Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;

Therefore, my fellow-Christians, who have likewise heard the heavenly invitation, observe how faithful Jesus, the commissioner and high priest of our religion,

Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:

As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.

For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

Therefore, since it is still true that some will enter it, and since those who once heard the good news failed to enter it because of their disobedience,

After a long time, again naming a certain day, he says in David, Today (as he had said before), Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart,

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

For this reason let us go on from the first things about Christ to full growth; not building again that on which it is based, that is, the turning of the heart from dead works, and faith in God,

It is my heart's desire that each of you would prove equally keen upon realizing your full hope to the very end,

So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also will I write them: And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people:

And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,

This is the covenant that I will make with them After those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws on their heart, And upon their mind also will I write them; then saith he,

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Remember the earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings.

And through faith the Righteous man shall find his Life, But, if a man draws back, my heart can find no pleasure in him.'

Just consider and meditate on Him who endured from sinners such bitter hostility against Himself [consider it all in comparison with your trials], so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor lose heart when you are reproved by him;

For the Lord disciplines and corrects those whom He loves,
And He punishes every son whom He receives and welcomes [to His heart].”

And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

For the order which said, If the mountain is touched even by a beast, the beast is to be stoned, seemed hard to them;

So that we say with a good heart, The Lord is my helper; I will have no fear: what is man able to do to me?

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.