Study Desk

So when he came into the world, he said, " Sacrifice and offering you did not desire , but a body you prepared for me .

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

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 drawing near.

but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God's enemies.

But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.

But my righteous one will live by faith , and if he shrinks back , I take no pleasure in him .

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

These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.

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

By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if on dry ground, but when the Egyptians tried it, they were swallowed up.

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

But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.

For they disciplined us for a little while as seemed good to them, but he does so for our benefit, that we may share his holiness.

Now all discipline seems painful at the time, not joyful. But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness for those trained by it.

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

But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly

Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, " I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too ."

For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials,

But if anyone is deficient in wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without reprimand, and it will be given to him.