FOR this reason we ought to attend more diligently to the things which have been heard, lest by any means we let them flow by us.

Wherefore he ought in all things to be made like to his brethren, in order to become a merciful and faithful high-priest in those things which relate to God, to make a propitiation for the sins of the people:

And on this account he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer sacrifice for sins.

For though ye ought for the time to be teachers of others, ye have again need that some one teach you the leading principles of the oracles of God; and are become as those who need milk, and not solid food.