thou hast loved justice and hated lawlessness, therefore God, thy God, has consecrated thee with the oil of rejoicing beyond thy comrades' ??10 and, 'Thou didst found the earth at the beginning, O Lord, and the heavens are the work at thy hands;

and, 'Thou, at the beginning, Lord, the earth didst found, and a work of thy hands are the heavens;

For this reason we ought the more earnestly to attend to what we have heard, least by any means we should be found deficient.

Where your fathers tried Me by testing [My forbearance and tolerance],
And saw My works for forty years
[And found I stood their test].

That was why I was angry with that generation, And I said, 'Their minds are always wandering, And they have never found my paths.'

See to it, my brothers, that no evil, unbelieving heart is found in any of you, as shown by your turning away from the living God.

Therefore let us be on our guard lest perhaps, while He still leaves us a promise of being admitted to His rest, some one of you should be found to have fallen short of it.

for, in a passage referring to the seventh day, you will find these words-- 'God rested upon the seventh day after all his work.'

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

for tho' he was the son of God, yet he found by his own sufferings what it was to obey,

but bringing forth thorns and briars, it is found worthless and nigh to a curse, whose end is to be burned.

that ye faint not, but follow them which through faith and patience inherit the promises.

so that we who have found refuge in him may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.

but God found something wrong with his people when he said, "Look! The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

nor by blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, has entered in once for all into the holy of holies, having found an eternal redemption.

Accordingly we find that the first Covenant was not inaugurated without blood.

For the law having but a faint shadow of good things to come, and not the full image of the things, can never, even by the great annual sacrifices which they offer statedly, make the comers thereunto perfect.

And through faith the Righteous man shall find his Life, But, if a man draws back, my heart can find no pleasure in him.'

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

But where there is no faith it is impossible truly to please Him; for the man who draws near to God must believe that there is a God and that He proves Himself a rewarder of those who earnestly try to find Him.

And if they had been thinking of that country from which they departed [as their true home], they would have had [a continuing] opportunity to return.

put out raging fires, escaped death by the sword, found strength in weakness, became powerful in battle, and routed foreign armies.

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

Do not let yourselves be carried away by the various novel forms of teaching. It is better to rely for spiritual strength upon the divine help, than upon regulations regarding food; for those whose lives are guided by such regulations have not found them of service.