which [was] symbolic for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are being offered, which are not able, in respect to conscience, to make perfect the [one] performing the service,

[concerned] only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances which are imposed until a time of reformation.

For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the image itself of the things, can never with the same sacrifices, which they offer continually every year, make those approaching perfect.

Even so we, when we were minors, were enslaved by the elements of the world.

But now, having known God, or rather, having been known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which once again you wish to be slaves?

having blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and He has taken it out of the midst, nailing it to the cross.

If you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you submit to regulations--

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

For He testifies: "You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek."

for they have become priests without an oath, but He with an oath by Him that said to Him: "The LORD has sworn and will not relent, 'You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek'",

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

Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those coming to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

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

I am He who lives, and became dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Death and of Hades.