For although you ought to be teachers of others because you have been Christians so long, you actually need someone to teach you over and over again the very elements of the truths that God has given us, and you have gotten into such a state that you are in constant need of milk instead of solid food.

In the one case, mortal men collect the tenth, in the other, one who, as the witness states, lives on.

but He, on the other hand, because He Himself lives on forever, enjoys the only priesthood that has no successors in office.

So, on the one hand, the copies of the original things in heaven had to be purified with such sacrifices; but on the other hand, the original things themselves in heaven with better sacrifices than these.

On the other hand, through these sacrifices there is given a real reminder of their sins,

Every other priest stands officiating day after day and over and over again offering the same sacrifices, although they are unable to take away our sins.

By faith he made his temporary home in the land that God had promised him, although a land inhabited by others, living merely in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were to share the promise with him.

Women by a resurrection received their dead again; others endured tortures, because they would not accept release, that they might rise to a better life.

Still others stood the test of taunts and tortures, and even chains and prisons.