but exhort one another daily, whilst to-day remains, that no one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

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

As he saith also in another passage, "Thou art priest forever after the order of Melchisedec;"

If therefore there was perfection by the Levitical priesthood (for under that the people had the law given to them), what farther need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

For he to whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, in which no man approached the altar.

and it is yet more abundantly evident, that there should arise another priest after the likeness of Melchisedec,

but this person, because he abideth for ever, hath a priesthood that passeth not over to another.

and let us attentively observe one another, to excite an ardour of love and of good works: