and since we have a great priest ¹  over the house of God,

But Christ ¹  is faithful as a son over God’s ²  house. We are of his house, ³  if in fact we hold firmly ⁴  to our confidence and the hope we take pride in. ⁵ 

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls and will give an account for their work. ¹  Let them do this ²  with joy and not with complaints, for this would be no advantage for you.

You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. So God, your God, has anointed you over your companions ¹  with the oil of rejoicing.” ² 

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

You made him lower than the angels for a little while. You crowned him with glory and honor. ¹ 

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

And above the ark ¹  were the cherubim ²  of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Now is not the time to speak of these things in detail.

By faith Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped as he leaned on his staff. ¹ 

(the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.

Remember your leaders, who spoke God’s message to you; reflect on the outcome of their lives and imitate their faith.

And every priest stands day after day ¹  serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again – sacrifices that can never take away sins.

You put all things under his control.” ¹  For when he put all things under his control, he left nothing outside of his control. At present we do not yet see all things under his control, ² 

For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, ¹  you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God’s utterances. ²  You have gone back to needing ³  milk, not ⁴  solid food.

Therefore we must progress beyond ¹  the elementary ²  instructions about Christ ³  and move on ⁴  to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,

for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice.

For he did not put the world to come, ¹  about which we are speaking, ²  under the control of angels.

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; ¹  its fate is to be burned.

And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works, ¹ 

Therefore it remains for some to enter it, yet those to whom it was previously proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience.