Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?

“There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

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.”

Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, he has neither beginning of days nor end of life but is like the son of God, and he remains a priest for all time.

So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming high priest, but the one who glorified him was God, who said to him, “You are my Son! Today I have fathered you,”

“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.

So in fact children were fathered by one man – and this one as good as dead – like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore.

After God spoke long ago in various portions and in various ways to our ancestors through the prophets,

For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin, and so he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,

For he was still in his ancestor Abraham’s loins when Melchizedek met him.

For they disciplined us for a little while as seemed good to them, but he does so for our benefit, that we may share his holiness.

For by it the people of old received God’s commendation.

saying, “I will proclaim your name to my brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you.”

But see how great he must be, if Abraham the patriarch gave him a tithe of his plunder.

And it could be said that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid a tithe through Abraham.

By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, he received the ability to procreate, because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.

how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

But Christ is faithful as a son over God’s house. We are of his house, if in fact we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope we take pride in.

During his earthly life Christ offered both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion.