"There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

So if perfection had in fact been possible through the Levitical priesthood -- for on that basis the people received the law -- what further need would there have been for another priest to arise, said to be in the order of Melchizedek and not in Aaron's order?

Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.

"And there will be no need at all for each one to teach his countryman or each one to teach his brother saying, 'Know the Lord,' since they will all know me, from the least to the greatest.

And after the second curtain there was a tent called the holy of holies.

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

Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

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

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

and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?