Study Desk

having been designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic elements of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food;

Therefore let us go on toward perfection, leaving behind the basic teaching about Christ, and not laying again the foundation: repentance from dead works and faith toward God,

And we will do this, if God permits.

and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,

and then have fallen away, since on their own they are crucifying again the Son of God and are holding him up to contempt.

Ground that drinks up the rain falling on it repeatedly, and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.

For God is not unjust; he will not overlook your work and the love that you showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do.

When God made a promise to Abraham, because he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,

In the same way, when God desired to show even more clearly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it by an oath,

so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God would prove false, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to seize the hope set before us.

This "King Melchizedek of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham as he was returning from defeating the kings and blessed him";

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.

(for the law made nothing perfect); there is, on the other hand, the introduction of a better hope, through which we approach God.

Consequently he is able for all time to save those who approach God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

God finds fault with them when he says: "The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!

saying, "This is the blood of the covenant that God has ordained for you."

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.