For to which of the angels once said he, Thou art my Son, I have this day begotten thee? And again, I will be to him for Father, and he shall be to me for Son?

And truly to the angels of God he says, Who making his angels spirits, and his workmen flames of fire.

And to the Son, Thy throne, O God, for the time of time: a rod of uprightness the rod of thy kingdom.

Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity; for this God anointed thee, thy God, with the oil of lively joy above thy partakers.

Are they not all spirits qualified for service, sent forth for service for them about to inherit salvation?

For this ought we to hold above measure to the things heard, lest we slip away.

For if the word spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and bad instruction received the just payment of reward;

For not to the angels has he subjected the habitable globe about to be, of which we speak.

All things didst thou place under his feet. For in placing all things under him, thou didst leave nothing not subjected to him. And now we see not yet all things placed under him.

But we see Jesus, made some little while less than angels by the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste of death for all.

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

For be consecrating and they being consecrated all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

And deliver them, as many as by fear of death were always to live bound by slavery.

For certainly he lays not hold of angels; but of the seed of Abraham he lays hold.

Wherefore in all things it was necessary to be made like to the brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful chief priest in things towards God, in order to propitiate for the sin of the people.

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

For this was deemed worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he has greater honour of the house having built it.

For every house is built by somebody; and he having built all things, God.

And truly Moses faithful in his whole house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things to be spoken;

But beseech one another according to each day, as far as the day is called; lest any of you be hardened by deceit of sin.

For we have been partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our foundation firm to the end;

For some, having heard, did exasperate: but not all they having come out of Egypt by Moses.

Let us therefore fear, lest a solemn promise being left to come into his rest, any of you should seem to have failed.

For we also were announced of the good news, as well as they: but the word of the report profited them not, not being mixed with faith to them having heard.

For we having believed come into the rest, as he said, As I sware in my wrath, if they shall come into my rest: although the works having been from the foundation of the world.

For he said somewhere of the seventh thus, And God ceased in the seventh day from all his works.

Since therefore it remains for some to come into it, and they before announced of the good news came not in through unbelief:

For if Jesus had caused them to rest, he would not have spoken of another day after these things.

For he having come into his rest, he also has ceased from his works, as God from his own.

For the word of God living, and effective, and more piercing than any two-mouthed sword, and penetrating even to the division both of soul and spirit, both the joints and marrows, and a critic of the reflections and thoughts of the heart.

For we have not a chief priest unable to suffer with our weaknesses; but tried in all things as a resemblance, without sin.

We should therefore go with freedom of speech to the throne of grace, that we receive mercy, and find grace for timely assistance.

For every chief priest taken from men is appointed for men for things to God, that he bring both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

And for this he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to bring in for sins.

For also ye ought to be teachers for the time, again ye have need for some one to teach you the elements of the beginning of the sayings of God; and have become those having need of milk, and not of firm food.

For every one partaking of milk is inexperienced in the word of justice: for he is a child.

And firm food is of the perfected, of them by habit having the senses exercised for the separation of good and evil.

For impossible for them once enlightened, and having tasted of the heavenly gift, and having partaken of the Holy Spirit,

For the earth drinking the rain coming often upon it, and bringing forth the vegetable fitting well to them by whom it is cultivated, receives commendation from God:

And producing thorns and briers is rejected, after having been tried, and near cursing; whose end for destruction.

For God is not unjust to forget your work and fatigue of love, which ye showed to his name, having served to the holy ones, and serving.

For God promising to Abraham, since he had none greater to swear by, sware by himself,

For truly men swear by the greater: and the oath for confirmation to them the end of all controversy.

That by two unalterable deeds, in which it is impossible for God to deceive we might have a strong consolation, taking refuge in holding firmly the hope set before:

Where the forerunner, Jesus, went in for us, according to the order of Melchisedec, being a high priest forever.

For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, having met Abraham returning from the cutting off of the kings, and praised him;

For yet was he in his father's loins, when Melchisedec met him.

If truly therefore completion were by the Levitical priesthood, (for the people received legislation by it,) what further need according to the order of Melchisedec for another priest to be raised, and not according to the order of Aaron?

For the priesthood being transferred, of necessity also is a transposition of law.

For he of whom these things are said partook of another tribe, of which none held to the altar.

