but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house—whose house we are, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the boast of our hope.

For we have become partakers of Christ if we keep the beginning of our commitment firm until the end,

So too Christ did not glorify Himself in becoming a high priest, but it was He who said to Him, “You are My Son, Today I have fathered You”;

The Danger of Falling Away

Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

Melchizedek’s Priesthood like Christ’s

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham as he was returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things having come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made by hands, that is, not of this creation;

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

For Christ did not enter a holy place made by hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.

One Sacrifice of Christ Is Sufficient

For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the form of those things itself, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually every year, make those who approach perfect.

By this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time.

Christ or Judgment

For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking to the reward.

The Changeless Christ

Let love of the brothers and sisters continue.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, and forever.

equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.