Therefore, strengthen your listless hands and your weak knees,

For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit,

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.

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

For a tent was prepared, the outer one, which contained the lampstand, the table, and the presentation of the loaves; this is called the holy place.

So when he came into the world, he said, “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.

For it was fitting for him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

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),

For you know that later when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance, although he sought the blessing with tears.

Thus he became so far better than the angels as he has inherited a name superior to theirs.

And he says of the angels, “He makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire,”

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

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

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

For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end.

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

For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership?

And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

where Jesus our forerunner entered on our behalf, since he became a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.