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But Jesus has now obtained a more excellent ministry, and to that degree he is the mediator of a better covenant (v.6)

But Jesus has now obtained a more excellent ministry, and to that degree he is the mediator of a better covenant. (8:6)

… one who has become a priest, not through a legal requirement concerning physical descent, but through the power of an indestructible life. (v. 16)

We have this hope, a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters the inner shrine behind the curtain. (v.19)

Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears (v. 7)

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin. (v. 15)

'For many are called, but few are chosen.' (v. 14)

…let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith … Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful. (vs. 22–23)

But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, ‘he sat down at the right hand of God’, and since then has been waiting ‘until his enemies would be made a footstool for his feet.’ For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. (vs. 12-14)

Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who approach … And it is by God’s will that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (vs 1, 10)

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. (v. 24)