of teaching about washings (ritual purifications), the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. [These are all important matters in which you should have been proficient long ago.]

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

he again defines a certain day, "Today," saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."

that ye be not slothful, but imitators of those who, by faith and long suffering, are inheriting the promises.

And so after long patient waiting he obtained the promise.

And might deliver those who through fear of death had been subject to life-long bondage.

For a testament is only of force in case of the dead, being never valid so long as the testator lives.

For the Law appoints to the high priesthood men full of imperfection; but this utterance about the making of the oath, which came long after the Law, appoints a son, fully qualified to be high priest forever.

For you have knowledge that even long after, when he was desiring the blessing for his heritage, he was turned away, though he made his request frequently and with weeping; because the past might not be changed.

But, brothers, take kindly the words which I have said for your profit; for I have not sent you a long letter.

where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years long.

so long as it is said, "Today if ye hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as when ye provoked."

But we which have believed, do enter into his rest, as contrariwise he said to the other, "As I have sworn in my wrath, 'They shall not enter into my rest.'" And that spake he verily long after that the works were made, and the foundation of the world laid.

For although you ought to be teachers of others because you have been Christians so long, you actually need someone to teach you over and over again the very elements of the truths that God has given us, and you have gotten into such a state that you are in constant need of milk instead of solid food.

Therefore, as long as the promise of entering his rest remains valid, let us be afraid! Otherwise, some of you will fail to reach it,

and who have fallen away, as long as they continue to crucify the Son of God to their own detriment by exposing him to public ridicule.

The Holy Spirit was indicating by this that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first part of the tent was still standing.