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For it was becoming to Him, because of whom are the all things, and through whom are the all things, many sons to glory bringing, the author of their salvation through sufferings to make perfect,

for both he who is sanctifying and those sanctified are all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

saying, `I will declare Thy name to my brethren, in the midst of an assembly I will sing praise to Thee;' and again, `I will be trusting on Him;'

and again, `Behold I and the children that God did give to me.'

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death--that is, the devil--

for, doubtless, of messengers it doth not lay hold, but of seed of Abraham it layeth hold,

wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people,

for in that he suffered, himself being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,

being stedfast to Him who did appoint him, as also Moses in all his house,

for of more glory than Moses hath this one been counted worthy, inasmuch as more honour than the house hath he who doth build it,

for every house is builded by some one, and He who the all things did build is God,

and Moses indeed was stedfast in all his house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken,

and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.

Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear--

in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;

wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;

so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest--!')

for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,

in its being said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,'

but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? --

We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,

for we do enter into the rest--we who did believe, as He said, `So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest--;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,

for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh day thus: `And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'