Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.

So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.

Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the people received the Law), what further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be designated according to the order of Aaron?

For when the priesthood is changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law also.

For, on the one hand, there is a setting aside of a former commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

(for the Law made nothing perfect), and on the other hand there is a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the Law;

For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second.

For there was a tabernacle prepared, the outer one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the sacred bread; this is called the holy place.

Behind the second veil there was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

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

And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year.

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

For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

Therefore there was born even of one man, and him as good as dead at that, as many descendants as the stars of heaven in number, and innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

that there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.