For we are true partners with Christ if we really keep the conviction that we had at first unshaken to the very end.

Since then it is still true that somebody will be admitted to it, and those who had a gospel preached to them before were not admitted because of their disobedience,

to officiate as priest in the sanctuary and in that true tent of worship which not man but the Lord himself set up.

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.

and thought such contempt as the Christ endured was truer wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking forward to the coming reward.

But if you have none of that discipline which all sons undergo, you are illegitimate children, and not true sons.

You must not be carried away with strange varieties of teaching. The true way to steadfastness of heart is through God's mercy, not through scruples about food, which have never done their adherents any good.