being so much greater than the angels, that he has inherited a name so much more excellent than they.

and thou shalt roll them up like a mantle, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail thee.

For both the one sanctifying and they who are sanctified are all of one: on account of which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

Therefore I was provoked with this generation, and I said, They do always err in their heart: and they have not known my way,

as I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

for who were those, having heard, who were hardened? yea, were they not all those having come out of Egypt under Moses?

And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who believed not?

And we see that they were not able to enter in on account of their unbelief.

For we truly have had the gospel preached unto us, as they did also: but the word of hearing did not profit them, not being mixed with faith to those hearing.

For we who have believed, do enter into rest: as he has said, As I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest: the works truly having been from the foundations of the world.

And in this again he has said, They shall not enter into my rest.

And indeed many have been made priests, because they were prohibited by death from continuing:

not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they abode not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, says the Lord.

Because this is my covenant which I will establish with the house of Israel after these days, says the Lord; having given my laws in their mind, I will also write them on their heart; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be unto me a people.

And they shall no longer teach each one his neighbor, each one his brother, saying, Know ye the Lord: because all shall know me, from their small even unto the great.

For the law having the shadow of good things to come, not the real image of the things, annually with the same sacrifices which they offer continually, is by no means able to make perfect those coming to it:

since in that case would they not have ceased being offered, because the worshipers having once been purified would have had no more conscience of sins?

Therefore indeed they were born of one, and those things of one having died, as the stars of heaven for multitude, and as the sands which are by the sea, which are innumerable.

These all died in the faith, not having received the promises, but seeing them afar off, and embracing them, and confessing that they are strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

For those speaking such things declare that they are seeking after a country of their own.

If indeed they remember that country from which they came out, they would have had an opportunity to return;

but now they seek a better country, that is, a heavenly. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he has prepared for them a city.

By faith Moses, having been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child; and did not fear the commandment of the king.

By faith they pass through the Red sea as through dry land: the undertaking of which the Egyptians having entered upon were drowned.

women receive their dead from a resurrection: some were tortured, not accepting deliverance; in order that they might receive a better resurrection:

they were stoned, they were tempted, they were burnt, they died by the edge of the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, troubled, persecuted,

God having reserved something better for us, that they might not be made perfect apart from us.

For they indeed for a few days were accustomed to chastise us according to that which seemed right to them; but he made unto our profit, in order that we might partake his holiness.

for they could not endure that which was spoken, If a wild beast should touch the mountain, it shall be pierced through with a dart:

See that you do not reject the one speaking: for if they escape not having rejected the one delivering them the divine oracles on earth, how much more shall we not escape, who turn away from the one speaking from the heavens:

Obey your leaders, and be submissive: for they are watching for your souls, as they shall give an account that they may do this with joy and not with grief, for this is unprofitable to you.