Therefore it behooves us the more earnestly to give heed to the things which we have heard, lest at some time we may leak out.

But some one, somewhere, testified, saying. What is Man, that thou art mindful of him? Or any man, that thou carest for him?

Thou hast made him less, some little, than messengers, With glory and honour, hast thou crowned him, - And hast set him over the works of thy hands;

But, Jesus, made some little less than messengers, we do behold: by reason of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour, to the end that, by favour of God, in behalf of every one, he might taste of death.

For every house is built by some man, but he who built all things is God.

Watch out, brothers, lest there be in some of you an evil, unbelieving heart, [with the result that you] fall away from the living God.

For some who heard rebelled, but not all those who came out of Egypt by Moses.

So let us fear that when the promise for us to be admitted to His rest is still remaining valid some one of you may be found to have missed it.

Seeing then it remaineth that some enter into it,

Since therefore it remains for some to enter into it, and those who formerly had good-news did not enter because of disobedience,

Therefore let us hasten to enter into that rest, lest some one may fall by the same example of unbelief.

For also men who ought to be teachers because of the time, ye have need again for some man to teach you the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and have become men who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

and who had experienced the good teaching of God and the powers of the coming age [i.e., they had already received some of the blessings of the Christian life, perhaps even miraculous signs].

For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; so this High Priest too must have some sacrifice to offer,

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.

For after every commandment in the Law had been spoken to all the people by Moses, he took the blood of calves and goats, together with some water, scarlet wool, and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,

and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good deeds ??25 not ceasing to meet together, as is the habit of some, but admonishing one another, all the more so, as you see the Day coming near.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another ; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.

But some fearful reception of judgment and fiery jealousy, about to devour the opposers.

some of you being expos'd to publick obloquy and persecution: whilst others had their share of affliction in seeing such treatment.

By [having] faith, Sarah herself received the ability to have children, even though she was [sterile, being] past the age of child-bearing, since she considered God faithful to His promise. [Note: Some translations consider "Abraham" to be the subject of this highly controversial verse. See Lightfoot, pages 222-225].

for they. that make such a declaration, show plainly that they seek some other country.

Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured [to death], refusing to accept release [offered on the condition of denying their faith], so that they would be resurrected to a better life;

God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;

some immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

Forget not to show love unto strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

for the mind is better improv'd by the gospel-dispensation, than by the distinctions about meats, in which some have been so uselesly vers'd.