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who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly mitzvah, but after the power of an endless life:

for they indeed have been made Kohanim without an oath; but he with an oath by him that says of him, "The Lord swore and will not change his mind, 'You are a Kohen forever, According to the order of Malki-Tzedek'".

But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable.

For the law appoints men Kohenim Gedolim, having infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, appoints a Son, perfected forevermore.

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.

In that he says, "A new covenant," he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

but into the second the Kohen Gadol alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.

But Messiah having come as a Kohen Gadol of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

For Messiah entered not into a holy place made with hands, similar in pattern to the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us;

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

But in those sacrifices there is a memory made of sins year by year.

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, But a body did you prepare for me;

but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.