Take heed, brethren, that there be in none of you an evil heart, in unbelief, that he should depart from the living God:

But continually encourage one another every day, as long as it is called “Today” [and there is an opportunity], so that none of you will be hardened [into settled rebellion] by the deceitfulness of sin [its cleverness, delusive glamour, and sophistication].

Therefore let us fear, [while there] remains a promise of entering into his rest, that none of you appear to fall short of [it].

Let us, therefore, make every effort to be admitted to that Rest, so that none of us may fail through such disobedience as theirs.

For God who promised to Abraham, since he had none greater to swear by, swore by himself,

for none of Abraham's posterity was yet begotten at the time of his meeting with Melchizedek.

for he who was there mention'd was of another tribe, none of whom ever gave attendance at the altar.

None of this happened without an oath. For others became priests without an oath,

but into the second [inner tabernacle, the Holy of Holies], only the high priest enters [and then only] once a year, and never without [bringing a sacrifice of] blood, which he offers [as a substitutionary atonement] for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

Though all these people by their faith won God's approval, yet none of them received what He had promised,

But if you have none of that discipline which all sons undergo, you are illegitimate children, and not true sons.

Follow peace with all men; and holiness, without which none shall see the Lord:

For ye know that, afterwards - when he even wished to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for, place of repentance, found he none, even though, with tears, he diligently sought it.