For to which of the heavenly agents did he ever say, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee? And again, I will be to him for a Father, and he will be to me for a Son?

And indeed toward the heavenly agents he says, He who makes his agents spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth for service for the sake of those who are going to inherit salvation?

For if the word spoken through heavenly agents became certain, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward,

how will we escape, having neglected so great a salvation? Which first, having taken to be spoken by the Lord, was verified for us by those who heard;

For he did not subject the coming world to heavenly agents, about which we speak.

Thou subordinated all things under his feet. For in subordinating all things to him, he left nothing not subordinate to him. But now we do not yet see all things subordinated to him.

But we see Jesus who has been made a little something less than the heavenly agents, who, because of the suffering of death, has been crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God he would taste of death for every man.

For it was fitting for him, through whom are all things, and because of whom are all things, having brought many sons to glory, to make the pathfinder of their salvation fully perfect through sufferings.

For both he who sanctifies and those being sanctified are all of one, because of which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

For he certainly did not embrace heavenly agents, but he embraced the seed of Abraham.

Therefore he was obligated to be made like his brothers in accordance with all things, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things toward God, in order to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

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

For this man was considered worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he who built it has more esteem than the house.

For every house is built by some man, but he who built all things is God.

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

For we have become companions of the Christ, if only we keep in possession the primacy of the essence, steadfast until the end,

For some who heard rebelled, but not all those who came out of Egypt by Moses.

For we also are having good-news preached, just as also those men, but the word of hearing did not benefit those men, not having been mixed together with faith in those who heard.

For those who believe enter into that rest, just as he said, So I swore in my wrath, They will not enter into my rest, although the works occurred from the foundation of the world.

For he spoke somewhere about the seventh this way, And God rested during the seventh day from all his works,

Since therefore it remains for some to enter into it, and those who formerly had good-news did not enter because of disobedience,

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken about another day after these things.

There remains therefore a Sabbath for the people of God.

For a man who has entered into his rest, he has also rested from his works, as God did from his own.

For the word of God is living, and potent, and sharper, above every two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division both of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and discernible of the thoughts and intentions of the hear

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who was tempted in all things in the same way, without sin.

Let us therefore come near with boldness to the throne of grace, so that we may take mercy, and may find grace for timely help.

For every high priest taken from men is appointed for men in things toward God, so that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

And because of this he is obligated, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

For also men who ought to be teachers because of the time, ye have need again for some man to teach you the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and have become men who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

For every man partaking of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is childlike.

But solid food is for mature men, those having their sensibilities trained through practice for the discernment of both good and evil.

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and who tasted of the heavenly gift, and who became partakers of Holy Spirit,

For the soil that has drunk the rain often coming upon it, and bringing forth vegetation useful for those by whom also it is cultivated, partakes of a blessing from God.

But producing thorns and thistles it is unfit and near a curse, the end of which is for burning.

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labor of love that ye showed toward his name, having served the sanctified, and who are serving.

For God who promised to Abraham, since he had none greater to swear by, swore by himself,

For men certainly swear by the greater, and of every dispute with them the oath is final for confirmation.

So that by two immutable events, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have strong encouragement, having fled for refuge to seize the hope being openly displayed.

where the forerunner, Jesus, entered for us, having become a high priest into the age according to the order of Melchizedek.

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, having met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, also blessed him.

for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.

If indeed therefore perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people had received the law), what further need is there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be designated

For the priesthood being changed, of necessity a change of law also occurs.

For he of whom these things are spoken pertains to another tribe, from which no man has attended to the altar.

For it is evident that our Lord arose out of Judah, regarding which tribe Moses spoke nothing about the priesthood.

And it is still far more evident, if according to the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another priest,

For he testifies, Thou are a priest into the age according to the order of Melchizedek.

For indeed there becomes an annulment of a preceding commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

(for the law made nothing fully perfect), and an introduction of a better hope, through which we approach God.

