how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by those who heard Him;

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that He by the grace of God should taste death for all.

For it became Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons into glory, to perfect the Captain of their salvation through sufferings.

Therefore in all things it behoved him to be made like His brothers, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of His people.

Therefore, holy brothers, called to be partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,

For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.

And Moses truly was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken afterward.

Take heed, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

But exhort one another daily, while it is called today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

For some, when they had heard, did provoke; however, not all who came out of Egypt by Moses.

For we do not have a high priest who cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted just as we are, yet without sin.

So also Christ did not glorify Himself to be made a high priest, but He who said to Him, "You are My Son, today I have begotten You."

though being a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.

being called by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek;

of whom we have much to say, and hard to be explained since you are dull of hearing.

For indeed because of the time, you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again what are the first principles of the oracles of God. And you have become in need of milk, and not of solid food.

(For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth plants fit for those by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God.

But that which bears thorns and briers is rejected and is a curse, whose end is to be burned.)

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

For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He swore by Himself,

For men truly swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

In this way desiring to declare more fully to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, God interposed by an oath,

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

To him Abraham also gave a tenth of all. He was first by interpretation king of righteousness, and after that also king of Salem, which is king of peace,

And without all contradiction the lesser is blessed by the better.

Therefore if perfection were by the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the Law), what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

For the Law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did, by which we draw near to God.

(for those priests were made without an oath, but this one was made with an oath by Him who said to Him, "The Lord swore and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek,")

by so much was Jesus made a surety of a better covenant.

Therefore He is able also to save to the uttermost those who come unto God by Him, since He ever lives to make intercession for them.

For if indeed He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the Law,

But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much He is also the Mediator of a better covenant, which was built upon better promises.

For finding fault with them, He said to them, "Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, and I will make an end on the house of Israel and on the house of Judah; a new covenant shall be,

"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My Laws into their mind and write them in their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more."

And over it were the cherubs of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat (about which we cannot now speak piece by piece.

the Holy Spirit signifying by this that the way into the Holiest of all was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing.

But when Christ had become a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building

nor by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered once for all into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

And for this cause He is the Mediator of the new covenant, so that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, those who are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

For where a covenant is, the death of him covenanting must be offered.

And almost all things are by the law purged with blood, and without shedding of blood is no remission.

Therefore it was necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves were purified with better sacrifices than these.

(for then He must have suffered often since the foundation of the world), but now once in the end of the world He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

For the Law which has a shadow of good things to come, not the very image of the things, appearing year by year with the same sacrifices, which they offer continually, they are never able to perfect those drawing near.

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers, when they had been once for all purged, would have had no more conscience of sin.

By this will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are sanctified.

Therefore, brothers, having boldness to enter into the Holy of Holies by the blood of Jesus,

by a new and living way which He has consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, His flesh;

Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy of punishment, the one who has trampled the Son of God, and who has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

indeed being exposed both by reproaches and afflictions, and while you became companions of those who lived so.

Now, "the Just shall live by faith. But if he draws back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him."

For by it the elders obtained a good report.

By faith we understand that the ages were framed by a word of God, so that the things being seen not to have come into being out of the things that appear.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts. And by it he, being dead, yet speaks.

By faith Enoch was translated so as not to see death, and he was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

By faith Noah, having been warned by God of things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out into a place which he was afterward going to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he went.

By faith he lived in the land of promise as a stranger, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs of the same promise with him.

By faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged Him who had promised to be faithful.

Because of this came into being from one, and that of one having died, even as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

These all died by way of faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. And they were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

But now they stretch forth to a better fatherland, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

By faith Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. And he who had received the promises offered up his only-begotten son,

of whom it was said that in Isaac your Seed shall be called,

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped, leaning upon the top of his staff.

By faith, Joseph dying remembered concerning the Exodus of the sons of Israel and gave orders concerning his bones.

By faith Moses, having been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child. And they were not afraid of the king's commandments.

Having become great, Moses by faith refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,

By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.

By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, which the Egyptians attempting to do were drowned.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed seven days.

By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace.

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

For consider Him who endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest you be weary and faint in your minds.

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons, "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him;

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

For truly they chastened us for a few days according to their own pleasure, but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness.

Now chastening for the present does not seem to be joyous, but grievous. Nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.

And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed.

looking diligently lest any fail of the grace of God, or lest any root of bitterness springing up disturb you, and by it many are defiled,

(lest there be any fornicator, or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.

For you have not come to the mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, nor to blackness and darkness and tempest,

and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words (which voice they who heard begged that a word should not be spoken to them any more,

for they could not endure the thing commanded, "And if so much as a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart,"

And this word, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, so that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear,

Do not be forgetful of hospitality, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Let your way of life be without the love of money, and be content with such things as you have, for He has said, "Not at all will I leave you, not at all will I forsake you, never!"

Do not be carried about with different and strange doctrines, for it is good for the heart to be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who have walked in them were not helped.

For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the Holy of Holies by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.

By Him, then, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, confessing His name.

Yield to those leading you, and be submissive, for they watch for your souls, as those who must give account, that they may do it with joy and not with grief; for that is unprofitable for you.

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

make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Grace be with you all. Amen.

But let patience have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him.