and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.”

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

For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name, in having served and continuing to serve the saints.

equip you with every good thing to do his will, working in us what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever. Amen.

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

For it was fitting for him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

For we do not have a high priest incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet without sin.

“This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,”

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.

After God spoke long ago in various portions and in various ways to our ancestors through the prophets,

And, “You founded the earth in the beginning, Lord, and the heavens are the works of your hands.

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

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

Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.

In fact, the scene was so terrifying that Moses said, “I shudder with fear.”

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

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

Therefore we must be wary that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.

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