And inasmuch as it is not without an oath. For actually those who become priests are so without an oath,

For such a high priest is fitting for us, devout, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and having become higher than the heavens.

Who has no need to offer up sacrifices each day, as those high priests, first for his own sins, then for those of the people, for this he did, once, when he offered up himself.

For the law appoints men high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath after the law, a Son who has been fully perfected into the age.

For every high priest is appointed in order to offer both gifts and sacrifices, whereupon it is necessary for this man also have something that he may offer.

For certainly if he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, there being the priests who offer the gifts according to the law,

who serve for an example and shadow of the heavenly things. Just as Moses who was divinely warned while going to complete the tabernacle, for he says, See thou make all things according to the pattern that was shown thee on the mou

For if that first one was faultless, no place would have been sought for a second.

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

Because this is the covenant that I will ordain with the house of Israel after those days, says Lord, giving my laws into their mind, and I will write them on their hearts. And I will be to them for a God, and they will be to me fo

And they will, no, not teach each man his fellow citizen, and each man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, because all will know me, from their small as far as their great.

For a tabernacle was prepared, the first in which was also the lampstand, and the table, and the presentation of the loaves, which is called the Holy place.

But into the second part, the high priest alone, once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people,

Which is a figure for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are offered that are not able to make the man officiating fully perfect in respect to conscience,

For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling those who were defiled, sanctifies for the purification of the flesh,

And because of this he is mediator of a new covenant, so that a death having occurred for the redemption of the transgressions against the first covenant, those who are called might take the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For where a covenant is, a necessity is to present the death of the man who made the covenant.

For a covenant is effective with the dead, since it is never enforced while the man who made the covenant lives.

For of every commandment according to law that was spoken by Moses to all the people, after taking the blood of the calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

saying, This is the blood of the covenant that God made for you.

Indeed therefore, a necessity was for the models of the things in the heavens themselves to be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things with better sacrifices than these.

For the Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, representative of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.

since it would be necessary for him to suffer often, from the foundation of the world. But now once, at the end of the ages, he was made known for an annulment of sin by the sacrifice of himself.

so also the Christ, having been offered once in order to take up the sins of many, will appear a second time, independent of sin, to those waiting for him for salvation.

For the law having a shadow of the good things that are coming, not the same substance of the events, with the same sacrifices that are offered continually each year, they are never able to fully perfect those who are approaching.

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering thou did not desire, but thou prepared for me a body.

In whole burnt offerings, and for sin thou were not pleased.

saying above, Sacrifice and offering and whole burnt offerings and for sin thou did not desire, nor were thou pleased with things that are offered according to the law.

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

Now where there is remission of these, there is no more offering for sin.

Having therefore, brothers, boldness for entrance into the holy things by the blood of Jesus,

which he inaugurated for us, a new and living way through the curtain, that is, his flesh,

Let us hold firm the affirmation of the hope unwavering, for he who promised is faithful.

And let us examine each other for provocation of love and good works.

For when we sin willfully after taking the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and of fire, a fervor that is going to devour the opposition.

For we know him who said, Vengeance is for me, I will repay, says Lord. And again, Lord will judge his people.

For ye were both compassionate about my bonds, and ye accepted with joy the plundering of your possessions, knowing yourselves to have a superior and an enduring existence in the heavens.

For ye have need of perseverance, so that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

For yet a very little while, he who is coming will come, and will not delay.

But we are not of retreat for destruction, but of faith for the preservation of the soul.

For by this the ancients were well reported.

By faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by the word of God. For the things that are seen do not come to be from that which is visible.

By faith Enoch was transferred to not see death, and he was not found, because God transferred him. For before his removal he was reported to be pleasing to God.

And apart from faith it is impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must believe that he is, and becomes a rewarder of those who search for him.

By faith Noah, being divinely warned about things not yet seen, moved with awe, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became an heir of righteousness according to faith.

By faith Abraham, when called, obeyed to go out to the place that he was going to take for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.

For he anticipated the city that has the foundations, whose builder and architect is God.