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

There remaineth 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 to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is testified that he liveth.

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 Melchisedec, 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: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,

For there is verily a disannulling of the preceding commandment on account of its weakness and unprofitableness.

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

For there was a tabernacle made; the first, in which was the candlestick, and the table, and the show-bread; which is called the sanctuary.

For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

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 remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

Therefore there sprang even from 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 sea-shore innumerable.

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birth-right.