to finish what you started, so that just as you wanted to do it eagerly, you can also complete it according to your means.

Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?

Therefore after I have completed this and have safely delivered this bounty to them, I will set out for Spain by way of you,

Thus we urged Titus that, just as he had previously begun this work, so also he should complete this act of kindness for you.

For I am sure of this very thing, that the one who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

So with these things prepared like this, the priests enter continually into the outer tent as they perform their duties.

Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.

Resist him, strong in your faith, because you know that your brothers and sisters throughout the world are enduring the same kinds of suffering.

The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says, “See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain.”