teaching about baptisms, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

For a will takes effect only at death, since it carries no force while the one who made it is alive.

and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.

Now may the God of peace who by the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ,

Therefore we must progress beyond the elementary instructions about Christ and move on to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,

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.