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but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD,

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

let's approach God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

How much more severe punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

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

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

By faith we understand that the world has been created by the word of God so that what is seen has not been made out of things that are visible.

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he was attested to be righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; AND HE WAS NOT FOUND BECAUSE GOD TOOK HIM UP; for before he was taken up, he was attested to have been pleasing to God.

And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for the one who comes to God must believe that He exists, and that He proves to be One who rewards those who seek Him.

By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

for he was looking for the city which 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; for He has prepared a city for them.

He considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead, from which he also received him back as a type.

choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the temporary pleasures of sin,

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

looking only at Jesus, the originator and perfecter of the faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,