For we are true partners with Christ if we really keep the conviction that we had at first unshaken to the very end.

Since then it is still true that somebody will be admitted to it, and those who had a gospel preached to them before were not admitted because of their disobedience,

But about you, dear friends, even though we say this, we are sure of better things that promise salvation.

to officiate as priest in the sanctuary and in that true tent of worship which not man but the Lord himself set up.

For it was not a sanctuary made by human hands and only copied after the true one that Christ entered, but he went into heaven itself, in order to appear now on our behalf in the very presence of God.

let us draw near to God in sincerity of heart and with perfect faith, with our hearts cleansed from the sense of sin, and our bodies washed with clean water.

But we will not draw back and perish, but we will have faith and save our souls.

Faith made him institute the Passover and splash the blood upon the door-posts, to keep the angel that destroyed the firstborn from touching them.

But if you have none of that discipline which all sons undergo, you are illegitimate children, and not true sons.

You must not be carried away with strange varieties of teaching. The true way to steadfastness of heart is through God's mercy, not through scruples about food, which have never done their adherents any good.