You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of joy above Your companions.”

God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, and by various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own will.

You have made him for a little while lower than angels; You have crowned him with glory and honor;

Jesus Briefly Humbled

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

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

Therefore I was angry with this generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they did not know My ways’;

For we have become partakers of Christ if we keep the beginning of our commitment firm until the end,

And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also did; but the word they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united with those who listened with faith.

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

Therefore let’s approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace for help at the time of our need.

he can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is clothed in weakness;

So too Christ did not glorify Himself in becoming a high priest, but it was He who said to Him, “You are My Son, Today I have fathered You”;

In the days of His humanity, He offered up both prayers and pleas with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His devout behavior.

For everyone who partakes only of milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.

The Danger of Falling Away

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 people swear an oath by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath serving as confirmation is an end of every dispute.

In the same way God, desiring even more to demonstrate to the heirs of the promise the fact that His purpose is unchangeable, confirmed it with an oath,

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

Melchizedek’s Priesthood like Christ’s

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham as he was returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

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 perpetually.

But without any dispute the lesser person is blessed by the greater.

For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, a tribe with reference to which Moses said nothing concerning priests.

And to the extent that it was not without an oath

(for they indeed became priests without an oath, but He with an oath through the One who said to Him, “The Lord has sworn And will not change His mind, ‘You are a priest forever’”);