He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution,

The Founder of Salvation

For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.

putting everything in subjection under his feet.” Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.

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

Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.)

But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.

for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.

and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,

Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things—things that belong to salvation.

and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.

For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.

For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer.

They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.”

In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.

For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own,

Christ's Sacrifice Once for All

For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.