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

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:

For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.