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

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

so that we who have found refuge in him<n id="1" /> may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, he has neither beginning of days nor end of life but is like the son of God, and he remains a priest for all time.

<t /><p class="bodytext">But now Christ has come<n id="1" /> 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,

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands &#8211; the representation<n id="1" /> of the true sanctuary<n id="2" /> &#8211; but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God&#8217;s presence for us.

Grace be with you all.<n id="1" />p>

Thus he became<n id="1" /> so far better than the angels as<n id="2" /> he has inherited a name superior to theirs.p>

who is faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses was also in God&#8217;s<n id="1" /> house.<n id="2" />

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<n id="1" /> but by the power of an indestructible life.

On the one hand a former command is set aside<n id="1" /> because it is weak and useless,<n id="2" />

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<n id="1" /> <i>until his enemies are made a footstool for his feeti>.<n id="2" />

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 <i>a furyi><n id="1" /> <i>of fire that will consume God&#8217;s enemiesi>.<n id="2" />

Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death<n id="1" /> without mercy <i>on the testimony of two or three witnessesi>.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.