and is more excellent than the angels, inasmuch as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than have they.

They shall perish, but thou shalt endure. They all shall wax old as doth a garment:

and as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art always, and thy years shall not fail."

Are they not all spirits to do service, sent for to minister for their sakes, which shall be heirs of salvation?

Forasmuch as he that sanctifieth, and they which are sanctified, are all of one. For which cause's sake he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation and said, 'They ever err in their hearts: they verily have not known my ways,'

so that I sware in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest."

For some, when they heard, rebelled: howbeit, not all that came out of Egypt under Moses.

To whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but unto them that believed not?

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

For unto us was it declared, as well as unto them. But it profited not them that they heard the word, because they which heard it coupled it not with faith.

But we which have believed, do enter into his rest, as contrariwise he said to the other, "As I have sworn in my wrath, 'They shall not enter into my rest.'" And that spake he verily long after that the works were made, and the foundation of the world laid.

And in this place again, "They shall not come into my rest."

Seeing therefore it followeth that some must enter thereinto, and they to whom it was first preached, entered not therein for unbelief's sake.

For it is not possible that they which were once lighted, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were become partakers of the holy ghost,

if they fall away, should be renewed again unto repentance: Forasmuch as they have, as concerning themselves, crucified the son of God afresh, making a mock of him.

And verily those children of Levi, which receive the office of the priests, have a commandment to take according to the law, tithes of the people, that is to say, of their brethren, yea though they sprung out of the loins of Abraham.

And among them, many were made priests, because they were not suffered to endure by the reason of death.

not like the testament that I made with their fathers at that time, when I took them by the hands, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they continued not in my testament, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

For this is the testament that I will make with the house of Israel: After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws in their minds, and in their hearts, I will write them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

And they shall not teach, every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'know the Lord': For they shall know me, from the least to the most of them.

And for this cause is he the mediator of the new testament, that through death which chanced for the redemption of those transgressions that were in the first testament, they which were called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

And as it is appointed unto men that they shall once die, and then cometh the judgment,

For the law - which hath but the shadow of good things to come, and not the things in their own fashion - can never with the sacrifices which they offer year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

And they all died in faith, and received not the promises: but saw them afar off, and believed them, and saluted them: and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

They that say such things, declare that they seek a country.

Also, if they had been mindful of that country, from whence they came out, they had leisure to have returned again.

But now they desire a better, that is to say a heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them, even to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his father and mother, because they saw he was a proper child: neither feared they the king's commandment.

By faith they passed through the reed sea as by dry land, which when the Egyptians had assayed to do, they were drowned.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were compassed about, seven days.

And the women received their dead raised to life again. Others were racked, and would not be delivered, that they might receive a better resurrection.

which the world was not worthy of: They wandered in wilderness, in mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.

God providing a better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

And they verily for a few days nurtured us after their own pleasure; but he learneth us unto that which is profitable, that we might receive of his holiness.

neither unto the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words: which voice they that heard it, wished away, that the communication should not be spoken to them.

For they were not able to abide that which was spoken. If a beast had touched the mountain, it must have been stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

See that ye despise not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not which refused him that spake on earth; Much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

We have an altar whereof they may not eat, which serve in the tabernacle.

Obey them that have the oversight of you, and submit yourselves to them, for they watch for your souls, even as they that must give accounts for them: that they may do it with joy, and not with grief. For that is an unprofitable thing for you.

Salute them that have the oversight of you, and all the saints. They of Italy, salute you.