Remember those in prison as though you were in prison with them, and those ill-treated as though you too felt their torment.

They will perish, but you continue. And they will all grow old like a garment,

who is faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses was also in God’s house.

“As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’”

And it could be said that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid a tithe through Abraham.

Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken.

“Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, sure and steadfast, which reaches inside behind the curtain,

By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.

By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if on dry ground, but when the Egyptians tried it, they were swallowed up.

Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

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.”

As it says, “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.

And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons? “My son, do not scorn the Lord’s discipline or give up when he corrects you.

But Christ is faithful as a son over God’s house. We are of his house, if in fact we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope we take pride in.

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’” And yet God’s works were accomplished from the foundation of the world.

So in fact children were fathered by one man – and this one as good as dead – like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore.