For we have not a chief priest unable to suffer with our weaknesses; but tried in all things as a resemblance, without sin.

And not any takes this honour to himself; but the called of God, as also Aaron.

So also Christ honoured not himself, to become chief priest; but he having spoken to him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.

For also ye ought to be teachers for the time, again ye have need for some one to teach you the elements of the beginning of the sayings of God; and have become those having need of milk, and not of firm food.

Therefore having left the word of the beginning of Christ, we should go on to perfection; not again laying down the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

For God is not unjust to forget your work and fatigue of love, which ye showed to his name, having served to the holy ones, and serving.

That ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them inheriting the promises by faith and longsnffering.

And he not having his descent traced from them received a tenth from Abraham, and praised him having the promises.

If truly therefore completion were by the Levitical priesthood, (for the people received legislation by it,) what further need according to the order of Melchisedec for another priest to be raised, and not according to the order of Aaron?

Who according to the law of a fleshly command was not born, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

And as much as not without sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath:

(For they truly without sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath became priests; but he with the sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath by him, saying to him, The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou priest forever, according to the order of Melchisedec:)

A workman of holy things, and of the true tent, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

For if truly he were upon earth, he would not be a priest, there being priests bringing in gifts according to the law;

For if that first was faultless, then place was not to be sought for the second.

Not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in the day of my taking their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they remained not in my covenant, and I heeded them not, says the Lord.

And they should not teach each his neighbor, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from their little even to their great ones.

And above it the cherubs of glory overshadowing the propitiatory; of which it is not now to speak in turn.

And into the second the chief priest alone once a year, not without blood, which he brings near for himself, and the errors of the people:

This the Holy Spirit designating, the way of the holies had not yet been made manifest, the first tent yet having a standing:

Which a parable for the time placed in, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are brought near, not being able for consciousness to perfect him serving;

And Christ being present, a chief priest of good things about to be, by a greater and more perfect tent, not made with hands, that is; not of this creation;

For Christ came not into the holy places made with hands, the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to be shown clearly to the face of God for us:

For the law having a shadow of good things about to be, not the same image of the things, with these sacrifices which they bring in yearly in continuance never can render perfect them coming thereto.

For would they not have ceased to be brought in? because they serving have no more consciousness of sins, once purified.

Wherefore coming into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering then wouldest not, but a body hast thou adjusted to me:

And with whole burnt offering for sin wast thou not contented.

Farther back, saying, That sacrifice and bringing in and whole burnt offerings and for sin thou wouldest not, neither wert contented with; which are brought in according to law;

We should hold the assent of hope not bending; (for faithful he having promised;)

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the custom to some; but beseeching: and by so much the more, inasmuch as ye see the day drawing near.

Throw not away therefore your freedom of speech, which has great payment of reward.

For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

For yet a little while only, he coming will come, and will not tarry.

And the just one shall live by faith; but if he draw down, my soul is not contented in him.

And we are not of drawing down to perdition; but of faith to the acquisition of the soul.

And faith is the foundation of things hoped for, the proof of things not seen.

By faith we perceive that the times were adjusted by the word of God, so that things seen have been born not of things brought to light.

By faith Enoch was transferred not to see death; and was not found, because God had transferred him: for before his transferring he had been testified of, to have pleased God.

By faith Noah, having an intimation of the divine will of things not yet seen, being circumspect, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house; by which he condemned the world, and by faith became an heir of justice.

By faith Abraham, being called, listened, to go forth into the place which he was about to receive for an inheritance; and he came out, not knowing where he is coming.

According to faith died all these, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and been persuaded, and having embraced, and assented that they are strangers and newly arrived from a foreign country upon earth.

And now they feel an ardent desire for a better, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he prepared for them a city.

By faith Moses, born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw a shrewd child; and they were not afraid of the edict of the king.

By faith he forsook Egypt, not having feared the king's wrath: for, as seeing the invisible, he was strong.

By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with the unbelieving, having received the spies with peace.

Women received their dead from rising up: and others were beaten, not receiving redemption; that they might attain a better resurrection.

