FOR this reason we ought to attend more diligently to the things which have been heard, lest by any means we let them flow by us.

Thou didst make him some little less than messengers, with glory and honour Thou didst crown him, and didst set him over the works of Thy hands,

Nevertheless, we yet see not all things subdued unto him. But him that was made less than the angels, we see that it was Iesus: which is crowned with glory and honour for the suffering of death; that he, by the grace of God, should taste of death for all men.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

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.

Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

But without any dispute the less is blessed of the better.

For such a high priest is suited to us, who is holy, harm less, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens;

And they shall not teach every one his neighbour, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the lest even to the greatest of them.

Through faith he ordained the Easter lamb, and the effusion of blood, lest he that destroyed the first born should touch them.

Compare yourselves with him who endured such hostility against himself at the hands of sinners, lest you grow weary, fainting in your souls.

and see that ye have straight steps unto your feet, lest any halting turn out of the way: yea, let it rather be healed.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his own birthright for one meal.

And a trumpets peal, - and a sound of things spoken: - from which they who heard excused themselves, lest there should be added to them, a word;

Take care not to refuse to listen to him who is speaking. For if they could not escape because they would not listen to him who warned them here on earth, how much less can we, who reject him who is from heaven!