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.

Since then it still remains that some are being admitted to it and that those who first had the good news told to them were not admitted because of disobedience,

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

Let us stop neglecting our meeting together, as some do, but let us continue to encourage one another, and all the more because you see that the great day is drawing near.

Continue to look after one another, that no one fails to gain God's spiritual blessing; or some evil like a bitter root may spring up and trouble you, and many of you be contaminated by it --

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

Do not remain neglectful of hospitality to strangers, for by it some have entertained angels without knowing it.