Wherefore, let us leave the doctrine pertaining to the beginning of a Christian man, and let us go unto perfection, and now no more lay the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

that by two immutable things - in which it was impossible that God should lie - we might have perfect consolation, which have fled, for to hold fast the hope that is set before us:

And verily those children of Levi, which receive the office of the priests, have a commandment to take according to the law, tithes of the people, that is to say, of their brethren, yea though they sprung out of the loins of Abraham.

If now therefore perfection came by the priesthood of the Levites - for under that priesthood the people received the law - what needed it furthermore that another priest should rise, after the order of Melchizedek, and not after the order of Aaron?

Now no doubt, if the priesthood be translated, then of necessity must the law be translated also.

which is not made after the law of the carnal commandment: but after the power of the endless life.

For the law made no thing perfect: but was an introduction of a better hope, by which hope, we draw nigh unto God.

For the law maketh men priests, which have infirmity: but the word of the oath that came since the law, maketh the son priest, which is perfect for evermore.

For he were not a priest, if he were on the earth where are priests that according to the law offer gifts,

And almost all things are, by the law, purged with blood, and without shedding of blood, is no remission.

For the law - which hath but the shadow of good things to come, and not the things in their own fashion - can never with the sacrifices which they offer year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

Then I said, 'Lo I come.' In the chiefest of the book it is written of me, that I should do thy will, o God."

Above when he had said, "sacrifice, and offering, and burnt sacrifices, and sin offerings thou wouldest not have, neither hast allowed" - which yet are offered by the law -

And then he said, "Lo I am come to do thy will o God." He taketh away the first to establish the latter.

He that despiseth Moses' law, dieth without mercy under two or three witnesses.

Wherefore let us also - seeing that we are compassed with so great a multitude of witnesses - lay away all that presseth down, and the sin that hangeth on us, and let us run with patience, unto the battle that is set before us,