while God confirmed their witness with signs and wonders and various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

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

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

For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end.

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 when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

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

But see how great he must be, if Abraham the patriarch gave him a tithe of his plunder.

Yet the one these things are spoken about belongs to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever officiated at the altar.

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

for the law made nothing perfect. On the other hand a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

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

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

So with these things prepared like this, the priests enter continually into the outer tent as they perform their duties.

And he did not enter to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own,

and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if on dry ground, but when the Egyptians tried it, they were swallowed up.

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but be healed.

Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, for without it no one will see the Lord.