Thou hast loved righteousness and hast hated lawlessness; therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with oil of gladness above thy companions.

For he has not subjected to angels the habitable world which is to come, of which we speak;

Concerning whom we have much to say, and hard to be interpreted in speaking [of it], since ye are become dull in hearing.

But we are persuaded concerning you, beloved, better things, and connected with salvation, even if we speak thus.

For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and [still] ministering.

and, so to speak, through Abraham, Levi also, who received tithes, has been made to pay tithes.

Now a summary of the things of which we are speaking [is], We have such a one high priest who has sat down on [the] right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens;

and above over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy-seat; concerning which it is not now [the time] to speak in detail.

and let us consider one another for provoking to love and good works;

For where we sin wilfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any sacrifice for sins,

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained testimony of being righteous, God bearing testimony to his gifts, and by it, having died, he yet speaks.

And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, despise not [the] chastening of [the] Lord, nor faint [when] reproved by him;

for whom [the] Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.

and to Jesus, mediator of a new covenant; and to [the] blood of sprinkling, speaking better than Abel.

See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him [who does so] from heaven:

Let brotherly love abide.

[Let your] conversation [be] without love of money, satisfied with [your] present circumstances; for *he* has said, I will not leave thee, neither will I forsake thee.