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so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.

partly by being made a public spectacle through reproaches and tribulations, and partly by becoming sharers with those who were so treated.

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

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 Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; AND HE WAS NOT FOUND BECAUSE GOD TOOK HIM UP; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God.

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that he who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection;

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

Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.

and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, "I AM FULL OF FEAR and trembling."

This expression, "Yet once more," denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

so that we confidently say, "THE LORD IS MY HELPER, I WILL NOT BE AFRAID. WHAT WILL MAN DO TO ME?"

Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

So, let us go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.

And I urge you all the more to do this, so that I may be restored to you the sooner.

And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass; and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed; so too the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will fade away.