KJV:
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
NASB:
But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
KJV:
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
NASB:
Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
KJV:
For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
NASB:
For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one.
KJV:
But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
NASB:
But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them.
KJV:
Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
NASB:
Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection;
KJV:
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
NASB:
because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect.
KJV:
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
NASB:
and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.
KJV:
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
NASB:
For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.
KJV:
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
NASB:
For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them.