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,

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.

Now hath he obtained a more excellent office, inasmuch as he is the mediator of a better testament, which was made for better promises.

In that he saith a new testament, he hath abrogated the old. Now that which is disannulled and waxed old, is ready to vanish away.

Over the ark were the cherubims of glory shadowing the seat of grace. Of which things, we will not now speak particularly.

For Christ is not entered into the holy places, that are made with hands, which are but similitudes of true things: but is entered into very heaven, for to appear now in the sight of God for us.

for then must he have often suffered since the world began: But now in the end of the world, hath he appeared once, to put sin to flight, by the offering up of himself.

But now they desire a better, that is to say a heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them, even to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

whose voice then shook the earth, and now declareth, saying "Yet once more will I shake, not the earth only, but also heaven."