having become by so much superior to the angels, as He hath inherited a more excellent name than they.

For this reason, it is needful that we give the more earnest heed to the things heard, lest at any time we drift past them.

For This One has been accounted worthy of more glory than Moses, by as much as He Who built the house hath more honor than the house;

wherein God, more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of His counsel, interposed with an oath;

And it is yet far more evident; if, according to the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another Priest,

but now he hath obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much also as He is Mediator of a better covenant, which, indeed, has been enacted on better promises.

because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and I will remember their sins no more."

But Christ, having come as a High Priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made by hand (that is, not of this creation),

how much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshipers, having been cleansed once for all, would have had no more conscience of sins.

and their sins and their iniquities I will in nowise remember any more."

not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together, as is the custom of some, but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day approaching.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he received witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he, being dead, is still speaking.

And what more am I to say? for the time will fail me, if I speak at length concerning Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David also, and of Samuel, and the prophets;

and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice those who heard entreated that no word more should be added to them;

See that ye refuse not Him Who speaketh; for, if those escaped not, when refusing him who warned them on earth, much more shall not we escape, who turn away from Him Who warneth us from Heaven;

Whose voice then shook the earth, but now hath He promised, saying, "Yet once more I shake, not only the earth, but also the heaven."

But the expression, "Yet once more," signifies the removal of the things shaken, as of things that have been made, that the things that are not shaken may remain.

And I the more earnestly exhort you to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.