Instead, continue to encourage one another every day, as long as it is called "Today," so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin,

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

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

Now if perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood for on this basis the people received the Law what further need would there be to speak of appointing another kind of priest according to the order of Melchizedek, not one according to the order of Aaron?

This point is even more obvious in that another priest who is like Melchizedek has appeared

And let us continue to consider how to motivate one another to love and good deeds,

not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another even more as you see the day of the Lord coming nearer.

to a trumpet's blast, or to a voice that made the hearers beg that not another word be spoken to them.