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For it is clear that he did not come to help angels, but the descendants of Abraham.

Therefore he had to become like his brothers and sisters in every respect, so that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make a sacrifice of atonement for the sins of the people.

(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.)

for forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.'

For we have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end.

For indeed the good news came to us just as to them; but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.

For we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, "As in my anger I swore, ‘They shall not enter my rest,'" though his works were finished at the foundation of the world.

For in one place it speaks about the seventh day as follows, "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works."

Since therefore it remains open for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,

For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not speak later about another day.

So then, a sabbath rest still remains for the people of God;

for those who enter God's rest also cease from their labors as God did from his.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin.

Every high priest chosen from among mortals is put in charge of things pertaining to God on their behalf, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.

and because of this he must offer sacrifice for his own sins as well as for those of the people.

and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic elements of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food;

for everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is unskilled in the word of righteousness.

But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit,