having become so much better than the messengers, as he did inherit a more excellent name than they.

and we are persuaded, concerning you, beloved, the things that are better, and accompanying salvation, though even thus we speak,

and apart from all controversy, the less by the better is blessed --

(for nothing did the law perfect) and the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw nigh to God.

by so much of a better covenant hath Jesus become surety,

and now he hath obtained a more excellent service, how much also of a better covenant is he mediator, which on better promises hath been sanctioned,

It is necessary, therefore, the pattern indeed of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these;

for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.

by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak.

but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.

Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive,

God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.

and to a mediator of a new covenant -- Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!