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For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.

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

So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him: "You are My Son,Today I have begotten You." Psalms 2:7 ">[fn]

But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

but if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you, yes, things that accompany salvation, though we speak in this manner.

that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.

but he whose genealogy is not derived from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.

Here mortal men receive tithes, but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.

who has come, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life.

(for they have become priests without an oath, but He with an oath by Him who said to Him: "The Lord has swornAnd will not relent,'You are a priest forever [fn] According to the order of Melchizedek' "), Psalms 110:4 ">[fn]

But He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.

For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever.

But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.

But into the second part the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the people's sins committed in ignorance;

But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, [fn] with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.

Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;