Hebrews 6 - 12
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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.
Hebrews 9
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Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and m an earthly place of holiness.
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For n a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were o the lampstand and p the table and q the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place.
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Behind r the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place,
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having the golden s altar of incense and t the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was u a golden urn holding the manna, and v Aaron's staff that budded, and w the tablets of the covenant.
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Above it were x the cherubim of glory overshadowing y the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.
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These preparations having thus been made, z the priests go regularly into the first section, performing their ritual duties,
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but into the second only a the high priest goes, and he but a once a year, and not without taking blood, b which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people.
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By this the Holy Spirit indicates that c the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing
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(which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered d that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper,
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but deal only with e food and drink and f various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.
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But when Christ appeared as a high priest g of the good things that have come, then through h the greater and more perfect tent ( i not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)
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he j entered k once for all into the holy places, not by means of l the blood of goats and calves but m by means of his own blood, n thus securing an eternal redemption.
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For if o the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with p the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,
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how much more will q the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit r offered himself without blemish to God, s purify our conscience t from dead works u to serve the living God.
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Therefore he is v the mediator of a new covenant, so that w those who are called may x receive the promised eternal inheritance, y since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
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For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established.
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For z a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive.
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Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated a without blood.
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For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took b the blood of calves and goats, c with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
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saying, d "This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you."
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And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both e the tent and all the vessels used in worship.
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Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and f without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
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Thus it was necessary for g 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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For Christ has entered, not into holy places h made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God i on our behalf.
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Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as j the high priest enters k the holy places every year with blood not his own,
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for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, l he has appeared m once for all n at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
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And just as o it is appointed for man to die once, and p after that comes judgment,
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so Christ, having been offered once q to bear the sins of r many, will appear s a second time, t not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly u waiting for him.
Hebrews 10
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For since the law has but v a shadow w of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, x it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
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Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?
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But y in these sacrifices z there is a reminder of sins every year.
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For a it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
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Consequently, b when Christ came into the world, he said,
c "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
but a body have you prepared for me;
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in burnt offerings and sin offerings
you have taken no pleasure.
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Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,
as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.'"
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When he said above, "You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in c sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings" (these are offered according to the law),
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then he added, d "Behold, I have come to do your will." He does away with the first in order to establish the second.
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And by that will e we have been sanctified through the offering of f the body of Jesus Christ g once for all.
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And every priest stands h daily at his service, i offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, j which can never take away sins.
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But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he k sat down at the right hand of God,
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waiting from that time l until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.
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For by a single offering m he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
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And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,
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n "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,"
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then he adds,
o "I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more."
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Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
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p Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter q the holy places by the blood of Jesus,
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by r the new and living way that he opened for us through s the curtain, that is, through his flesh,
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and since we have t a great priest over the house of God,
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let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts u sprinkled clean v from an evil conscience and our bodies w washed with pure water.
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x Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for y he who promised is faithful.
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And z let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
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a not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and b all the more as you see c the Day drawing near.
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For d if we go on sinning deliberately e after receiving the knowledge of the truth, f there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
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g but a fearful expectation of judgment, and h a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.
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i Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy j on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
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How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one k who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned l the blood of the covenant m by which he was sanctified, and has n outraged the Spirit of grace?
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For we know him who said, o "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." And again, p "The Lord will judge his people."
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q It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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But recall the former days when, after r you were enlightened, you endured s a hard struggle with sufferings,
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sometimes being t publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.
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For u you had compassion on those in prison, and v you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had w a better possession and an abiding one.
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Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has x a great reward.
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For y you have need of endurance, so that z when you have done the will of God you may a receive what is promised.
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For,
b "Yet a little while,
and c the coming one will come and will not delay;
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d but my righteous one shall live by faith,
and if he shrinks back,
my soul has no pleasure in him."
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But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
Hebrews 11
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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of e things not seen.
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For by it the people of old received their commendation.
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By faith we understand that the universe was created by f the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of g things that are visible.
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By faith h Abel offered to God i a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And j through his faith, though he died, he k still speaks.
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By faith l Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.
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And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God m must believe that he exists and m that he rewards those who seek him.
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By faith n Noah, being warned by God concerning o events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of p the righteousness that comes by faith.
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By faith q Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place r that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
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By faith he went to live in s the land of promise, as in a foreign land, t living in tents u with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
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For he was looking forward to v the city that has w foundations, x whose designer and builder is God.
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By faith y Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered z him faithful who had promised.
