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By faith he instituted the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch the Israelites.

Women received their dead, raised to life again. Other people were tortured, not accepting release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

since God had provided something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect without us.

Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every hindrance and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us,

For consider him who endured such hostility from sinners against himself, so that you won’t grow weary and give up.

For they disciplined us for a short time based on what seemed good to them, but he does it for our benefit, so that we can share his holiness.

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated but healed instead.

The appearance was so terrifying that Moses said, I am trembling with fear.

This expression, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what is not shaken might remain.

Therefore, Jesus also suffered outside the gate, so that he might sanctify the people by his own blood.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, since they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.

And let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

By his own choice, he gave us birth by the word of truth so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

For he who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not murder. So if you do not commit adultery, but you murder, you are a lawbreaker.

For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

Now if we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we direct their whole bodies.

So too, though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts great things. Consider how a small fire sets ablaze a large forest.

You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

You adulterous people! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.