Therefore, since the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also similarly partook of the same, in order that through death he might render powerless him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

And might deliver those who through fear of death had been subject to life-long bondage.

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

And to whom did he swear that they should never enter into his rest, if not to those who had proved faithless?

But this man who had no Levitical genealogy actually took tithes of Abraham, and blessed him to whom the promises belong.

For although those priests became such without an oath, He had an oath form God who said to him, The Lord hath sworn and will not change, Thou art a priest forever.

For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need for a second.

Now even the first covenant had its ordinances of public worship, and its sanctuary, a material one.

For after every commandment according to the law had been spoken by Moses to the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.

Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshippers having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sin.

For you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you did take joyfully the confiscation of your goods; conscious that you had for yourselves greater, even lasting possessions.

For by it men of old times had witness borne to them.

By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice more acceptable than that of Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God giving the testimony by accepting his gifts; and through it he, although he is dead, still speaks.

By faith Enoch was translated so that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God had translated him. Before his translation he had witness borne to him that he pleased God.

By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed, although she was past the age for child-bearing, because she counted Him faithful who had promised;

And if they had cherished the memory of that land from which they went out, they would have found an opportunity to return;

By faith Abraham, when he was put to the test, was on the point of offering up Isaac; yes, he who had received the promise was about to offer up his only son,

of whom it had been said, It is through Isaac that your posterity will be traced.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled seven days.

By faith Rahab, the harlot, perished not with the disobedient, because she had received the spies in peace.

Yet, though these all had witness borne to them by their faith, they received not the promise;

since it was for us that God had in store some better thing, so that apart from us they should not be perfected.