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

For it is indeed fitting for us to have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.

and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption.

For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us,

But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls.

By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, he received the ability to procreate, because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but be healed.

For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and not hypocritical.

Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.

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.”

Therefore, get your minds ready for action by being fully sober, and set your hope completely on the grace that will be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed.

You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

So you who believe see his value, but for those who do not believe, the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,

– if so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials, and to reserve the unrighteous for punishment at the day of judgment,

By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.

But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, by being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.