See to it, brothers, that there shall never be in any one of you an evil and unbelieving heart, manifesting itself in apostasy from the living God.

On the contrary, encourage each other daily, so long as there is a "Today," so that no one of you is hindered by the deceitfulness of sin.

Let us be on our guard, then, though there is a promise still standing of being admitted to his rest, lest any one of you should be found to have come short of it.

Now if there were perfection through the Levitical priesthood, (and it was under it that the people received the Law) why was it still necessary for another kind of priest to arise, after the order of Melchizedek, instead of being reckoned according to the order of Aaron?

And this is yet more abundantly clear if, after the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another Priest,

For there is a setting aside of a foregoing commandment, because of its weakness and unprofitableness

(for the Law brought nothing to perfection); and there is the bringing in of a better hope by which we draw near to God;

Now were he on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there are here those who present the gifts according to the Law??5 those priests who serve a mere outline and shadow of the heavenly reality, just as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to build the Tabernacle. "See", he says, "that you make everything on the pattern showed you on the mountain."

For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need for a second.

But finding fault with them, He says. "There are days coming," says the Lord, "When I will establish with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant;

For where there is a testament, there must also be brought forward in evidence the death of the testator.

almost everything is purified by blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins.

But when these have been remitted, there is no more any offering for sin.

For if we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any other sacrifice for sins,

and thus there sprang from one man, and him practically dead, a nation like the stars in the heavens in multitude, or grains of sand upon the seashore, innumerable.

It is for discipline that you are enduring these sufferings. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Look carefully that there be no one who falls back from the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up to trouble you, and by its means many become defiled.

Take care lest there be any fornicator or scorner like Esau among you, who for one meal sold his birthright.