God’s Supreme Revelation

God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,

But when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says: “Let all the angels of God worship Him.”

But to the Son He says: “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.

You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.”

God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.

And again: “I will put My trust in Him.” And again: “Here am I and the children whom God has given Me.”

Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.

Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”;

There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.

For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.

For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Our Compassionate High Priest

Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

Qualifications for High Priesthood

For every high priest taken from among men is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called by God, just as Aaron was.

who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear,

called by God as High Priest “according to the order of Melchizedek,”

Spiritual Immaturity

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

The Peril of Not Progressing

Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

And this we will do if God permits.

and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,

if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.

For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God;