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although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.

Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as also they, but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not mixed with faith by those who heard.

Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news were before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,

The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.

Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself.

For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death.

But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable.

Or else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

By faith, Enoch was translated, so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. Yet you don't have, because you don't ask.

You ask, and don't receive, because you ask amiss, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.