For since he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

but to repeat the text cited earlier: “They will never enter my rest!”

He is able to deal compassionately with those who are ignorant and erring, since he also is subject to weakness,

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

Although he was a son, he learned obedience through the things he suffered.

And by being perfected in this way, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.

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

For when the priesthood changes, a change in the law must come as well.

And this is even clearer if another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,

On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,

And since this was not done without a sworn affirmation – for the others have become priests without a sworn affirmation,

For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.

“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.

“For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.

For a will takes effect only at death, since it carries no force while the one who made it is alive.

And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment,

but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God’s enemies.