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But we passionately want each of you to demonstrate the same eagerness for the fulfillment of your hope until the end,

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, he has neither beginning of days nor end of life but is like the son of God, and he remains a priest for all time.

But see how great he must be, if Abraham the patriarch gave him a tithe of his plunder.

But Melchizedek who does not share their ancestry collected a tithe from Abraham and blessed the one who possessed the promise.

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.

but Jesus did so with a sworn affirmation by the one who said to him, " The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind , ‘ You are a priest forever '"—

but he holds his priesthood permanently since he lives forever.

For the law appoints as high priests men subject to weakness, but the word of solemn affirmation that came after the law appoints a son made perfect forever.

But now Jesus has obtained a superior ministry, since the covenant that he mediates is also better and is enacted on better promises.

But showing its fault, God says to them, " Look , the days are coming , says the Lord , when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah .

But only the high priest enters once a year into the inner tent, and not without blood that he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption.

So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands—the representation of the true sanctuary—but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God's presence for us.

for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice.

so also, after Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, to those who eagerly await him he will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation.

For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.

But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year.