Hebrews 5 - 8
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For every high priest chosen from among men j is appointed to act on behalf of men k in relation to God, l to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
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m He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself n is beset with weakness.
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Because of this he is obligated to offer sacrifice for his own sins o just as he does for those of the people.
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And p no one takes this honor for himself, but only when called by God, q just as Aaron was.
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So also Christ r did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him,
s "You are my Son,
today I have begotten you";
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as he says also in another place,
t "You are a priest forever,
after the order of Melchizedek."
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In the days of his flesh, u Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, v with loud cries and tears, to him w who was able to save him from death, and x he was heard because of his reverence.
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Although y he was a son, z he learned obedience through what he suffered.
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And a being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
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being designated by God a high priest b after the order of Melchizedek.
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About this we have much to say, and it is c hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
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For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again d the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need e milk, not solid food,
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for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is f a child.
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But solid food is for g the mature, for those who have their powers h of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Hebrews 6
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Therefore i let us leave j the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance k from dead works and of faith toward God,
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and of l instruction about washings, m the laying on of hands, n the resurrection of the dead, and o eternal judgment.
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And this we will do p if God permits.
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For it is impossible, in the case of those q who have once been enlightened, who have tasted r the heavenly gift, and s have shared in the Holy Spirit,
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and t have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,
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and u then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since v they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.
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For w land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.
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But x if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, y and its end is to be burned.
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Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things - things that belong to salvation.
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For z God is not unjust so as to overlook a your work and the love that you have shown for his name in b serving the saints, as you still do.
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And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance c of hope until the end,
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so that you may not be sluggish, but d imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
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For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, e he swore by himself,
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saying, f "Surely I will bless you and multiply you."
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And thus Abraham, g having patiently waited, obtained the promise.
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For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes h an oath is final for confirmation.
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So when God desired to show more convincingly to i the heirs of the promise j the unchangeable character of his purpose, k he guaranteed it with an oath,
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so that by two unchangeable things, in which l it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope m set before us.
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We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into n the inner place behind the curtain,
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where Jesus has gone o as a forerunner on our behalf, p having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7
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For this q Melchizedek, king of r Salem, priest of s the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
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and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.
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He is without father or mother t or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.
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See how great this man was to whom Abraham u the patriarch gave a tenth of the spoils!
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And v those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take tithes from the people, that is, from their brothers, though these also are descended from Abraham.
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But this man w who does not have his descent from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed x him who had the promises.
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It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior.
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In the one case tithes are received by mortal men, but in the other case, by one y of whom it is testified that z he lives.
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One might even say that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham,
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for he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchizedek met him.
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a Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron?
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For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well.
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For the one of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar.
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For it is evident that our Lord was descended b from Judah, and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.
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This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,
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who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible life.
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For it is witnessed of him,
c "You are a priest forever,
after the order of Melchizedek."
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For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside d because of its weakness and uselessness
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(for e the law made nothing perfect); but on the other hand, f a better hope is introduced, through which g we draw near to God.
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And it was not without an oath. For those who formerly became priests were made such without an oath,
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but this one was made a priest with an oath by the one who said to him:
h "The Lord has sworn
and will not change his mind,
'You are a priest forever.'"
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This makes Jesus the guarantor of i a better covenant.
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The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office,
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but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues j forever.
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Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost k those who draw near to God l through him, since he always lives m to make intercession for them.
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For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, n holy, innocent, unstained, o separated from sinners, and p exalted above the heavens.
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He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, q first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this r once for all when he offered up himself.
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For the law appoints men s in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made t perfect forever.
Hebrews 8
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Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, u one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,
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a minister in the holy places, in v the true tent that the Lord w set up, not man.
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For x every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus y it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer.
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Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law.
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They serve z a copy and a shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, b "See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain."
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But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is c as much more excellent than the old as d the covenant e he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.
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f For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.
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For he finds fault with them when he says:
g "Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord,
when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah,
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not like the covenant that I made with their fathers
on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
For they did not continue in my covenant,
and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.
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h For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws into their minds,
and i write them on their hearts,
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
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And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor
and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,'
for they shall j all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
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For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,
k and I will remember their sins no more."
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In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And l what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
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Hebrews 8:3
For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer.
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Hebrews 2:17
Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
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Hebrews 8:3 - 4
For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer.
Hebrews 9:9
(which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper.
Hebrews 10:11
And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.
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Hebrews 2:18
For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
Hebrews 4:15
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.
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Hebrews 7:28
For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.
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Hebrews 7:27
He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself.
Hebrews 9:7
But into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people.
Leviticus 4:3
If it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then he shall offer for the sin that he has committed a bull from the herd without blemish to the Lord for a sin offering.
Leviticus 9:7
Then Moses said to Aaron, "Draw near to the altar and offer your sin offering and your burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and for the people, and bring the offering of the people and make atonement for them, as the Lord has commanded.
