For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.

Yet the one these things are spoken about belongs to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever officiated at the altar.

For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.

Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, for without it no one will see the Lord.

On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,

Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?

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

Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

So in fact children were fathered by one man – and this one as good as dead – like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore.

For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be proven.

“For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts.”

But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I take no pleasure in him.

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.

“And there will be no need at all for each one to teach his countryman or each one to teach his brother saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ since they will all know me, from the least to the greatest.

But when this priest had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand of God,

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

And no one assumes this honor on his own initiative, but only when called to it by God, as in fact Aaron was.

and in one case tithes are received by mortal men, while in the other by him who is affirmed to be alive.

who is faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses was also in God’s house.

And see to it that no one becomes an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.