Take heed, brethren, that there be in none of you an evil heart, in unbelief, that he should depart from the living God:

For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day, on this wise, "And God did rest the seventh day from all his works."

For he that is entered into his rest doth cease from his own works, as God did from his.

For every high priest that is taken from among men is ordained for men, in things pertaining to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins:

Which in the days of his flesh, did offer up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death: and was also heard, because of his godliness.

Wherefore, let us leave the doctrine pertaining to the beginning of a Christian man, and let us go unto perfection, and now no more lay the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

of baptism, of doctrine, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection from death, and of eternal judgment.

This Melchizedek, king of Salem - which being priest of the most high God, met Abraham, as he returned again from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him:

Such a high priest it becometh us to have, which is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than heaven.

And they shall not teach, every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'know the Lord': For they shall know me, from the least to the most of them.

How much more shall the blood of Christ - which through the eternal spirit, offered himself without spot to God - purge your consciences from dead works, for to serve the living God?

and from henceforth tarrieth till his foes be made his footstool.

let us draw nigh with a true heart in a full faith sprinkled in our hearts, from an evil conscience, and washed in our bodies with pure water,

Also, if they had been mindful of that country, from whence they came out, they had leisure to have returned again.

For he considered that God was able to raise up again from death. Wherefore received he him, for an example of the resurrection.

See that ye despise not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not which refused him that spake on earth; Much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

The God of peace that brought again from death our Lord Jesus Christ, the great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting testament,

Know the brother Timothy, whom we have sent from us, with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.

Grace be with you all. Amen. {Here ends the Epistle unto the Hebrews, Sent from Italy by Timothy}