Your conduct must be free from the love of money and you must be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you and I will never abandon you.”

but to repeat the text cited earlier: “They will never enter my rest!”

So even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood.

By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.

But to which of the angels has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?

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.

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

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

then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second.

But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls.

By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, he received the ability to procreate, because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.

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

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel’s does.

And so he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, since he died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.

but Jesus did so with a sworn affirmation by the one who said to him, “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever’” –

For the law appoints as high priests men subject to weakness, but the word of solemn affirmation that came after the law appoints a son made perfect forever.

But now Jesus has obtained a superior ministry, since the covenant that he mediates is also better and is enacted on better promises.

Now all discipline seems painful at the time, not joyful. But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness for those trained by it.

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