They shall perish, but thou shalt endure. They all shall wax old as doth a garment:

For if Joshua had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

In that he saith a new testament, he hath abrogated the old. Now that which is disannulled and waxed old, is ready to vanish away.

For would not then those sacrifices have ceased to have been offered? Because that the offerers, once purged, should have had no more consciences of sins.

And what shall I more say? The time would be too short for me to tell of Gideon, of Barach, and of Samson, and of Jephthah. Also of David and Samuel, and of the prophets,

And the women received their dead raised to life again. Others were racked, and would not be delivered, that they might receive a better resurrection.

Ye know how that afterward when that he would have inherited the blessing, he was put by, and he found no means to come thereby again: no, though he desired it with tears.