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and then have fallen away — it is impossible to renew them so that they turn from their sin, as long as for themselves they keep executing the Son of God on the stake all over again and keep holding him up to public contempt.

For the land that soaks up frequent rains and then brings forth a crop useful to its owners receives a blessing from God;

For God is not so unfair as to forget your work and the love you showed for him in your past service to his people — and in your present service too.

For when God made his promise to Avraham, he swore an oath to do what he had promised; and since there was no one greater than himself for him to swear by, he swore by himself

Therefore, when God wanted to demonstrate still more convincingly the unchangeable character of his intentions to those who were to receive what he had promised, he added an oath to the promise;

so that through two unchangeable things, in neither of which God could lie, we, who have fled to take a firm hold on the hope set before us, would be strongly encouraged.

This Malki-Tzedek, king of Shalem, a cohen of God Ha‘Elyon, met Avraham on his way back from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him ;

There is no record of his father, mother, ancestry, birth or death; rather, like the Son of God, he continues as a cohen for all time.

(for the Torah did not bring anything to the goal); and, on the other hand, a hope of something better is introduced, through which we are drawing near to God.

What is more, God swore an oath. For no oath was sworn in connection with those who become cohanim now;

but Yeshua became a cohen by the oath which God swore when he said to him, " Adonai has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a cohen forever.'"

and consequently, he is totally able to deliver those who approach God through him; since he is alive forever and thus forever able to intercede on their behalf.

But what they are serving is only a copy and shadow of the heavenly original; for when Moshe was about to erect the Tent, God warned him, "See to it that you make everything according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain."

For God does find fault with the people when he says, "‘See! The days are coming,' says Adonai , ‘when I will establish over the house of Isra'el and over the house of Y'hudah a new covenant.

"‘For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Isra'el after those days,' says Adonai : ‘I will put my Torah in their minds and write it on their hearts; I will be their God, and they will be my people.

For they involve only food and drink and various ceremonial washings — regulations concerning the outward life, imposed until the time for God to reshape the whole structure.

then how much more the blood of the Messiah, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself to God as a sacrifice without blemish, will purify our conscience from works that lead to death, so that we can serve the living God!

and he said, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has ordained for you."

For the Messiah has entered a Holiest Place which is not man-made and merely a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, in order to appear now on our behalf in the very presence of God.

It is in connection with this will that we have been separated for God and made holy, once and for all, through the offering of Yeshua the Messiah's body .