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But strong food belongeth to them that are of full age, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

But that which beareth thorns and briers [is] rejected, and [is] nigh to cursing; whose end [is] to be burned.

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like to the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes from Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

And here men that die receive tithes; but there he [receiveth them], of whom it is testified that he liveth.

Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.

For the law made nothing perfect, but the introduction of a better hope [did]; by which we draw nigh to God.

(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath, by him that said to him, The Lord swore, and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)

But this [man], because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.

For the law maketh men high priests who have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, [maketh] the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.

But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

But into the second [went] the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and [for] the errors of the people:

But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood; he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption [for us].

[It was] therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

For Christ hath not entered into the holy places made with hands, [which are] the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment: