And again, when he brings the first-begotten into the world, he says: And let all the angels of God worship him.

so that I swore in my anger, They shall not enter into my rest.

But to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who believed not?

Let us fear, therefore, lest, as a promise of entering into his rest still remains, any of you should seem to come short of it.

For we who have believed are to enter into rest, as he said: So I swore in my anger, they shall not enter into my rest; namely, that rest from his works which had been finished from the foundation of the world.

and in this place again: They shall not enter into my rest.

Since, then, it remains that some must enter into it, and they, to whom the good news was first preached, did not enter in on account of unbelief,

For he that has entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

Let us earnestly strive, therefore, to enter into that rest, lest any one fall after the same example of unbelief.

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, says the Lord; putting my laws into their understanding, I will also write them upon their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people;

Now, when these things were thus arranged, the priests went, at all times, into the first tabernacle, discharging the service of God.

But into the second, the high priest alone went, once during the year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:

the Holy Spirit signifying this, that the way into the most holy was not yet made manifest, while the first tabernacle was still standing,

entered, not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, once for all, into the most holy, having obtained eternal redemption.

for a testament goes into effect after men are dead: seeing that it has no validity at all while the testator lives.

Wherefore, when he comes into the world, he says: Sacrifice and offering thou hast not desired, but a body thou hast prepared me;

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

By faith we understand that the ages were set in order by the word of God, so that the things which are seen, have not come into being from things that appear.

By faith Abraham, when called to go out into a place that he should afterward receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

For the bodies of those animals whose blood, shed for sin, is carried by the high priest into the holiest, are burned with out the camp.