Study Desk

Since that time, He waits for His enemies to be made a footstool for His feet,

by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,

For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge His people."

By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous when God gave approval to his gifts. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.

By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son,

By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.

By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites and gave instructions about his bones.

By faith Moses' parents hid him for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were unafraid of the king's edict.

He valued disgrace for Christ above the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his reward.

Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?

Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.

See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.

At that time His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, "Once more I will shake not only the earth, but heaven as well."

And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.

Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.

equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

The brother in humble circumstances should exult in his high position.