But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.

But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I ¹  take no pleasure in him. ² 

In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

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

choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.

By faith the walls of Jericho ¹  fell after the people marched around them ²  for seven days.

For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us. ¹ 

But if you do not experience discipline, ¹  something all sons ²  have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.

And so he is the mediator ¹  of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, ²  since he died ³  to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.

How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for ¹  the Son of God, and profanes ²  the blood of the covenant that made him holy, ³  and insults the Spirit of grace?

By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard ¹  constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin, ¹  and so ²  he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters, ³ 

For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself!

Now Moses was faithful in all God’s ¹  house ²  as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken.

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

But we passionately want each of you to demonstrate the same eagerness for the fulfillment of your hope until the end,

The Holy Spirit is making clear that the way into the holy place had not yet appeared as long as the old tabernacle ¹  was standing.

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 ¹  eternal redemption.

Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” ¹  He does away with ²  the first to establish the second.