Being as much superior to the angels, as He inheriteth a name more excellent than they.

For this reason we ought the more earnestly to attend to what we have heard, least by any means we should be found deficient.

For He was accounted worthy of more honor than Moses, as he who hath built it, hath more honor than the house.

For the word of God is lively and efficacious, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, and of the very joints and marrow, and judging the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Wherefore God being willing more abundantly to manifest unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it with an oath:

And it is yet more abundantly evident, that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,

But now He hath obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which is established upon better promises.

For I will forgive their crimes, and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more."

But Christ being come an high-priest of the good things to come, hath entered once for all into the holy places, through a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this building,

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works, that ye may serve the living God?

It was therefore necessary that the representations of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with more excellent sacrifices than these.

He adds, and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more."

Now where there is such a remission of these, there needs no more offering for sin.

not forsaking our assemblies, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more as ye see the day approaching.

For if we sin wilfully after having received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins;

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God bearing witness to his gifts: and by it, though dead, he yet speaketh.

And what need I say more? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and Barak, and Sampson, and Jephthah, and David, and Samuel, and of the prophets:

Now if we had fathers of our flesh, who corrected us, and we gave them reverence; shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words, which they that heard, intreated that the word might not any more be thus delivered to them:

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

Now this expression "yet once more" signifieth the removing of the things that are shaken, as of things which had been appointed only for a season, that those which cannot be shaken may remain.

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