Study Desk

only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, because he is a very useful helper in my work.

and you should guard against him, because he bitterly opposed everything we said.

They must be silenced; because they are upsetting entire households by teaching what they have no business teaching, and doing it for the sake of dishonest gain.

let everything you say be so wholesome that an opponent will be put to shame because he will have nothing bad to say about us.

But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, quarrels and fights about the Torah; because they are worthless and futile.

I would dearly have loved to keep him with me, in order for him to serve me in your place while I am in prison because of the Good News.

But we do see Yeshua — who indeed was made for a little while lower than the angels — now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by God's grace he might taste death for all humanity.

and thus set free those who had been in bondage all their lives because of their fear of death.

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

for Good News has also been proclaimed to us, just as it was to them. But the message they heard didn't do them any good, because those who heard it did not combine it with trust.

Therefore, let us do our best to enter that rest ; so that no one will fall short because of the same kind of disobedience.

Also, because of this weakness, he has to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as those of the people.

During Yeshua's life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions, crying aloud and shedding tears, to the One who had the power to deliver him from death; and he was heard because of his godliness.

We have much to say about this subject, but it is hard to explain, because you have become sluggish in understanding.

Thus, on the one hand, the earlier rule is set aside because of its weakness and inefficacy

Moreover, the present cohanim are many in number, because they are prevented by death from continuing in office.

But because he lives forever, his position as cohen does not pass on to someone else;

one who does not have the daily necessity, like the other cohanim g'dolim, of offering up sacrifices first for their own sins and only then for those of the people; because he offered one sacrifice, once and for all, by offering up himself.

"‘It will not be like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by their hand and led them forth out of the land of Egypt; because they, for their part, did not remain faithful to my covenant; so I, for my part, stopped concerning myself with them,' says Adonai.

because I will be merciful toward their wickednesses and remember their sins no more.'"