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he again defines a certain day, Today, saying in David so long a time afterward (even as has been said before), Today if you shall hear his voice, Do not harden your hearts.

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

And there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which you showed toward his name, in having served the saints and still serving.

Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

for he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met him.

but he, because he abides forever, has his priesthood unchangeable.

who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the [sins] of the people: for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.

And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen, And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them.

nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption.

nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own;

from now on expecting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.

by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

For we know him that said, Vengeance belongs to me, I will recompense. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness in respect of his gifts: and through it he being dead yet speaks.

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God translated him: for he has had witness borne to him that before his translation he had been well-pleasing to God:

By faith Noah, being warned [of God] concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a [land] not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac: yes, he that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten [son];