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.”

how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

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

For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin, and so he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,

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

For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself!

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

And no creature is hidden from God, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.

Therefore let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace whenever we need help.

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.

So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming high priest, but the one who glorified him was God, who said to him, “You are my Son! Today I have fathered you,”

so that we who have found refuge in him may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.

For it is indeed fitting for us to have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

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.

let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.

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.

For we know the one who said, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I take no pleasure in him.

And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets.

and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.