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And God was a witness with them, by signs and wonders, and by more than natural powers, and by his distribution of the Holy Spirit at his pleasure.

But a certain writer has given his witness, saying, What is man, that you keep him in mind? what is the son of man, that you take him into account?

You put all things under his feet. For in making man the ruler over all things, God did not put anything outside his authority; though we do not see everything under him now.

Because it was right for him, for whom and through whom all things have being, in guiding his sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation complete through pain.

And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;

Because of this it was necessary for him to be made like his brothers in every way, so that he might be a high priest full of mercy and keeping faith in everything to do with God, making offerings for the sins of the people.

Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.

And Moses certainly kept faith as a servant, in all his house, and as a witness of those things which were to be said later;

But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.

And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,

As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.

Who made him angry when his voice came to them? was it not all those who came out of Egypt with Moses?

And to whom did he make an oath that they might not come into his rest? was it not to those who went against his orders?

Let us then, though we still have God's word that we may come into his rest, go in fear that some of you may be unable to do so.

For those of us who have belief come into his rest; even as he has said, As I said in my oath when I was angry, They may not come into my rest: though the works were done from the time of the making of the world.

For in one place he has said of the seventh day, And God had rest from all his works on the seventh day;

After a long time, again naming a certain day, he says in David, Today (as he had said before), Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart,

For the man who comes into his rest has had rest from his works, as God did from his.

Having then a great high priest, who has made his way through the heavens, even Jesus the Son of God, let us be strong in our faith.

Every high priest who is taken from among men is given his position to take care of the interests of men in those things which have to do with God, so that he may make offerings for sins.