After God spoke long ago in various portions and in various ways to our ancestors through the prophets,

"Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, 'Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.'

For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,"

For we do not have a high priest incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet without sin.

And by being perfected in this way, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

In the same way God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, and so he intervened with an oath,

The Holy Spirit is making clear that the way into the holy place had not yet appeared as long as the old tabernacle was standing.

And he did not enter to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own,

by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,

At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions, and at other times you came to share with others who were treated in that way.

For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.