By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.
NIV
[Prompted] by faith he dwelt as a temporary resident in the land which was designated in the promise [of God, though he was like a stranger] in a strange country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs with him of the same promise. [Gen. 12:1-8.]AMP
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
KJV
One who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life.
NIV
Who has been constituted a Priest, not on the basis of a bodily legal requirement [an externally imposed command concerning His physical ancestry], but on the basis of the power of an endless and indestructible Life.
AMP
Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
KJV
And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?
NIV
And with whom was He irritated and provoked and grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dismembered bodies were strewn and left in the desert?
AMP
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
KJV
So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.
NIV
So we see that they were not able to enter [into His rest], because of their unwillingness to adhere to and trust in and rely on God [unbelief had shut them out]. [Num. 14:1-35.]AMP
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
KJV
And who have fallen away, to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.
NIV
If they then deviate from the faith and turn away from their allegiance--[it is impossible] to bring them back to repentance, for (because, while, as long as) they nail upon the cross the Son of God afresh [as far as they are concerned] and are holding [Him] up to contempt and shame and public disgrace.
AMP
If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
KJV
Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.
NIV
In keeping with [the oath's greater strength and force], Jesus has become the Guarantee of a better (stronger) agreement [a more excellent and more advantageous covenant].
AMP
By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
KJV
Instruction about cleansing rites, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
NIV
With teachings about purifying, the laying on of hands, the resurrection from the dead, and eternal judgment and punishment. [These are all matters of which you should have been fully aware long, long ago.]AMP
Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
KJV
He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he himself is subject to weakness.
NIV
He is able to exercise gentleness and forbearance toward the ignorant and erring, since he himself also is liable to moral weakness and physical infirmity.
AMP
Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
KJV
