They shall perish; but thou remainest: and they all shall grow old as a garment;

and as a mantle thou shalt fold them up, and they shall be changed; but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister to those who shall inherit salvation?

Where fore, I was angry with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

so that I swore in my anger, They shall not enter into my rest.

For some, when they had heard, did bitterly provoke; yet, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

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

And so we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

For we have had the good news preached to us, even as they had: but the word preached did not profit them, for it was not mixed with faith in those who heard it.

For we who have believed are to enter into rest, as he said: So I swore in my anger, they shall not enter into my rest; namely, that rest from his works which had been finished from the foundation of the world.

and in this place again: They shall not enter into my rest.

Since, then, it remains that some must enter into it, and they, to whom the good news was first preached, did not enter in on account of unbelief,

if they fall away; since they again crucify in themselves the Son of God, and put him to an open shame.

And those of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:

And those priests, indeed, have been many, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office.

not like the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt: because they continued not in my covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, says the Lord; putting my laws into their understanding, I will also write them upon their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people;

and they shall not teach, every one his citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest;

For the law, having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never, with the same sacrifices, which they offer year by year continually, make a perfect expiation for those who come to them:

for then, would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshipers, after being once cleansed, would no longer have a consciousness of sins.

All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. and having embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners in the land.

For those who say such things, declare plainly that they seek a country.

And if indeed they had been mindful of that from which they came, they could have had an opportunity to return.

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.

By faith Moses was concealed by his parents for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child: and they feared not the command of the king.

By faith they passed through the Bed Sea as by dry land, which the Egyptians attempting to do, were drowned.

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

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in. sheep-skins, in goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, oppressed with evils,

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

For they, indeed, for a few days, chastened us as they thought it good; but he chastens us for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

for they could not endure that which was commanded, And if even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned:

See that you reject not him that speaks: for if they es caped not who rejected that earthly man who gave the oracles, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that is from heaven,

Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive: for they watch for your souls, as those who must give an account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for that would be fatal to you.