they should not enter into his rest, the thoughts and intents of the but to thein that believed not? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. CHAP. IV. ET us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. e 3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. I 4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, and God did rest the seventh day from all his works. 5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. heart. t 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. d 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. d 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. CHAP. V. IOR every high priest taken 'FOR every high priest taken ed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: 6 Seeing therefore it remaineth 2 Who can have compassion on that some must enter therein, and the ignorant, and on them that are they to whom it was first preach-out of the way; for that he himself ed entered not in because of un- also is compassed with infirmity. belief: t3 And by reason hereof he ought as for the people, so also for him. self, to offer for sins. e 7 (Again he limiteth a certain day saying in David, To-day, after so long a time; as it is said, Today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. b 9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 4 And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron: h 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. 10 For he that is entered into 6 As he saith also in another his rest, he also hath ceased from place, Thou art a priest for ever his own works,as God did from his.) after the order of Melchizedec. d 11 Let us labour therefore to en-s? Who in the days of his flesh, ter into that rest, lest any man fall when he had offered up prayers after the same example of unbelief. and supplications with strong cryt 12 For the word of God is quick, ing and tears unto him that was and powerful, and sharper than able to save him from death, and any two-edged sword, piercing was heard, in that he feared; even to the dividing asunder of d 8 Though he were a Son, yet soul and spirit, and of the joints learned he obedience by the things and marrow, and is a discerner of which he suffered; tion m; 9 And being made perfect, he for them by whom it is dressed, came the author of eternal sal- receiveth blessing from God: unto all them that obey t 8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh 10 Called of God a high priest unto cursing; whose end is to be fter the order of Melchizedec. burned. 11 Of whom we have many 9 But, beloved, we are persuadings to say, and hard to be uttered better things of you, and things 1, seeing ye are dull of hearing. that accompany salvation, though 12 For when for the time ye we thus speak. ught to be teachers, ye have need e 10 For God is not unrighteous hat one teach you again which to forget your work and labour of e the first principles of the oracles love, which ye have shewed toof God; and are become such as ward his name, in that ye have ave need of milk, and not of ministered to the saints, and do trong meat. minister. 13 For every one that useth b 11 And we desire that every one nilk, is unskilful in the word of of you do shew the same diligence ighteousness: for he is a babe. to the full assurance of hope unto 14 But strong meat belongeth the end: to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. d d 12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. CHAP. VI. 13 For when God made promise THEREFORE leaving the to Abraham, because he could of swear by no greater, he swear Christ, let us go on unto perfec- himself, tion, not laying again the foun-b 14 Saying, Surely blessing I will dation of repentance from dead bless thee, and multiplying I will works, and of faith toward God, multiply thee. t 2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, 15 And so, after he had patientand of laying on of hands, and of ly endured, he obtained the proresurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. mise. 16 For men verily swear by the 3 And this will we do, if God greater: and an oath for confirpermit. mation is to them an end of all w 4 For it is impossible for those strife. who were once enlightened, and t 17 Wherein God, willing more have tasted of the heavenly gift, abundantly to shew unto the heirs and were made partakers of the of promise the immutability of his Holy Ghost, counsel, confirmed it by an oath: 5 And have tasted the good word i 18 That by two immutable things, of God and the powers of the world to come, D 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. 7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet 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: d 19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the vail; 30 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an ter the order of Melchizedes, and high priest for ever after the order not be called after the order a of Melchizedec. Aaron? 12 For the priesthood being CHAP. VII. NOR this Melchizedec,king of changed, there is made of necess Salem, priest of the most ty a change also of the law. high God, who met Abraham re- 13 For he of whom these thing turning from the slaughter of the are spoken pertaineth to another kings, and blessed him; tribe, of which no man gave at tendance at the altar. f14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing c cerning priesthood. e 2 To whom also Abraham gave á tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; D 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. 4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils. 15 And it is yet far more en dent: for that after the similitude of Melchizedec there ariseth andther priest, 16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. 17 For he testifieth, Thou art 1 priest for ever after the order of Melchizedec. L 5 And verily they they are of 18 For there is verily a disan the sons of Levi who receive the nulling of the commandment going office of the priesthood, have a before, for the weakness and uncommandment to take tithes of profitableness thereof. the people according to the law,t 19 For the law made nothing that is of their brethren, though perfect, but the bringing in of a they come out of the loins of better hope did; by the which we Abraham: draw nigh unto God. 6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises. 7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better. 