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Therefore from one man, and a him as good as dead, were born descendants b as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
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These all died in faith, c not having received the things promised, but d having seen them and greeted them from afar, and e having acknowledged that they were f strangers and exiles on the earth.
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For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.
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If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, g they would have had opportunity to return.
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But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed h to be called their God, for i he has prepared for them a city.
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By faith j Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,
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of whom it was said, k "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named."
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l He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
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By faith m Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau.
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By faith n Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, o bowing in worship over the head of his staff.
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By faith p Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.
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By faith q Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of r the king's edict.
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By faith Moses, when he was grown up, s refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
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t choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy u the fleeting pleasures of sin.
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v He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to w the reward.
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By faith he x left Egypt, y not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured z as seeing him who is invisible.
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By faith a he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.
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By faith b the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned.
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By faith c the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.
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By faith d Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she e had given a friendly welcome to the spies.
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And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of f Gideon, g Barak, h Samson, i Jephthah, of j David and k Samuel and the prophets -
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who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, l stopped the mouths of lions,
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m quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, n became mighty in war, n put foreign armies to flight.
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o Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life.
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Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even p chains and imprisonment.
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q They were stoned, they were sawn in two, r they were killed with the sword. s They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated -
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of whom the world was not worthy - t wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
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And all these, u though commended through their faith, u did not receive what was promised,
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since God had provided something better for us, v that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Hebrews 12
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Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and w sin which clings so closely, and x let us run y with endurance the race that is z set before us,
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looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, a who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising b the shame, and c is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
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d Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or e fainthearted.
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In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
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And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?
f "My son, g do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
nor be weary when reproved by him.
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For h the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and chastises every son whom he receives."
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It is for discipline that you have to endure. i God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
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If you are left without discipline, j in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
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Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to k the Father of spirits l and live?
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For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, m that we may share his holiness.
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n For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields o the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
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Therefore p lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,
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and q make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint r but rather be healed.
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s Strive for peace with everyone, and for the t holiness u without which no one will see the Lord.
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See to it that no one v fails to obtain the grace of God; that no w "root of bitterness" springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;
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that no one is x sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.
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For you know that y afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.
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For you have not come to z what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest
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and a the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words b made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them.
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For they could not endure the order that was given, c "If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned."
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Indeed, d so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I tremble with fear."
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But you have come to e Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, f the heavenly Jerusalem, and to g innumerable angels in festal gathering,
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and to h the assembly of the firstborn who are i enrolled in heaven, and to j God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
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and to Jesus, k the mediator of a new covenant, and to l the sprinkled blood m that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
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See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For n if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.
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At that time o his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, p "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens."
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This phrase, "Yet once more," indicates q the removal of things that are shaken - that is, things that have been made - in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain.
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Therefore let us be grateful for receiving r a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus s let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe,
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for our t God is a consuming fire.
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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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Exodus 25:8
And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst.
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Exodus 26:1
Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you shall make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them.
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Exodus 25:31 - 39
You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of hammered work: its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.
Exodus 26:35
And you shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle opposite the table, and you shall put the table on the north side.
Exodus 40:4
And you shall bring in the table and arrange it, and you shall bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.
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Exodus 25:23 - 29
You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.
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Exodus 25:30
And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly.
Leviticus 24:5 - 8
You shall take fine flour and bake twelve loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf.
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Exodus 26:31 - 33
And you shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. It shall be made with cherubim skillfully worked into it.
Exodus 40:3
And you shall put in it the ark of the testimony, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.
Exodus 40:21
And he brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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Leviticus 16:12 - 13
And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the Lord, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and he shall bring it inside the veil
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Exodus 25:10
They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.
Exodus 26:33
And you shall hang the veil from the clasps, and bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil. And the veil shall separate for you the Holy Place from the Most Holy.
Exodus 40:3
And you shall put in it the ark of the testimony, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.
Exodus 40:21
And he brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Revelation 11:19
Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
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Exodus 16:33 - 34
And Moses said to Aaron, "Take a jar, and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before the Lord to be kept throughout your generations.
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Numbers 17:10
And the Lord said to Moses, "Put back the staff of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make an end of their grumblings against me, lest they die.
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Exodus 25:16
And you shall put into the ark the testimony th...
Exodus 40:20
He took the testimony and put it into the ark, ...
Deuteronomy 10:2
And I will write on the tablets the words that ...
Deuteronomy 10:5
Then I turned and came down from the mountain a...
