For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my son, today I have begotten you"? And again, "I will be a father to him and he shall be a son to me"?

And again, when God brings the first-born into the world, he says, "Let all God's angels worship him."

Of the angels he says, "Who makes his angels winds, and his servants flames of fire."

But of the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever, and the righteous scepter is the scepter of your kingdom.

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you will hear his voice,

as he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek."

About this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

One might even say that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham,

For he finds fault with them when he says: "The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not continue in my covenant, and so I paid no heed to them, says the Lord.

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 minds, and I will write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, he entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation.

"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,"

For people who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.

And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets,

So we say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?"