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For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.

So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.

Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,

Because of this he is obligated to offer sacrifice for his own sins just as he does for those of the people.

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.

For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness

The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office,

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

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.

By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.

and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

and "A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.

because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.

casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.