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Therefore also he is able to save completely those who draw near to God through him, because he always lives in order to intercede on their behalf.

For this is the covenant that I will decree with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I am putting my laws in their minds and I will write them on their hearts, and I will be their God and they will be my people.

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

saying, "This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded for you."

For Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf,

Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come— in the roll of the book it is written about me— to do your will, O God.'

But this one, after he had 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 the person will be considered worthy of who treats with disdain the Son of God and who considers ordinary the blood of the covenant by which he was made holy and who insults the Spirit of grace?

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

For you have need of endurance, in order that after you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

By faith we understand the worlds were created by the word of God, in order that what is seen did not come into existence from what is visible.

By faith Abel offered to God a greater sacrifice than Cain, by which he was approved that he was righteous, because God approved him for his gifts, and through it he still speaks, although he is dead.

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

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

For he was expecting the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

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

having reasoned that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which he received him back also as a symbol.

choosing instead to be mistreated with the people of God rather than to experience the transitory enjoyment of sin,

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