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.

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

For in the case of people who have been once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly Gift, who participated in the holy Spirit,

Again, it is mortal men in the one case who receive tithes, while in the other it is one of whom the witness is that 'he lives.'

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

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.