1 Kings 8:9
There was nothing in the ark except the two tab...
1 Kings 8:21
And there I have provided a place for the ark, ...
2 Chronicles 5:10
There was nothing in the ark except the two tab...
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Exodus 25:18 - 22
And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat.
1 Kings 8:6 - 7
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.
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Leviticus 16:2
And the Lord said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your brother not to come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat.
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Numbers 28:3
And you shall say to them, This is the food offering that you shall offer to the Lord : two male lambs a year old without blemish, day by day, as a regular offering.
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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.
Leviticus 16:34
And this shall be a statute forever for you, that atonement may be made for the people of Israel once in the year because of all their sins." And Moses did as the Lord commanded him.
Hebrews 10:3
But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.
Exodus 30:10
Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.
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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.
Leviticus 16:34
And this shall be a statute forever for you, that atonement may be made for the people of Israel once in the year because of all their sins." And Moses did as the Lord commanded him.
Hebrews 10:3
But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.
Exodus 30:10
Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.
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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 10:20
By the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh.
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 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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Leviticus 11:2
Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.
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Mark 7:4
And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.)
Mark 7:8
You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.
Leviticus 11:25
And whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
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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.
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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 8:2
A minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man.
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Mark 14:58
"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.'"
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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.
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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 10:10
And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
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Hebrews 10:4
For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
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Acts 20:28
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
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Job 33:24
And he is merciful to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom.
Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
1 Corinthians 6:20
For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
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Leviticus 16:14 - 16
And he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the mercy seat on the east side, and in front of the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.
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Numbers 19:2
This is the statute of the law that the Lord has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and on which a yoke has never come.
Numbers 19:17 - 18
For the unclean they shall take some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and fresh water shall be added in a vessel.
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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.
1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
Revelation 7:14
I said to him, "Sir, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
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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 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 1:3
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Hebrews 10:22
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
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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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Romans 6:13
Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
1 Peter 4:2
So as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.
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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.
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.
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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.
Romans 8:28
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
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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.
Exodus 32:13
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.'
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Romans 3:24 - 25
And are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Romans 5:6
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
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Galatians 3:15
To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified.
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Exodus 24:6
And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he threw against the altar.
Exodus 24:8
And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.
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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.
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Leviticus 14:4
The priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop.
Leviticus 14:7
And he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed of the leprous disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean and shall let the living bird go into the open field.
Numbers 19:6
And the priest shall take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the fire burning the heifer.
Numbers 19:17
For the unclean they shall take some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and fresh water shall be added in a vessel.
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Exodus 24:8
And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.
Matthew 26:28
For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
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Exodus 24:8
And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.
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Exodus 29:12
And shall take part of the blood of the bull an...
Exodus 29:36
And every day you shall offer a bull as a sin o...
Leviticus 8:15
And he killed it, and Moses took the blood, and...
Leviticus 8:19
And he killed it, and Moses threw the blood aga...
Leviticus 16:14
And he shall take some of the blood of the bull...
Leviticus 16:16
Thus he shall make atonement for the Holy Place...
2 Chronicles 29:22
So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests ...
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Leviticus 17:11
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.
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Hebrews 8:5
They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, "See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.
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Hebrews 8:2
A minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man.
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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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.
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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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.
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Hebrews 10:19
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus.
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1 John 3:5
You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
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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 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 10:10
And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.
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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.
1 Corinthians 10:11
Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.
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Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
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Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
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Isaiah 53:12
Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.
1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.
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Matthew 20:28
Even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Matthew 26:28
For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Mark 10:45
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Revelation 5:9
And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.
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Acts 1:11
And said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.
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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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Titus 2:13
Waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 25:9
It will be said on that day, "Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord ; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
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Hebrews 8:5
They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, "See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.
Colossians 2:17
These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
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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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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.
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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.
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Leviticus 16:21
And Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins. And he shall put them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.
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Hebrews 10:11
And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
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Hebrews 1:6
And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, "Let all God's angels worship him.
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Psalms 40:6 - 8
In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.
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Psalms 40:6 - 8
In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.
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Hebrews 10:5
Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me.
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Hebrews 10:7
Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.'
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Hebrews 2:11
For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers.
Hebrews 13:12
So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.
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Matthew 26:26
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body.
Mark 14:22
And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, "Take; this is my body.
Luke 22:19
And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
1 Corinthians 11:24
And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
Hebrews 10:5
Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me.
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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 9:12
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.
