And no creature is hidden from God,<n id="1" /> but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.p>

Therefore let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace whenever we need help.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">For every high priest is taken from among the people<n id="1" /> and appointed<n id="2" /> to represent them before God,<n id="3" /> to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming high priest, but the one who glorified him was God,<n id="1" /> who said to him, &#8220;<b><i>You are my Son! Today I have fathered youi>b>,&#8221;<n id="2" />

so that we who have found refuge in him<n id="1" /> may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.

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

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<n id="1" /> eternal redemption.

let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings,<n id="1" /> because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience<n id="2" /> and our bodies washed in pure water.

not abandoning our own meetings, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and even more so because you see the day<n id="1" /> drawing near.<n id="2" />p>

For we know the one who said, &#8220;<i><b>Vengeance is mineb>, <b>I will repayb>i>,&#8221;<n id="1" /> and again, &#8220;<b><i>The Lord will judge his peoplei>b>.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<i><b>But my righteous one will live by faithb>, <b>and if he shrinks backb>, <b>Ib>i><n id="1" /> <b><i>take no pleasure in himi>b>.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">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.

and women received back their dead raised to life.<n id="1" /> But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.<n id="2" />

Now all discipline seems painful at the time, not joyful.<n id="1" /> But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness<n id="2" /> for those trained by it.

Your conduct must be free from the love of money and you must be content with what you have, for he has said, &#8220;<b><i>I will never leave you and I will never abandon youi>b>.&#8221;<n id="1" />

Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings.<n id="1" /> For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals,<n id="2" /> which have never benefited those who participated in them.

Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, acknowledging his name.

in these last days he has spoken to us in a son,<n id="1" /> whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he created the world.<n id="2" />

Thus he became<n id="1" /> so far better than the angels as<n id="2" /> he has inherited a name superior to theirs.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.