In times past the word of God came to our fathers through the prophets, in different parts and in different ways;

Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment;

What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;

For of course it was not angels but the descendants of Abraham that he came to help.

For some who heard rebelled, but not all those who came out of Egypt by Moses.

And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?

And, truly, the good news came to us, even as it did to them; but the hearing of the word did them no good, because they were not united in faith with the true hearers.

Since therefore it remains for some to come into it, and they before announced of the good news came not in through unbelief:

And though he was a Son, through the pain which he underwent, the knowledge came to him of what it was to be under God's orders;

For if those who were once for all brought into the Light, and learned to appreciate the gift from Heaven, and came to share in the Holy Spirit,

For this Melchizedek, the king of Salem, a priest of the Most High God, who gave Abraham his blessing, meeting him when he came back after putting the kings to death,

and those, indeed, out of the sons of Levi receiving the priesthood, a command have to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is, their brethren, even though they came forth out of the loins of Abraham;

Because he was still in his father's body when Melchizedek came to him.

If now therefore perfection came by the priesthood of the Levites - for under that priesthood the people received the law - what needed it furthermore that another priest should rise, after the order of Melchizedek, and not after the order of Aaron?

Now it is evident that our Lord came from Judah, and Moses said nothing about that tribe concerning priests.

who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,

For the law maketh men priests, which have infirmity: but the word of the oath that came since the law, maketh the son priest, which is perfect for evermore.

And these thus prepared, truly to the first tent the priests always came in, to complete the divine services.

They served only for matters of food and drink and various washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.

But when Christ came as the High Priest of good things that have already taken place, He went by way of that greater and more perfect tent of worship, not made by human hands, that is, not belonging to this material creation,

neither through the blood of goats and bullocks, but through his own blood, came once into the holies, having found eternal redemption.

For Christ came not into the holy places made with hands, the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to be shown clearly to the face of God for us:

Therefore, [when he] came into the world, he said, "Sacrifice and offering you did not want, but a body you prepared for me;

At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions, and at other times you came to share with others who were treated in that way.

Through faith we understand that the worlds came into being, and still exist, at the command of God, so that what is seen does not owe its existence to that which is visible.

Faith led Noah, when he was warned by God of things no one then saw, in obedience to the warning to build an ark in which to save his family, and by such faith he condemned the world, and came to possess that uprightness which faith produces.

By faith, being called, Abraham obeyed - to come forth into a place he was destined to receive for an inheritance; and he came forth, not well knowing whither he was coming.

Through faith he came and made his home for a time in a land which had been promised to him, as if in a foreign country, living in tents together with Isaac and Jacob, sharers with him in the same promise;

So that from one man, who was near to death, came children in number as the stars in heaven, or as the sand by the seaside, which may not be numbered.

All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.

And if indeed they remembered that from which they came out, they would have had time to return.

By faith the walls of Jericho came down, after they had been circled for seven days.

because God had planned to give us something better [than they got], so that they would not be complete without us. [Note: The idea here is that these faithful people of Old Testament times did not receive the fullest of blessings until Christ came to make them available to both them and us together].

For ye came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

But, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,

See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?

For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned without the camp.

Therefore, to sanctify the people by his own blood, Jesus also suffered outside the camp.

Let us therefore go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.