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For land which has drunk the rain that often falls upon it, and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.

For God is not so unjust as to overlook your work and the love which you showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do.

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,

So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he interposed with an oath,

so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God should prove false, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us.

For this Melchiz'edek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him;

He is without father or mother or genealogy, and has neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest for ever.

(for the law made nothing perfect); on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

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

They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary; for when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, "See that you make everything according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain."

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

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

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

For Christ has entered, not into a sanctuary made with hands, a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

Then I said, 'Lo, I have come to do thy will, O God,' as it is written of me in the roll of the book."

But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,

and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by the man who has spurned the Son of God, and profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?

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

For you have need of endurance, so that you may do the will of God and receive what is promised.