For if Joshua had really brought them rest God would not afterward have spoken of another day.

For a tent was erected, with the lamp and the table and the presentation bread in the outer part, which was called the sanctuary.

And beyond the second curtain, in the part called the inner sanctuary,

With these arrangements for worship, the priests used constantly to go into the outer part of the tent, in the performance of their rites,

but only the high priest could enter the inner part, and he but once a year, and never without taking some victim's blood, to offer on his own behalf and for the sins committed through ignorance by the people.

But when Christ came, as the high priest of the better system under which we live, he went once for all, through that greater, more perfect tent of worship not made by human hands nor a part of our material creation, into the sanctuary,

Do not forget your former leaders, the men who brought you God's message. Remember how they ended their lives and imitate their faith.

I ask this of you more especially that I may be brought back to you the sooner.

May God, the giver of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus who through the blood by which he ratified the everlasting agreement has become the great shepherd of the sheep,