Hebrews 2:16

2:16 For surely his concern is not for angels, but he is concerned for Abraham’s descendants.

Hebrews 7:16

7:16 who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent ¹  but by the power of an indestructible life.

Hebrews 10:39

10:39 But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls. ² 

Hebrews 12:22

12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion, the city ³  of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly

Hebrews 13:14

13:14 For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

Hebrews 5:4

5:4 And no one assumes this honor ⁴  on his own initiative, ⁵  but only when called to it by God, ⁶  as in fact Aaron was.

Hebrews 3:13

3:13 But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.

Hebrews 10:25

10:25 not abandoning our own meetings, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and even more so because you see the day ⁷  drawing near. ⁸ 

Hebrews 12:11

12:11 Now all discipline seems painful at the time, not joyful. ⁹  But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness ¹⁰  for those trained by it.

Hebrews 12:26

12:26 Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too.” ¹¹ 

Hebrews 11:13

11:13 These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, ¹²  but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners ¹³  on the earth.

¹ tn Grk “a law of a fleshly command.”

¹ tn Grk “not…of shrinking back to perdition but of faith to the preservation of the soul.”

¹ tn Grk “and the city”; the conjunction is omitted in translation since it seems to be functioning epexegetically – that is, explaining further what is meant by “Mount Zion.”

¹ sn Honor refers here to the honor of the high priesthood.

² tn Grk “by himself, on his own.”

³ tn Grk “being called by God.”

¹ sn The day refers to that well-known time of Christ’s coming and judgment in the future; see a similar use of “day” in 1 Cor 3:13.

² tn This paragraph (vv. 19-25) is actually a single, skillfully composed sentence in Greek, but it must be broken into shorter segments for English idiom. It begins with several subordinate phrases (since we have confidence and a great priest), has three parallel exhortations as its main verbs (let us draw near, hold, and take thought), and concludes with several subordinate phrases related to the final exhortation (not abandoning but encouraging).

¹ tn Grk “all discipline at the time does not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow.”

² tn Grk “the peaceful fruit of righteousness.”

¹ sn A quotation from Hag 2:6.

¹ tn Grk “the promises,” referring to the things God promised, not to the pledges themselves.

² tn Or “sojourners.”