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We have, therefore, a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus Christ, the Son of God; let us remain firm in his faith.

FOR every high priest chosen from among men is ordained on behalf of men about things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

And no man takes this honor unto himself, but only he who is called of God as was Aar''on.

So he was called by God, a high priest after the order of Mel-chis''e-dec.

By now you should be teachers because you have been a long time in training: But even now you need to be taught the primary writings of the word of God; but you are still in need of milk, and not strong meat.

THEREFORE, let us leave the elementary word of Christ, and let us go on to perfection: Why do you again lay another foundation for the repentance from past deeds, and for faith in God?

And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

For, for them to sin again, and be renewed again by repentance, they crucify the Son of God a second time, and put him to open shame.

For the earth which drinks in the rain that falls abundantly on it, and brings forth herbs useful to those for whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God:

For God is not unjust to forget your works and your labor of love which you have made known in his name, for you have ministered to the saints and still do minister.

For when God made a promise to A''braham, because there was none greater than himself by whom he could swear, he swore by himself,

Therefore, because God wanted more abundantly to show to the heirs of promise that his agreement was unchangeable, he sealed it by an oath.

Thus, by the promise and by the oath which are unchangeable, and in neither of which could God lie, we find courage to hold fast to the hope that has been promised by him in whom we have taken refuge.

FOR this Mel-chis''e-dec was king of Sa lem, the priest of the most high God, who met A''bra-ham, returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;

Neither his father nor his mother is recorded in the genealogies; and neither the beginning of his days nor the end of his life; but, like the Son of God, his priesthood abides for ever.

For the law made nothing perfect, but there has come in its place a better hope, by which we draw near to God.

Therefore he is able to forever save those who come to God by him because forever he lives to make intercession for them.

And he has become the minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which God pitched and not man.

For this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law into their minds, and I will write it on their hearts: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works so that we may serve the living God?