But to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who believed not?

Let us fear, therefore, lest, as a promise of entering into his rest still remains, any of you should seem to come short of it.

For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work, and the love which you have shown for his name by having ministered to the saints, and by continuing to minister.

If, then, there had been a perfect expiation by means of the Levitical priesthood, (for with reference to it, the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should be raised up after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

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.

Nor has he entered, that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with the blood of another:

For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death, and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had the testimony that he pleased God.

By faith Abraham, when called to go out into a place that he should afterward receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

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.

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