Hebrews 4.14-10.39

12. For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13. And there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

14. Having then a great high priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15. For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. 16. Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help us in time of need. 5:1. For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: 5:2. who can bear gently with the ignorant and erring, for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity; 5:3. and by reason thereof is bound, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. 5:4. And no man taketh the honor unto himself, but when he is called of God, even as was Aaron. 5:5. So Christ also glorified not himself to be made a high priest, but he that spake unto him, Thou art my Son, This day have I begotten thee: 5:6. as he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek. 5:7. Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear, 5:8. though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered; 5:9. and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation; 5:10. named of God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. 5:11. Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing. 5:12. For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food. 5:13. For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe. 5:14. But solid food is for fullgrown men, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil. 6:1. Wherefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on unto perfection; not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, 6:2. of the teaching of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 6:3. And this will we do, if God permit. 6:4. For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 6:5. and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, 6:6. and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. 6:7. For the land which hath drunk the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receiveth blessing from God: 6:8. but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned. 6:9. But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak: 6:10. for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister. 6:11. And we desire that each one of you may show the same diligence unto the fulness of hope even to the end: 6:12. that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 6:13. For when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he sware by himself, 6:14. saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 6:15. And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 6:16. For men swear by the greater: and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. 6:17. Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath; 6:18. that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us: 6:19. which we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and stedfast and entering into that which is within the veil; 6:20. whither as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. 7:1. For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 7:2. to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, King of righteousness, and then also King of Salem, which is King of peace; 7:3. without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like unto the Son of God), abideth a priest continually. 7:4. Now consider how great this man was, unto whom Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the chief spoils. 7:5. And they indeed of the sons of Levi that receive the priest's office have commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though these have come out of the loins of Abraham: 7:6. but he whose genealogy is not counted from them hath taken tithes of Abraham, and hath blessed him that hath the promises. 7:7. But without any dispute the less is blessed of the better. 7:8. And here men that die receive tithes; but there one, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth. 7:9. And, so to say, through Abraham even Levi, who receiveth tithes, hath paid tithes; 7:10. for he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met him. 7:11. Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it hath the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron? 7:12. For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. 7:13. For he of whom these things are said belongeth to another tribe, from which no man hath given attendance at the altar. 7:14. For it is evident that our Lord hath sprung out of Judah; as to which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priests. 7:15. And what we say is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there ariseth another priest, 7:16. who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life: 7:17. for it is witnessed of him, Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek. 7:18. For there is a disannulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness 7:19. (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God. 7:20. And inasmuch as it is not without the taking of an oath 7:21. (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath; but he with an oath by him that saith of him, The Lord sware and will not repent himself, Thou art a priest for ever); 7:22. by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant. 7:23. And they indeed have been made priests many in number, because that by death they are hindered from continuing: 7:24. but he, because he abideth for ever, hath his priesthood unchangeable. 7:25. Wherefore also he is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near unto God through him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. 7:26. For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 7:27. who needeth not daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people: for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself. 7:28. For the law appointeth men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, appointeth a Son, perfected for evermore. 8:1. Now in the things which we are saying the chief point is this: We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 8:2. a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man. 8:3. For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that this high priest also have somewhat to offer. 8:4. Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are those who offer the gifts according to the law; 8:5. who serve that which is a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses is warned of God when he is about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mount. 8:6. But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises. 8:7. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second. 8:8. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, That I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; 8:9. Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt; For they continued not in my covenant, And I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 8:10. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also will I write them: And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people: 8:11. And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen, And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them. 8:12. For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And their sins will I remember no more. 8:13. In that he saith, A new covenant he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away. 9:1. Now even a first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and its sanctuary, a sanctuary of this world. 9:2. For there was a tabernacle prepared, the first, wherein were the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called the Holy place. 9:3. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of holies; 9:4. having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was a golden pot holding the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; 9:5. and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat; of which things we cannot now speak severally. 9:6. Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services; 9:7. but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offereth for himself, and for the errors of the people: 9:8. the Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holy place hath not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle is yet standing; 9:9. which is a figure for the time present; according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that cannot, as touching the conscience, make the worshipper perfect, 9:10. being only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation. 9:11. But Christ having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, 9:12. nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption. 9:13. For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh: 9:14. how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 9:15. And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 9:16. For where a testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him that made it. 9:17. For a testament is of force where there hath been death: for it doth never avail while he that made it liveth. 9:18. Wherefore even the first covenant hath not been dedicated without blood. 9:19. For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses unto all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 9:20. saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded to you-ward. 9:21. Moreover the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry he sprinkled in like manner with the blood. 9:22. And according to the law, I may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission. 9:23. It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 9:24. For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us: 9:25. nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place year by year with blood not his own; 9:26. else must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once at the end of the ages hath he been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 9:27. And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment; 9:28. so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to them that wait for him, unto salvation. 10:1. For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh. 10:2. Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins. 10:3. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance made of sins year by year. 10:4. For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. 10:5. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, But a body didst thou prepare for me; 10:6. In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hadst no pleasure: 10:7. Then said I, Lo, I am come (In the roll of the book it is written of me) To do thy will, O God. 10:8. Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein (the which are offered according to the law), 10:9. then hath he said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10:10. By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 10:11. And every priest indeed standeth day by day ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins: 10:12. but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 10:13. henceforth expecting till his enemies be made the footstool of his feet. 10:14. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. 10:15. And the Holy Spirit also beareth witness to us; for after he hath said, 10:16. This is the covenant that I will make with them After those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws on their heart, And upon their mind also will I write them; then saith he, 10:17. And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 10:18. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. 10:19. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 10:20. by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 10:21. and having a great priest over the house of God; 10:22. let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed with pure water, 10:23. let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised: 10:24. and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works; 10:25. not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh. 10:26. For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins, 10:27. but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries. 10:28. A man that hath set at nought Moses law dieth without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses: 10:29. of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 10:30. For we know him that said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 10:31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 10:32. But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings; 10:33. partly, being made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, becoming partakers with them that were so used. 10:34. For ye both had compassion on them that were in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your possessions, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better possession and an abiding one. 10:35. Cast not away therefore your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward. 10:36. For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise. 10:37. For yet a very little while, He that cometh shall come, and shall not tarry. 10:38. But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him. 10:39. But we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition; but of them that have faith unto the saving of the soul. (Hebrews 4:12-10:39, ASV)

12. For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13. There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

14. Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession. 15. For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin. 16. Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need. 5:1. For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. 5:2. The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness. 5:3. Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself. 5:4. Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was. 5:5. So also Christ didn’t glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father.” 5:6. As he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.” 5:7. He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear, 5:8. though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered. 5:9. Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation, 5:10. named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. 5:11. About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing. 5:12. For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food. 5:13. For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby. 5:14. But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil. 6:1. Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God, 6:2. of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 6:3. This will we do, if God permits. 6:4. For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 6:5. and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, 6:6. and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame. 6:7. For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and produces a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God; 6:8. but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned. 6:9. But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this. 6:10. For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them. 6:11. We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end, 6:12. that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises. 6:13. For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself, 6:14. saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.” 6:15. Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 6:16. For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. 6:17. In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath; 6:18. that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us. 6:19. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil; 6:20. where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. 7:1. For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 7:2. to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, “king of righteousness”, and then also “king of Salem”, which means “king of peace”; 7:3. without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually. 7:4. Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best plunder. 7:5. They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest’s office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham, 7:6. but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises. 7:7. But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater. 7:8. Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives. 7:9. We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes, 7:10. for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met him. 7:11. Now if there were perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron? 7:12. For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law. 7:13. For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar. 7:14. For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood. 7:15. This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest, 7:16. who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life: 7:17. for it is testified, “You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.” 7:18. For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness 7:19. (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God. 7:20. Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath 7:21. (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, “The Lord swore and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’” 7:22. By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant. 7:23. Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death. 7:24. But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable. 7:25. Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them. 7:26. For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 7:27. who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself. 7:28. For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected. 8:1. Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 8:2. a servant of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man. 8:3. For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer. 8:4. For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law; 8:5. who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.” 8:6. But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law. 8:7. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8:8. For finding fault with them, he said, “Behold, the days come”, says the Lord, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; 8:9. not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them,” says the Lord. 8:10. “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 8:11. They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know me, from their least to their greatest. 8:12. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.” 8:13. In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away. 9:1. Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary. 9:2. For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place. 9:3. After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, 9:4. having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant; 9:5. and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail. 9:6. Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services, 9:7. but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people. 9:8. The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing; 9:9. which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect; 9:10. being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation. 9:11. But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, 9:12. nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption. 9:13. For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh: 9:14. how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 9:15. For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 9:16. For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it. 9:17. For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives. 9:18. Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood. 9:19. For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 9:20. saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.” 9:21. Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood. 9:22. According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission. 9:23. It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 9:24. For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; 9:25. nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own, 9:26. or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 9:27. Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment, 9:28. so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation. 10:1. For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near. 10:2. Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins? 10:3. But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins. 10:4. For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. 10:5. Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire, but you prepared a body for me. 10:6. You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. 10:7. Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’” 10:8. Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law), 10:9. then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second, 10:10. by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 10:11. Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins, 10:12. but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God; 10:13. from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet. 10:14. For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. 10:15. The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying, 10:16. “This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’” then he says, 10:17. “I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.” 10:18. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. 10:19. Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 10:20. by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 10:21. and having a great priest over God’s house, 10:22. let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water, 10:23. let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful. 10:24. Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, 10:25. not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching. 10:26. For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, 10:27. but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries. 10:28. A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses. 10:29. How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? 10:30. For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me,” says the Lord, “I will repay.” Again, “The Lord will judge his people.” 10:31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 10:32. But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings; 10:33. partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so. 10:34. For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens. 10:35. Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward. 10:36. For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise. 10:37. “In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait. 10:38. But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” 10:39. But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul. (Hebrews 4:12-10:39, WEB)

12. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

14. Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 15. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. 16. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. 5:1. For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: 5:2. Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity. ^{can: or, can reasonably bear with} 5:3. And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. 5:4. And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. 5:5. So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. 5:6. As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. 5:7. Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; ^{in that: or, for his piety} 5:8. Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; 5:9. And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; 5:10. Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec. 5:11. Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. 5:12. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. 5:13. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. ^{is unskillful: Gr. hath no experience} 5:14. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. ^{of full age: or, perfect use: or, an habit, or, perfection} 6:1. Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, ^{principles: or, word of the beginning of} 6:2. Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 6:3. And this will we do, if God permit. 6:4. For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 6:5. And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6:6. If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. 6:7. For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: ^{by: or, for} 6:8. But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. 6:9. But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. 6:10. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. 6:11. And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: 6:12. That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 6:13. For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, 6:14. Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 6:15. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 6:16. For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 6:17. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: ^{confirmed: Gr. interposed himself by} 6:18. That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 6:19. Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; 6:20. Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. 7:1. For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; 7:2. To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; 7:3. Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually. ^{without descent: Gr. without pedigree} 7:4. Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils. 7:5. And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham: 7:6. But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises. ^{descent: or, pedigree} 7:7. And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better. 7:8. And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth. 7:9. And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham. 7:10. For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him. 7:11. If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron? 7:12. For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. 7:13. For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. 7:14. For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. 7:15. And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, 7:16. Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. 7:17. For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. 7:18. For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. 7:19. For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God. ^{the bringing: or, it was the bringing in} 7:20. And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: 7:21. (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) ^{without: or, without swearing of an oath} 7:22. By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. 7:23. And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: 7:24. But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. ^{an: or, which passeth not from one to another} 7:25. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. ^{to the: or, evermore} 7:26. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 7:27. Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. 7:28. For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore. ^{consecrated: Gr. perfected} 8:1. Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; 8:2. A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. ^{of the sanctuary: or, of holy things} 8:3. For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. 8:4. For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: ^{there: or, they are priests} 8:5. Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount. 8:6. But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. ^{covenant: or, testament} 8:7. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8:8. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 8:9. Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 8:10. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: ^{put: Gr. give in: or, upon} 8:11. And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 8:12. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 8:13. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. 9:1. Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. ^{ordinances: or, ceremonies} 9:2. For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary. ^{the sanctuary: or, holy} 9:3. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; 9:4. Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; 9:5. And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. 9:6. Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. 9:7. But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: 9:8. The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: 9:9. Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; 9:10. Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. ^{ordinances: or, rites, or, ceremonies} 9:11. But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 9:12. Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 9:13. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 9:14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? ^{spot: or, fault} 9:15. And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. 9:16. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. ^{be: or, be brought in} 9:17. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. 9:18. Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood. ^{dedicated: or, purified} 9:19. For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, ^{scarlet: or, purple} 9:20. Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. 9:21. Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. 9:22. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. 9:23. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 9:24. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 9:25. Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; 9:26. For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 9:27. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 9:28. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. 10:1. For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 10:2. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. ^{would: or, they would have ceased to be offered, because, etc.} 10:3. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 10:4. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 10:5. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: ^{hast: or, thou hast fitted me} 10:6. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 10:7. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 10:8. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 10:9. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10:10. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 10:11. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 10:12. But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 10:13. From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. 10:14. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. 10:15. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, 10:16. This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 10:17. And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. ^{And their: some copies have, Then he said, And their} 10:18. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. 10:19. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, ^{boldness: or, liberty} 10:20. By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; ^{consecrated: or, new made} 10:21. And having an high priest over the house of God; 10:22. Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 10:23. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) 10:24. And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 10:25. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. 10:26. For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 10:27. But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 10:28. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: 10:29. Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 10:30. For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 10:31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 10:32. But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; 10:33. Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. 10:34. For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. 10:35. Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. 10:36. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. 10:37. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. 10:38. Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 10:39. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. (Hebrews 4:12-10:39, KJV)

12. for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart; 13. and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things [are] naked and open to His eyes, with whom is our reckoning.

14. Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, may we hold fast the profession, 15. for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but [one] tempted in all things in like manner, apart from sin; 16. we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace, for seasonable help. 5:1. For every chief priest, out of men taken, in behalf of men is set in things [pertaining] to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins, 5:2. able to be gentle to those ignorant and going astray, since himself also is compassed with infirmity; 5:3. and because of this infirmity he ought, as for the people, so also for himself to offer for sins; 5:4. and no one to himself doth take the honour, but he who is called by God, as also Aaron: 5:5. so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: 'My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;' 5:6. as also in another [place] He saith, 'Thou [art] a priest, to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;' 5:7. who in the days of his flesh both prayers and supplications unto Him who was able to save him from death, with strong crying and tears, having offered up, and having been heard in respect to that which he feared, 5:8. through being a Son, did learn by the things which he suffered, the obedience, 5:9. and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during, 5:10. having been addressed by God a chief priest, according to the order of Melchisedek, 5:11. concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing, 5:12. for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what [are] the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food, 5:13. for every one who is partaking of milk [is] unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is an infant, 5:14. and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil. 6:1. Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God, 6:2. of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on also of hands, of rising again also of the dead, and of judgment age-during, 6:3. and this we will do, if God may permit, 6:4. for [it is] impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit, 6:5. and did taste the good saying of God, the powers also of the coming age, 6:6. and having fallen away, again to renew [them] to reformation, having crucified again to themselves the Son of God, and exposed to public shame. 6:7. For earth, that is drinking in the rain many times coming upon it, and is bringing forth herbs fit for those because of whom also it is dressed, doth partake of blessing from God, 6:8. and that which is bearing thorns and briers [is] disapproved of, and nigh to cursing, whose end [is] for burning; 6:9. and we are persuaded, concerning you, beloved, the things that are better, and accompanying salvation, though even thus we speak, 6:10. for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering; 6:11. and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end, 6:12. that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises. 6:13. For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself, 6:14. saying, 'Blessing indeed I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;' 6:15. and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise; 6:16. for men indeed do swear by the greater, and an end of all controversy to them for confirmation [is] the oath, 6:17. in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath, 6:18. that through two immutable things, in which [it is] impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before [us], 6:19. which we have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and entering into that within the vail, 6:20. whither a forerunner for us did enter, Jesus, after the order of Melchisedek chief priest having become, to the age. 7:1. For this Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who did meet Abraham turning back from the smiting of the kings, and did bless him, 7:2. to whom also a tenth of all did Abraham divide, (first, indeed, being interpreted, 'King of righteousness,' and then also, King of Salem, which is, King of Peace,) 7:3. without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, and being made like to the Son of God, doth remain a priest continually. 7:4. And see how great this one [is], to whom also a tenth Abraham the patriarch did give out of the best of the spoils, 7:5. and those, indeed, out of the sons of Levi receiving the priesthood, a command have to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is, their brethren, even though they came forth out of the loins of Abraham; 7:6. and he who was not reckoned by genealogy of them, received tithes from Abraham, and him having the promises he hath blessed, 7:7. and apart from all controversy, the less by the better is blessed 7:8. and here, indeed, men who die do receive tithes, and there [he], who is testified to that he was living, 7:9. and so to speak, through Abraham even Levi who is receiving tithes, hath paid tithes, 7:10. for he was yet in the loins of the father when Melchisedek met him. 7:11. If indeed, then, perfection were through the Levitical priesthood, for the people under it had received law, what further need, according to the order of Melchisedek, for another priest to arise, and not to be called according to the order of Aaron? 7:12. for the priesthood being changed, of necessity also, of the law a change doth come, 7:13. for he of whom these things are said in another tribe hath had part, of whom no one gave attendance at the altar, 7:14. for [it is] evident that out of Judah hath arisen our Lord, in regard to which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. 7:15. And it is yet more abundantly most evident, if according to the similitude of Melchisedek there doth arise another priest, 7:16. who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life, 7:17. for He doth testify, 'Thou [art] a priest, to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;' 7:18. for a disannulling indeed doth come of the command going before because of its weakness, and unprofitableness, 7:19. (for nothing did the law perfect) and the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw nigh to God. 7:20. And inasmuch as [it is] not apart from oath, (for those indeed apart from oath are become priests, 7:21. and he with an oath through Him who is saying unto him, 'The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest, to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;') 7:22. by so much of a better covenant hath Jesus become surety, 7:23. and those indeed are many who have become priests, because by death they are hindered from remaining; 7:24. and he, because of his remaining, to the age, hath the priesthood not transient, 7:25. whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God, ever living to make intercession for them. 7:26. For such a chief priest did become us, kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens, 7:27. who hath no necessity daily, as the chief priests, first for his own sins to offer up sacrifice, then for those of the people; for this he did once, having offered up himself; 7:28. for the law doth appoint men chief priests, having infirmity, but the word of the oath that [is] after the law [appointeth] the Son, to the age having been perfected. 8:1. And the sum concerning the things spoken of [is]: we have such a chief priest, who did sit down at the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens, 8:2. of the holy places a servant, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord did set up, and not man, 8:3. for every chief priest to offer both gifts and sacrifices is appointed, whence [it is] necessary for this one to have also something that he may offer; 8:4. for if, indeed, he were upon earth, he would not be a priest, (there being the priests who are offering according to the law, the gifts, 8:5. who unto an example and shadow do serve of the heavenly things, as Moses hath been divinely warned, being about to construct the tabernacle, for 'See (saith He) thou mayest make all things according to the pattern that was shewn to thee in the mount;') 8:6. and now he hath obtained a more excellent service, how much also of a better covenant is he mediator, which on better promises hath been sanctioned, 8:7. for if that first were faultless, a place would not have been sought for a second. 8:8. For finding fault, He saith to them, 'Lo, days come, saith the Lord, and I will complete with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, a new covenant, 8:9. not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of My taking [them] by their hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not remain in My covenant, and I did not regard them, saith the Lord, 8:10. because this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me for a people; 8:11. and they shall not teach each his neighbour, and each his brother, saying, Know thou the Lord, because they shall all know Me from the small one of them unto the great one of them, 8:12. because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will remember no more;' 8:13. in the saying 'new,' He hath made the first old, and what doth become obsolete and is old [is] nigh disappearing. 9:1. It had, indeed, then (even the first tabernacle) ordinances of service, also a worldly sanctuary, 9:2. for a tabernacle was prepared, the first, in which was both the lamp-stand, and the table, and the bread of the presence, which is called 'Holy;' 9:3. and after the second vail a tabernacle that is called 'Holy of holies,' 9:4. having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid all round about with gold, in which [is] the golden pot having the manna, and the rod of Aaron that budded, and the tables of the covenant, 9:5. and over it cherubim of the glory, overshadowing the mercy-seat, concerning which we are not now to speak particularly. 9:6. And these things having been thus prepared, into the first tabernacle, indeed, at all times the priests do go in, performing the services, 9:7. and into the second, once in the year, only the chief priest, not apart from blood, which he doth offer for himself and the errors of the people, 9:8. the Holy Spirit this evidencing that not yet hath been manifested the way of the holy [places], the first tabernacle having yet a standing; 9:9. which [is] a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to make perfect him who is serving, 9:10. only in victuals, and drinks, and different baptisms, and fleshly ordinances, till the time of reformation imposed upon [them]. 9:11. And Christ being come, chief priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation 9:12. neither through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, did enter in once into the holy places, age-during redemption having obtained; 9:13. for if the blood of bulls, and goats, and ashes of an heifer, sprinkling those defiled, doth sanctify to the purifying of the flesh, 9:14. how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 9:15. And because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance, 9:16. for where a covenant [is], the death of the covenant-victim to come in is necessary, 9:17. for a covenant over dead victims [is] stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth, 9:18. whence not even the first apart from blood hath been initiated, 9:19. for every command having been spoken, according to law, by Moses, to all the people, having taken the blood of the calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he both the book itself and all the people did sprinkle, 9:20. saying, 'This [is] the blood of the covenant that God enjoined unto you,' 9:21. and both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the service with blood in like manner he did sprinkle, 9:22. and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come. 9:23. [It is] necessary, therefore, the pattern indeed of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these; 9:24. for not into holy places made with hands did the Christ enter, figures of the true, but into the heaven itself, now to be manifested in the presence of God for us; 9:25. nor that he may many times offer himself, even as the chief priest doth enter into the holy places every year with blood of others; 9:26. since it had behoved him many times to suffer from the foundation of the world, but now once, at the full end of the ages, for putting away of sin through his sacrifice, he hath been manifested; 9:27. and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this, judgment, 9:28. so also the Christ, once having been offered to bear the sins of many, a second time, apart from a sin-offering, shall appear, to those waiting for him, to salvation! 10:1. For the law having a shadow of the coming good things, not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near, 10:2. since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified? 10:3. but in those [sacrifices] is a remembrance of sins every year, 10:4. for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 10:5. Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, 'Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me, 10:6. in burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offerings, Thou didst not delight, 10:7. then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;' 10:8. saying above, 'Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering Thou didst not will, nor delight in,', which according to the law are offered 10:9. then he said, 'Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish; 10:10. in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once, 10:11. and every priest, indeed, hath stood daily serving, and the same sacrifices many times offering, that are never able to take away sins. 10:12. And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered, to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, 10:13. as to the rest, expecting till He may place his enemies [as] his footstool, 10:14. for by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified; 10:15. and testify to us also doth the Holy Spirit, for after that He hath said before, 10:16. 'This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws on their hearts, and upon their minds I will write them,' 10:17. and 'their sins and their lawlessness I will remember no more;' 10:18. and where forgiveness of these [is], there is no more offering for sin. 10:19. Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus, 10:20. which way he did initiate for us, new and living, through the vail, that is, his flesh 10:21. and a high priest over the house of God, 10:22. may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water; 10:23. may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope, (for faithful [is] He who did promise), 10:24. and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, 10:25. not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain [is], but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh. 10:26. For we, wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth, no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice, 10:27. but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers; 10:28. any one who did set at nought a law of Moses, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, doth die, 10:29. of how much sorer punishment shall he be counted worthy who the Son of God did trample on, and the blood of the covenant did count a common thing, in which he was sanctified, and to the Spirit of the grace did despite? 10:30. for we have known Him who is saying, 'Vengeance [is] Mine, I will recompense, saith the Lord;' and again, 'The Lord shall judge His people;' 10:31. fearful [is] the falling into the hands of a living God. 10:32. And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure much conflict of sufferings, 10:33. partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living, 10:34. for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one. 10:35. Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward, 10:36. for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise, 10:37. for yet a very very little, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry; 10:38. and 'the righteous by faith shall live,' and 'if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,' 10:39. and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul. (Hebrews 4:12-10:39, YLT)