For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my son! Today I have fathered you"? And in another place he says, "I will be his father and he will be my son."

But when he again brings his firstborn into the world, he says, "Let all the angels of God worship him!"

And he says of the angels, "He makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire,"

but of the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and a righteous scepter is the scepter of your kingdom.

Again he says, "I will be confident in him," and again, "Here I am, with the children God has given me."

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!

As it says, "Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."

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

On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says, "See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain."

But showing its fault, God says to them, "Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

"It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.

"For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.

When he says above, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them" (which are offered according to the law),

then he says, "Here I am: I have come to do your will." He does away with the first to establish the second.

"This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,"

then he says, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no longer."

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