But in your case, my dearly loved friends, even though we speak in such a tone, we are sure of better things, yea, things that point to salvation.

for the law had never made anything perfect -- and so a better hope is brought to us, through which we have approach to God.

so much the more Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

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.

But in reality they were aspiring for a better country, I mean, a heavenly one. This is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

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.

for God had provided something still better for us, that they, apart from us might not attain perfection.

Continue to look after one another, that no one fails to gain God's spiritual blessing; or some evil like a bitter root may spring up and trouble you, and many of you be contaminated by it --

to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood which speaks a better message than even Abel's did.