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but without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will.

For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it.

But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.

Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called "Today," so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience.

Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

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

so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.

For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; AND HE WAS NOT FOUND BECAUSE GOD TOOK HIM UP; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God.

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that he who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection;

because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect.

For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.

and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

This expression, "Yet once more," denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.