Consequently a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God.

And this is what we intend to do, if God permits.

and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

For our God is indeed a devouring fire.

You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. So God, your God, has anointed you over your companions with the oil of rejoicing.”

But as it is, they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

and he was designated by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek.

tasted the good word of God and the miracles of the coming age,

and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.”

choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.

For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.

But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

By faith Abel offered God a greater sacrifice than Cain, and through his faith he was commended as righteous, because God commended him for his offerings. And through his faith he still speaks, though he is dead.

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death, and he was not to be found because God took him up. For before his removal he had been commended as having pleased God.

But when he again brings his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him!”

while God confirmed their witness with signs and wonders and various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.