For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.

But showing its fault, God says to them, “Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

He regarded abuse suffered for Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for his eyes were fixed on the reward.

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

See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through him many become defiled.

but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God’s enemies.

For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.

keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy set out for him he endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.

Instead someone testified somewhere: “What is man that you think of him or the son of man that you care for him?

“Then I said, ‘Here I am: I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’”

then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second.

For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us,

so also, after Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, to those who eagerly await him he will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation.

But as it is, they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.