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You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.”
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You made them a little lower than the angels; you crowned them with glory and honor
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But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
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But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.
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That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’
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We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.
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And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?
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For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.
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Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
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He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he himself is subject to weakness.
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In the same way, Christ did not take on himself the glory of becoming a high priest. But God said to him, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father.”
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During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.
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Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.
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Therefore let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God,
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Even though we speak like this, dear friends, we are convinced of better things in your case—the things that have to do with salvation.
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Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath.
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Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.
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And without doubt the lesser is blessed by the greater.
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And it was not without an oath! Others became priests without any oath,
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but he became a priest with an oath when God said to him: “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: ‘You are a priest forever.’”
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For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.
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But God found fault with the people and said: “The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.
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It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord.
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This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
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A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were the lampstand and the table with its consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place.
