how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which began to be declared by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by them that heard Him;

Having therefore a great high-priest, that is passed into the heavens, even Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession:

Now consider how great a man this was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.

For the law having but a faint shadow of good things to come, and not the full image of the things, can never, even by the great annual sacrifices which they offer statedly, make the comers thereunto perfect.

his flesh, and having a great high-priest over the house of God,

But call to remembrance the former days, in which after being enlightened, ye sustained a great conflict of sufferings;

Cast not away therefore your couragious profession, which hath a great recompence of reward.

Having therefore so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin that easily besets us, and run with patience the race that is set before us,

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