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For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of IsraelAfter those days, says the Lord:I will put My laws into their minds,And upon their hearts I will write them.And I will be their God,And they shall be My people.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded you."

For Christ did not enter holy places made with hands, mere copies of the true ones, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come,In the scroll of the book it is written of Me,To do Your will, O God.'"

but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God,

and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

How much worse punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has regarded as defiled the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he was approved as being righteous—God approving his gifts—and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; and he was not found because God took him up; for prior to being taken up, he was approved as being pleasing to God.

And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who draws near to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.

for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

But now, they aspire to a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He prepared a city for them.

He considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he also received him back.

choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin,

because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect.

fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.