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And before him no creature is hidden, but all are open and laid bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

And one does not take the honor upon himself, but he is called by God, just as Aaron was.

So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, "Thou art my Son, today I have begotten thee";

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed; its end is to be burned.

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

He is without father or mother or genealogy, and has neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest for ever.

But this man who has not their genealogy received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.

who has become a priest, not according to a legal requirement concerning bodily descent but by the power of an indestructible life.

Those who formerly became priests took their office without an oath, but this one was addressed with an oath, "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, 'Thou art a priest for ever.'"

but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues for ever.

Indeed, the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect for ever.

a minister in the sanctuary and the true tent which is set up not by man but by the Lord.

But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry which is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.

but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people.

but deal only with food and drink and various ablutions, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)

he entered once for all into the Holy Place, taking not the blood of goats and calves but his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.

Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.