FOR this reason we ought to attend more diligently to the things which have been heard, lest by any means we let them flow by us.

Take heed, brethren, that there be not in any one of you a wicked heart of infidelity, [evident] in departure from the living God:

LET us fear then lest, though a promise be left of entering into his rest, any one of you should appear to fail of obtaining it.

Let us then earnestly endeavour to enter into that rest, lest any person fall after the same example of unbelief.

[he adds,] "and their sins and their iniquities I will in no wise remember any more."

Any man who treated the law of Moses with neglect, was put to death, without mercy, on the deposition of two or three witnesses:

carefully observing lest any of you fail of attaining the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and by it many be defiled;

lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of bread parted with his birthrights.

Let the tenor of your life be divested of the love of money; content with your present possessions: for he hath said, "I will in no wise leave thee, neither will I in any case forsake thee."