21. and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
22. let us approach with a true heart in the full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
23. Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for the one who promised is faithful.
24. And let us think about how to stir one another up to love and good works,
25. not abandoning our meeting together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging each other, and by so much more as you see the day drawing near.
26. For if we keep on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
27. but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that is about to consume the adversaries.
28. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
29. How much worse punishment do you think the person will be considered worthy of who treats with disdain the Son of God and who considers ordinary the blood of the covenant by which he was made holy and who insults the Spirit of grace?
30. For we know the one who said, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”
31. It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32. But remember the former days in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings,
33. sometimes being publicly exposed both to insults and to afflictions, and sometimes becoming sharers with those who were treated in this way.