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and that is why I suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, because I know the One I have believed in and am persuaded that He is able to guard what has been entrusted to me until that day.

May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains.

I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and because of His appearing and His kingdom:

For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear something new.

for Demas has deserted me, because he loved this present world, and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Watch out for him yourself because he strongly opposed our words.

because I hear of your love and faith toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints.

For I have great joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

But we do see Jesus— made lower than the angels for a short time so that by God's grace He might taste death for everyone—crowned with glory and honor because of His suffering in death.

So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

Since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news did not enter because of disobedience,

Because of this, he must make a sin offering for himself as well as for the people.

During His earthly life, He offered prayers and appeals with loud cries and tears to the One who was able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.

Now everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced with the message about righteousness, because he is an infant.

and who have fallen away, because, to their own harm, they are recrucifying the Son of God and holding Him up to contempt.

Because God wanted to show His unchangeable purpose even more clearly to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath,

Jesus has entered there on our behalf as a forerunner, because He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

So the previous command is annulled because it was weak and unprofitable

But because He remains forever, He holds His priesthood permanently.

not like the covenant that I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by their hands to lead them out of the land of Egypt. I disregarded them, says the Lord, because they did not continue in My covenant.