Take heed, brethren, that there be not in any one of you a wicked heart of infidelity, [evident] in departure from the living God:

And here indeed dying men receive the tithes, but there he hath a testimony borne to him that he liveth.

If therefore there was perfection by the Levitical priesthood (for under that the people had the law given to them), what farther need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

For the priesthood being transferred, there is of necessity an abrogation of the law also.

and it is yet more abundantly evident, that there should arise another priest after the likeness of Melchisedec,

For there is indeed an abrogation of the preceding command, because of its weakness and inutility.

For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, there being priests who offer gifts according to the law;

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

And almost all things are purified by blood according to the law, and without effusion of blood there is no remission of sin.

There was a necessity therefore that the representations of the things in heaven should be purified by these; but the celestial things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

But in these [sacrifices] there is a commemoration of sins every year.

Now where there is remission of these, no more offering for sin [is needed].

Wherefore even from one person, and he become dead in respect to these matters, there sprang a race, as the stars of heaven for multitude, and as the sand, which is on the shore of the sea, innumerable.

unto whom it had been said, "That by Isaac shall there be a seed bearing thy name:"

lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of bread parted with his birthrights.