For by it the people of old received God’s commendation.

And these all were commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.

Do not neglect hospitality, because through it some have entertained angels without knowing it.

But see how great he must be, if Abraham the patriarch gave him a tithe of his plunder.

But when this priest had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand of God,

For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself!

“Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’

But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.

Now this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, met Abraham as he was returning from defeating the kings and blessed him.

“This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,”

These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.

“For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.