for he says somewhere of the seventh day, "On the seventh day God rested after all his work,"

For all who are admitted to God's Rest rest after their work, just as God did after his.

And so after waiting patiently, he received what God had promised him.

For the Law appoints to the high priesthood men full of imperfection; but this utterance about the making of the oath, which came long after the Law, appoints a son, fully qualified to be high priest forever.

For it was not a sanctuary made by human hands and only copied after the true one that Christ entered, but he went into heaven itself, in order to appear now on our behalf in the very presence of God.

Nor does he go in to offer himself over and over again, like the high priest who enters the sanctuary year after year, taking with him blood that is not his own,

And just as men are destined to die once and after that to be judged,

so the Christ too, after being offered in sacrifice once for all to carry away the sins of many, will appear again but without any burden of sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him to come and save them.

For while the Law foreshadowed the blessings that were to come, it did not fully express them, and so the priests by offering the same sacrifices endlessly year after year cannot wholly free those who come to worship from their sins.

Every other priest stands officiating day after day, offering over and over again the same sacrifices, though they were powerless ever to remove people's sins.

And we have the testimony of the holy Spirit to this, for after saying,

For if we choose to go on sinning after we have so fully learned the truth, there is no sacrifice left to be offered for our sins,

But you must remember those early days when after you had received the light you had to go through a great struggle with persecution,

Faith led Moses' parents to hide him for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child and they would not respect the edict of the king.

Faith made the walls of Jericho fall, after they had marched around them each day for seven days.