For he did not subject to angels the world to come, about which we are speaking.

For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh [day] in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,"

For if Joshua had caused them to rest, he would not have spoken about another day after these [things].

Therefore, leaving behind the elementary message about Christ, let us move on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God,

teaching about baptisms and laying on of hands, and resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.

For the one about whom these [things] are spoken belongs to another tribe from which no one has officiated at the altar.

who serve a sketch and shadow of the heavenly [things], just as Moses was warned [when he] was about to complete the tabernacle, for he says, "See to it that you make everything according to the pattern which was shown to you on the mountain."

And above it [were] the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, about which it is not now [possible] to speak in detail.

For the law, possessing a shadow of the good [things] that are about to come, not the form of things itself, [is] never able {year by year} by means of the same sacrifices which they offer without interruption to make perfect those who draw near.

Then I said, 'Behold, I have come-- in the roll of the book it is written about me-- to do your will, O God.'

And let us think about {how to stir one another up to love} and good works,

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that is about to consume the adversaries.

By faith Noah, having been warned about things not yet seen, out of reverence constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family, by which he pronounced sentence on the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

By faith Joseph, [as he] was dying, mentioned about the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his bones.

And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, and Samuel and the prophets,

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they died by murder with a sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, impoverished, afflicted, mistreated,

of whom the world was not worthy, wandering about on deserts and mountains and in caves and in holes in the ground.