And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works,

And, “You founded the earth in the beginning, Lord, and the heavens are the works of your hands.

“There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

You made him lower than the angels for a little while. You crowned him with glory and honor.

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

For the one who enters God’s rest has also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’” And yet God’s works were accomplished from the foundation of the world.

Therefore we must progress beyond the elementary instructions about Christ and move on to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,

For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name, in having served and continuing to serve the saints.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.