being made as much greater than the angels as he has inherited a more excellent name than they.

they shall perish, but thou shalt continue; and they shall all become old like a garment,

and like 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 serve on account of those who are about to inherit salvation?

Wherefore I was displeased with that generation and said, They always err in mind, and they did not know my ways,

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

And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest? was it not to them that disobeyed?

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

For we have also received the good news as they did; but the word of the report did not profit them, not being accompanied with faith in those who heard.

For we enter into the rest who believed, as he said, I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest, although of works made from the foundation of the world.

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

and having fallen away, it is impossible again to renew to a change of mind, they having crucified again and exposed to shame the Son of God.

And as he was not [constituted] without swearing,??21 for they were made priests without swearing, but he with swearing by him who says to him, The Lord swore, and he will not change, You are a priest forever;??22 by so much is Jesus the pledge of a better covenant.

And they indeed were made many priests, on account of being forbidden by death to continue;

not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, for they continued not in my covenant, and I neglected them, says the Lord.

This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws in their minds, and will write them in 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 [fellow] citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest of them.

For the law having a shadow of the good things that were to come, not the very likeness of the things, could not by the sacrifices which they offered continually every year perfect the offerers;

if they could, would they not have ceased to be offered, because those serving would have had no longer a knowledge of sins, having been once purified?

All these died in faith not having received the promises, but having seen and saluted them from a distance, and having professed that they were foreigners and strangers on the earth.

For those who say such things show that they seek a native country.

And if they had remembered that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return;

but now they seek a better, that is a heavenly [country]. Wherefore 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 hid three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they feared not the command of the king.

By faith they passed through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians attempting were swallowed up.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down when they had been surrounded seven days.

women received their dead from a resurrection, others were tortured having not accepted redemption, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

they were stoned, they were cut to pieces with saws, they were tried, they died with the death of the sword, they wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated,

God having provided something better for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

For they for a few days corrected us as seemed good to them, but he for the best, that we may partake of his holiness.

and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which those who heard desired that the word might not be spoken to them any more,??20 for they could not bear what was commanded, And if a beast touches the mountain it shall be stoned;

See that you refuse not him that speaks; for if they did not escape who refused him that gave answers on earth, much more shall we [not escape] who turn ourselves away from him in heaven;

Obey your guides and be in subjection; for they watch for your souls as having to give an account, that they may do this with joy and not with grief; for this is unprofitable for you.