood of the everlasting testament,