They shall perish; but thou remainest: and they all shall become old as doth a garment;

And as a vesture wilt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed; but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

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

For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, seeing there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for the second.

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and groweth old is ready to vanish away.

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshipers once cleansed, would have had no more conscience of sins.

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

For ye know 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.