And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

But to which of the angels has He ever said,
“Sit at My right hand,
Until I make Your enemies
A footstool for Your feet”?

“Therefore I was angry with this generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they did not know My ways’;

while it is said,
“Today if you hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts, as when they provoked Me.”

For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said,
“As I swore in My wrath,
They shall not enter My rest,”
although His works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For He has said somewhere concerning the seventh day: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”;

He again fixes a certain day, “Today,” saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before,
“Today if you hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts.”

And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.

So also Christ did not glorify Himself so as to become a high priest, but He who said to Him,
“You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You”;

so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.

(for they indeed became priests without an oath, but He 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’”);

Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.

and above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat; but of these things we cannot now speak in detail.

“Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come
(In the scroll of the book it is written of Me)
To do Your will, O God.’”

then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second.

but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God,

Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge His people.”

it was he to whom it was said, “In Isaac your descendants shall be called.”

Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, “I am full of fear and trembling.”

Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you,”

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