harden not your hearts, as in the bitter provocation, in the day of trial in the wilderness,

while it is said, To-day, if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the bitter provocation.

But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you, and of things that tend to salvation, though we thus speak.

And, without any contradiction, the less is blessed by the better.

(for the law made no perfect expiation), and the introduction of a better hope, by which we draw near to God.

in so much has Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as he is the mediator of a better covenant, which is established with reference to better promises.

It was necessary, therefore, that the copies of the things in the heavens should be consecrated by these sacrifices; but that the heavenly things themselves should be consecrated by better sacrifices than these.

For you sympathized with me in my bonds, and endured joyfully the seizure of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and abiding substance in the heavens.

But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, that he should be called their God: for he has prepared for them a city.

Women received their dead raised to life again: but others were beat to death, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

because God had provided some better thing for us, that they, without us, should not be made perfect.

and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than the blood of Abel.