Greetings to all your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy send you greetings.

“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.

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

but of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and a righteous scepter is the scepter of your kingdom.

You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. So God, your God, has anointed you over your companions with the oil of rejoicing.”

For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin, and so he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,

“Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’

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.

For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”

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

Therefore let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace whenever we need help.

For every high priest is taken from among the people and appointed to represent them before God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

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,”

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

but Jesus did so with a sworn affirmation by the one who said to him, “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever’” –

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

But only the high priest enters once a year into the inner tent, and not without blood that he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.

But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption.