Brothers, take care in case there is a wicked, unbelieving heart in any of you, moving you to apostatize from the living God.

Also, it is an office which no one elects to take for himself; he is called to it by God, just as Aaron was.

With God's permission, we will take this step.

Though I say this, beloved, I feel sure you will take the better course that means salvation.

Again, while every priest stands daily at his service, offering the same sacrifices repeatedly, sacrifices which never can take sins away ??12 He offered a single sacrifice for sins and then seated himself for all time at the right hand of God,

Meantime my just man shall live on by his faith; if he shrinks back, my soul takes no delight in him.

It was by faith that Enoch was taken to heaven, so that he never died (he was not overtaken by death, for God had taken him away). For before he was taken to heaven, his record was that he had satisfied God;

For the bodies of the animals whose blood is taken into the holy Place by the high priest as a sin-offering, are burned outside the camp;