knowing that such a one is perverted, and sins, being self-condemned.

Conduct Zenas the lawyer, and Apollos on their journey with care, that nothing may be wanting to them.

Let our people also learn to practice good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

All that are with me salute you. Salute those who love us in faithfulness. Grace be with you all. Amen.

and to our beloved Apphia, and to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the church that is in your house:

that your participation in the faith may be active in the acknowledgment of every good thing that is in us, to the honor of Christ Jesus.

Wherefore, though I have great boldness in Christ to command you to do that which is becoming,

I send him back, and do you receive him, that is, my son.

I did wish to keep him with me, that, in your stead, he might serve me in my bonds for the gospel;

but, without your consent, I was not willing to do any thing, that your good deed might not be as a matter of necessity, but one of free-will.

Perhaps, indeed, lie departed for a short time for this reason, that you might receive him forever;

But if he has done you any wrong, or owes you any thing, put that to my account.

I, Paul, do write it with my own hand, I will repay it; that I may not say to you, that you owe to me even yourself besides.

Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.

At the same time, also, prepare me a lodging: for I hope that through the prayers of you all, I may be given to you.

But one in a certain place testified, saying: What is man, that thou art mindful of him; or the son of man, that thou dost visit him?

thou hast put all things under his feet. For, in putting all things under him, he left nothing that is not put under him: but now we do not yet see all things put under him.

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, that he might, by the grace of God, taste death for every man- we see him, on account of his having suffered death, crowned with glory and honor.

For both he that sanctifies, and those who are sanctified, are all of one Father: for which reason, he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying:

And again: I will put my trust in him. And again: Behold, I, and the children that God has given me.

Since, then, the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also, in like manner, partook of the same, that, through his death, he might deprive of power him that has the power of death, that is, the devil;

"Wherefore, it behooved him to be made like his brethren in all things, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, in order to make expiation for the sins of the people.

who is faithful to him that appointed him, as Moses also was faithful in all his house.

For every house is builded by some one; but he that built all things is God.

Where fore, I was angry with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

so that I swore in my anger, They shall not enter into my rest.

For some, when they had heard, did bitterly provoke; yet, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

But to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who believed not?

And so we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

For we who have believed are to enter into rest, as he said: So I swore in my anger, they shall not enter into my rest; namely, that rest from his works which had been finished from the foundation of the world.

Since, then, it remains that some must enter into it, and they, to whom the good news was first preached, did not enter in on account of unbelief,

For he that has entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

Let us earnestly strive, therefore, to enter into that rest, lest any one fall after the same example of unbelief.

Seeing, then, that we have a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

For we have not a high priest that can not sympathize with our infirmities; but he was tempted in all things like ourselves, yet without sin.

Let us come, therefore, with boldness, to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace to help in every time of need.

For every high priest chosen from among men, is appointed for men, in things pertaining to God, that he may offer gifts and sacrifices for sins:

And no one takes this honor to himself, but he that is called by God, as Aaron also was called.

In the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, to him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard with respect to that which he feared,

and, having been made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation to all that obey him,

For though you ought to be teachers, considering the time, yet you have need that some one teach you again what are the first elements of the oracles of God; and you have be come such as have need of milk, and not of strong food.

For every one that partakes of milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

For the land which drinks up the rain that comes often upon it, and produces herbs suitable for those for whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God.

But that which produces thorns and thistles is rejected, and is near the curse, the end of which is to be burned.

But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you, and of things that tend to salvation, though we thus speak.

For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work, and the love which you have shown for his name by having ministered to the saints, and by continuing to minister.

that you may not become slothful, but imitators of those who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises.

that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled to lay hold on the hope set before us;

And those of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:

but he who does not count his genealogy from them, received tithes from Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

And in the one instance, men that die receive tithes; but in the other, he receives them who has the testimony that he lives.

If, then, there had been a perfect expiation by means of the Levitical priesthood, (for with reference to it, the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should be raised up after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

It is evident that, when the priest hood is changed, there is of necessity a change also of the law.

For it is very clear that our Lord sprung from Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

(for those priests were made such without an oath, but this one with an oath, by him that said to him, The Lord swore, and will not repent, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchisedec;)

Now concerning the things that have been spoken, the principal point 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;

For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore, it is necessary that this one also have something which he may offer.

For if he were on earth, he could not be a priest; because there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

and these serve the copy and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: See now, says he, that you make all things according to the pattern shown you in the mount.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second.

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, says the Lord; putting my laws into their understanding, I will also write them upon their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people;

In saying, A new covenant, he has regarded the first as out of use. Now, that which is out of use, and has become old, is ready to disappear.

which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were the golden pot that held the manna, and the rod of Aaron that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

the Holy Spirit signifying this, that the way into the most holy was not yet made manifest, while the first tabernacle was still standing,

which, as a symbol, remains to the present time, in which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that can not make perfect, as it respects the conscience, him that does the service;

But Christ, having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, (that is, not of this building,)

how much more will the blood of the Christ, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works, in order that you may serve the living God?

And for this reason, he is the mediator of the new covenant: that, since his death has taken place for the redemption of transgressions that were under the former covenant, those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For where a testament is, it is necessary that there be brought in the death of the testator:

for a testament goes into effect after men are dead: seeing that it has no validity at all while the testator lives.

It was necessary, therefore, that the copies of the things in the heavens should be consecrated by these sacrifices; but that the heavenly things themselves should be consecrated by better sacrifices than these.

Nor has he entered, that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with the blood of another:

For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

then he said, Behold, I come to do thy will: he takes away the first, that he may establish the second.

This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; putting my laws in their hearts, I will also write them in their understandings:

by a new and living way which he has dedicated for us, through the vail, that is, his flesh;

and let us consider one another that we may excite to love and good works,

He that despised Moses law, died without mercy, on the testimony of two or three witnesses:

For you sympathized with me in my bonds, and endured joyfully the seizure of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and abiding substance in the heavens.

For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

For yet a very, very little while, and He that comes will come, and will not delay.

By faith we understand that the ages were set in order by the word of God, so that the things which are seen, have not come into being from things that appear.

By faith Abel offered to God more sacrifice than Cain; on account of which he received testimony that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he, though dead, yet speaks.

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death, and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had the testimony that he pleased God.

But without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.

By faith Abraham, when called to go out into a place that he should afterward receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

for he looked for a city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. and having embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners in the land.

For those who say such things, declare plainly that they seek a country.

And if indeed they had been mindful of that from which they came, they could have had an opportunity to return.

But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, that he should be called their God: for he has prepared for them a city.

By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: even his first-born, did he that had received the promises, offer up,

for he concluded that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; wherefore he received him even in like manner.

By faith Moses was concealed by his parents for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child: and they feared not the command of the king.

By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king: for he patiently endured, as seeing him that is invisible.

By faith he kept the passover, and the affusion of blood, that he who destroyed the first-born might not touch them.

Women received their dead raised to life again: but others were beat to death, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

because God had provided some better thing for us, that they, without us, should not be made perfect.

Wherefore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that lies before us,

looking to Jesus the author and finisher of the faith, who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.