We must therefore pay closer attention to what we have heard, in case we drift away.

For if the divine word spoken by angels held good, if transgression and disobedience met with due punishment in every case,

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

For, if, unto them, Joshua had given rest, it had not in that case, concerning another day, been speaking, after, these things.

Let us be eager then to enter that Rest, in case anyone falls into the same sort of disobedience.

And no one takes on himself the honor [of head priest], but [he is appointed only] when he is called by God, as was the case with Aaron.

For in the case of those who have been once for all enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift,

But in your case, my dearly loved friends, even though we speak in such a tone, we are sure of better things, yea, things that point to salvation.

But in this case, the man whose ancestry is not traced from them collected a tenth from Abraham, and put his blessing on the man who had the promises from God.

In the one case, mortal men collect the tenth, in the other, one who, as the witness states, lives on.

If, indeed, therefore, he had been on earth, he had not, in that case, even been a priest, since there are those who are offering the gifts, according to the law: -

But, as the case with Him now stands, He has entered upon a priestly service as much superior to theirs as the covenant of which He is the Mediator is superior to theirs, superior because it has been enacted upon superior promises.

For, if, that first, had been, faultless, not, in that case, for a second, had there been sought, a place.

Thus, in the case of a will, the death of the testator must be announced.

For a testament is only of force in case of the dead, being never valid so long as the testator lives.

Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, like the high priest entering the holy place every year with blood that was not his own: ??26 for in that case he would have had to suffer repeatedly, ever since the world was founded. Nay, once for all, at the end of the world, he has appeared with his self-sacrifice to abolish sin.

for, if that had been the case, He would have had to suffer over and over again, ever since the creation of the world. But, as it is, once at the close of the ages He has appeared, to put away sin by His sacrifice.

For since the law cast only a shadow of the blessings to come and did not possess the reality itself of those blessings, the priests with the same sacrifices that are perpetually offered year after year cannot make perfect those who come to worship.

Else would they not, in that case, have ceased being offered, by reason of those rendering the divine service having no further conscience at all of sins, being once for all purified?

It is a fearful and terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God [incurring His judgment and wrath].

Cast not away therefore your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward.

And, if indeed of that they had been mindful, from which they had come out, they might, in that case, have had an opportunity, to return;

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."

For, in the case of those living creatures, whose blood for sins is carried into the holy place, through means of the high-priest, the bodies of these, are burned up, outside the camp.