Leviticus 16:6
Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering for himself and shall make atonement for himself and for his house.
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Numbers 16:5
And he said to Korah and all his company, "In the morning the Lord will show who is his, and who is holy, and will bring him near to him. The one whom he chooses he will bring near to him.
Numbers 16:40
To be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the Lord, lest he become like Korah and his company - as the Lord said to him through Moses.
Numbers 18:7
And you and your sons with you shall guard your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood as a gift, and any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.
2 Chronicles 26:18
And they withstood King Uzziah and said to him, "It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the Lord God.
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Exodus 28:1
Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests - Aaron and Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
1 Chronicles 23:13
The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart to dedicate the most holy things, that he and his sons forever should make offerings before the Lord and minister to him and pronounce blessings in his name forever.
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John 8:54
Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, 'He is our God.
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Hebrews 1:5
For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my Son, today I have begotten you"? Or again, "I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son"?
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Psalms 2:7
I will tell of the decree: The Lord said to me, "You are my Son; today I have begotten you.
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Hebrews 7:17
For it is witnessed of him, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7:21
But this one was made a priest with an oath by the one who said to him: "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever.'
Psalms 110:4
The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, "You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
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Psalms 110:4
The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, "You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
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Matthew 26:39
And going a little farther he fell on his face ...
Matthew 26:44
So, leaving them again, he went away and prayed...
Mark 14:36
And he said, "Abba, Father, all things are poss...
Mark 14:39
And again he went away and prayed, saying the s...
Luke 22:41
And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw...
Luke 22:44
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly;...
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Psalms 22:1 - 2
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why a...
Matthew 27:46
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a...
Matthew 27:50
And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and...
Mark 15:34
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud v...
Mark 15:37
And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his l...
Luke 23:46
Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said...
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Mark 14:36
And he said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.
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Psalms 22:24
For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.
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Hebrews 1:2
But in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
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Philippians 2:8
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
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Hebrews 2:10
For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.
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Hebrews 5:6
As he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 6:20
Where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
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2 Peter 3:16
As he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.
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Hebrews 6:1
Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God.
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1 Corinthians 3:2
I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready.
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1 Corinthians 3:1
But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
1 Peter 2:2
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation -
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Ephesians 4:13
Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
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Genesis 3:22
Then the Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever -
1 Kings 3:9
Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?
Isaiah 7:15
He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.
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Philippians 3:12 - 14
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
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Hebrews 5:12
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food.
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Hebrews 9:14
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
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Acts 19:4 - 5
And Paul said, "John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.
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Acts 8:17
Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.
Acts 19:6
And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying.
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Acts 17:31 - 32
Because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.
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Acts 10:42
And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
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1 Corinthians 16:7
For I do not want to see you now just in passing. I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.
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Hebrews 10:32
But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings.
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John 4:10
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.
Ephesians 2:8
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.
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Hebrews 2:4 - 5
While God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.
Galatians 3:2
Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?
Galatians 3:5
Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith -
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Psalms 34:8
Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
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Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.
1 John 5:16
If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life - to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.
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Hebrews 10:29
How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?
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Psalms 65:10
You water its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers, and blessing its growth.
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Isaiah 5:1 - 7
Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
Genesis 3:17 - 18
And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life.
Deuteronomy 29:22 - 23
And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, will say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick -
Jeremiah 44:22
The Lord could no longer bear your evil deeds and the abominations that you committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
Luke 13:6 - 9
And he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.
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Malachi 4:1
For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
John 15:6
If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
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Proverbs 19:17
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
Matthew 10:42
And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.
Matthew 25:40
And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.
Mark 9:41
For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ will by no means lose his reward.
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1 Thessalonians 1:3
Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Romans 15:31
That I may be delivered from the unbelievers in...
2 Corinthians 8:4
Begging us earnestly for the favor of taking pa...
2 Corinthians 9:1
Now it is superfluous for me to write to you ab...
2 Corinthians 9:12
For the ministry of this service is not only su...
2 Timothy 1:18
May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the L...
Revelation 2:19
'I know your works, your love and faith and ser...
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Romans 5:2 - 5
Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
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Hebrews 13:7
Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.
Hebrews 10:36
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
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Genesis 22:16
And said, "By myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son.
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Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies.
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Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies.
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Hebrews 6:12
So that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Hebrews 6:17
So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath.
Hebrews 7:6
But this man who does not have his descent from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.
Romans 4:13
For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
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Exodus 22:11
An oath by the Lord shall be between them both to see whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor's property. The owner shall accept the oath, and he shall not make restitution.
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Hebrews 11:9
By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
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Hebrews 6:18
So that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.
Psalms 110:4
The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, "You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
Proverbs 19:21
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
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Galatians 3:20
Now an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one.
