For not to angels did He subject the future inhabited earth, of which we are speaking;

Wherefore, I was displeased with that generation, and said, 'They do always err in their heart, and they did not know My ways;

For who, after having heard, did provoke? nay, did not all who came out of Egypt through Moses?

And to whom did He swear, that they should not enter into His rest, but to those who were disbelieving?

For, indeed, we have had the Gospel proclaimed to us, even as also they; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not having been mingled with faith on the part of those who heard.

For He Who entered into His rest, Himself also rested from his works, as God did from His Own.

Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

of the teaching of immersions, and laying on of hands, of a resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

Who hath no necessity daily, as the high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for those of the people (for this He did once for all, when He offered up Himself);

how much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

For a testament over dead persons is of force; since it is never valid while the testator is living.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he received witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he, being dead, is still speaking.

accounting that God is able to raise even from the dead; whence he did also, as in a figure, receive him back.

By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disbelieved; having received the spies with peace.

Women received their dead by a resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

Not yet did ye resist unto blood, contending against sin;

Jesus Christ is yesterday and today the same??nd forever.

Now the God of peace, Who brought up from the dead the Great Shepherd of the sheep, in virtue of the blood of an eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus,