and they will come to their senses and escape the devil’s trap where they are held captive to do his will.

When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

Here is another way that our people can learn to engage in good works to meet pressing needs and so not be unfruitful.

I pray that the faith you share with us may deepen your understanding of every blessing that belongs to you in Christ.

But when he again brings his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him!”

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to serve those who will inherit salvation?

Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken.

And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

Therefore we must be wary that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.

Therefore it remains for some to enter it, yet those to whom it was previously proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience.

and then have committed apostasy, to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again and holding him up to contempt.

For people swear by something greater than themselves, and the oath serves as a confirmation to end all dispute.

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, sure and steadfast, which reaches inside behind the curtain,

where Jesus our forerunner entered on our behalf, since he became a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

For it is clear that our Lord is descended from Judah, yet Moses said nothing about priests in connection with that tribe.

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

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,

So when he came into the world, he said, “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

But when this priest had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand of God,

By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order at God’s command, so that the visible has its origin in the invisible.