For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.

I especially ask you to pray that I may be restored to you very soon.

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.

And he did not enter to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own,

For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised.

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but be healed.

Now this phrase “once more” indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.

Therefore, to sanctify the people by his own blood, Jesus also suffered outside the camp.

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

Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

Therefore let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace whenever we need help.

For every high priest is taken from among the people and appointed to represent them before God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

so that we who have found refuge in him may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.

then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second.

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.

Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up.

Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he likewise shared in their humanity, so that through death he could destroy the one who holds the power of death (that is, the devil),

Therefore he had to be made like his brothers and sisters in every respect, so that he could become a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls and will give an account for their work. Let them do this with joy and not with complaints, for this would be no advantage for you.