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and because of this infirmity he ought, as for the people, so also for himself to offer for sins;

so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: `My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;'

and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise;

and so to speak, through Abraham even Levi who is receiving tithes, hath paid tithes,

by so much of a better covenant hath Jesus become surety,

so also the Christ, once having been offered to bear the sins of many, a second time, apart from a sin-offering, shall appear, to those waiting for him -- to salvation!

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain [is], but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living,

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

and, (so terrible was the sight,) Moses said, `I am fearful exceedingly, and trembling.'

so that we do boldly say, `The Lord [is] to me a helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.'

for the sun did rise with the burning heat, and did wither the grass, and the flower of it fell, and the grace of its appearance did perish, so also the rich in his way shall fade away!

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be judged,

so also the faith, if it may not have works, is dead by itself.

for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.

lo, also the ships, being so great, and by fierce winds being driven, are led about by a very small helm, whithersoever the impulse of the helmsman doth counsel,

so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!

and the tongue [is] a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;