Study Desk

When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, make haste to come to me in Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

But also our people must learn to engage in good deeds for necessary needs, so that they will not be unfruitful.

because I hear about your love and faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints.

I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing that is in us for Christ.

For I have great joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

whom I wanted to keep with me, in order that he might serve me on behalf of you during my imprisonment for the gospel.

For perhaps because of this, he was separated from you for a time, in order that you might have him back forever,

At the same time also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.

who is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, sustaining all things by the word of power. When he had made purification for sins through him, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

For to which of the angels did he ever say, "You are my son, today I have begotten you," and again, "I will be his father, and he will be my son"?

But to which of the angels has he ever said, "Sit down at my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."

Are they not all spirits engaged in special service, sent on assignment for the sake of those who are going to inherit salvation?

For if the word spoken through angels was binding and every transgression and act of disobedience received a just penalty,

For he did not subject to angels the world to come, about which we are speaking.

But someone testified somewhere, saying, "What is man, that you remember him, or the son of man, that you care for him?

You made him for a short time lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor;

you subjected all things under his feet. For in subjecting all things, he left nothing that was not subject to him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him,

but we see Jesus, for a short time made lower than the angels, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that apart from God he might taste death on behalf of everyone.

For it was fitting for him for whom are all things and through whom are all things in bringing many sons to glory to perfect the originator of their salvation through sufferings.

For both the one who sanctifies and the ones who are sanctified are all from one, for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers,