how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation, which, commencing at the beginning to be spoken by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by those who had heard him;

Having then a great high-priest passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the confession.

Now observe how great is this [Melchisedec], to whom even Abraham the patriarch gave the tenth of the spoils.

And they shall no more teach every man his neighbour, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the mean man of them unto the great among them.

and having a great priest over the house of God,

But remember the past days in which, after ye had been illuminated, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;

Recede not therefore from your boldness of profession, which brings a great recompence of reward.

All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but beholding them at a great distance, though believing and embracing them, and confessing that they were strangers and sojourners in the land.

THEREFORE also seeing we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and that most easily besetting sin, let us run with patience the race lying before us,

Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great pastor of the sheep, by the blood of the everlasting testament,