Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

For every highpriest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;

And those indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the office of the priesthood have a command to take tithes of the people by the Law, that is, of their brethren, though they have come out of the loins of Abraham;

For if the priesthood is changed, there takes place of necessity a change of the law.

For on the one hand there takes place an annulling of the commandment which went before, on account of its weakness and unprofitableness,

And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that, death having taken place for redemption from the transgressions under the first covenant, they who have been called may receive the everlasting inheritance which was promised.

For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

And every priest indeed standeth performing daily service, and offering again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;