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

but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,

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 when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself,

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

Now He, of whom these things are said, is of another tribe, of which none ever attended at the altar..

Now none of this happened without an oath. Others became priests without any 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.

Yet though they all gained God's approval by their faith, they 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.