Study Desk

When he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obey him,

There has been enough time for you to be teachers—yet you still need someone to teach you the first lessons of God's message. Instead of eating solid food, you still have to drink milk.

Solid food, on the other hand, is for adults, who through practice are able to distinguish between good and evil.

For how can those who abandon their faith be brought back to repent again? They were once in God's light; they tasted heaven's gift and received their share of the Holy Spirit;

God blesses the soil which drinks in the rain that often falls on it and which grows plants that are useful to those for whom it is cultivated.

God is not unfair. He will not forget the work you did or the love you showed for him in the help you gave and are still giving to other Christians.

Our great desire is that each of you keep up your eagerness to the end, so that the things you hope for will come true.

We have this hope as an anchor for our lives. It is safe and sure, and goes through the curtain of the heavenly temple into the inner sanctuary.

In the case of the priests the tenth is collected by men who die; but as for Melchizedek the tenth was collected by one who lives, as the scripture says.

For Levi had not yet been born, but was, so to speak, in the body of his ancestor Abraham when Melchizedek met him.

It was on the basis of the levitical priesthood that the Law was given to the people of Israel. Now, if the work of the levitical priests had been perfect, there would have been no need for a different kind of priest to appear, one who is in the priestly order of Melchizedek, not of Aaron.

For when the priesthood is changed, there also has to be a change in the law.

For the scripture says, "You will be a priest forever, in the priestly order of Melchizedek."

For the Law of Moses could not make anything perfect. And now a better hope has been provided through which we come near to God.

And so he is able, now and always, to save those who come to God through him, because he lives forever to plead with God for them.

He is not like other high priests; he does not need to offer sacrifices every day for his own sins first and then for the sins of the people. He offered one sacrifice, once and for all, when he offered himself.

If there had been nothing wrong with the first covenant, there would have been no need for a second one.

None of them will have to teach their friends or tell their neighbors, ‘Know the Lord.' For they will all know me, from the least to the greatest.

The first covenant had rules for worship and a place made for worship as well.

In it were the gold altar for the burning of incense and the Covenant Box all covered with gold and containing the gold jar with the manna in it, Aaron's stick that had sprouted leaves, and the two stone tablets with the commandments written on them.