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.

For the bodies of those animals whose blood the high priest brings into the sanctuary as an offering for sin are burned outside the camp.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell after the people marched around them for seven days.

Therefore, strengthen your listless hands and your weak knees,

You put all things under his control.” For when he put all things under his control, he left nothing outside of his control. At present we do not yet see all things under his control,

For it was fitting for him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

“There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

But in your case, dear friends, even though we speak like this, we are convinced of better things relating to salvation.

Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.

And both the tabernacle and all the utensils of worship he likewise sprinkled with blood.

And he did not enter to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own,

And see to it that no one becomes an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

Now this phrase “once more” indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.

and like a robe you will fold them up and like a garment they will be changed, but you are the same and your years will never run out.”

You made him lower than the angels for a little while. You crowned him with glory and honor.

Again he says, “I will be confident in him,” and again, “Here I am, with the children God has given me.”

For every high priest is taken from among the people and appointed to represent them before God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption.