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

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

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

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

After God spoke long ago in various portions and in various ways to our ancestors through the prophets,

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

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

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.

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

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.

For they disciplined us for a little while as seemed good to them, but he does so for our benefit, that we may share his holiness.

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.”

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.

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,”

“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.

“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.