You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; because of this God, your God, has anointed you with the olive oil of joy more than your companions.

Because of this, [it is] all the more necessary [that] we pay attention to the [things] we have heard, lest we drift away.

For this one is considered worthy of greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the one who builds it has greater honor than the house.

[for] forty years. Therefore I was angry with this generation, and I said, 'They always go astray in their heart, and they do not know my ways.'

For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh [day] in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,"

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

Concerning this {we have much to say and it is difficult to explain}, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

For indeed, [although you] ought to be teachers {by this time}, you have need of someone to teach you again the beginning elements of the oracles of God, and {you have need of} milk, not solid food.

And this we will do, if God permits.

But even if we are speaking in this way, dear friends, we are convinced of better [things] concerning you, and belonging to salvation.

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham [as he] was returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

But see how great this man [was], to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth from the spoils!

And in this case mortal men receive tithes, but in that case it is testified that he lives.

And by as much as [this was] not without an oath (for these on the one hand {have become priests} without an oath,

For a high priest such as this indeed is fitting for us, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and having become exalted [above] the heavens,

who does not {need every day} like the former high priests to offer up sacrifices for his own sins [and] then for the [sins] of the people, because he did this once for all [when he] offered up himself.

Now [this is] the main point in what has been said: we have a high priest such as this, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

For every high priest is appointed in order to offer both gifts and sacrifices; therefore [it was] necessary [for] this one also to have something that he offers.

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.

Now these things having been prepared in this way, the priests enter into the first tent {continually} [as they] accomplish their service,

The Holy Spirit [was] making this clear, [that] the way [into] the holy place [was] not yet revealed, [while] the first tent was still in existence,

But Christ has arrived [as] a high priest of the good [things] to come. Through the greater and more perfect tent not made by hands, that is, not of this creation,

And because of this, he is the mediator of a new covenant, in order that, [because] a death has taken place for the redemption of transgressions [committed] during the first covenant, those who are the called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

saying, "This [is] the blood of the covenant that God has commanded for you."

And {just as} it is destined for people to die once, and after this, judgment,

But this one, [after he] had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God,

"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."

sometimes being publicly exposed both to insults and to afflictions, and sometimes becoming sharers with those who were treated in this way.

For by this the people of old were approved.

Do not neglect hospitality, because through this some have received angels as guests without knowing [it].

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.

And I especially urge [you] to do this, so that I may be restored to you more quickly.