They will perish, but You remain;
And they all will become old like a garment,

And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient?

For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that.

so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.

Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the Law;

For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second.

When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.

nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood that is not his own.

Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?

For by it the men of old gained approval.

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; and he was not found because God took him up; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God.

And indeed if they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that he who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you.