having become so much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they.

For to which of the angels did He ever say, “You are My Son, Today I have begotten You”? And again, “I will be a Father to Him And He shall be a Son to Me”?

They will perish, but You remain; And they all will wear out like a garment,

And like a mantle You will roll them up; Like a garment they will also be changed. But You are the same, And Your years will not come to an end.”

But to which of the angels has He ever said, “Sit at My right hand, Until I put Your enemies As a footstool for Your feet”?

For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every trespass and disobedience received a just penalty,

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? That salvation, first spoken by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

You have made him for a little while lower than the angels; You have crowned him with glory and honor, And have appointed him over the works of Your hands;

But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels—Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.

Therefore, He had to be made like His brothers in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession—Jesus,

Now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later,

but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house—whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope.

Therefore, let us fear, lest, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have fallen short of it.

He again determines a certain day, “Today,” saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before, “Today if you hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.”

So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us take hold of our confession.

For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things like we are, yet without sin.

In this way also Christ did not glorify Himself to become a high priest, but He who said to Him, “You are My Son, Today I have begotten You”;

just as He says also in another passage, “You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek.”

Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered.

being designated by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God;

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and confirmed and one which enters within the veil,

where a forerunner has entered for us—Jesus, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth part of all, was first of all, by the translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace.

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest continually.