Therefore we must pay more careful attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

Take care, brethren, lest there be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

For we have come to share in Christ if we hold our first confidence firm to the end,

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall never enter my rest,'" although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works."

for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his.

And there is no creature hidden from his sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his godly fear.

Although he was a Son, he learned obedience from what he suffered;

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their sense trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

For land which drinks the rain that often falls upon it, and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him.

And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take a tenth from the people, that is, from their brethren, though these also are descended from Abraham.

But this man whose genealogy is not derived from them received a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.

For the one of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar.

For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, and in regard to that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.

The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office;

For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the heavens.

And they shall not teach every one his fellow or every one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

For since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices which are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near.

waiting from that time until his enemies be made a stool for his feet.

let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from a distance, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

And if they had been thinking of that country from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.

He considered that God was able to raise men even from the dead; from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.

because God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary and lose heart.

See to it that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less shall we escape, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven?

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said, "I will never leave you, nor will I forsake you."

We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the eternal covenant,

Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who come from Italy send you greetings.