Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve those who are going to inherit salvation?

how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him.

For the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers,

and free those who were held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death.

For since He Himself was tested and has suffered, He is able to help those who are tested.

And who was He provoked with for 40 years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

And who did He swear to that they would not enter His rest, if not those who disobeyed?

For we also have received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard did not benefit them, since they were not united with those who heard it in faith

Since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news did not enter because of disobedience,

He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he is also subject to weakness.

But solid food is for the mature—for those whose senses have been trained to distinguish between good and evil.

For it is impossible to renew to repentance those who were once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly gift, became companions with the Holy Spirit,

For ground that has drunk the rain that has often fallen on it and that produces vegetation useful to those it is cultivated for receives a blessing from God.

so that you won’t become lazy but will be imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and perseverance.

Therefore, He is always able to save those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

He doesn’t need to offer sacrifices every day, as high priests do—first for their own sins, then for those of the people. He did this once for all when He offered Himself.

Now if He were on earth, He wouldn’t be a priest, since there are those offering the gifts prescribed by the law.

But this is the covenant
that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put My laws into their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be My people.

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow, sprinkling those who are defiled, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,

Therefore, He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance, because a death has taken place for redemption from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

so also the Messiah, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for Him.

Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the actual form of those realities, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year.

For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are sanctified.

This is the covenant I will make with them
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put My laws on their hearts
and write them on their minds,

Sometimes you were publicly exposed to taunts and afflictions, and at other times you were companions of those who were treated that way.

But we are not those who draw back and are destroyed, but those who have faith and obtain life.

Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who draws near to Him must believe that He exists and rewards those who seek Him.

Now those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.

By faith Rahab the prostitute received the spies in peace and didn’t perish with those who disobeyed.

No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields the fruit of peace and righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

to the blast of a trumpet, and the sound of words. (Those who heard it begged that not another word be spoken to them,

Don’t be led astray by various kinds of strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established by grace and not by foods, since those involved in them have not benefited.

We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle do not have a right to eat.

For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the most holy place by the high priest as a sin offering are burned outside the camp.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who are from Italy greet you.