they will perish, but you continue, and they will all become old like a garment,

and like a robe you will roll them up, and like a garment they will be changed; but you are the same, and your years will not run out."

Are they not all spirits engaged in special service, sent on assignment for the sake of those who are going to inherit salvation?

[for] forty years. Therefore I was angry with this generation, and I said, 'They always go astray in their heart, and they do not know my ways.'

As I swore in my anger, '{They will never enter} into my rest.'"

For who, [when they] heard [it], were disobedient? Surely [it was] not all who went out from Egypt through Moses?

And to whom did he swear [they would] not enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

And [so] we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.

{For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us}, just as those also [did], but the message {they heard} did not benefit them, [because they] were not united with those who heard [it] in faith.

For we who have believed enter into rest, just as he has said, "As I swore in my anger, '{They will never enter} into my rest.'" And yet these works have been accomplished from the foundation of the world.

and in this [passage] again, '{They will never enter} into my rest.'"

and having fallen away, to renew [them] again to repentance, [because they] have crucified again for themselves the Son of God and held him up to contempt.

And indeed those of the sons of Levi who receive the priesthood have a commandment to collect a tenth from the people according to the law, that is, from their brothers, although {they are descended from Abraham}.

And indeed many {have become} priests, because they were prevented by death from continuing [in office],

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

For this [is] the covenant that I will decree with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I am putting my laws in their minds and I will write them on their hearts, and I will be {their} God and they will be {my} people.

And they will not teach each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.

Now these things having been prepared in this way, the priests enter into the first tent {continually} [as they] accomplish their service,

For the law, possessing a shadow of the good [things] that are about to come, not the form of things itself, [is] never able {year by year} by means of the same sacrifices which they offer without interruption to make perfect those who draw near.

For otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the ones who worship, having been purified once and for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?

These all died in faith without receiving the promises, but seeing them from a distance and welcoming [them], and admitting that they were strangers and temporary residents on the earth.

For those who say such [things] make clear that they are seeking a homeland.

And if they remember that [land] from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.

But now they aspire to a better [land], that is, a heavenly [one]. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

By faith Moses, [when he] was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw the child [was] handsome, and they were not afraid of the edict of the king.

By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if on dry land; the Egyptians, {when they made the attempt}, were drowned.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down [after they] had been marched around for seven days.

Women received back their dead by resurrection. But others were tortured, not accepting release, in order that they might gain a better resurrection.

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they died by murder with a sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, impoverished, afflicted, mistreated,

And [although they] all were approved through their faith, they did not receive what was promised,

[because] God had provided something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect without us.

For they disciplined [us] for a few days according to what seemed [appropriate] to them, but he [does so] for our benefit, in order that [we] can have a share in his holiness.

For they could not endure what was commanded: "If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned."

Watch out that you do not refuse the one who is speaking! For if those did not escape [when they] refused the one who warned [them] on earth, much less [will] we [escape], [if we] reject the [one who warns] from heaven,

Obey your leaders and submit [to them], for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not [with] groaning, for this [would be] unprofitable for you.