2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of
eternal judgment.
3 And this will we do, if God permit.
4 For it isimpossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly
gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to
themselves the Son of God afresh, and put himto an open shame.
7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs
meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
8 But that which beareth thorns and briers isrejected, and isnigh unto cursing; whose end is
to be burned.
9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation,
though we thus speak.
10 For God isnot unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed
toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of
hope unto the end:
12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the
promises.
13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by
himself,
14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation isto them an end of all
strife.
17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of
his counsel, confirmed itby an oath:
18 That by two immutable things, in which it wasimpossible for God to lie, we might have a
strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
19 Which hopewe have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into
that within the veil;
20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, evenJesus, made an high priest for ever after the
order of Melchisedec.
1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning
from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of
righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of
life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth
of the spoils.
5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a
commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren,
though they come out of the loins of Abraham:
6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him
that had the promises.
7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed
that he liveth.
9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.
10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received
the law,) what further need was therethat another priest should rise after the order of
Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave
attendance at the altar.
14 For it isevident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing
concerning priesthood.
15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth
another priest,
16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless
life.
17 For he testifieth, Thou arta priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and
unprofitableness thereof.
19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we
draw nigh unto God.
20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:
21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto
him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou arta priest for ever after the order of
Melchisedec:)
22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of
death:
24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing
he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
26 For such an high priest became us, who isholy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners,
and made higher than the heavens;
27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins,
and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which
was since the law, makeththe Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
1 Now of the things which we have spoken this isthe sum: We have such an high priest, who is
set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it isof necessity
that this man have somewhat also to offer.
4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer
gifts according to the law:
5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God
when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, thatthou make all things
according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a
better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
7 For if that first covenanthad been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the
second.
8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make
a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by
the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I
regarded them not, saith the Lord.
10 For this isthe covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the
Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a
God, and they shall be to me a people:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know
the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I
remember no more.
13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and
waxeth old isready to vanish away.
1 Then verily the first covenanthad also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein wasthe candlestick, and the table, and
the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold,
wherein wasthe golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the
covenant;
5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak
particularly.
6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle,
accomplishing the service of God.
7 But into the second wentthe high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he
offered for himself, and forthe errors of the people:
8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made
manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
9 Which wasa figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and
sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the
conscience;
10 Which stoodonly in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed
on themuntil the time of reformation.
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the
holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean,
sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself
without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the
redemption of the transgressions that wereunder the first testament, they which are called
might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
17 For a testament isof force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while
