Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.

but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God’s enemies.

And do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, bear with my message of exhortation, for in fact I have written to you briefly.

Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

For it is indeed fitting for us to have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

So if perfection had in fact been possible through the Levitical priesthood – for on that basis the people received the law – what further need would there have been for another priest to arise, said to be in the order of Melchizedek and not in Aaron’s order?