8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth. 9 And as I may so say, Levi, also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham. 20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: 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 re pent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedec:) 22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. 13 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suf fered to continue by reason of death: 10 For he was yet in the loins t 24 But this man, because he of his father, when Melchizedec continueth ever, hath an unmet him. changeable priesthood. t 11 If therefore perfection were t 25 Wherefore he is able also to by the Levitical priesthood, (for save them to the uttermost that under it the people received the come unto God by him, seeing law,) what further need was there he ever liveth to make intercession that another priest should rise af- for them. 26 For such a high priest be- ja new covenant with the house me us, who is holy, harmless, of Israel and with the house of defiled, separate from sinners, Judah: d made higher than the heavens; g 9 Not according to the covenant 27 Who needeth not daily, as that I made with their fathers, in ose high priests, to offer up sa- the day when I took them by the ifice, first for his own sins, and hand to lead them out of the land en for the people's: for this he of Egypt; because they continued id once, when he offered up not in my covenant, and I regardimself. ed them not, saith the Lord. 28 For the law maketh men t 10 For this is the covenant that high priests which have infirmity; I will make with the house of ut the word of the oath, which Israel, after those days, saith the vas since the law, maketh the Son, Lord; I will put my laws into who is consecrated forevermore. their mind, and write them in their hearts; and I will be to them a CHAP. VIII. 'NOW TOW of the things which God, and they shall be to me a we have spoken this is the people: sum: We have such a high priest, r 11 And they shall not teach who is set on the right hand of the every man his neighbour, and throne of the Majesty in the hea vens; 2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. 13 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. every man his brother, saying, 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 4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts away. according to the law: CHAP. IX. 5 Who serve unto the example had also ordinances of divine HEN verily the first covenant, 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. service, and a worldly sanctuary. f2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shew-bread; which is called the Sanctuary. t 6 But now hath he obtained a T 3 And after the second vail, the more excellent ministry, by how tabernacle which is called the much also he is the mediator of a Holiest of all; better covenant, which was established upon better promises. f4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant over7 For if that first covenant had laid round about with gold, wherebeen faultless, then should no in was the golden pot that had place have been sought for the manna, and Aaron's rod that second. budded, and the tables of the a 8 For finding fault with them, covenant; he saith, Behold, the days come, 5 And over it the cherubims of saith the Lord, when I will make glory shadowing the mercy-seat; of which we particularly. cannot now speak ceive the promise of eternal inhe ritance. 16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God: f7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offer- testator liveth. ed for himself, and for the errors of the people: 17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the f 18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood. 19 For when Moses had spoken t8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, every precept to all the people while as the first tabernacle was according to the law, he took the yet standing: blood of calves, and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hys sop, and sprinkled both the book and all the people, 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 20 Saying, This is the blood of the service perfect, as pertaining the testament which God hath to the conscience; enjoined unto you. 10 Which stood only in meats 21 Moreover, he sprinkled likeand drinks, and divers washings wise with blood both the tabernaand carnal ordinances, imposed cle, and all the vessels of the on them until the time of reforma- ministry. tion. t 22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. 11 But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, f23 It was therefore necessary that is to say, not of this building; that the patterns of things in the t* 12 Neither by the blood of goats heavens should be purified with and calves, but by his own blood, these; but the heavenly things he entered in once into the holy themselves with better sacrifices place, having obtained eternal re- than these. demption for us. 13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: t 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 t 14 How much more shall the for us: blood of Christ, who through the 25 Nor yet that he should offer eternal Spirit offered himself with- himself often, as the high priest out spot to God, purge your con- entereth into the holy place every science from dead works to serve year with blood of others; the living God? t 26 For then must he often have b 15 And for this cause he is the suffered since the foundation of mediator of the new testament, the world: but now once in the that by means of death, for the end of the world hath he appeared redemption of the transgressions to put away sin by the sacrifice 0. that were under the first testament, himself. they which are called might re-t 27 And as it is appointed unto |