He is as much superior to the angels as the name that he has inherited surpasses theirs.

And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, bearing testimony to a witness about to be spoken;

but Christ as a Son in his own house; and we are that house, if we retain the cheerful courage and pride of our hope firm unto the end.

On the contrary, encourage each other daily, so long as there is a "Today," so that no one of you is hindered by the deceitfulness of sin.

In the words of Scripture, Today, if you hear his voice, Do not continue to harden your hearts as at the Provocation.

Let us be on our guard, then, though there is a promise still standing of being admitted to his rest, lest any one of you should be found to have come short of it.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, secure and strong, and passing into the sanctuary which is beyond the veil;

whither Jesus himself is entered as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.

For there is a setting aside of a foregoing commandment, because of its weakness and unprofitableness

This is a parable, for the present time, according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered that are not able, as far as conscience is concerned, to perfect the worshiper;

not taking the blood of goats and oxen, but his own blood, and entered once for all into the Holy Place, obtaining for us an eternal redemption.

For where there is a testament, there must also be brought forward in evidence the death of the testator.

IT IS A FEARFUL THING TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD!

It was by faith that he sojourned in the promised land as an alien, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, his fellow heirs of the same promise.

but now they are longing for a better homeland, that is, a heavenly. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; and he has prepared a city for them.

FOR INDEED OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE.

Do not allow yourselves to be swept away by various and strange teachings. For it is a beautiful thing to be established in heart by grace, and not by regulations regarding food, from which those that occupied themselves with them have derived no benefit.