according as the testimony of the Christ was confirmed in you,

Brethren, as a man I say it, even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,

and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,

being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught -- abounding in it in thanksgiving.

how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation? which a beginning receiving -- to be spoken through the Lord -- by those having heard was confirmed to us,

with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for it is good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;