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So he was called by God, a high priest after the order of Mel-chis''e-dec.

And so he was patient, and obtained the promise.

That promise is like an anchor to us; it upholds the soul so that it may not be shaken, and it penetrates beyond the veil of the temple;

Since there was a change in the priesthood, so also there was a change in the law.

But now Jesus Christ has received a ministry which is greater than that; just as the covenant in which he was made a mediator, is greater, so are the promises greater than those given in the old covenant.

By this the Holy Spirit revealed that the way of the saints would not yet be made known, so long as the old tabernacle remained;

How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works so that we may serve the living God?

For a testament is of force after men are dead, otherwise it is useless so long as its maker lives.

Not so that he should offer himself many times, as did the high priest who enters into the holy place every year with blood which is not his own;

And if not so, then he would have been obliged to suffer many times from the very beginning of the world: but now at the end of the world, only once, by his sacrifice, did he offer himself to abolish sin.

So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; so that at his second coming, he shall appear without our sins for the salvation of those who look for him.

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is customary for some; but exhorting one another: and so much the more when you see that day approaching.

For it is through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen came to be from those which are not seen.

For they who speak so, declare plainly that they seek a country for themselves.

THEREFORE, seeing we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us;

And make straight the paths for your feet, so that the weak do not go astray but are healed.

Nor to the sound of the trumpet and the voice of the word; which voice they heard but refused so that the word will not be spoken to them any more.

And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I fear and quake.

So that we may boldly say, The LORD is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

Let the rich man rejoice in his humbleness: because as the flower of the grass, so shall he pass away.