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Titus 1:2
In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
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Hebrews 12:1 - 2
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
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Hebrews 9:7
But into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people.
Leviticus 16:15
Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring its blood inside the veil and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, sprinkling it over the mercy seat and in front of the mercy seat.
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Hebrews 4:14
Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
Hebrews 8:1
Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven.
Hebrews 9:24
For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
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Hebrews 3:1
Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.
Hebrews 5:6
As he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 5:10
Being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7:17
For it is witnessed of him, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7:21
But this one was made a priest with an oath by the one who said to him: "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever.
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Genesis 14:18 - 20
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.)
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Psalms 76:2
His abode has been established in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.
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Numbers 24:16
The oracle of him who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down with his eyes uncovered:
Deuteronomy 32:8
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
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Hebrews 7:6
But this man who does not have his descent from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.
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Acts 2:29
Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
Acts 7:8 - 9
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
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Numbers 18:21
To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tent of meeting.
Numbers 18:26
Moreover, you shall speak and say to the Levites, 'When you take from the people of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present a contribution from it to the Lord, a tithe of the tithe.
2 Chronicles 31:4 - 5
And he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion due to the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the Law of the Lord.
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Hebrews 7:3
He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.
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Romans 4:13
For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
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Hebrews 5:6
As he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 6:20
Where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
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John 6:57
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.
Revelation 1:17 - 18
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, "Fear not, I am the first and the last.
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Hebrews 7:18 - 19
For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness
Hebrews 8:7
For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.
Galatians 2:21
I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
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Isaiah 11:1
There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
Micah 5:2
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
Matthew 1:3
And Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram.
Luke 3:33
The son of Amminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah.
Revelation 5:5
And one of the elders said to me, "Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.
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Hebrews 7:21
But this one was made a priest with an oath by the one who said to him: "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever.
Hebrews 5:6
As he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 6:20
Where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
Psalms 110:4
The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, "You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
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Psalms 110:4
The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, "You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
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Romans 8:3
For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh.
Galatians 4:9
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
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Hebrews 9:9
(which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper.
Hebrews 10:1
For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
Leviticus 16:16
Thus he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleannesses of the people of Israel and because of their transgressions, all their sins. And so he shall do for the tent of meeting, which dwells with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.
Acts 13:39
And by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
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Hebrews 6:18
So that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.
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Hebrews 7:25
Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the Lord has said, 'Among those who are near me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.'" And Aaron held his peace.
Hebrews 4:16
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
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Hebrews 7:17
For it is witnessed of him, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.
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Psalms 110:4
The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, "You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
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Hebrews 8:6
But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.
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Hebrews 7:21
But this one was made a priest with an oath by the one who said to him: "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever.
Hebrews 7:28
For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.
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Hebrews 7:19
(for the law made nothing perfect); but on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
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John 14:6
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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Hebrews 9:24
For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
Romans 8:34
Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died - more than that, who was raised - who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
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Psalms 16:10
For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.
Revelation 15:4
Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.
Revelation 16:5
And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say, "Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was, for you brought these judgments.
Mark 1:24
"What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are - the Holy One of God."
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Hebrews 4:15
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.
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Hebrews 8:1
Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven.
Hebrews 4:14
Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
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Hebrews 5:3
Because of this he is obligated to offer sacrifice for his own sins just as he does for those of the people.
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Hebrews 9:12
He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
Hebrews 10:10
And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Hebrews 9:28
So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
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Hebrews 5:2
He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness.
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Hebrews 2:10
For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.
Hebrews 5:9
And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him.
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Mark 16:19
So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
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Hebrews 9:24
For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
Hebrews 9:11
But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent ( not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)
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Exodus 33:7
Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.
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Hebrews 5:1
For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
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Hebrews 9:12 - 14
He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
Hebrews 10:9 - 12
Then he added, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He does away with the first in order to establish the second.
Ephesians 5:2
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
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Hebrews 9:23
Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
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Hebrews 10:1
For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
Colossians 2:17
These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
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Exodus 25:40
And see that you make them after the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain.
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Exodus 25:40
And see that you make them after the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain.
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Hebrews 1:4
Having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.
2 Corinthians 3:6 - 11
Who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
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Hebrews 7:22
This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.
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Hebrews 9:15
Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
Hebrews 12:24
And to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
Galatians 3:19
Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.
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Hebrews 7:11
Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron?
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Jeremiah 31:31 - 34
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
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Jeremiah 31:31 - 34
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
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Hebrews 10:16
"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,"
Romans 11:27
"and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins."
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2 Corinthians 3:3
And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
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Isaiah 54:13
All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.
John 6:45
It is written in the Prophets, 'And they will all be taught by God.' Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me -
1 John 2:27
But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie - just as it has taught you, abide in him.
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Hebrews 10:17
Then he adds, "I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.
Romans 11:27
"and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins."
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2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
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