See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.

But encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called To-day, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Therefore let us fear, [while there] remains a promise of entering into his rest, that none of you appear to fall short of [it].

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter upon that Rest, so that none of us fall through such disbelief as that of which we have had an example.

For when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he sware by himself,

for none of Abraham's posterity was yet begotten at the time of his meeting with Melchizedek.

for he who was there mention'd was of another tribe, none of whom ever gave attendance at the altar.

None of this happened without an oath. For others became priests without an oath,

but into the second [inner tabernacle, the Holy of Holies], only the high priest enters [and then only] once a year, and never without [bringing a sacrifice of] blood, which he offers [as a substitutionary atonement] for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

And although by their faith all these people won God's approval, none of them received the fulfilment of His great promise;

But if you have none of that discipline which all sons undergo, you are illegitimate children, and not true sons.

Follow peace with all men; and holiness, without which none shall see the Lord:

For ye know that, afterwards - when he even wished to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for, place of repentance, found he none, even though, with tears, he diligently sought it.