but he holds his priesthood permanently since he lives forever.

Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too.” ¹ 

But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls. ¹ 

But in those sacrifices ¹  there is a reminder of sins year after year.

They will perish, but you continue. And they will all grow old like a garment,

For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

For surely his concern is not for angels, but he is concerned for Abraham’s descendants.

but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury ¹  of fire that will consume God’s enemies. ² 

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

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

But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

so that you may not be sluggish, ¹  but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.

but to repeat the text cited earlier: ¹  “They will never enter my rest!”

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; ¹  its fate is to be burned.

But Melchizedek ¹  who does not share their ancestry ²  collected a tithe ³  from Abraham and blessed ⁴  the one who possessed the promise.

But when this priest ¹  had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand ²  of God,

but of ¹  the Son he says, ²  “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, ³  and a righteous scepter ⁴  is the scepter of your kingdom.

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent ¹  but by the power of an indestructible life.

So it was necessary for the sketches ¹  of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, ²  but the heavenly things themselves required ³  better sacrifices than these.