And with whom was God so greatly grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies fell in the Desert?

For God's Message is full of life and power, and is keener than the sharpest two-edged sword. It pierces even to the severance of soul from spirit, and penetrates between the joints and the marrow, and it can discern the secret thoughts and purposes of the heart.

For we have not a High Priest who is unable to feel for us in our weaknesses, but one who was tempted in every respect just as we are tempted, and yet did not sin.

and have realized how good the word of God is and how mighty are the powers of the coming Age, and then fell away--

That hope we have as an anchor of the soul--an anchor that can neither break nor drag. It passes in behind the veil,

And there shall be no need for them to teach each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother, saying, Know the Lord. For all will know Me from the least of them to the greatest;

And behind the second veil was a sacred tent called the Holy of holies.

by the new and ever-living way which He opened up for us through the rending of the veil--that is to say, of His earthly nature--

For if we wilfully persist in sin after having received the full knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains in reserve any other sacrifice for sins.

It is an awful thing to fall into the hands of the ever-living God.

Through faith the walls of Jericho fell to the ground after being surrounded for seven days.

And why need I say more? For time will fail me if I tell the story of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, and of David and Samuel and the Prophets;

for God had provided for them and us something better, so that apart from us they were not to attain to full blessedness.

Now, at the time, discipline seems to be a matter not for joy, but for grief; yet it afterwards yields to those who have passed through its training a result full of peace--namely, righteousness.