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Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brothers 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 every day, as long as it is still called "today," so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Therefore let's make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same example of disobedience.

Therefore let's approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace for help at the time of our need.

so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and endurance 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 hold firmly to 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 violations 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 world has been created by the word of God so that what is seen has not been made out of things that 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 before he was taken up, he was attested to have been pleasing to God.

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer of 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 impaired may not be dislocated, 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.

so that we confidently say, "THE LORD IS MY HELPER, I WILL NOT BE AFRAID. WHAT WILL MAN DO TO ME?"

Obey your leaders and submit to them—for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account—so that they may do this with joy, not groaning; for this would be unhelpful for you.

And I urge you all the more to do this, so that I may be restored to you more quickly.