But now, after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how can you turn back to the weak and impoverished principles, to which you desire again to be in bondage?
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make those who draw near perfect.
(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said to him, The Lord swore and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek:)
For the law makes men high priests who have weaknesses; but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like the Son of God; remains a priest continually.
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?