how shall we escape if we have been negligent of so great salvation, which, having had its commencement in being spoken of by the Lord, has been confirmed to us by those who have heard;

For he has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by how much he that has built it has more honour than the house.

For we enter into the rest who have believed; as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest; although the works had been completed from the foundation of the world.

again he determines a certain day, saying, in David, 'To-day,' after so long a time; (according as it has been said before), To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up both supplications and entreaties to him who was able to save him out of death, with strong crying and tears; (and having been heard because of his piety;)

and having been perfected, became to all them that obey him, author of eternal salvation;

For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those once enlightened, and who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises.

and, so to speak, through Abraham, Levi also, who received tithes, has been made to pay tithes.

For he, of whom these things are said, belongs to a different tribe, of which no one has ever been attached to the service of the altar.

who has been constituted not according to law of fleshly commandment, but according to power of indissoluble life.

And they have been many priests, on account of being hindered from continuing by death;

(who serve the representation and shadow of heavenly things, according as Moses was oracularly told when about to make the tabernacle; for See, saith He, that thou make all things according to the pattern which has been shewn to thee in the mountain.)

For if that first was faultless, place had not been sought for a second.

the Holy Spirit shewing this, that the way of the holy of holies has not yet been made manifest while as yet the first tabernacle has its standing;

For every commandment having been spoken according to the law by Moses to all the people; having taken the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

since he had then been obliged often to suffer from the foundation of the world. But now once in the consummation of the ages he has been manifested for the putting away of sin by his sacrifice.

thus the Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear to those that look for him the second time without sin for salvation.

by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and esteemed the blood of the covenant, whereby he has been sanctified, common, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings;

Wherefore also there have been born of one, and that of one become dead, even as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the countless sand which is by the sea shore.

as to whom it had been said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called:

By faith the walls of Jericho fell, having been encircled for seven days.

But if ye are without chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Be not carried away with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the heart be confirmed with grace, not meats; those who have walked in which have not been profited by them.