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not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.

But recall those earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,

but my righteous one will live by faith. My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back."

But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost, but among those who have faith and so are saved.

By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain's. Through this he received approval as righteous, God himself giving approval to his gifts; he died, but through his faith he still speaks.

All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth,

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

By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as if it were dry land, but when the Egyptians attempted to do so they were drowned.

For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share his holiness.

Now, discipline always seems painful rather than pleasant at the time, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

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

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

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

For here we have no lasting city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

My brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of any kind, consider it nothing but joy,

But ask in faith, never doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind;

But one is tempted by one's own desire, being lured and enticed by it;

But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.

But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act—they will be blessed in their doing.