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And Moses indeed [was] faithful in all his house, as a ministering servant, for a testimony of the things to be spoken after;

For we are become companions of the Christ if indeed we hold the beginning of the assurance firm to the end;

(for who was it, who, having heard, provoked? but [was it] not all who came out of Egypt by Moses?

For indeed we have had glad tidings presented to us, even as they also; but the word of the report did not profit *them*, not being mixed with faith in those who heard.

For we enter into the rest who have believed; as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest; although the works had been completed from [the] foundation of [the] world.

For he has said somewhere of the seventh [day] thus, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works:

For if Jesus had brought them into rest, he would not have spoken afterwards about another day.

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

For the word of God [is] living and operative, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to [the] division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of [the] heart.

For we have not a high priest not able to sympathise with our infirmities, but tempted in all things in like manner, sin apart.

Let us approach therefore with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace for seasonable help.

For every high priest taken from amongst men is established for men in things relating to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;

and, on account of this [infirmity], he ought, even as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

Even as also in another [place] he says, *Thou* [art] a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that [one] should teach you what [are] the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, [and] not of solid food.

For every one that partakes of milk [is] unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe;

but solid food belongs to full-grown men, who, on account of habit, have their senses exercised for distinguishing both good and evil.

For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those once enlightened, and who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of [the] Holy Spirit,

and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves [as they do] the Son of God, and making a show of [him].

For ground which drinks the rain which comes often upon it, and produces useful herbs for those for whose sakes also it is tilled, partakes of blessing from God;