For to which of the messengers said He ever, 'My Son thou art -- I to-day have begotten thee?' and again, 'I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son?'

And unto which of the messengers said He ever, 'Sit at My right hand, till I may make thine enemies thy footstool?'

Thou didst make him some little less than messengers, with glory and honour Thou didst crown him, and didst set him over the works of Thy hands,

and might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage,

and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.

For every chief priest -- out of men taken -- in behalf of men is set in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins,

and because of this infirmity he ought, as for the people, so also for himself to offer for sins;

whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God -- ever living to make intercession for them.

who hath no necessity daily, as the chief priests, first for his own sins to offer up sacrifice, then for those of the people; for this he did once, having offered up himself;

for every chief priest to offer both gifts and sacrifices is appointed, whence it is necessary for this one to have also something that he may offer;

and over it cherubim of the glory, overshadowing the mercy-seat, concerning which we are not now to speak particularly.

and into the second, once in the year, only the chief priest, not apart from blood, which he doth offer for himself and the errors of the people,

how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

for a covenant over dead victims is stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth,

nor that he may many times offer himself, even as the chief priest doth enter into the holy places every year with blood of others;

For the law having a shadow of the coming good things -- not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,

and a high priest over the house of God,

by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak.

In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,

By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises,

looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him -- did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;

through him, then, we may offer up a sacrifice of praise always to God, that is, the fruit of lips, giving thanks to His name;