Sit on my right hand,

Obligation to heed

Until I make thine enemies thy footstool?

Truth

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to Gospel minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? * Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed 5 to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; 10 which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. But one in

a certain place testified, saying,

What is man,

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That thou art mindful of him?

Or the son of man,

That thou visitest him?

Thou madest him a little lower

Than the angels;

Thou crownedst him

With glory and honour,

And didst set him over the works of thy hands:

Thou hast put all things in subjection

Under his feet.

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Christ For in that he put all in subjection under him, he Creator left nothing that is not put under him. But now we & Lord see not yet all things put under him. But we see of all Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels

5 for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and
honour; that he by the grace of God should taste
death for every man.
For it became him, for whom
are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing
many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their
Io salvation perfect through sufferings.

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For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying,

I will declare thy name unto my brethren,

In the midst of the church

Will I sing praise unto thee.

And again,

Behold I and the children

Which God hath given me.

Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him 25 that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

For verily he took not on him the nature of angels;

fore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto Christ
his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful Apostle
high priest in things pertaining to God, to make re- & High
conciliation for the sins of the people. For in that Priest
he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to 5
succour them that are tempted.

* Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly
calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our
profession, Christ Jesus who was faithful to him
that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all 10
his house. For this man was counted worthy of
more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath
builded the house hath more honour than the house.
For every house is builded by some man; but he that
built all things is God. And Moses verily was faith-
ful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of
those things which were to be spoken after; but
Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are
we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing
of the hope firm unto the end.

Wherefore as the Holy Ghost saith,

To day if ye will hear his voice,
Harden not your hearts,

As in the provocation,

In the day of temptation

In the wilderness:

When your fathers tempted me, proved me,
And saw my works forty years.

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Warnings

against Unbelief

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Wherefore I was grieved

With that generation, and said,
They do alway err in their heart;
And they have not known my ways.
So I sware in my wrath,

They shall not enter into my rest.

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called 10 To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; while it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the 15 provocation.

For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the 20 wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

* Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us 25 of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. For we which have believed do enter into

rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they The shall enter into my rest: although the works were Dangers finished from the foundation of the world. For he of spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this Apostasy wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all s his works. And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: (again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, 10 To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For 15 he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.)

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Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and 20 sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things 25 are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is