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and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

for God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you shown toward his name, in that you served the holy ones, and still do serve them.

For when God made a promise to Avraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself,

Wherein God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us,

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a Kohen continually.

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.

who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moshe was warned by God when he was about to make the tent, for, "See," he said, "that you make all things according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain."

"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Yisra'el. After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be to them a God, And they will be to me a people.

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

saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded toward you."

For Messiah entered not into a holy place made with hands, similar in pattern to the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us;

Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (In the scroll of the book it is written of me) To do your will, God.'"

but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

and having a great Kohen over the house of God;

How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

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

For you need patience, so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.