For this reason, it is needful that we give the more earnest heed to the things heard, lest at any time we drift past them.

Since, therefore, the children have partaken of blood and flesh, He Himself also in like manner took part of the same; that, through death, He might bring to nought him who had the power of death, that is, the Devil;

Take heed, brethren, lest at any time there shall be in anyone of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

For, indeed, we have had the Gospel proclaimed to us, even as also they; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not having been mingled with faith on the part of those who heard.

For, had Joshua given them rest, He would not afterward have spoken of another day.

For God, when making a promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater by whom to swear, swore by Himself,

but he whose genealogy is not reckoned from them has taken tithes of Abraham, and has blessed him who had the promises.

For, if that first covenant had been faultless, place would not be sought for a second;

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

else had it been needful for Him ofttimes to suffer since the founding of a world; but now, once for all, at the end of the ages, He hath been manifested for the putting away of sin through the sacrifice of Himself.

else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshipers, having been cleansed once for all, would have had no more conscience of sins.

And the Holy Spirit also testifieth to us; for after He had said,

let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having had our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our body washed with pure water,

By faith Enoch was translated, so as not to see death; and he was not found, because God translated him; for, it has been witnessed to him that, before his translation, he had been well-pleasing to God.

And, if, indeed, they had been mindful of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.

And others had trial of mockings and scourgings, and, moreover, of bonds and imprisonment: