harden not your hearts, as in that bitter provocation, at the day of the temptation in the wilderness;

But, beloved, we are persuaded concerning you that things are better, and connected with salvation, though we thus speak.

For the law led to no perfection, but was an introduction to a better hope, by which we draw nigh unto God.

by so much is Jesus become the surety of a better testament.

But now hath Christ obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as he is the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been established on better promises.

But Christ becoming the high-priest of future good things, through a better and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation;

There was a necessity therefore that the representations of the things in heaven should be purified by these; but the celestial things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

For ye have been fellow-sufferers with my bonds, and received with joy the plundering of your properties, knowing in yourselves that you have in the heavens a better substance, and permanent.

But now their longing desires are after a better country, that is, the heavenly one: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he hath prepared a city for them.

Women received by a resurrection their dead: but others were tortured, not accepting a release; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

God having provided for us something better, that without us they should not attain to perfection.

and to Jesus the mediator of the new testament, and to the blood of sprinkling, which speaketh better things than that of Abel.