21. We also have a Kohen Gadol over God’s household.
22. So let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and body washed with pure water.
23. Let us hold fast the unwavering confession of hope, for He who promised is faithful.
24. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good deeds.
25. And do not neglect our own meetings, as is the habit of some, but encourage one another—and all the more so as you see the Day approaching.
26. For if we keep on sinning willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
27. but only a terrifying expectation of judgment and a fury of fire about to devour the enemies of God.
28. Anyone who rejected the Torah of Moses dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
29. How much more severe do you think the punishment will be for the one who has trampled Ben-Elohim underfoot, and has regarded as unholy the blood of the covenant by which he was made holy, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
30. For we know the One who said, “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,” and again, “Adonai 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 when, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings.
33. Sometimes you were publicly exposed to abuses and afflictions, and other times you became partners with those who were treated this way.
34. For you suffered along with the prisoners and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and lasting possession.
35. Therefore, do not lose your boldness, which has great reward.
36. For you need perseverance so that, after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
37. For yet “in a very little while, the Coming One will come, and He will not delay.
38. But My righteous one shall live by emunah; and if he shrinks back, My soul takes no pleasure in him.”
39. But we are not among the timid ones on the path to destruction, but among the faithful ones on the path to the preservation of the soul.