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not because we do not have authority, but to make ourselves an example of how you should follow us.

Acts 8:1-3; 9:1-19">[xr] And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has enabled me, because He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry,

although I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

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

having condemnation because they have cast off their first faith.

And those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren, but rather serve them because those who are benefited are believers and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;

For we have [fn] great joy [fn] and consolation in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.

So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience,

Because of this he is required as for the people, so also for himself, to offer sacrifices for sins.

who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear,

Genesis 12:1-3">[xr] For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

For on the one hand there is an annulling of the former commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness,

Also there were many priests, because they were prevented by death from continuing.

But He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.

Because finding fault with them, He says: "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah--

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the LORD.

By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, "and was not found, because God had taken him"; Genesis 5:24">[fn] for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child [fn] when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.