who was formerly useless to you, but is now useful to you and me.

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

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.

teaching about baptisms, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

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

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

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

where he is now waiting until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet.

For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.

And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.

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

Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.

But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel’s does.

My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials,

But each one is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desires.

If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food,

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, because you know that we will be judged more strictly.