For this reason we should give heed more abundantly to the things we have heard, lest in any way we should slip away.

but we see Jesus, who was made some little inferior to angels on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste death for every thing.

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who had not hearkened to the word?

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that one should teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

If indeed then perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for the people had their law given to them in connexion with it, what need was there still that a different priest should arise according to the order of Melchisedec, and not be named after the order of Aaron?

For every high priest is constituted for the offering both of gifts and sacrifices; whence it is needful that this one also should have something which he may offer.

It was necessary then that the figurative representations of the things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with sacrifices better than these.

nor in order that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy places every year with blood not his own;

By faith we apprehend that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that that which is seen should not take its origin from things which appear.

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he has the testimony that he had pleased God.

God having foreseen some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.

(for they were not able to bear what was enjoined: And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;

Know that our brother Timotheus is set at liberty; with whom, if he should come soon, I will see you.