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And are fallen away: to be renewed again to penance, crucifying again to themselves the Son of God and making him a mockery.

For the earth, that drinketh in the rain which cometh often upon it and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is tilled, receiveth blessing from God.

For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work and the love which you have shewn in his name, you who have ministered and do minister to the saints.

For God making promises to Abraham, because he had no one greater by whom he might swear, swore by himself,

Wherein God, meaning more abundantly to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed an oath:

That by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, we who have fled for refuge to hold fast the hope set before us.

For this Melchisedech was king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him:

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but likened unto the Son of God, continueth a priest for ever.

For the law brought nothing to perfection: but a bringing in of a better hope, by which we draw nigh to God.

Whereby he is able also to save for ever them that come to God by him; always living to make intercession for us.

For this is the testament which I will make to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my laws into their mind: and in their heart will I write them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people.

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

Saying: This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.

For Jesus is not entered into the Holies made with hands, the patterns of the true: but into Heaven itself, that he may appear now in the presence of God for us.

Then said I: Behold I come: in the head of the book it is written of me: that I should do thy will, O God.

Then said I: Behold, I come to do thy will, O God: He taketh away the first, that he may establish that which followeth.

But this man, offering one sacrifice for sins, for ever sitteth on the right hand of God,

And a high priest over the house of God:

How much more, do you think he deserveth worse punishments, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God and hath esteemed the blood of the testament unclean, by which he was sanctified, and hath offered an affront to the Spirit of grace?

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.