Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

Let us therefore fear, lest, although a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

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

Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place every year with blood of others;

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshipers once purged should have had no more consciousness of sins.

For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

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 had this testimony, that he pleased God.

By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should later receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing where he went.

Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.

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

And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: