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

But one in a certain place hath testified, saying, "What is man that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest Him?

Who in the days of his flesh, offered prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears, to Him that was able to save Him from death, and was heard in what He feared;

Now if perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law) what farther need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedec, and not after the order of Aaron?

Now by saying, a new covenant, He hath antiquated the first: and what is antiquated, and groweth old, is near it's exit.

And what need I say more? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and Barak, and Sampson, and Jephthah, and David, and Samuel, and of the prophets:

If ye endure chastening, God treateth you as sons; for what son is there, whom the father doth not chastise?

And make strait paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be turned out of the way, but rather be healed.

Let your conversation be free from covetousness, and be contented with what ye have: for He hath said, I will not leave thee; I will never, never forsake thee.

So that we may say with courage, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.