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

Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,'" although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works."

again he appoints a certain day, "Today," saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."

for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.

And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Because of this he is obligated to offer sacrifice for his own sins just as he does for those of the people.

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.

For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.

So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath,

and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.

But this man who does not have his descent from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.

for he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchizedek met him.

but this one was made a priest with an oath by the one who said to him: "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever.'"

but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever.

He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself.

And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.

he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.

Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own,