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

“Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’

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

Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

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

But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

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.

When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” (which are offered according to the law),

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.

By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.

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

They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

For you know that later when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance, although he sought the blessing with tears.

Thus he became so far better than the angels as he has inherited a name superior to theirs.

Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

For since he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!

So we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.

as also in another place God says, “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

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