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And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient?

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also did; but the word they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united with those who listened with faith.

And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him to whom we must answer.

For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things just as we are, yet without sin.

And no one takes the honor for himself, but receives it when he is called by God, just as Aaron also was.

So too Christ did not glorify Himself in becoming a high priest, but it was He who said to Him, "YOU ARE MY SON, TODAY I HAVE FATHERED YOU";

But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to distinguish between good and evil.

but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.

But, beloved, we are convinced of better things regarding you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we are speaking in this way.

so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and endurance inherit the promises.

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest perpetually.

But the one whose genealogy is not traced from them collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises.

But without any dispute the lesser person is blessed by the greater.

In this case mortal men receive tithes, but in that case one receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives on.

who has become a priest not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

(for they indeed became priests without an oath, but He with an oath through the One who said to Him, "THE LORD HAS SWORN AND WILL NOT CHANGE HIS MIND, 'YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER'");

For the Law appoints men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the Law, appoints a Son, who has been made perfect forever.

But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, to the extent that He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.

When He said, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is about to disappear.

and above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the atoning cover; but about these things we cannot now speak in detail.