For it is not to angels that he subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.

About this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

with instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, and in regard to that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.

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."

By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in godly fear prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which comes by faith.

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