Study Desk

I would have liked to keep him with me so that he could take your place in helping me while I am in chains for the gospel.

But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that any favor you do will be spontaneous and not forced.

We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than theangels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by thegrace of God he might taste death for everyone.

Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—

But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience.

Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged.

The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean.

How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!

You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.

By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death; he could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.

Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.

Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

"Make level paths for your feet," so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.

The words "once more" indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.