They will come to their end; but you are for ever; they will become old as a robe;

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have said anything about another day.

And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;

For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.

When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.

For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.

For if this had been possible, would there not have been an end of those offerings, because the worshippers would have been made completely clean and would have been no longer conscious of sins?

Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place.

For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.

And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word;

And truly if they had kept in mind the country from which they went out, they would have had chances of turning back.

By faith Joseph, when his end was near, said that the children of Israel would go out of Egypt; and gave orders about his bones.

What more am I to say? For there would not be time to give the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets:

Give ear to those who are rulers over you, and do as they say: for they keep watch over your souls, ready to give an account of them; let them be able to do this with joy and not with grief, because that would be of no profit to you.