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But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and on the verge of being cursed; its end is to be burned over.

so that you may not become sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.

But this man, who does not belong to their ancestry, collected tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had received the promises.

one who has become a priest, not through a legal requirement concerning physical descent, but through the power of an indestructible life.

but this one became a priest with an oath, because of the one who said to him, "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever'"—

but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever.

For the law appoints as high priests those who are subject to weakness, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.

But Jesus has now obtained a more excellent ministry, and to that degree he is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted through better promises.

but only the high priest goes into the second, and he but once a year, and not without taking the blood that he offers for himself and for the sins committed unintentionally by the people.

but deal only with food and drink and various baptisms, regulations for the body imposed until the time comes to set things right.

But when Christ came as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation),

he entered once for all into the Holy Place, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.

Thus it was necessary for the sketches of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves need better sacrifices than these.

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to remove sin by the sacrifice of himself.

so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.

But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sin year after year.

Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body you have prepared for me;

But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, "he sat down at the right hand of God,"