quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, gained strength in weakness, became mighty in battle, put foreign armies to flight,

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

“Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.

For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.

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

(the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.

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,

But showing its fault, God says to them, “Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

By faith, when he grew up, Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

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,

where Jesus our forerunner entered on our behalf, since he became a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

And both the tabernacle and all the utensils of worship he likewise sprinkled with blood.

For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership?

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.

See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.

Remember your leaders, who spoke God’s message to you; reflect on the outcome of their lives and imitate their faith.

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.

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

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.