Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and sustaining all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high,

How shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation, which began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by them that had heard him?

Since then the children partake of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner took part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil:

For who, when they had heard, provoked God?

Were they not all that came out of Egypt by Moses? And with whom was he grieved forty years? Was it not with them who had sinned?

For if Joshua had given them the rest, he would not have afterward spoken of another day.

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

But he whose pedigree is not from them, took tythes of Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises:

For if the first had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second.

And verily the first covenant also had ordinances of worship and a worldly sanctuary.

For when Moses had spoken all the commandment according to the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wooll, and hyssop, and the book itself,

Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers, having been once purged, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

for after he had said before, This is the covenant which I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws into their hearts, and write them in their minds,

By faith Enoch was translated so as not to see death, and was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

By faith Sarah also herself received power to conceive seed, even when she was past age, because she accounted him faithful who had promised.

And truly if they had been mindful of that from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to return.

By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac, and he that had received the promises, offered up his only begotten son:

Of whom it had been said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called:

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment.

Moreover we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we reverenced them: Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

Remember them that had the rule over you, who spake to you the word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.