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Numbers 28:3
And you shall say to them, This is the food offering that you shall offer to the Lord : two male lambs a year old without blemish, day by day, as a regular offering.
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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 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.
Hebrews 10:4
For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
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.
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Hebrews 1:3
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
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 1:13
And to which of the angels has he ever said, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet"?
1 Corinthians 15:25 - 28
For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
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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.
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Hebrews 8:10
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 write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Romans 11:27
"and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins."
Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord : I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord : I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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Hebrews 8:12
For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.
Jeremiah 31:34
And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
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Jeremiah 31:34
And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
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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 9:25
Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own.
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Hebrews 9:8
By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing
John 10:9
I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
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 9:3
Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place.
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Zechariah 6:11 - 13
Take from them silver and gold, and make a crown, and set it on the head of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.
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 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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Ezekiel 36:25
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
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.
2 Corinthians 7:1
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
1 Peter 1:2
According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
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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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1 Corinthians 6:11
And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
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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.
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Hebrews 11:11
By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.
1 Corinthians 1:9
God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Hebrews 3:13
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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Acts 2:42
And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
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Romans 13:11 - 13
Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.
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1 Corinthians 3:13
Each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
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Numbers 15:30
But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from among his people.
Deuteronomy 17:12
The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
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Hebrews 6:4
For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit.
2 Peter 2:20 - 21
For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
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Hebrews 6:6
And then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.
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 2:3
How shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard.
Hebrews 12:25
See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.
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Psalms 79:5
How long, O Lord ? Will you be angry forever? W...
Isaiah 26:11
O Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not...
Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be ab...
Zephaniah 3:8
Therefore wait for me," declares the Lord, "for...
Ezekiel 36:5
Therefore thus says the Lord God : Surely I hav...
Zechariah 8:2
Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am jealous for Z...
2 Thessalonians 1:8
In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those ...
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Deuteronomy 17:2 - 6
If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing his covenant.
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Numbers 35:30
If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the evidence of witnesses. But no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.
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Hebrews 6:6
And then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.
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Hebrews 13:20
Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant.
Zechariah 9:11
As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
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Hebrews 9:13 - 14
For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh.
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Matthew 12:31 - 32
Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
Ephesians 4:30
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
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Romans 12:19
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.
Deuteronomy 32:35
Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.
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Psalms 50:4
He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
Psalms 135:14
For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants.
Deuteronomy 32:36
For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free.
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Deuteronomy 32:35
Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.
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Deuteronomy 32:36
For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free.
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Isaiah 33:14
The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: "Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?
Luke 12:5
But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!
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Hebrews 6:4
For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit.
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Philippians 1:30
Engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have.
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1 Corinthians 4:9
For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.
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Hebrews 13:3
Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.
Matthew 25:36
I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.
2 Timothy 1:16
May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains.
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Matthew 5:12
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
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1 Peter 1:4
To an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.
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Hebrews 2:2
For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution.
Hebrews 11:26
He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.
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Hebrews 12:1 - 7
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.
Luke 21:19
By your endurance you will gain your lives.
Romans 2:7
To those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
Romans 12:12
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Matthew 10:22
And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
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Hebrews 13:21
Equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
1 John 2:17
And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
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Hebrews 11:39
And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised.
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Isaiah 26:20
Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by.
Haggai 2:6
For thus says the Lord of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.
Luke 18:8
I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?
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Habakkuk 2:3 - 4
For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end - it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
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Habakkuk 2:3 - 4
For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end - it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
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Romans 1:17
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith.
Galatians 3:11
Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith.
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Romans 8:24
For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?
2 Corinthians 4:18
As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 5:7
For we walk by faith, not by sight.
1 Peter 1:8
Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory.
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Genesis 1:1
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
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Romans 4:17
As it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations" - in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
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Genesis 4:4 - 8
And Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering.
1 John 3:12
We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.
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Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.
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Genesis 4:10
And the Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.
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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.
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Genesis 5:22 - 24
Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
2 Kings 2:11
And as they still went on and talked, behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
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1 Chronicles 28:9
And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
Jeremiah 29:12 - 14
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.
John 4:24
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
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1 Chronicles 28:9
And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
Jeremiah 29:12 - 14
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.
John 4:24
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
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Genesis 6:13 - 22
And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Luke 17:26
Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.
1 Peter 3:20
Because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.
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Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
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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.
Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.
Ezekiel 14:14
Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God.
Ezekiel 14:20
Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.
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Genesis 12:1 - 4
Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
Acts 7:2 - 4
And Stephen said: "Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran.
