how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation, which, commencing at the beginning to be spoken by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by those who had heard him;

For some, though they had heard, provoked him; yet not all who came out of Egypt by Moses.

But against whom was he incensed forty years? Was it not against those who had sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

Forasmuch therefore as it remaineth for some to enter into it, and they who first had the gospel preached to them entered not in because of unbelief;

For if Joshua had given them the rest, he would not afterwards have spoken of another day.

For God when he gave the promise to Abraham forasmuch as he had nothing greater to swear by, sware by himself,

But he who derived not his genealogy from them, received tithes from Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises;

If therefore there was perfection by the Levitical priesthood (for under that the people had the law given to them), what farther need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no place sought for a second.

THEN also the first tabernacle had indeed regulations for the divine service, and a sanctuary furnished.

having the golden censer, and the coffer of the covenant, overlaid with gold within and without, in which were the golden urn containing the manna, and Aaron's rod which had budded, and the stone tables of the covenant;

For when every command according to the law had been spoken by Moses to all the people, taking the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

else they would have discontinued to make the offering, because they who performed the service being once made clean, would have had no more sense of sins on their conscience.

thou hast had no delight in whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin:

But remember the past days in which, after ye had been illuminated, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;

By faith Enoch was translated, so as not to see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he was recorded to have been acceptable to God.

And if indeed they had fixed their minds on that from whence they had gone forth, they might have had opportunity to go back to it again.

By faith Abraham, when tried, offered up Isaac; and he who had received the promise, presented in sacrifice his only begotten son,

unto whom it had been said, "That by Isaac shall there be a seed bearing thy name:"

reasoning that God was able to raise him up again, even from the dead; from whence also figuratively he had received him.

and others had trials of mockeries and whippings, yea and farther of chains and imprisonment:

If then we have had the fathers of our flesh for correctors, and reverenced them; shall we not much more be under subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?