Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to serve for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

For both he who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.

For because he himself has suffered, being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?

And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

And to whom did he swear that they would never enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

For we also have had the good news preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.

Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly had the good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience,

He can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is beset with weakness.

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their sense trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

For it is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit,

For land which drinks the rain that often falls upon it, and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take a tenth from the people, that is, from their brethren, though these also are descended from Abraham.

Those who formerly became priests took their office without an oath, but he became a priest with an oath through the One who said to him, "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever.'"

Therefore he is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

He does not need, like those high priests, to offer up daily sacrifices, first for his own sins and then for the sins of the people, because he did this once for all when he offered up himself.

This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and I will write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh,

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation to those who are eagerly waiting for him.

For since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices which are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near.

For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,"

sometimes being publicly exposed to insult and persecution; and at other times standing side by side with those who were so treated.

But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and keep their souls.

And without faith it is impossible to please God, for anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had welcomed the spies.

For those whom the Lord loves he disciplines, and he scourges every son whom he receives."

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

This phrase, "Yet once more," indicates the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, in order that what cannot be shaken may remain.

Remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you yourselves are also in the body.

Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God; consider the outcome of their life, and imitate their faith.

Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside the camp.

Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who come from Italy send you greetings.