For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”

For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken afterward about another day.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell after the people marched around them for seven days.

And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again – sacrifices that can never take away sins.

But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.

“Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.

not abandoning our own meetings, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and even more so because you see the day drawing near.

But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.

in these last days he has spoken to us in a son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he created the world.

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, he has neither beginning of days nor end of life but is like the son of God, and he remains a priest for all time.

So God again ordains a certain day, “Today,” speaking through David after so long a time, as in the words quoted before, “O, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts.”

He has no need to do every day what those priests do, to offer sacrifices first for their own sins and then for the sins of the people, since he did this in offering himself once for all.

But showing its fault, God says to them, “Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

“This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,”

“For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.

“It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.

During his earthly life Christ offered both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion.

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!

For by it the people of old received God’s commendation.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever!