Again, he limits a certain day, saying in David, Today, after so long a time; as it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

As he says also in another place, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

Called of God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Where the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;

If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

And it is yet far more evident: that after the similitude of Melchizedek there arises another priest,

Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.

For he testifies, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord swore and will not change, you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek:)

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

For a will is in force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the maker lives.

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;

The Holy Spirit also is a witness to us: for after this he had said before,

This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight with afflictions;

For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were encircled seven days.

For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.