I, Paul, have written this letter with my own hand: I will repay it. I could also mention that you owe me your very self.

And he says of the angels, “He makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire,”

Instead someone testified somewhere: “What is man that you think of him or the son of man that you care for him?

As it says, “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

but Jesus did so with a sworn affirmation by the one who said to him, “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever’” –

Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We have such a high priest, one who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

For a tent was prepared, the outer one, which contained the lampstand, the table, and the presentation of the loaves; this is called the holy place.

When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” (which are offered according to the law),

And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets.

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

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law.

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him?

And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”

and saying, “Where is his promised return? For ever since our ancestors died, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.”

The one who says “I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.

If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house and do not give him any greeting,

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God – the one who is, and who was, and who is still to come – the All-Powerful!

“To the angel of the church in Smyrna write the following: “This is the solemn pronouncement of the one who is the first and the last, the one who was dead, but came to life: