and as a mantle wilt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed; but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail."

But with whom was He provoked forty years? was it not with those that sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

Let us therefore fear least a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of us should seem to fall short of it:

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, least any one fall after the same example of unbelief.

and the powers of the gospel-age, and yet fall away, should be renewed again to repentance: since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God, and make an open example of Him.

And we desire that every one of you would shew the same diligence to acquire the full assurance of hope even unto the end:

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to fail, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us;

which we have as an anchor of the soul safe and stedfast, and which entereth within the veil.

And beyond the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of holies, having the golden censer,

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.

the new and living way which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say,

let us draw near with sincerity, in the full assurance of faith, having our hearts cleansed from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encompassed seven days.

And what need I say more? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and Barak, and Sampson, and Jephthah, and David, and Samuel, and of the prophets:

Follow peace with all men; and holiness, without which none shall see the Lord: