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But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

But we desire that every one of you would shew unto the end the same diligence, to the full assurance of hope,

That ye be not slothful, but followers of them, who through faith and long suffering inherited the promises.

Without father, without mother, without pedigree, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life, but being made like the son of God, remaineth a priest continually.

But he whose pedigree is not from them, took tythes of Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises:

And here men that die receive tithes: but there, he of whom it is witnessed, that he liveth.

but after the power of an endless life.

For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did, by which we draw nigh to God.

but this with an oath, by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedek:)

But this, because he continueth for ever, hath a priesthood that passeth not away.

For the law maketh men high priests that have infirmity; but the word of the oath which was since the law, maketh the son, who is consecrated for evermore.

But into the second, only the high-priest once a year, not without blood, which he offereth for himself and the errors of the people:

But Christ being come, an high-priest of good things to come, through a greater and more perfect tabernacle,

not made with hands, that is, not of this building, And not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

It was therefore necessary, that the patterns of things in heaven should be purified by these, but the heavenly things themselves by better sacrifices than these.

For Christ did not enter into the holy place made with hands, the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.

For then he must often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once at the consummation of the ages hath he been manifested, to abolish sin by the sacrifice of himself.

But in those sacrifices, there is a commemoration of sins every year.

Therefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou hast not chosen, but a body hast thou prepared for me.

But he having offered one sacrifice for sins,