being made so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

They shall perish, but You will remain. And they shall all become old as a garment,

and as a covering You shall fold them up, and they shall be changed. But You are the same, and Your years shall not fail."

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation?

For both He who sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of One, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brothers,

Therefore I was grieved with that generation and said, They always err in their heart, and they have not known My ways.

So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest."

For some, when they had heard, did provoke; however, not all who came out of Egypt by Moses.

And to whom did He swear that they should not enter into His rest, but to those who did not believe?

So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

For we who have believed do enter into the rest, as He said, "I have sworn in My wrath that they should not enter into My rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

And in this place again, "They shall not enter into My rest."

Since then it remains that some must enter into it, and since they to whom it was first preached did not enter in because of unbelief,

and who have fallen away; it is impossible, I say, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify the Son of God afresh to themselves and put Him to an open shame.

And truly they who are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priest, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the Law, that is, from their brothers, though they come out of the loins of Abraham.

And they truly were many priests, because they were not allowed to continue because of death;

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day I took hold of their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt," because they did not continue in My covenant, and I did not regard them, says the Lord.

"For 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 mind and write them in their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

And they shall not each man teach his neighbor, and each man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know Me, from the least to the greatest.

For the Law which has a shadow of good things to come, not the very image of the things, appearing year by year with the same sacrifices, which they offer continually, they are never able to perfect those drawing near.

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers, when they had been once for all purged, would have had no more conscience of sin.

These all died by way of faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. And they were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

For they who say such things declare plainly that they seek a fatherland.

And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

But now they stretch forth to a better fatherland, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

By faith Moses, having been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child. And they were not afraid of the king's commandments.

By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, which the Egyptians attempting to do were drowned.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed seven days.

Women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.

The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains and dens and caves of the earth.

for God had provided some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.

For truly they chastened us for a few days according to their own pleasure, but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness.

and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words (which voice they who heard begged that a word should not be spoken to them any more,

for they could not endure the thing commanded, "And if so much as a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart,"

See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape, those who refused him that spoke on earth, much more we shall not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from Heaven,

We have an altar of which they have no right to eat, those who serve the tabernacle.

Yield to those leading you, and be submissive, for they watch for your souls, as those who must give account, that they may do it with joy and not with grief; for that is unprofitable for you.