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saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you." Exodus 24:8">[fn]

For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

Then I said, 'Behold, I have come--In the volume of the book it is written of Me--To do Your will, O God.' " Psalms 40:6-8 ">[fn]

then He said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God." [fn] He takes away the first that He may establish the second.

But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God,

and having a High Priest over the house of God,

Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted 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 after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:

By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

Genesis 4:1-16; 5:18-24; 6:5-8:22">[xr] By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.

By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, "and was not found, because God had taken him"; Genesis 5:24">[fn] for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.

choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin,

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

looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

If [fn] you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?