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For God having made promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, "He swore by Himself,"

In which way, desiring to more fully declare to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His counsel, God interposed by an oath,

that through two unchangeable things, in which it was not possible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, those having fled to lay hold on the hope set before us ,

For this "Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God," the one meeting Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, "and blessing him;"

without father, without mother, without genealogy, nor beginning of days, nor having end of life, but having been made like the Son of God, he remains a priest in perpetuity).

For the Law perfected nothing, but a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

And from this He is able to save to the end completely the ones drawing near to God through Him, forever living to intercede on their behalf.

Because this is the covenant which I will covenant with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord, giving My Laws into their mind, and I will write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."

by how much more the blood of Christ (who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God), will purify your conscience from dead works, to serve the living God!

saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God enjoined to you." Ex. 24:8

For Christ did not enter into the Holy of Holies made by hands, types of the true things, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf,

"Then I said, Lo, I come, in the heading of the Book it was written concerning Me, to do Your will, O God." LXX-Psa. 39:7 -9; MT-Psa. 40:6 -8

then He said, "Lo, I come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first in order that He may set up the second;

But He, offering but one sacrifice for sins, "sat down" in perpetuity "at the right hand " of God,

and having a Great Priest over the house of God,

how much worse punishment do you think will be thought worthy to receive , the one trampling the Son of God, and having counted common the blood of the covenant in which he was sanctified, and having insulted the Spirit of Grace?

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

For you have need of patience, that having done the will of God you may obtain the promise.

By faith we understand the ages to have been framed by the Word of God, so that the things seen should not come into being out of things that appear.

By faith Abel offered a greater sacrifice to God than Cain, by which he obtained witness to be righteous, God testifying over his gifts; and through it, having died, he yet speaks.