saying, &#8220;<b><i>I will proclaim your name to my brothers;i>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>in the midst of the assembly I will praise youi>b>.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Therefore, holy brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> partners in a heavenly calling, take note of Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess,<n id="2" />

Now Moses was <b><i>faithful in all God&#8217;si>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>housei>b><n id="2" /> as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken.

<p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<i><b>There your fathers tested me and tried meb>,i><n id="1" /> <i><b>and they saw my works for forty yearsb>.i>p>

And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

And no one assumes this honor<n id="1" /> on his own initiative,<n id="2" /> but only when called to it by God,<n id="3" /> as in fact Aaron was.

<t /><p class="bodytext">On this topic we have much to say<n id="1" /> and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish<n id="2" /> in hearing.

and then have committed apostasy,<n id="1" /> to renew them again to repentance, since<n id="2" /> they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again<n id="3" /> and holding him up to contempt.

so that you may not be sluggish,<n id="1" /> but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.p>

<p class="bodytext">Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

For people<n id="1" /> swear by something greater than themselves,<n id="2" /> and the oath serves as a confirmation to end all dispute.<n id="3" />

where Jesus our forerunner entered on our behalf, since he became <b><i>a priest forever in the order of Melchizedeki>b>.<n id="1" />p>

But see how great he must be, if<n id="1" /> Abraham the patriarch gave him a tithe<n id="2" /> of his plunder.

for the law made nothing perfect. On the other hand a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer<n id="1" /> the gifts prescribed by the law.

<p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<i><b>For I will be merciful toward their evil deedsb>, <b>and their sins I will remember no longerb>.i>&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

And he did not enter to offer<n id="1" /> himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own,

For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have<n id="1" /> no further consciousness of sin?

But when this priest<n id="1" /> had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, <i>he sat down at the right handi><n id="2" /> of God,

by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us<n id="1" /> through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,<n id="2" />