For he did not put the world to come, about which we are speaking, under the control of angels.

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 given them rest, God would not have spoken afterward about another day.

Therefore we must progress beyond the elementary instructions about Christ and move on to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,

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

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.

Yet the one these things are spoken about belongs to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever officiated at the altar.

For it is clear that our Lord is descended from Judah, yet Moses said nothing about priests in connection with that tribe.

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.

For here is the testimony about him: "You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek."

The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says, "See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain."

When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.

By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his burial.

They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated