Instead someone testified somewhere: “What is man that you think of him ¹  or the son of man that you care for him?

So ¹  we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.

and in one case tithes are received by mortal men, while in the other by him who is affirmed to be alive.

For here is the testimony about him: ¹  “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.” ² 

For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.

God had told him, “Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,” ¹ 

For it is clear that our Lord is descended from Judah, yet Moses said nothing about priests in connection with that tribe.

“For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer.” ¹ 

and he reasoned ¹  that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense ²  he received him back from there.

Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience and desire to conduct ourselves rightly in every respect.

When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” ¹  (which are offered according to the law),

Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

For you know that ¹  later when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance, although he sought the blessing ²  with tears.

“And there will be no need at all ¹  for each one to teach his countryman or each one to teach his brother saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ since they will all know me, from the least to the greatest. ² 

These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, ¹  but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners ²  on the earth.

“It will not be like the covenant ¹  that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.

“For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put ¹  my laws in their minds ²  and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people. ³