For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.

Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,

For he finds fault with them when he says: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.