Therefore we must pay more careful attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

But there is a place where someone has testified, "What is man that you are mindful of him, or the son of man that you care for him?

Although he was a Son, he learned obedience from what he suffered;

Now if perfection could have been through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the people received the Law), what further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not one designated according to the order of Aaron?

Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

When he said, "A new covenant," he has made the first obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

By faith we understand that the world was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.

And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets,

And all these, though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was promised,

It is for discipline that you endure. God is treating you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

This phrase, "Yet once more," indicates the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, in order that what cannot be shaken may remain.

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said, "I will never leave you, nor will I forsake you."

So we say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?"