For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.

And both the tabernacle and all the utensils of worship he likewise sprinkled with blood.

But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.

At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions, and at other times you came to share with others who were treated in that way.

The Holy Spirit is making clear that the way into the holy place had not yet appeared as long as the old tabernacle was standing.

For a will takes effect only at death, since it carries no force while the one who made it is alive.

For when Moses had spoken every command to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,