Study Desk

but Christ was faithful as a son over his house, whose house we are, if we hold fast to our confidence and the hope we can be proud of.

Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, if you hear his voice,

while it is said, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."

And to whom did he swear they would not enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

Therefore let us fear, while there remains a promise of entering into his rest, that none of you appear to fall short of it.

For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,"

again he ordains a certain day, today, speaking by David after so long a time, just as had been said before, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."

For the one who has entered into his rest has also himself rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.

who in the days of his flesh offered up both prayers and supplications, with loud crying and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard as a result of his reverence.

For God is not unjust, so as to forget your work and the love which you demonstrated for his name by having served the saints, and continuing to serve them.

In the same way God, because he wanted to show even more to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his resolve, guaranteed it with an oath,

to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth of everything—in the first place, his name is translated "king of righteousness," and then also "king of Salem," that is, "king of peace";

But the one who did not trace his descent from them collected tithes from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises.

For he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.

but he with an oath by the one who said to him, "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever'"),

who does not need every day like the former high priests to offer up sacrifices for his own sins and then for the sins of the people, because he did this once for all when he offered up himself.

And they will not teach each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.

and not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered once for all into the most holy place, obtaining eternal redemption.

and not in order that he can offer himself many times, as the high priest enters into the sanctuary year by year with blood not his own,

from now on waiting until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet.