You made him lower than the angels for a little while. You crowned him with glory and honor.

who is faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses was also in God’s house.

but he holds his priesthood permanently since he lives forever.

We must go out to him, then, outside the camp, bearing the abuse he experienced.

and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

Instead someone testified somewhere: “What is man that you think of him or the son of man that you care for him?

For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself!

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,”

but Jesus did so with a sworn affirmation by the one who said to him, “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever’” –

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands – the representation of the true sanctuary – but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.

for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice.

so also, after Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, to those who eagerly await him he will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation.

Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

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.

Now this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, met Abraham as he was returning from defeating the kings and blessed him.

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death, and he was not to be found because God took him up. For before his removal he had been commended as having pleased God.