Study Desk

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 toward you."

For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, similar in pattern to the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face 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, God.'"

but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

and having a great priest over the house of God;

How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

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

For you need patience, so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

By faith, Enoch was translated, so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

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

accounting that God is able to raise up, even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.

choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;

God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with sons, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?