Study Desk

Then I said, ‘See, God, I have come to do your will, O God' (in the scroll of the book it is written of me)."

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 those who have spurned the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant by which they were sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?

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

For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.

By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain's. Through this he received approval as righteous, God himself giving approval to his gifts; he died, but through his faith he still speaks.

By faith Enoch was taken so that he did not experience death; and "he was not found, because God had taken him." For it was attested before he was taken away that "he had pleased God."

And without faith it is impossible to please God, for whoever would approach him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

By faith Noah, warned by God about events as yet unseen, respected the warning and built an ark to save his household; by this he condemned the world and became an heir to the righteousness that is in accordance with faith.

For he looked forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; indeed, he has prepared a city for them.

He considered the fact that God is able even to raise someone from the dead—and figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.

choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.

since God had provided something better so that they would not, apart from us, be made perfect.

looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

Endure trials for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as children; for what child is there whom a parent does not discipline?

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble, and through it many become defiled.

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,