Are not all angels merely spirits in the divine service, commissioned for the benefit of those who are to inherit salvation?

how shall we escape the penalty for neglecting a salvation which was originally proclaimed by the Lord himself and guaranteed to us by those who heard him,

and release from thraldom those who lay under a life-long fear of death.

And with whom was he exasperated for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert?

And to whom did he swear that they would never enter his Rest? To whom but those who disobeyed?

Since then it is reserved for some to enter it, and since those who formerly got the good news failed to enter owing to their disobedience,

can deal gently with those who err through ignorance, since he himself is beset with weakness ??3 which obliges him to present offerings for his own sins as well as for those of the People.

Whereas solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by exercise to distinguish good and evil.)

For land which absorbs the rain that often falls on it, and bears plants that are useful to those for whom it is tilled, receives a blessing from God;

so that instead of being slack you may imitate those who inherit the promises by their stedfast faith.

Those sons of Levi who receive the priestly office are indeed ordered by law to tithe the people (that is, their brothers), although the latter are descended from Abraham;

Hence for all time he is able to save those who approach God through him, as he is always living to intercede on their behalf.

one who has no need, like yonder high priests, day by day to offer sacrifices first for their own sins and then for those of the People ??he did that once for all in offering up himself.

He mediates a new covenant for this reason, that those who have been called may obtain the eternal inheritance they have been promised, now that a death has occurred which redeems them from the transgressions involved in the first covenant.

so Christ, after being once sacrificed to bear the sins of many, will appear again, not to deal with sin but for the saving of those who look out for him.

For as the Law has a mere shadow of the bliss that is to be, instead of representing the reality of that bliss, it never can perfect those who draw near with the same annual sacrifices that are perpetually offered.

partly by being held up yourselves to obloquy and anguish, partly by making common cause with those who fared in this way;

and apart from faith it is impossible to satisfy him, for the man who draws near to God must believe that he exists and that he does reward those who seek him.

It was by faith that Rahab the harlot did not perish along with those who were disobedient, as she had welcomed the scouts peaceably.

Discipline always seems for the time to be a thing of pain, not of joy; but those who are trained by it reap the fruit of it afterwards in the peace of an upright life.

to the blare of a trumpet and to a Voice whose words made those who heard it refuse to hear another syllable

Remember prisoners, as if you were in prison yourselves; remember those who are being ill-treated, since you too are in the body.

Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food ??that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it.