having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

Therefore we must pay more careful attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

Yet Jesus has been counted worthy of as much more glory than Moses as the builder of a house has more honor than the house.

So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he interposed with an oath,

This becomes even more evident if another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,

But as it is, he has obtained a ministry which is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.

For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more."

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, he entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation.

how much more will 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?

then he adds, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."

not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more, as you see the Day drawing near.

By faith Abel offered God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his gifts. And through faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.

And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets,

Besides this, we have had fathers of our flesh to discipline us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also heaven."

This phrase, "Yet once more," indicates the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, in order that what cannot be shaken may remain.

I urge you all the more to do this so that I may be restored to you the sooner.