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

Consequently a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God.

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

Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, acknowledging his name.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,

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

Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken.

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

See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.

Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

Yet the one these things are spoken about belongs to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever officiated at the altar.

for the law made nothing perfect. On the other hand a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.

And both the tabernacle and all the utensils of worship he likewise sprinkled with blood.

So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.

Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

Therefore let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace whenever we need help.

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 he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

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.