Study Desk

" Then I said , ‘ Here I am: I have come—it is written of me in the scroll of the book—to do your will , O God .'"

But when this priest had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand of God,

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

How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace?

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

By faith Abel offered God a greater sacrifice than Cain, and through his faith he was commended as righteous, because God commended him for his offerings. And through his faith he still speaks, though he is dead.

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death, and he was not to be found because God took him up. For before his removal he had been commended as having pleased God.

Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

But as it is, they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

God had told him, " Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name ,"

and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin's fleeting pleasure.

For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.

keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy set out for him he endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through him many become defiled.

But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly

and congregation of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous, who have been made perfect,

So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.