For it is manifest that our Lord has sprung out of Judah; to which tribe Moses spake nothing of the priesthood.

For he testifies, Thou a priest forever, according to the order of Melchisedec.

For there is truly an annulling of the command going before by its weakness and unprofitableness.

(For the law completed nothing,) but the bringing in of a better hope; by which we draw near to God.

(For they truly without sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath became priests; but he with the sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath by him, saying to him, The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou priest forever, according to the order of Melchisedec:)

Wherefore he is able to save entirely those coming to God by him, always living to supplicate for them.

For such a chief priest became us, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and being higher than the heavens;

Who has no necessity according to the day, as the chief priests, before to bring up sacrifices for their own sins, then for those of the people; for this he did once, having brought up himself.

For the law establishes men chief priests having weakness; but the word of the sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath, after the law, the Son, having been perfected forever.

For every chief priest is appointed to bring in gifts and sacrifices also: wherefore it is necessary also for this to have something which he might bring.

For if truly he were upon earth, he would not be a priest, there being priests bringing in gifts according to the law;

Who serve the pattern and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was given an intimation of the divine will, being about to complete the tent: for, See, says he, thou make all things according to the type shewed thee in the mount.

For if that first was faultless, then place was not to be sought for the second.

For rebuking them, he says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, and I will complete for the house of Israel and for the house of Judah a new covenant:

Not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in the day of my taking their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they remained not in my covenant, and I heeded them not, says the Lord.

For this the covenant which I will set to the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; giving my laws into their mind, and upon their hearts will I write them: and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people:

And they should not teach each his neighbor, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from their little even to their great ones.

For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins and their injustices will I remember no more.

And truly therefore the first had precepts of divine service for him, and a worldly holy place.

For the first tent was prepared; (in which was the chandelier, and table, and the setting up of the loaves;) which is called holy.

And into the second the chief priest alone once a year, not without blood, which he brings near for himself, and the errors of the people:

Which a parable for the time placed in, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are brought near, not being able for consciousness to perfect him serving;

Neither by the blood of he-goats and calves, and by his own blood he went in once for all to the holies, having found eternal deliverance.

For if the blood of bulls and he-goats, and the ashes of a heifer besprinkling the polluted, consecrates to the purity of the flesh:

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

For where a will, the necessity for the death of him having willed to be brought forward.

For a will is firm by the dead: since it has no power when he having willed lives.

For every command spoken according to law by Moses, to all the people, having taken the blood of calves and he-goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and also the book, and he sprinkled all the people,

Therefore truly a necessity for the patterns of things in the heavens to be purified with these; and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

For Christ came not into the holy places made with hands, the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to be shown clearly to the face of God for us:

(Since he must have suffered many times from the foundation of the world:) but now once at the termination of the times for the annulling of sin by the sacrifice of himself has he been shown clearly.

So Christ, once offered to have borne the sins of many, of the second time, without sin, shall be seen to them expecting him for salvation.

For the law having a shadow of good things about to be, not the same image of the things, with these sacrifices which they bring in yearly in continuance never can render perfect them coming thereto.

For would they not have ceased to be brought in? because they serving have no more consciousness of sins, once purified.

For the blood of bulls and he-goats cannot take away sins.

And with whole burnt offering for sin wast thou not contented.

Farther back, saying, That sacrifice and bringing in and whole burnt offerings and for sin thou wouldest not, neither wert contented with; which are brought in according to law;

But this, having brought in one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;

For by one offering has he perfected forever the consecrated.

And also the Holy Spirit testifies to us: for after having said before,

And where remission of these, no more bringing in for sin.

Having therefore, brethren, freedom of speech for the entering in of the holies by the blood of Jesus,

We should hold the assent of hope not bending; (for faithful he having promised;)

And we should observe one another for the incitement of love and good works:

For we sinning voluntarily after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there is left no more a sacrifice for sins,

But a certain terrible expectation of judgment and jealousy of fire, being about to devour the adversaries.

For we know him having said, Vengeance to me, I will give back, says the Lord. And again, The Lord will judge his people.

For ye also suffered together with me in bonds, and received the pillage of your possessions with joy, knowing to have in yourselves a better and abiding substance in the heavens.

For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

For yet a little while only, he coming will come, and will not tarry.