God, who in ancient days spoke to our ancestors in the prophets, at many different times and by various methods,

has at the end of these days spoken to us in a Son whom he appointed heir of all things; through whom also he made the universe.

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth for service in behalf of those who are about to inherit salvation?

Which having begun to be spoken by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him;

What we do see is Jesus, who was made for a time a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor, because of the suffering of death, in order that through God's grace he might taste death for every man.

For it befitted him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the Pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

For both he who sanctifies and those whom he is sanctifying are all from One; for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying.

And might deliver those who through fear of death had been subject to life-long bondage.

For assuredly it is not angels, nay, it is the offspring of Abraham, whom he is ever taking by the hand.

For inasmuch as he himself has suffered, being tempted, he is also able instantly to succor those who are tempted, he is also able instantly to succor those who are tempted.

How faithful he was to the God who appointed him! For while Moses also was faithful in all God's house,

Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built a house has higher honor than the house itself.

For every house has its builder; but he who built the universe is God.

For who were they that heard and yet provoked him? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

And with whom was he grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

And to whom did he swear that they should never enter into his rest, if not to those who had proved faithless?

For the Good News is come to us just as it did to them. But the message they heard was of no benefit to them, because they did not share the faith of those who gave heed to it.

We are actually entering into that rest, we who have believed, as God has said,??n my wrath I swore??They shall not enter into my Rest

So even the Christ was not raised to the high glory of the priesthood by himself, but on the contrary by Him who said to him. Thou art my Son; this day have I become thy Father;

In the days of his flesh, with better cries and weeping Jesus offered up prayers and supplications to Him who was able to save him out of death; and he was heard because of his devout submission.

and by being thus made perfect, he became the source of enduring salvation to all who obey him,

For every one who feeds on milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness. He is still an infant.

But solid food is for adults, that is, for those who by constant practise have their faculties trained to discriminate between good and evil.

For in the case of those who have been once for all enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift,

For land that has drunk the showers that now and again fall upon it, and produced vegetation useful for those for whom it was tilled, receives a blessing from God;

Then do not become slack, but be imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

It was this Melchizedek, King of Salem and Priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him;

But observe how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the Patriarch, gave a tenth part of the spoils.

Now those of the sons of Levi who are appointed to the priesthood, are authorized by the Law to take tithes of the people, that is, of their brothers, and that too, although these are descended from Abraham.

But this man who had no Levitical genealogy actually took tithes of Abraham, and blessed him to whom the promises belong.

Again it is mortal men who receive tithes in the one case; while in the other it is he of whom it is attested, "He lives."

And even Levi, who is the receiver of tithes, so to speak, paid tithes through Abraham;

He who is thus described belonged to another tribe, not one member of which has ever served at the altar.

who has become such, not according to the law of a transitory enactment, but according to the energy of an indissoluble life.

For although those priests became such without an oath, He had an oath form God who said to him, The Lord hath sworn and will not change, Thou art a priest forever.

Hence also he is able to continue saving to the uttermost those who are ever drawing near to God through him, seeing that he is ever living to intercede for them.

one who has no need, like the high priests, to offer up daily sacrifices, first for his own sins, then for those of the people. For his sacrifice was made once for all, when he offered up himself.

Now were he on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there are here those who present the gifts according to the Law??5 those priests who serve a mere outline and shadow of the heavenly reality, just as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to build the Tabernacle. "See", he says, "that you make everything on the pattern showed you on the mountain."

For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleansing of the flesh,

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through his eternal spirit offered himself free from blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works unto the service of an ever-living God!

And because of this he is the Mediator of a new testament, in order that, since a death has taken place to atone for offenses committed under the first testament, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

so also the Christ, after being once for all offered to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who wait for him for salvation.

For the Law, being only a shadow of the good things to come, and not their very substance, its priests cannot with the same sacrifice which year after year they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

For by one single offering he has perfected forever those whom he is sanctifying.

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope, unwavering (for He is faithful who promised);

Any one who set at naught the law of Moses was put to death without pity, on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

How much surer, think you, will be the punishment of one who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has profaned that covenant blood with which he was sanctified, and has done despite to the spirit of grace?

For we know Him who said, Vengeance is mine, I will repay, and again, The Lord will judge his people.

now without faith it is impossible to please him; for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he ever rewards those who are seeking.

By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed, although she was past the age for child-bearing, because she counted Him faithful who had promised;

For those who say such things make it plain that they are seeking a Fatherland.

By faith Abraham, when he was put to the test, was on the point of offering up Isaac; yes, he who had received the promise was about to offer up his only son,

of whom it had been said, It is through Isaac that your posterity will be traced.

By faith he left Egypt, not because he feared the wrath of the king, but he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.

who through faith conquered kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, persecuted, tormented??38 of whom the world was not worthy??andering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.

looking unto Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured a cross, despising shame, and has now taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

Compare yourselves with him who endured such hostility against himself at the hands of sinners, lest you grow weary, fainting in your souls.

For it is those whom he loves that he disciplines, And he scourges every son whom he acknowledges.

It is for discipline that you are enduring these sufferings. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Now no discipline seems for the present to be joyous, but grievous; but afterward it yields the peaceable fruits of righteousness to those who have been trained under it.

Look carefully that there be no one who falls back from the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up to trouble you, and by its means many become defiled.

Take care lest there be any fornicator or scorner like Esau among you, who for one meal sold his birthright.

nor to gloom and darkness and tempest and the blare of a trumpet and an audible voice. Those who heard that voice entreated that no word more should be spoken to them.

to the festal assemblage and church of the firstborn, registered in heaven, to a Judge who is God of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape punishment when they refused to listen to their instructor on earth, much less shall we escape if we turn away from him who is teaching us from heaven;

Remember those who are in prison, as if you were fellow prisoners; remember too, those who are being ill-treated, since you too, are in the body.

Remember your leaders, the men who spoke the message of God to you; consider the issue of their lives, and imitate their faith.

We Christians have an altar from which those have no right to eat who minister in the Tabernacle.

Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who must give account; that they may do thus with joy and not with lamentation, for this would be unprofitable to you.

Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of an eternal covenant,