For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

Again he says, “I will be confident in him,” and again, “Here I am, with the children God has given me.”

For here is the testimony about him: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

“Then I said, ‘Here I am: I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’”

then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second.

You should know that our brother Timothy has been released. If he comes soon, he will be with me when I see you.

and in one case tithes are received by mortal men, while in the other by him who is affirmed to be alive.

Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.

For it is indeed fitting for us to have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.

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 the main point of what we are saying is this: We have such a high priest, one who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.

The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says, “See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain.”

Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?