Study Desk

You can trust what I have just said, and I want you to speak with confidence about these things, so that those who have put their trust in God may apply themselves to doing good deeds. These are both good in themselves and valuable to the community.

Do your best to help Zenas the Torah expert and Apollos with their arrangements for travelling, so that they will lack nothing.

And have our people learn to apply themselves to doing good deeds that meet genuine needs, so that they will not be unproductive.

so that in returning him to you I am sending a part of my very heart.

But I didn't want to do anything without your consent, so that the good you do for me may be voluntary and not forced.

Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a brief period was so that you could have him back forever,

So if you are in fellowship with me, receive him as you would me.

So he has become much better than angels, and the name God has given him is superior to theirs.

Therefore, we must pay much more careful heed to the things we have heard, so that we will not drift away.

For if the word God spoke through angels became binding, so that every violation and act of disobedience received its just deserts in full measure,

But we do see Yeshua — who indeed was made for a little while lower than the angels — now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by God's grace he might taste death for all humanity.

Therefore, since the children share a common physical nature as human beings, he became like them and shared that same human nature; so that by his death he might render ineffective the one who had power over death (that is, the Adversary)

This is why he had to become like his brothers in every respect — so that he might become a merciful and faithful cohen gadol in the service of God, making a kapparah for the sins of the people.

Watch out, brothers, so that there will not be in any one of you an evil heart lacking trust, which could lead you to apostatize from the living God!

Instead, keep exhorting each other every day, as long as it is called Today , so that none of you will become harden ed by the deceit of sin.

who were the people who, after they heard, quarrel ed so bitter ly? All those whom Moshe brought out of Egypt.

So we see that they were unable to enter because of lack of trust.

he again fixes a certain day, " Today ," saying through David, so long afterwards, in the text already given, "Today, if you hear God's voice, don't harden your hearts."

So there remains a Shabbat-keeping for God's people.

Therefore, let us do our best to enter that rest ; so that no one will fall short because of the same kind of disobedience.