because if the message spoken by angels was reliable, and every violation and act of disobedience received its just punishment,

He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was in all God's household,

We who have believed are entering that rest, just as he has said, "So in my anger I swore a solemn oath that they would never enter my rest,"

because the one who enters God's rest has himself rested from his own actions, just as God did from his.

No one takes this honor upon himself but he is called to it by God, just as Aaron was.

Just look at how great this man was! Even Abraham the patriarch himself gave him a tenth of what he had captured!

Indeed, just as people are destined to die once and after that to be judged,