but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called To-day; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin:

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

as he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek.

Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it hath the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron?

For he of whom these things are said belongeth to another tribe, from which no man hath given attendance at the altar.

And what we say is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there ariseth another priest,

and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works;

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another ; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.