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

Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,

For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not speak later of another day.

So then, there remains a sabbath rest for the people of God;

for whoever enters God's rest also ceases from his labors as God did from his.

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.

Because of this he is bound to offer sacrifice for his own sins as well as for those of the people.

as he says also in another place, "Thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchiz'edek."

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 for his godly fear.

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need some one to teach you again the first principles of God's word. You need milk, not solid food;

for every one who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a child.

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit,

For land which has drunk the rain that often falls upon it, and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.

For God is not so unjust as to overlook your work and the love which you showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do.

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,

Men indeed swear by a greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.

so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God should prove false, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us.