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

And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again – sacrifices that can never take away sins.

Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

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,”

When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” (which are offered according to the law),

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.

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

“As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’”

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

And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

For the one who enters God’s rest has also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.

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

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

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

“For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer.”

But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I take no pleasure in him.

“For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts.”

Therefore, to sanctify the people by his own blood, Jesus also suffered outside the camp.

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