(Of whom the world was not worthy:) wandering about in solitary places, and mountains, and caves, and holes of the earth.

And these all, having been testified of by faith, received not the promise:

God having foreseen something better for us, that without us they should not be completed.

Ye have not yet resisted until blood, fighting against sin.

And ye have totally forgotten the entreaty which is spoken to you as to sons, My son, neglect not the instruction of the Lord, nor be enervated being rebuked by him:

If ye endure correction, God treats you as sons; for who is the son which the father corrects not?

And if ye are without correction, of which all are partakers, then are ye spurious, not sons.

Since we truly have fathers of our flesh instructors, and we were influenced: shall we not rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live?

And truly every correction for the present seems not to be for joy, but grief: and later it returns the peaceful fruit of justice to them being exercised by it.

For ye have not come to the mount being handled, and burned with fire, and to duskiness, and to darkness, and to a violent storm,

And to the sound of the trumpet, and the voice of words; which they, having heard, implored that the word be not put before them:

(For they did not bear that being assigned, And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or shall be pierced with a missile weapon:

See that ye refuse not him speaking. For if they escaped not, having refused him giving an intimation of the divine will on earth, much more we, who having turned back from him from the heavens:

Whose voice then shook the earth: and now he has proclaimed, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also the heaven.

And the Yet once more, makes manifest the transferring the things shaken, as of things made, that the things not being shaken might remain.

Forget not hospitality: for by this some knew not having treated angels with friendship.

The disposition exempt from avarice; being contented with present circumstances: for he has said, I will not send thee back, nor forsake thee.

So that being confident, we say, The Lord aiding me, and I will not fear what man will do to me.

With various and strange teachings be not carried about. For good the heart be rendered firm by grace; not by food, in which they having walked about were not profited.

And the doing good and mutual participation forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Believe them guiding you, and yield: (for they watch vigilantly for your souls, as going to return the word.) that with joy they might do this, and not lamenting: for this unprofitable for you.

If any of you is forsaken of wisdom, let him ask of God, giving to all plainly, blaming not; and it shall be given him.

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

Let none say being tempted, that I am tempted of God: for God is not tempted of evils, and he tempts none:

Be not led astray, my dearly beloved brethren.

Every good donation and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom not one change, or shadow of turning.

For man s anger works not the justice of God.

And be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man observing the face of his creation in a mirror:

And he having stooped into the perfect law of liberty, and remained, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work, he shall be happy in his doing.

If any among you seem to be religious, bridling not his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one vain.

My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, of glory, with distinction of faces.

Were ye not separated among yourselves, and become judges of evil reflections?

Hear, my dearly beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the beggars of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them loving him?

And ye have despised the beggar. Do not the rich bring you into subjection, and draw you before tribunals?

And do they not defame the good name called upon you?

For he having said, Thou shouldest not commit adultery, said also, Thou shouldest not kill: and if thou commit not adultery, and dost kill, thou hast become a transgressor of the law.

For unpropitiated judgment to him not doing mercy; and mercy boasteth against judgment.

And what profit, my brethren, if any say he has faith, and should not have works? can faith save him?

And any of you say to them, Retire in peace, be ye warmed and be ye fed; and ye give them not things fitting the body; what profit?

So also faith, if it have not works, is dead by itself.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar

Therefore ye see that man is justified from works, and not from faith alone.

And likewise also was not Rehab the harlot justified by works, having received the messengers, and cast out by another way?

Be ye not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment.

For in many things we all stumble. If any stumble not in word, this a perfect man, able to govern by a bridle also the whole body.

Out of the same month comes forth blessing and cursing. There is no need, my brethren, for these things so to be.

And if ye have bitter envy and intrigue in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth.

This is wisdom coming not down from above, but earthly, natural, resembling an evil spirit.

And the wisdom from above is truly first pure, then peaceful, decorous, docile, full of mercy and good fruits, not separated, and unfeigned.

Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members

Ye eagerly desire, and have not: ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot succeed: ye fight and wage war, and ye have not, because ye ask not.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures.

Adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? whoever therefore would wish to be the friend of the world is set the enemy of God.