For, if the word spoken through angels became steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a righteous recompense,

"But My righteous one shall live by faith, and, if he draw back, My soul has no pleasure in him."

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he received witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he, being dead, is still speaking.

to the general festal throng, and assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in Heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous ones made perfect;