And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

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

Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

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,

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

and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

and congregation of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous, who have been made perfect,

Remember those in prison as though you were in prison with them, and those ill-treated as though you too felt their torment.

Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience and desire to conduct ourselves rightly in every respect.

From James, a slave of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. Greetings!

And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.

But he must ask in faith without doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed around by the wind.

My brothers and sisters, do not show prejudice if you possess faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.

For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, “The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?

You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

As an example of suffering and patience, brothers and sisters, take the prophets who spoke in the Lord’s name.

My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,