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even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;

For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.

thus incurring condemnation, because they have set aside their previous pledge.

Those who have believers as their masters must not be disrespectful to them because they are brethren, but must serve them all the more, because those who partake of the benefit are believers and beloved. Teach and preach these principles.

who must be silenced because they are upsetting whole families, teaching things they should not teach for the sake of sordid gain.

because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints;

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

But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.

So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard.

Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly had good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience,

and because of it he is obligated to offer sacrifices for sins, as for the people, so also for himself.

In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety.

But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

For, on the one hand, there is a setting aside of a former commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

The former priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers because they were prevented by death from continuing,

but Jesus, on the other hand, because He continues forever, holds His priesthood permanently.

who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; AND HE WAS NOT FOUND BECAUSE GOD TOOK HIM UP; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God.