Study Desk

For if the message spoken by angels was reliable, and every violation and act of disobedience received its just punishment,Numbers 15:30-31; Deuteronomy 4:3; 27:26; 33:2; Psalm 68:17; Acts 7:53; Galatians 3:19;">[xr]

For he did not put the coming world we are talking about under the control of angels.Hebrews 6:5; 2 Peter 3:13;">[xr]

Instead, someone has declared somewhere,Job 1:7:17; Psalm 8:4; 144:3;">[xr] "What is man that you should remember him, or the son of man that you should care for him?

But we do see someone who was made a little lower than the angels. He is Jesus, who is crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace ofso that apart from">[fn] God he might experiencetaste">[fn] death for everyone.John 3:16; 12:32; Acts 2:33; Romans 5:18; 8:32; 2 Corinthians 5:15; Philippians 2:7-9; 1 Timothy 2:6; 1 John 2:2; Revelation 5:9;">[xr]

In bringing many children to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through suffering.Luke 13:32; 24:46; Acts 3:15; 5:31; Romans 11:36; Hebrews 5:9; 12:2;">[xr]

For both the one who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified all have the same Father.are all of one">[fn] That is why Jesushe">[fn] is not ashamed to call them brothersMatthew 28:10; John 20:17; Acts 17:26; Romans 8:29; Hebrews 10:10,14;">[xr]

For it is clear that he did not come to help angels. No, he came to help Abraham's descendants.

Thus he had to become like his brothers in every way, so that he could be a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God and could atone for the people's sins.Philippians 2:7; Hebrews 4:15; 5:1-2;">[xr]

For he is worthy of greater glory than Moses in the same way that the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.Zechariah 6:12; Matthew 16:18;">[xr]

for forty years. That is why I was indignant with that generation and said, 'They are always going astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.'

For we are Christ's partners only if we hold on to our original confidence to the end.to the end">[fn]Hebrews 3:6;">[xr]

And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned and whose bodies fell in the wilderness?Numbers 14:22,29; 26:65; Psalm 106:26; 1 Corinthians 10:5; Jude 1:5;">[xr]

For we have had the good news told to us as well as to them, but the message they heard did not help them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened to it.

For we who have believed are entering that rest, just as he has said,Psalm 95:11; Hebrews 3:11,14;">[xr] "So in my anger I swore a solemn oaththat they would never enter my rest,"Psalm 95:11">[fn] even though his works had been finished since the foundation of the world.

For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day as follows: "On the seventh day God rested from all his works,"Genesis 2:2">[fn]Genesis 2:2; Exodus 20:11; 31:17;">[xr]

For if JoshuaJesus) appears to be a word play on the name Joshua.">[fn] had given them rest, he would not have spoken later about another day.

There remains, therefore, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

For the one who enters God'shis">[fn] rest has himself rested from his own works, just as God diddid">[fn] from his.

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul and spirit, joints and marrow, as it judges the thoughts and purposes of the heart.Proverbs 5:4; Isaiah 49:2; Jeremiah 23:29; 1 Corinthians 14:24-25; 2 Corinthians 10:4-5; Ephesians 6:17; 1 Peter 1:23; Revelation 1:16; 2:16;">[xr]

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.Isaiah 53:3; Luke 22:28; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 2:18; 7:26; 1 Peter 2:22; 1 John 3:5;">[xr]