But we are persuaded better things of you, beloved, and things pertaining to salvation, though we thus speak.

for the law made nothing perfect, but was the introduction of a better hope through which we draw nigh to God.

And as he was not [constituted] without swearing,??21 for they were made priests without swearing, but he with swearing by him who says to him, The Lord swore, and he will not change, You are a priest forever;??22 by so much is Jesus the pledge of a better covenant.

but now he has obtained a more excellent service, by as much also as he is the mediator of a better covenant, which is established on better promises.

It was necessary, therefore, that the symbols of things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

For you sympathized with those in bonds, and received with joy the plunder of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession, and one that endures.

but now they seek a better, that is a heavenly [country]. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.

women received their dead from a resurrection, others were tortured having not accepted redemption, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

God having provided something better for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to a sprinkled blood which speaks better than Abel.