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and, `Thou, at the beginning, Lord, the earth didst found, and a work of thy hands are the heavens;

Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens -- Jesus the Son of God -- may we hold fast the profession,

For such a chief priest did become us -- kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens,

And the sum concerning the things spoken of [is]: we have such a chief priest, who did sit down at the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens,

[It is] necessary, therefore, the pattern indeed of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these;

for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.

to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,

for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God,

and the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.

and it will come -- the day of the Lord -- as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.

waiting for and hasting to the presence of the day of God, by which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements with burning heat shall melt;

and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell;

because of this be glad, ye heavens, and those in them who do tabernacle; wo to those inhabiting the land and the sea, because the Devil did go down unto you, having great wrath, having known that he hath little time.'