There your ancestors tested me,

There remains, therefore, a Sabbath rest for the people of God to keep,

Now if perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood for on this basis the people received the Law what further need would there be to speak of appointing another kind of priest according to the order of Melchizedek, not one according to the order of Aaron?

When a change in the priesthood takes place, there must also be a change in the Law.

There have been many priests, since each one of them had to stop serving in office when he died.

If the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need to look for a second one,

For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be established.

In fact, under the Law almost everything is cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of the blood there is no forgiveness.

Instead, through those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year,

Now where there is forgiveness of these sins, there is no longer any offering for sin.

For if we choose to go on sinning after we have learned the full truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

What you endure disciplines you: God is treating you as sons. Is there a son whom his father does not discipline?