For to which of the angels did he ever say, "You are my son, today I have begotten you," and again, "I will be {his father}, and he will be {my son}"?

they will perish, but you continue, and they will all become old like a garment,

and like a robe you will roll them up, and like a garment they will be changed; but you are the same, and your years will not run out."

how will we escape [if we] neglect so great a salvation which had [its] beginning [when it] was spoken through the Lord [and] was confirmed to us by those who heard,

[while] God was testifying at the same time by signs and wonders and various miracles and distributions of the Holy Spirit according to his will.

saying, "I will proclaim your name to my brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will sing in praise of you."

And again, "I will trust in him." And again, "Behold, I and the children God has given me."

As I swore in my anger, '{They will never enter} into my rest.'"

For we who have believed enter into rest, just as he has said, "As I swore in my anger, '{They will never enter} into my rest.'" And yet these works have been accomplished from the foundation of the world.

and in this [passage] again, '{They will never enter} into my rest.'"

And this we will do, if God permits.

saying, "Surely {I will greatly bless} you, and {I will greatly multiply} you."

but he with an oath by the one who said to him, "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, 'You [are] a priest {forever}'"),

For in finding fault with them he says, "Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

For this [is] the covenant that I will decree with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I am putting my laws in their minds and I will write them on their hearts, and I will be {their} God and they will be {my} people.

And they will not teach each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.

For I will be merciful toward their wrongdoings, and I will not remember their sins [any] longer."

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

For where [there is] a will, [it is] a necessity [for] the death of the one who made the will to be established.

For a will [is] in force concerning those who are dead, since [it is] never in force when the one who made the will is alive.

thus also Christ, having been offered once in order to bear the sins of many, will appear for the second time without reference to sin to those who eagerly await him for salvation.

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

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

by which will we are made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

"This [is] the covenant that I will decree for them after those days, says the Lord: I am putting my laws on their hearts, and I will write them on their minds."

[He] also [says], "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will never remember again."

How much worse punishment do you think the person will be considered worthy of who treats with disdain the Son of God and who considers ordinary the blood of the covenant by which he was made holy and who insults the Spirit of grace?

For we know the one who said, "Vengeance [is] mine, I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people."

For you have need of endurance, in order that [after you] have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

For yet "a very, very little [while], [and] the one who is coming will come and will not delay.

But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul is not well pleased with him."

with reference to whom it was said, "In Isaac your descendants will be named,"

For consider the one who endured such hostility by sinners against himself, so that you will not grow weary in your souls [and] give up.

Furthermore, we have had {our earthly fathers} who disciplined [us], and we respected [them]. Will we not much rather subject ourselves to the Father of spirits and live?

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame will not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

Watch out that you do not refuse the one who is speaking! For if those did not escape [when they] refused the one who warned [them] on earth, much less [will] we [escape], [if we] reject the [one who warns] from heaven,

whose voice shook the earth at that time, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once [more] I will shake not only the earth but also heaven."

Marriage [must be] held in honor by all, and the marriage bed [be] undefiled, because God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

Your lifestyle [must be] free from the love of money, being content with what you have. For he himself has said, "I will never desert you, and I will never abandon you."

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

Obey your leaders and submit [to them], for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not [with] groaning, for this [would be] unprofitable for you.

equip you with every good [thing] to do his will, carrying out in us [what is] pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom [be] the glory {forever}. Amen.

Know [that] our brother Timothy has been released, with whom I will see you, if he comes quickly [enough].