taking a place by so much better than the angels, as he inherits a name more excellent than they.

For he has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by how much he that has built it has more honour than the house.

Concerning whom we have much to say, and hard to be interpreted in speaking of it, since ye are become dull in hearing.

And by how much it was not without the swearing of an oath;

by so much Jesus became surety of a better covenant.

But now he has got a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is mediator of a better covenant, which is established on the footing of better promises.

how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worship the living God?

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the custom is with some; but encouraging one another, and by so much the more as ye see the day drawing near.

of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and esteemed the blood of the covenant, whereby he has been sanctified, common, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings;

Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him who does so from heaven:

But I much more beseech you to do this, that I may the more quickly be restored to you.