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Genesis 12:7
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
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Acts 7:5
Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child.
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Genesis 12:8
From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.
Genesis 13:3
And he journeyed on from the Negeb as far as Bethel to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.
Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
Genesis 18:1
And the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day.
Genesis 18:9
They said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" And he said, "She is in the tent.
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Genesis 35:27
And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
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Hebrews 12:22
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.
Hebrews 13:14
For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.
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Psalms 87:1
On the holy mount stands the city he founded.
Revelation 21:14
And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
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Revelation 21:2
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Revelation 21:10
And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God.
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Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
Genesis 18:11 - 14
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.
Genesis 21:2
And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.
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Hebrews 10:23
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
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Romans 4:19
He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead ( since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
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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.
Genesis 32:12
But you said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.'
Genesis 15:5
And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be.
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Hebrews 11:39
And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised.
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Hebrews 11:27
By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.
John 8:56
Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.
Matthew 13:17
For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
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Genesis 23:4
"I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Psalms 39:12
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.
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Ephesians 2:19
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.
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Genesis 24:6 - 8
Abraham said to him, "See to it that you do not take my son back there.
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Genesis 26:24
And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake.
Genesis 28:13
And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
Exodus 3:6
And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
Exodus 4:5
"that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you."
Hebrews 2:11
For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers.
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Hebrews 11:10
For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.
Matthew 25:34
Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
John 14:2
In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
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Genesis 22:1 - 10
After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I.
James 2:21
Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?
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Romans 9:7
And not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
Genesis 21:12
But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
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Genesis 21:12
But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
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Romans 4:17 - 21
As it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations" - in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
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Genesis 27:27 - 29
So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, "See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed!
Genesis 27:39 - 40
Then Isaac his father answered and said to him: "Behold, away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be, and away from the dew of heaven on high.
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Genesis 48:16
The angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys; and in them let my name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
Genesis 48:20
So he blessed them that day, saying, "By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying, 'God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh.'" Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh.
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Genesis 47:31
And he said, "Swear to me"; and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed.
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Genesis 50:24 - 25
And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Exodus 13:19
Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones with you from here.
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Exodus 2:2 - 3
The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.
Acts 7:20
At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God's sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father's house.
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Exodus 1:16
"When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live."
Exodus 1:22
Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.
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Exodus 2:10 - 11
When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, "Because," she said, "I drew him out of the water.
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Job 36:21
Take care; do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.
Psalms 84:10
For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
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1 John 2:17
And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
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Hebrews 13:13
Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.
Psalms 89:50 - 51
Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked, and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations.
Philippians 3:7 - 8
But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
1 Peter 4:14
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
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Hebrews 2:2
For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution.
Hebrews 10:35
Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
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Exodus 12:37
And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.
Exodus 13:17 - 18
When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, "Lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.
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Exodus 10:28 - 29
Then Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me; take care never to see my face again, for on the day you see my face you shall die.
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Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
1 Timothy 1:17
To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
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Exodus 12:21 - 30
Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb.
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Exodus 14:21 - 30
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
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Joshua 6:15 - 16
On the seventh day they rose early, at the dawn of day, and marched around the city in the same manner seven times. It was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times.
Joshua 6:20
So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city.
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Joshua 6:25
But Rahab the prostitute and her father's household and all who belonged to her, Joshua saved alive. And she has lived in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
James 2:25
And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?
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Joshua 2:1
And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, especially Jericho." And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there.
Joshua 2:8 - 13
Before the men lay down, she came up to them on the roof
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Judges 6:11
Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
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Judges 4:6
She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, "Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded you, 'Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun.
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Judges 13:24
And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson. And the young man grew, and the Lord blessed him.
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Judges 11:1
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was the father of Jephthah.
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1 Samuel 16:1
The Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.
1 Samuel 16:13
Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
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1 Samuel 1:20
And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, "I have asked for him from the Lord.
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Judges 14:6
Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young goat. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.
1 Samuel 17:35
I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him.
Daniel 6:22
My God sent his angel and shut the lions' mouths, and they have not harmed me, because I was found blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.
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Daniel 3:25
He answered and said, "But I see four men unbound, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.
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Judges 7:21
Every man stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran. They cried out and fled.
1 Samuel 17:51
Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
2 Samuel 12:29
So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah and fought against it and took it.
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Judges 7:21
Every man stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran. They cried out and fled.
1 Samuel 17:51
Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
2 Samuel 12:29
So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah and fought against it and took it.
