Take care, brethren, lest there be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear lest any one of you be judged to have come short of it.

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered? If the worshipers had once been cleansed, they would no longer have any consciousness of sins.

Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.