Hebrews 4:14

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Jesus said, “I am. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky.”

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

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

As he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Behold, aren’t all these who speak Galileans?

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God,

Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.

He shall remove all its fat, like the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will be forgiven.

You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among people, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.

Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,

The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

The whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.

The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.

While he blessed them, he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven.

who also said, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky.”

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.