Wherefore, as the holy ghost saith, "Today if ye shall hear his voice,

but exhort one another daily, while it is called today, lest any of you wax hard hearted through the deceitfulness of sin.

so long as it is said, "Today if ye hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as when ye provoked."

For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day, on this wise, "And God did rest the seventh day from all his works."

For he that is entered into his rest doth cease from his own works, as God did from his.

Which in the days of his flesh, did offer up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death: and was also heard, because of his godliness.

Wherefore, let us leave the doctrine pertaining to the beginning of a Christian man, and let us go unto perfection, and now no more lay the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

Which needeth not daily - as yonder high priests - to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's sins. For that did he at once for all, when he offered up himself:

How much more shall the blood of Christ - which through the eternal spirit, offered himself without spot to God - purge your consciences from dead works, for to serve the living God?

For the testament taketh authority when men are dead: For it is of no value as long as he that made it is alive.

By faith, Abel offered unto God a more plenteous sacrifice than Cain: by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: by which also he being dead, yet speaketh.

By faith he removed into the land that was promised him, as into a strange country, and dwelt in tabernacles: and so did Isaac, and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

And therefore sprang thereof one - and of one which was as good as dead - so many in multitude, as the stars of the sky, and as the sand of the sea shore which is innumerable.

And the women received their dead raised to life again. Others were racked, and would not be delivered, that they might receive a better resurrection.

Jesus Christ yesterday, and today, and the same, continueth forever.