Consequently a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God.

For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be proven.

and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

But only the high priest enters once a year into the inner tent, and not without blood that he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

The Holy Spirit is making clear that the way into the holy place had not yet appeared as long as the old tabernacle was standing.

and for this reason he is obligated to make sin offerings for himself as well as for the people.

and he was designated by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek.

Now without dispute the inferior is blessed by the superior,

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

By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.

For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.

For they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”

Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he likewise shared in their humanity, so that through death he could destroy the one who holds the power of death (that is, the devil),

For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God’s utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.

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.

keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy set out for him he endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

while God confirmed their witness with signs and wonders and various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

and set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death.

“Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.