For to what angel did God ever say, "You are my Son! I have today become your Father"? Or again, "I will become his Father, and he shall become my Son"?

They will perish, but you continue! And they will all wear out like a coat,

And you will fold them up like a mantle, And change them as one changes his coat. But you are always the same, and your years will have no end!"

and say, "I will tell your name to my brothers, In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise";

and again "I will put my trust in God"; and again, "Here I am with the children that God has given me."

Since then it is still true that somebody will be admitted to it, and those who had a gospel preached to them before were not admitted because of their disobedience,

And we will advance if God permits it.

But if it yields thorns and thistles, it is thought worthless and almost cursed, and it will finally be burned.

and said, "I will certainly bless you richly, and greatly increase your numbers."

for God took no oath in appointing the old priests, but he made oath to his appointment, when he said to him, "The Lord has sworn it and he will not change; You are a priest forever!"

But in his dissatisfaction with them he says, " 'See! the time is coming,' says the Lord, 'When I will conclude a new agreement with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

'For this is the agreement that I will make with the house of Israel, In those later days,' says the Lord; 'I will put my laws into their minds, And write them on their hearts, And they will have me for their God, And I will have them for my people.

And they will not have to teach their townsmen and their brothers to know the Lord, For they will all know me, From the lowest to the highest.

For I will be merciful to their misdeeds, And I will no longer remember their sins.' "

how much more surely will the blood of the Christ, who with the eternal Spirit made himself an unblemished offering to God, purify our consciences from the old wrongdoing for the worship of the everliving God?

For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established,

for a will is valid only in the case of a person who is dead; it has no force as long as the testator is alive.

so the Christ too, after being offered in sacrifice once for all to carry away the sins of many, will appear again but without any burden of sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him to come and save them.

So I said, 'See, I have come! as the Book of the Law says of me, O God, to do your will!' "

At first he says, "You never wished or cared for sacrifices or offerings, or burnt-offerings or sacrifices for sin"??ll of which the Law prescribes??9 and then he adds, "See, I have come to do your will!" He is taking away the old to put the new in its place.

And it is through his doing of God's will that we have been once for all purified from sin through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ in sacrifice.

" 'This is the agreement that I will make with them In those later days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws into their minds, And write them upon their hearts,' " he goes on,

" 'And their sins and their misdeeds I will no longer remember.' "

How much worse a punishment do you think will anyone deserve who tramples the Son of God underfoot, and treats as worthless the blood of the agreement by which he has been purified, and outrages God's spirit of mercy?

For we know who it is that has said, "Vengeance belongs to me! I will pay back!" and in another place, "The Lord will be the judge of his people!"

You must not lose your courage, for it will be richly rewarded,

but you will need endurance if you are to carry out God's will and receive the blessing he has promised.

For "In a very little while He who is to come will come and not delay,

And he whom I accept as righteous will find life through his faith. But if a man draws back, my heart can take no pleasure in him."

But we will not draw back and perish, but we will have faith and save our souls.

for they could not bear the order, "Even a wild animal, if it touches the mountain, must be stoned to death,"

Then his voice shook the earth, but now his promise is, "But once more I will make not only the earth but the very heaven to tremble!"

Marriage should be respected by everyone, and the marriage relation kept sacred, for vicious and immoral people God will punish.

You must not be avaricious; you must be content with what you have, for God himself has said, "I will never let go of you or desert you!"

So that we can confidently say, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can men do to me?"

Jesus Christ is the same today that he was yesterday, and he will be so forever.

fit you by every blessing to do his will, and through Jesus Christ carry out in us what will please him. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

You must know that our brother Timothy has been released from prison. If he comes here soon, we will see you together.