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Therefore it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves to be purified with better sacrifices than these.

For Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf,

since it would have been necessary for him to suffer many times from the foundation of the world, but now he has appeared once at the end of the ages for the removal of sin by the sacrifice of himself.

But in them there is a reminder of sins year by year.

Therefore, when he came into the world, he said, "Sacrifice and offering you did not want, but a body you prepared for me;

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

not abandoning our meeting together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging each other, and by so much more as you see the day drawing near.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that is about to consume the adversaries.

But remember the former days in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings,

But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul is not well pleased with him."

But we are not among those who shrink back to destruction, but among those who have faith to the preservation of our souls.

These all died in faith without receiving the promises, but seeing them from a distance and welcoming them, and admitting that they were strangers and temporary residents on the earth.

But now they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

Women received back their dead by resurrection. But others were tortured, not accepting release, in order that they might gain a better resurrection.

But if you are without discipline, in which all legitimate sons have become participants, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

For they disciplined us for a few days according to what seemed appropriate to them, but he does so for our benefit, in order that we can have a share in his holiness.

Now all discipline seems for the moment not to be joyful but painful, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness for those who are trained by it.

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame will not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to tens of thousands of angels, to the festal gathering

whose voice shook the earth at that time, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also heaven."