in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages;

having become so much better than the messengers, as he did inherit a more excellent name than they.

thou didst love righteousness, and didst hate lawlessness; because of this did He anoint thee -- God, thy God -- with oil of gladness above thy partners;'

for if the word being spoken through messengers did become stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience did receive a just recompense,

For not to messengers did He subject the coming world, concerning which we speak,

and one in a certain place did testify fully, saying, 'What is man, that Thou art mindful of him, or a son of man, that Thou dost look after him?

all things Thou didst put in subjection under his feet,' for in the subjecting to him the all things, nothing did He leave to him unsubjected, and now not yet do we see the all things subjected to him,

and again, 'Behold I and the children that God did give to me.'

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death -- that is, the devil --

wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people,

being stedfast to Him who did appoint him, as also Moses in all his house,

for every house is builded by some one, and He who the all things did build is God,

in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;

for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses;

but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? --

for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,

for we do enter into the rest -- we who did believe, as He said, 'So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- ;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,

for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh day thus: 'And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'

since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief --

for he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own.

so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: 'My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;'

through being a Son, did learn by the things which he suffered -- the obedience,

and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,

of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on also of hands, of rising again also of the dead, and of judgment age-during,

and did taste the good saying of God, the powers also of the coming age,

For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself,

and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise;

in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath,

that through two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

whither a forerunner for us did enter -- Jesus, after the order of Melchisedek chief priest having become -- to the age.

For this Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who did meet Abraham turning back from the smiting of the kings, and did bless him,

to whom also a tenth of all did Abraham divide, (first, indeed, being interpreted, 'King of righteousness,' and then also, King of Salem, which is, King of Peace,)

And see how great this one is, to whom also a tenth Abraham the patriarch did give out of the best of the spoils,

(for nothing did the law perfect) and the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw nigh to God.

For such a chief priest did become us -- kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens,

who hath no necessity daily, as the chief priests, first for his own sins to offer up sacrifice, then for those of the people; for this he did once, having offered up himself;

And the sum concerning the things spoken of is: we have such a chief priest, who did sit down at the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens,

of the holy places a servant, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord did set up, and not man,

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of My taking them by their hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt -- because they did not remain in My covenant, and I did not regard them, saith the Lord, --

neither through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, did enter in once into the holy places, age-during redemption having obtained;

how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

for a covenant over dead victims is stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth,

for every command having been spoken, according to law, by Moses, to all the people, having taken the blood of the calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he both the book itself and all the people did sprinkle,

and both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the service with blood in like manner he did sprinkle,

for not into holy places made with hands did the Christ enter -- figures of the true -- but into the heaven itself, now to be manifested in the presence of God for us;

And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered -- to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, --

which way he did initiate for us -- new and living, through the vail, that is, his flesh --

may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope, (for faithful is He who did promise),

any one who did set at nought a law of Moses, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, doth die,

of how much sorer punishment shall he be counted worthy who the Son of God did trample on, and the blood of the covenant did count a common thing, in which he was sanctified, and to the Spirit of the grace did despite?

And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure much conflict of sufferings,

for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.

by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak.

By faith Enoch was translated -- not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to -- that he had pleased God well,

By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.

By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing whither he doth go;

by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, in tabernacles having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise,

By faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed, and she bare after the time of life, seeing she did judge Him faithful who did promise;

wherefore, also from one were begotten -- and that of one who had become dead -- as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that is by the sea-shore -- the innumerable.

but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.

By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises,

reckoning that even out of the dead God is able to raise up, whence also in a figure he did receive him.

By faith, concerning coming things, Isaac did bless Jacob and Esau;

by faith Jacob dying -- each of the sons of Joseph did bless, and did bow down upon the top of his staff;

by faith, Joseph dying, concerning the outgoing of the sons of Israel did make mention, and concerning his bones did give command.

by faith Moses, having become great, did refuse to be called a son of the daughter of Pharaoh,

greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward;

By faith they did pass through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians having received a trial of, were swallowed up;

by faith the walls of Jericho did fall, having been surrounded for seven days;

by faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disbelieved, having received the spies with peace.

who through faith did subdue kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped mouths of lions,

Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive,

and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment;

and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,

looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him -- did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

Not yet unto blood did ye resist -- with the sin striving;

lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,

and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of sayings, which those having heard did entreat that a word might not be added to them,

See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking -- much less we who do turn away from him who speaketh from heaven,

of the hospitality be not forgetful, for through this unawares certain did entertain messengers;

Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith -- considering the issue of the behaviour -- be imitating,

Wherefore, also Jesus -- that he might sanctify through his own blood the people -- without the gate did suffer;

And the God of the peace, who did bring up out of the dead the great shepherd of the sheep -- in the blood of an age-during covenant -- our Lord Jesus,