Study Desk

This was not because we do not have that right, but in order to give you an example to imitate.

I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because he judged me faithful and appointed me to his service,

even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,

For to this end we toil and struggle, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.

May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain;

But they will not make much progress, because, as in the case of those two men, their folly will become plain to everyone.

he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

because I hear of your love for all the saints and your faith toward the Lord Jesus.

I have indeed received much joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, my brother.

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

Because he himself was tested by what he suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested.

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

For indeed the 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 open for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,

and because of this he must offer sacrifice for his own sins as well as for those of the people.

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

When God made a promise to Abraham, because he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,

There is, on the one hand, the abrogation of an earlier commandment because it was weak and ineffectual

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'"—

Furthermore, the former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office;