For to which of the angels did He say at any time, "You are My Son, this day I have begotten You?" And again, "I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son?"

And again, when He brings in the First-born into the world, He says, "And let all the angels of God worship Him."

And of the angels He says, "Who makes His angels spirits and His ministers a flame of fire."

But to the Son He says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.

But to which of the angels, did He say at any time, "Sit on My right hand until I make Your enemies Your footstool?"

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."

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

and who have fallen away; it is impossible, I say, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify the Son of God afresh to themselves and put Him to an open shame.

And if I may say so, Levi, also, who receives tithes, paid tithes in Abraham.

who serve the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was warned of God when he was about to make the tabernacle. For, He says "See that you make all things according to the pattern shown to you in the mountain."

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,

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day I took hold of their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt," because they did not continue in My covenant, and I did not regard them, says the Lord.

"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.

In that He says, A new covenant, He has made the first one old. Now that which decays and becomes old is ready to vanish away.

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

Therefore when He comes into the world, He says, "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You have prepared a body for Me.

"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,"

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

For we know Him who has said, "Vengeance belongs to Me, I will repay, says the Lord." And again, "The Lord shall judge His people."

For they who say such things declare plainly that they seek a fatherland.

And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah; also David, and Samuel and the prophets,

so that we may boldly say, "The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me."