they will perish, but you remain; they will all grow old like a garment,

you will roll them up like a mantle; and like a garment they will be changed. But you remain the same, and your years will never end."

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to serve for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, 'They always go astray in their hearts; and they have not known my ways.'

As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall never enter my rest.'"

Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?

And to whom did he swear that they would never enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.

For we also have had the good news preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall never enter my rest,'" although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.

And again in this place he said, "They shall never enter my rest."

and then have fallen away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put him to an open shame.

The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office;

They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary; for when Moses was about to erect the tabernacle, he was instructed by God, saying, "See that you make everything according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain."

not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not continue in my covenant, and so I paid no heed to them, says the Lord.

This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and I will write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

And they shall not teach every one his fellow or every one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest.

since they relate only to food and drink and various washings regulations for the flesh imposed until the time of reformation.

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered? If the worshipers had once been cleansed, they would no longer have any consciousness of sins.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from a distance, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

For people who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.

And if they had been thinking of that country from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.

But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king's edict.

By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.

Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

because God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.

For they could not endure the order that was given, "If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned."

See to it that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less shall we escape, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven?

Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as men who will have to give account. Let them do this with joy, and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.