So there must still be a promised Sabbath of Rest for God's people.

For when God made his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for him to make oath by, he did so by himself,

Now if anything final had been really accomplished through the Levitical priesthood, for even the giving of the Law was based upon it, what further need would there have been of appointing a different priest of the priesthood of Melchizedek, instead of choosing one of the priesthood of Aaron?

For when there is a change in the priesthood, a change necessarily takes place in the Law as well.

(for there was nothing final about the Law), and a better hope begins to dawn, through which we may approach God.

Further, if he were still on earth, he would not be a priest at all, for there are priests enough provided to offer the gifts the Law prescribes??5 though the service they engage in is only a shadow and imitation of that in heaven. For when Moses was going to make the tent of worship he was warned, "Be sure to make it all just like the pattern you were shown on the mountain."

For if that first agreement had been perfect, there would have been no occasion for a second one.

In all this the holy Spirit was seeking to show that there was no free access to the sanctuary while the outer tent was still standing.

But when these are forgiven, there is no more need of offerings for sin.

For if we choose to go on sinning after we have so fully learned the truth, there is no sacrifice left to be offered for our sins,

Faith caused Enoch to be taken up from the earth without experiencing death; he could not be found, because God had taken him up. For before he was taken up there is evidence that he pleased God,

Faith led him to make a temporary home as a stranger in the land he had been promised, and to live there in his tents, with Isaac and Jacob, who shared the promise with him.

And so from one man, for any prospect of descendants as good as dead, there sprang a people in number like the stars in the heavens or the countless sands on the seashore.

You must submit to it as discipline. God is dealing with you as his sons. For where is there a son whom his father does not discipline?