They will perish, but thou remainest; They all will grow old like a garment,

Like a mantle thou wilt fold them up, And like a garment they will be changed. But thou art the same, And thy years will never fail.

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth for service in behalf of those who are about to inherit salvation?

For this reason I was sore displeased with that generation, And said, "They are always wandering in their hearts; They have never learned my ways";

So I swore in my wrath, "They shall never enter into my rest."

For who were they that heard and yet provoked him? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

And to whom did he swear that they should never enter into his rest, if not to those who had proved faithless?

So you see that it was through unbelief that they were not able to enter in.

For the Good News is come to us just as it did to them. But the message they heard was of no benefit to them, because they did not share the faith of those who gave heed to it.

We are actually entering into that rest, we who have believed, as God has said,??n my wrath I swore??They shall not enter into my Rest

and then fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance. For they repeatedly crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and expose him to an open shame.

And they indeed have been made priests, many in number, because they have been prevented by death from continuing;

Not according tot he covenant which I made with their forefathers, On the day when I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt; For they did not continue in my covenant, And therefore I disregarded them," says the Lord.

"For this is the covenant which I will covenant with the house of Israel, After these days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their minds, And upon their hearts will I write them; And I will be their God, And they shall be my people;

And they shall not teach every man his fellow citizen, And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord; For all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them.

since they consist only in meats and drinks and various ablutions, carnal ordinances, imposed until the time of reformation.

For the Law, being only a shadow of the good things to come, and not their very substance, its priests cannot with the same sacrifice which year after year they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshippers having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sin.

These all died in faith, not having yet received the promises; nay, but they saw them from afar, and hailed them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

For those who say such things make it plain that they are seeking a Fatherland.

And if they had cherished the memory of that land from which they went out, they would have found an opportunity to return;

but now they are longing for a better homeland, that is, a heavenly. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; and he has prepared a city for them.

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's decree.

By faith the people crossed over the Red Sea as on dry land; and when the Egyptians tried to do this they were swallowed up.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled seven days.

Woman received their dear ones alive from the dead; and others were broken on the wheel, not accepting the offered deliverance, in order that they might obtain a better resurrection.

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, persecuted, tormented??38 of whom the world was not worthy??andering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.

Yet, though these all had witness borne to them by their faith, they received not the promise;

since it was for us that God had in store some better thing, so that apart from us they should not be perfected.

For they only disciplined us for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, that we may share his holiness.

For they could not endure that which was enjoined, Even if a wild beast touches the mountain it shall be stoned to death;

See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape punishment when they refused to listen to their instructor on earth, much less shall we escape if we turn away from him who is teaching us from heaven;

Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who must give account; that they may do thus with joy and not with lamentation, for this would be unprofitable to you.