<p class="bodytext">For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.<n id="1" />

In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

For we had good news proclaimed to us just as they did. But the message they heard did them no good, since they did not join in<n id="1" /> with those who heard it in faith.<n id="2" />

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

For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on<n id="1" /> it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.

&#8220;<i><b>This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those daysb>, <b>says the Lordb>. <b>I will putb>i><n id="1" /> <b><i>my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their mindsi>b>,&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">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?

<p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<i><b>For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those daysb>, <b>says the Lordb>. <b>I will putb>i><n id="1" /> <b><i>my laws in their mindsi>b><n id="2" /> <i><b>and I will inscribe them on their heartsb>. <b>And I will be their God and they will be my peopleb>.i><n id="3" />p>