They served only for matters of food and drink and various washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.

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

Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?

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

All generous giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the slightest hint of change.

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

You once were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,

Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of the varied grace of God.

But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.

If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.

he will rule them with an iron rod and like clay jars he will break them to pieces,

I will grant the one who conquers permission to sit with me on my throne, just as I too conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

I looked on when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a thunderous voice, “Come!”

Now the locusts looked like horses equipped for battle. On their heads were something like crowns similar to gold, and their faces looked like men’s faces.

Then the four angels who had been prepared for this hour, day, month, and year were set free to kill a third of humanity.

Then a measuring rod like a staff was given to me, and I was told, “Get up and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and the ones who worship there.