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For nowhere doth he take hold of the angels: but of the seed of Abraham he taketh hold.

Wherefore, it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest before God, that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the people.

For in that wherein he himself hath suffered and been tempted he is able to succour them also that are tempted.

For this man was counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by so much as he that hath built the house hath greater honour than the house.

For every house is built by some man: but he that created all things is God.

And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be said:

Forty years: for which cause I was offended with this generation, and I said: They always err in heart. And they have not known my ways.

For we are made partakers of Christ: yet so, if we hold the beginning of his substance firm unto the end.

For some who heard did provoke: but not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

For unto us also it hath been declared in like manner as unto them. But the word of hearing did not profit them, not being mixed with faith of those things they heard.

For we, who have believed, shall enter into rest; as he said: As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest; and this indeed when the works from the foundation of the world were finished.

For in a certain place he spoke of the seventh day thus: And God rested the seventh day from all his works.

For if Jesus had given them rest he would never have afterwards spoken of another day.

There remaineth therefore a day of rest for the people of God.

For he that is entered into his rest, the same also hath rested from his works, as God did from his.

For the word of God is living and effectual and more piercing than any two edged sword; and reaching unto the division of the soul and the spirit, of the joints also and the marrow: and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

For we have not a high priest who cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin.

For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and sacrifices for sins:

And therefore he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

As he saith also in another place: Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech.