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

There remains therefore a rest to the people of God.

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.

If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

And it is yet far more evident: that after the similitude of Melchizedek there arises another priest,

For there is verily an annulment of the previous commandment because of the weakness and uselessness thereof.

For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

For there was a tabernacle made; the first, in which was the lampstand, and the table, and the showbread; which is called the sanctuary.

For where a will is, there must also of necessity be the death of the maker.

But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.

Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,

Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable.

Lest there be any immoral, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.