On the contrary encourage one another, day after day, so long as To-day lasts, so that not one of you may be hardened through the deceitful character of sin.

For if Joshua had given them the true rest, we should not afterwards hear God speaking of another still future day.

as also in another passage He says, "Thou art a priest for ever, belonging to the order of Melchizedek."

For if that first Covenant had been free from imperfection, there would have been no attempt to introduce another.

And let us bestow thought on one another with a view to arousing one another to brotherly love and right conduct;

not neglecting--as some habitually do--to meet together, but encouraging one another, and doing this all the more since you can see the day of Christ approaching.