For surely his concern is not for angels, but he is concerned for Abraham’s descendants.

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.

But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls.

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

For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

And no one assumes this honor on his own initiative, but only when called to it by God, as in fact Aaron was.

But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.

not abandoning our own meetings, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and even more so because you see the day drawing near.

Now all discipline seems painful at the time, not joyful. But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness for those trained by it.

Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too.”

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.