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For every house is built by some one; but he who has built all things [is] God.

See, brethren, lest there be in any one of you a wicked heart of unbelief, in turning away from [the] living God.

For he has said somewhere of the seventh [day] thus, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works:

There remains then a sabbatism to the people of God.

For he that has entered into his rest, he also has rested from his works, as God did from his own.

For the word of God [is] living and operative, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to [the] division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of [the] heart.

Having therefore a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the confession.

For every high priest taken from amongst men is established for men in things relating to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;

And no one takes the honour to himself but [as] called by God, even as Aaron also.

addressed by God [as] high priest according to the order of Melchisedec.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that [one] should teach you what [are] the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, [and] not of solid food.

Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of the Christ, let us go on [to what belongs] to full growth, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God,

and this will we do if God permit.

and have tasted the good word of God, and [the] works of power of [the] age to come,

and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves [as they do] the Son of God, and making a show of [him].

For ground which drinks the rain which comes often upon it, and produces useful herbs for those for whose sakes also it is tilled, partakes of blessing from God;

For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and [still] ministering.

For God, having promised to Abraham, since he had no greater to swear by, swore by himself,

Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath,

that by two unchangeable things, in which [it was] impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,