Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience and desire to conduct ourselves rightly in every respect.

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.

By faith Rahab the prostitute escaped the destruction of the disobedient, because she welcomed the spies in peace.

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

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

For here is the testimony about him: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

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

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

“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.’”

For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”

So if perfection had in fact been possible through the Levitical priesthood – for on that basis the people received the law – what further need would there have been for another priest to arise, said to be in the order of Melchizedek and not in Aaron’s order?

And by being perfected in this way, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised.

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.

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

For it is clear that our Lord is descended from Judah, yet Moses said nothing about priests in connection with that tribe.

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