See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through him many become defiled.

Therefore, strengthen your listless hands and your weak knees,

At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions, and at other times you came to share with others who were treated in that way.

And so he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, since he died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.

For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin, and so he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,

So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.

For we know the one who said, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too.”