For to which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, to-day have I begotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father and he shall be to me a Son?

And thou, Lord, in the beginning didst build from its foundations the earth, and the heavens are works of thy hands;

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to serve on account of those who are about to inherit salvation?

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

For both he that sanctifies and the sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

but Christ as a son over his house, whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and rejoicing of the hope.

and there is nothing which is not manifest in his sight; for all things are naked and exposed to his eyes, to whom our discourse relates.

For we have not a chief priest who cannot sympathise with our infirmities, but one tried in all respects as we are, without sin.

For you who ought on account of the time to be teachers, have need that one should teach you again what are the first rudiments of the oracles of God, and have need of milk and not solid food.

But we are persuaded better things of you, beloved, and things pertaining to salvation, though we thus speak.

For he of whom these things are said belonged to another tribe, of which no one attended to the altar;

And as he was not [constituted] without swearing,??21 for they were made priests without swearing, but he with swearing by him who says to him, The Lord swore, and he will not change, You are a priest forever;??22 by so much is Jesus the pledge of a better covenant.

which is a type of the time at hand, in which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the worshipper as to the conscience,

And almost all things, according to the law, are purified with blood, and without the pouring out of blood there is no forgiveness.

Saying before, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou didst not desire and wast not pleased with, which are offered according to the law,

henceforth waiting till his enemies are made his footstool.

not forsaking our own congregation as some are in the habit of [doing], but exhorting [others], and so much the more as you see the day approaching.

But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of faith to the saving of the soul.

But if you are without correction of which all are partakers, then you are of foreign birth, and not sons.

and to the church of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge the God of all, and to spirits of the righteous made perfect,

Be not carried about with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the mind should be established with grace, not with aliments, in which those walking are not profited.

For the bodies of those animals whose blood is carried into the sanctuary by the chief priest are burnt without the encampment.