For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my son, today I have begotten you"? And again, "I will be a father to him and he shall be a son to me"?

they will perish, but you remain; they will all grow old like a garment,

you will roll them up like a mantle; and like a garment they will be changed. But you remain the same, and your years will never end."

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to serve for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

while God also bore witness, by signs and wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his own will.

saying, "I will declare your name to my brethren, in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise."

And again, "I will put my trust in him." And again, "Here am I, and the children God has given me."

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you will hear his voice,

while it is said, "Today, if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."

Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same example of disobedience.

And this we will do, if God permits.

saying, "I will surely bless you and multiply you."

Those who formerly became priests took their office without an oath, but he became a priest with an oath through the One who said to him, "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever.'"

For he finds fault with them when he says: "The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and I will write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

For where a will is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it.

For a will is in force only when somebody has died, since it never takes effect while the one who made it is living.

so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation to those who are eagerly waiting for him.

Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,' as it is written of me in the roll of the book."

then he said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first in order to establish the second.

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

"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,"

then he adds, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."

but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries.

How much severer punishment do you think a man will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as an unclean thing the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge his people."

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

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

And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets,

Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also heaven."

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the immoral and adulterous.

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said, "I will never leave you, nor will I forsake you."

So we say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?"

Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as men who will have to give account. Let them do this with joy, and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.

equip you with every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

You should know that our brother Timothy has been released, with whom I will see you if he comes soon.