and put everything in subjection under his feet." Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. As it is, we do not yet see everything subject to him.

As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall never enter my rest.'"

And to whom did he swear that they would never enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall never enter my rest,'" although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.

And again in this place he said, "They shall never enter my rest."

Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly had the good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience,

Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same example of disobedience.

He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves, but he entered the holy place once for all by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

Indeed, under the law almost everything is cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.

Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

How much severer punishment do you think a man will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as an unclean thing the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?