After God spoke long ago in various portions and in various ways to our ancestors through the prophets,

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

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

For we had good news proclaimed to us just as they did. But the message they heard did them no good, since they did not join in with those who heard it in faith.

But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

So he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

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,

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled consecrated them and provided ritual purity,

So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands – the representation of the true sanctuary – but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.

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

By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.

By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.

Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?

Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too.”

Grace be with you all.

For he did not put the world to come, about which we are speaking, under the control of angels.

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 also in another place God says, “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”