and set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death.

Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling, take note of Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess,

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

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

Therefore it remains for some to enter it, yet those to whom it was previously proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience.

On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit,

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.

For people swear by something greater than themselves, and the oath serves as a confirmation to end all dispute.

But Melchizedek who does not share their ancestry collected a tithe from Abraham and blessed the one who possessed the promise.

a minister in the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up.

But now Jesus has obtained a superior ministry, since the covenant that he mediates is also better and is enacted on better promises.

“For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer.”

When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.

So when he came into the world, he said, “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,

At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions, and at other times you came to share with others who were treated in that way.

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

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.

By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his burial.