Study Desk

Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll 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 one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has 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 when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.

By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.

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

By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer 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 for them a city.

He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.

choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.

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

looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father 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 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 innumerable angels in festal gathering,