The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes; and to Him shall be the cleansing of the peoples.

Then I said, Lo, I come (in the volume of the Book it is written of Me):

And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob, says Jehovah.

Behold, I send My messenger, and He will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord whom you seek shall suddenly come to His temple, even the Messenger of the Covenant, in whom you delight. Behold, He comes, says Jehovah of Hosts.

And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are not the least among the leaders of Judah; for out of you shall come One leading Who will shepherd My people Israel.

and said to Him, Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?

The woman said to Him, I know that Messiah is coming (who is called Christ). When He comes, He will make known all things to us.

By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not from God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

For many corrupters have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a corrupter and an antichrist.

Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in the things pertaining to God, in order to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the Heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,

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.

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.

As He also says in another place: You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek;

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the Law), what further need was there that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be called according to the order of Aaron?

For He of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no man has attended at the altar.

And it is yet far more evident if, in the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another priest

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

For the Law made nothing perfect, but a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

(for they have become priests without an oath, but He with an oath by Him who said to Him: The Lord has sworn and will not repent, You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek),

Also there were many priests, because they were prevented by death from continuing.

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

Now this is the main point of the things being said: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

For the Law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of those things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.

Then indeed, even the first covenant had ordinances of service and the earthly sanctuary.

and behind the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

and above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.

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

It was a comparison for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience;

a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

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 on our behalf;

However, the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says:

God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of Heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.

Nor is He served with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.

For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in Heaven.

In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,