while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

For it is witnessed of him, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”

And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,

Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.

Jesus, Founder and Perfecter of Our Faith

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,