For to which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, to-day have I begotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father and he shall be to me a Son?

And of the angels he says, Who makes his angels winds, and his ministers a flame of fire;

For if the word spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense,

For he did not subject to angels the world to come, of which we speak.

thou didst subject all things under his feet. For in subjecting all things to him, he left nothing not subjected to him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him.

But we see Jesus, made a little less than angels, on account of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste death for every [man].

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

For both he that sanctifies and the sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

and liberate those who all their life were subjects of servitude to the fear of death.

For indeed he helped not angels, but he helped the descendants of Abraham.

Whence he ought in all things to be assimilated to the brothers, that he may be a merciful and faithful chief priest as to things relating to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

For because he has himself suffered, having been tried, he is able to help the tried.

For this man is judged worthy of more glory than Moses, as much as he has more honor than the house [tabernacle] which he built.

For every house is built by some one; but he that built all things is God.

And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of things to be spoken;

for we have been made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of the confidence firm to the end.

for who having heard committed provocation? Did not all indeed who came out of Egypt with Moses?

Let us fear, therefore, lest at any time a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to come short.

For we have also received the good news as they did; but the word of the report did not profit them, not being accompanied with faith in those who heard.

For we enter into the rest who believed, as he said, I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest, although of works made from the foundation of the world.

For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day, thus; And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.

For if Joshua caused them to rest he would not have spoken of another day afterwards.

Therefore a sabbatism remains for the people of God.

For he [Christ] who entered into his rest, also himself rested from his works, as God from his.

For the word of God is living, and effective, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and reaching even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrows, and distinguishes thoughts and intentions of mind;

and there is nothing which is not manifest in his sight; for all things are naked and exposed to his eyes, to whom our discourse relates.

For we have not a chief priest who cannot sympathise with our infirmities, but one tried in all respects as we are, without sin.

Let us therefore approach with boldness the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace for timely aid.

For every chief priest taken from men is appointed in behalf of men over things relating to God, that he may offer gifts and sacrifices for sins,

and as for the people, so also for himself, he is obliged to present offerings for sins.

as also in another place he says, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Who in the days of his flesh having offered both prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, with loud cries and tears, [and being heard and delivered] from fear,??8 although he was a Son, learned obedience from what he suffered,

For you who ought on account of the time to be teachers, have need that one should teach you again what are the first rudiments of the oracles of God, and have need of milk and not solid food.

For every one that partakes of milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe;

but solid food is for the perfect, having their perceptive faculties exercised by practice to distinguish both good and evil.

For those once enlightened and having tasted of the heavenly gift and been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

For God is not unjust, to forget your work, and the love which you showed for his name, having served the saints and [still] serving them.

For God haying promised Abraham, when he could not swear by a greater, swore by himself,

For men indeed swear by a greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all dispute;

for which cause, God wishing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his purpose, interposed with an oath,

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who fled to lay hold on the hope set before us,

For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham as he returned from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

for he was yet in his father when Melchisedec met him.

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

For he of whom these things are said belonged to another tribe, of which no one attended to the altar;

for it is evident that our Lord arose from Judah, in respect to which tribe Moses said nothing concerning priests.

For it is testified, Thou art a priest forever, after the order of Melchisedec.

For there is an abrogation of the commandment which goes before, on account of its weakness and unprofitableness;

for the law made nothing perfect, but was the introduction of a better hope through which we draw nigh to God.

And as he was not [constituted] without swearing,??21 for they were made priests without swearing, but he with swearing by him who says to him, The Lord swore, and he will not change, You are a priest forever;??22 by so much is Jesus the pledge of a better covenant.

but he, on account of his continuing for ever, has a priesthood which passes not away,

whence also he is able to save forever those who come to God through him, always living to intercede for them.

For such a chief priest also was suitable for us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens,

who has no need daily as the chief priests first to present sacrifices for their sins, then for those of the people; for this he did once for all, having offered himself.

For the law constitutes men chief priests having infirmity, but the word of the oath which is after the law the Son made perfect forever.

For every chief priest is constituted to offer gifts and sacrifices, whence it was necessary that this man also should have something to offer.

For if he had been on earth he would not have been a priest, there being priests to offer, the gifts according to the law,

who serve for a symbol and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when about to make the tabernacle; for see, he says, that you make all things after the pattern shown you in the Mount;

For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for the second. [But it was not].

For finding fault with them he says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, that I will make with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, a new covenant,

not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, for they continued not in my covenant, and I neglected them, says the Lord.

And they shall not teach every one his [fellow] citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest of them.

For I will be merciful to their wickedness, and their sins and transgressions will I remember no more.

For the first tabernacle was provided, in which were the candlestick and the table and the show bread, which is called the sanctuary.

but into the second once a year only the chief priest [enters], not without blood, which he offers for his errors and those of the people,

For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the defiled, sanctifies to the purification of the flesh,

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new covenant, that death having been for a redemption of transgressions [transgressors] under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For where there is a covenant, there must follow the death of the covenant-maker.

For a covenant is strong for the dead, since it is never strong [unalterable] when the covenant-maker lives;

For every commandment of the law having been spoken by Moses to all the people, taking the blood of bullocks and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

For Christ did not enter into the sanctuary made with hands, a type of the true, but into heaven itself, and already has appeared before God for us,

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

For the law having a shadow of the good things that were to come, not the very likeness of the things, could not by the sacrifices which they offered continually every year perfect the offerers;

for it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

Whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou wast not pleased with;

Saying before, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou didst not desire and wast not pleased with, which are offered according to the law,

by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all.

but this [priest] having offered one sacrifice forever for sins, sat down on the right hand of God,

For by one offering he has perfected forever the sanctified.

The Holy Spirit also testifies [this] to us; for after it had said before,

But where there is a forgiveness of these, an offering for sin is no longer required.

which [entrance] he consecrated for us a new and living way through the vail, that is his flesh,

let us hold firmly the profession of the faith, without declining; for he is faithful that promised;

and let us observe one another for a provocation of love and of good works,

For if we sin willingly after having received the knowledge of the truth, there is no longer a sacrifice left for sins,

For we know him that said, Judgment belongs to me, I will repay. And again, The Lord will judge his people.

For you sympathized with those in bonds, and received with joy the plunder of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession, and one that endures.

For you have need of patience, that having done the will of God you may receive the promise.

For yet a very little while, and he that is to come will come and will not delay;

But faith is a confidence in respect to things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen.

For by it the ancients obtained a good repute.

By faith Enoch was translated without seeing death, and was not found because God translated him. For before the translation he was said to have pleased God;

but without faith it is impossible to please; for he that comes to God, must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of those that seek him.

By faith Noah having been divinely instructed concerning things not yet seen, fearing built the ark for the salvation of his house, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness by faith.

By faith Abraham being called obeyed and went out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and went out not knowing where he was going.

for he looked for the city which has foundations [fixed abodes] whose designer and builder is God.

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 show that they seek a native country.

but now they seek a better, that is a heavenly [country]. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.

By faith Moses when he became a man refused to be called a son of Pharaoh's daughter,