For every one that partakes of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe;

But we desire earnestly that each one of you shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end;

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises.

that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

which we have as anchor of the soul, both secure and firm, and entering into that within the veil,

And they indeed from among the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is from their brethren, though these are come out of the loins of Abraham:

And here dying men receive tithes; but there one of whom the witness is that he lives;

If indeed then perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for the people had their law given to them in connexion with it, what need was there still that a different priest should arise according to the order of Melchisedec, and not be named after the order of Aaron?

For it is clear that our Lord has sprung out of Juda, as to which tribe Moses spake nothing as to priests.

For such a high priest became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and become higher than the heavens:

For every high priest is constituted for the offering both of gifts and sacrifices; whence it is needful that this one also should have something which he may offer.

(who serve the representation and shadow of heavenly things, according as Moses was oracularly told when about to make the tabernacle; for See, saith He, that thou make all things according to the pattern which has been shewn to thee in the mountain.)

For if that first was faultless, place had not been sought for a second.

Because this is the covenant that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for people.

In that he says New, he has made the first old; but that which grows old and aged is near disappearing.

having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant, covered round in every part with gold, in which were the golden pot that had the manna, and the rod of Aaron that had sprouted, and the tables of the covenant;

the Holy Spirit shewing this, that the way of the holy of holies has not yet been made manifest while as yet the first tabernacle has its standing;

the which is an image for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices, unable to perfect as to conscience him that worshipped, are offered,

But Christ being come high priest of the good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, (that is, not of this creation,)

And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

It was necessary then that the figurative representations of the things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with sacrifices better than these.

nor in order that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy places every year with blood not his own;

thus the Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear to those that look for him the second time without sin for salvation.

then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first that he may establish the second;

the new and living way which he has dedicated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh,

Any one that has disregarded Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses:

For we know him that said, To me belongs vengeance; I will recompense, saith the Lord: and again, The Lord shall judge his people.

For ye both sympathised with prisoners and accepted with joy the plunder of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better substance, and an abiding one.

For ye have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

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

By faith we apprehend that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that that which is seen should not take its origin from things which appear.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained testimony of being righteous, God bearing testimony to his gifts, and by it, having died, he 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 has the testimony that he had pleased God.

But without faith it is impossible to please him. For he that draws near to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them who seek him out.

By faith also Sarah herself received strength for the conception of seed, and that beyond a seasonable age; since she counted him faithful who promised.

Wherefore also there have been born of one, and that of one become dead, even as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the countless sand which is by the sea shore.

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

For they who say such things shew clearly that they seek their country.

And if they had called to mind that from whence they went out, they had had opportunity to have returned;

but now they seek a better, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.

counting that God was able to raise him even from among the dead, whence also he received him in a figure.

choosing rather to suffer affliction along with the people of God than to have the temporary pleasure of sin;

esteeming the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he had respect to the recompense.

By faith he celebrated the passover and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.

Women received their dead again by resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted deliverance, that they might get a better resurrection;

God having foreseen some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.

Let us also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,

For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.

Ye endure for chastening, God conducts himself towards you as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens not?

Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the failing knees;

and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned aside; but that rather it may be healed.

for ye know that also afterwards, desiring to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, (for he found no place for repentance) although he sought it earnestly with tears.

For ye have not come to the mount that might be touched and was all on fire, and to obscurity, and darkness, and tempest,

and trumpet's sound, and voice of words; which they that heard, excusing themselves, declined the word being addressed to them any more:

and to Jesus, mediator of a new covenant; and to the blood of sprinkling, speaking better than Abel.

See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him who does so from heaven:

But this Yet once, signifies the removing of what is shaken, as being made, that what is not shaken may remain.

Remember prisoners, as bound with them; those that are evil-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.

So that, taking courage, we may say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not be afraid: what will man do unto me?

Be not carried away with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the heart be confirmed with grace, not meats; those who have walked in which have not been profited by them.

Wherefore also Jesus, that he might sanctify the people by his own blood, suffered without the gate:

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise continually to God, that is, the fruit of the lips confessing his name.

Obey your leaders, and be submissive; for they watch over your souls as those that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not groaning, for this would be unprofitable for you.

Pray for us: for we persuade ourselves that we have a good conscience, in all things desirous to walk rightly.

But I much more beseech you to do this, that I may the more quickly be restored to you.

But I beseech you, brethren, bear the word of exhortation, for it is but in few words that I have written to you.

Know that our brother Timotheus is set at liberty; with whom, if he should come soon, I will see you.

knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.

But let endurance have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

but let him ask in faith, nothing doubting. For he that doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed about;

for let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord;

Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for, having been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which He has promised to them that love him.

According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a certain first-fruits of his creatures.

So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

But he that fixes his view on the perfect law, that of liberty, and abides in it, being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, he shall be blessed in his doing.

Hear, my beloved brethren: Has not God chosen the poor as to the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to them that love him?

So speak ye, and so act, as those that are to be judged by the law of liberty;

for judgment will be without mercy to him that has shewn no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment.

Thou believest that God is one. Thou doest well. The demons even believe, and tremble.

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and that by works faith was perfected.

Ye see that a man is justified on the principle of works, and not on the principle of faith only.

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

Behold, we put the bits in the mouths of the horses, that they may obey us, and we turn round their whole bodies.

Out of the same mouth goes forth blessing and cursing. It is not right, my brethren, that these things should be thus.

But the fruit of righteousness in peace is sown for them that make peace.

Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume it in your pleasures.

Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be the friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.

Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?

Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaks against his brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if thou judgest the law, thou art not doer of the law, but judge.

instead of your saying, If the Lord should so will and we should live, we will also do this or that.

Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you.

Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.

Behold, we call them blessed who have endured. Ye have heard of the endurance of Job, and seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is full of tender compassion and pitiful.

But before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay, that ye do not fall under judgment.

Confess therefore your offences to one another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. The fervent supplication of the righteous man has much power.

Elias was a man of like passions to us, and he prayed with prayer that it should not rain; and it did not rain upon the earth three years and six months;

let him know that he that brings back a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall cover a multitude of sins.

that the proving of your faith, much more precious than of gold which perishes, though it be proved by fire, be found to praise and glory and honour in the revelation of Jesus Christ: