Brothers, take care in case there is a wicked, unbelieving heart in any of you, moving you to apostatize from the living God.

For the Logos of God is a living thing, active and more cutting than any sword with double edge, penetrating to the very division of soul and spirit, joints and marrow ??scrutinizing the very thoughts and conceptions of the heart.

For as men swear by a greater than themselves, and as an oath means to them a guarantee that ends any dispute,

Previous priests became priests apart from any oath, but he has an oath from Him who said to him, The Lord has sworn, and he will not change his mind, thou art a priest for ever.

he holds his priesthood without any successor, since he continues for ever.

not taking any blood of goats and oxen but his own blood, and entered once for all into the Holy place. He secured an eternal redemption.

For if we sin deliberately, after receiving the knowledge of the Truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left,

It was by faith that he left Egypt, not from any fear of the king's wrath; like one who saw the King Invisible, he never flinched.

Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food ??that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it.