taking a place by so much better than the angels, as he inherits a name more excellent than they.

For this reason we should give heed more abundantly to the things we have heard, lest in any way we should slip away.

For he has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by how much he that has built it has more honour than the house.

Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath,

And it is yet more abundantly evident, since a different priest arises according to the similitude of Melchisedec,

But now he has got a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is mediator of a better covenant, which is established on the footing of better promises.

Because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more.

But Christ being come high priest of the good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, (that is, not of this creation,)

and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more.

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the custom is with some; but encouraging one another, and by so much the more as ye see the day drawing near.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained testimony of being righteous, God bearing testimony to his gifts, and by it, having died, he yet speaks.

And what more do I say? For the time would fail me telling of Gideon, and Barak, and Samson, and Jephthah, and David and Samuel, and of the prophets:

and trumpet's sound, and voice of words; which they that heard, excusing themselves, declined the word being addressed to them any more:

See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him who does so from heaven:

But I much more beseech you to do this, that I may the more quickly be restored to you.