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1 Kings 17:22
And the Lord listened to the voice of Elijah. And the life of the child came into him again, and he revived.
2 Kings 4:35
Then he got up again and walked once back and forth in the house, and went up and stretched himself upon him. The child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
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Genesis 39:20
And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.
Jeremiah 20:2
Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the Lord.
Jeremiah 37:15
And the officials were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for it had been made a prison.
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1 Kings 21:13
And the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him. And the worthless men brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king." So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.
2 Chronicles 24:21
But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the Lord.
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1 Kings 19:10
He said, "I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.
Jeremiah 26:23
And they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, who struck him down with the sword and dumped his dead body into the burial place of the common people.
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2 Kings 1:8
They answered him, "He wore a garment of hair, with a belt of leather about his waist." And he said, "It is Elijah the Tishbite.
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1 Samuel 22:1
David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.
1 Kings 18:4
And when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.)
1 Kings 19:9
There he came to a cave and lodged in it. And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?
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Hebrews 11:2
For by it the people of old received their commendation.
Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
1 Peter 1:12
It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.
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Hebrews 11:2
For by it the people of old received their commendation.
Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
1 Peter 1:12
It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.
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Revelation 6:11
Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
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Ephesians 4:22
To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires.
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1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
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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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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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Luke 24:26
Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?
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.
Isaiah 53:11
Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
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Psalms 22:6 - 7
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people.
Psalms 69:19
You know my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to you.
Isaiah 53:3
He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
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Hebrews 1:3
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
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Matthew 10:24
A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.
Revelation 2:3
I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.
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Galatians 6:9
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
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Proverbs 3:11 - 12
My son, do not despise the Lord 's discipline or be weary of his reproof.
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Job 5:17
Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.
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Proverbs 3:11 - 12
My son, do not despise the Lord 's discipline or be weary of his reproof.
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Psalms 94:12
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law.
Psalms 119:67
Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.
Psalms 119:75
I know, O Lord, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
Revelation 3:19
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
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Deuteronomy 8:5
Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you.
2 Samuel 7:14
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men.
Proverbs 13:24
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
Proverbs 19:18
Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.
Proverbs 23:13
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
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1 Peter 5:9
Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.
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Numbers 16:22
And they fell on their faces and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?
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Isaiah 38:16
O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these is the life of my spirit. Oh restore me to health and make me live!
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2 Peter 1:4
By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
Leviticus 11:44
For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.
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1 Peter 1:6
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials.
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James 3:17 - 18
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
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Isaiah 35:3
Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.
Job 4:3 - 4
Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
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Proverbs 4:26 - 27
Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure.
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James 5:16
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Galatians 6:1
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
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Romans 14:19
So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
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1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.
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Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
2 Corinthians 7:1
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
Ephesians 5:5
For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous ( that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Revelation 21:27
But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Revelation 22:4
They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
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Hebrews 4:1
Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.
2 Corinthians 6:1
Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
Galatians 5:4
You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
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Deuteronomy 29:18
Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit.
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Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Genesis 25:33
Jacob said, "Swear to me now." So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.
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Genesis 27:34
As soon as Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, O my father!
Genesis 27:36
Esau said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?
Genesis 27:38
Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father." And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
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Exodus 19:18
Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly.
Exodus 20:18
Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off
Deuteronomy 4:11
And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom.
Deuteronomy 5:22
These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and he added no more. And he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
2 Corinthians 3:9
For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory.
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Exodus 19:16
On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
Exodus 19:19
And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder.
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Exodus 20:19
And said to Moses, "You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.
Deuteronomy 5:5
While I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord. For you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. He said:
Deuteronomy 18:16
Just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, 'Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.
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Exodus 19:12 - 13
And you shall set limits for the people all around, saying, 'Take care not to go up into the mountain or touch the edge of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall be put to death.
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Exodus 19:12 - 13
And you shall set limits for the people all around, saying, 'Take care not to go up into the mountain or touch the edge of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall be put to death.
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Exodus 19:16
On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
Deuteronomy 9:19
For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure that the Lord bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. But the Lord listened to me that time also.
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Revelation 14:1
Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.
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Galatians 4:26
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
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Jude 1:14
It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones.
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Exodus 4:22
Then you shall say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son.
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Luke 10:20
Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
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Genesis 18:25
Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?
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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.
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.
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Hebrews 10:22
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
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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.
Genesis 4:10
And the Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.
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Hebrews 2:3
How shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard.
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Exodus 19:18
Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly.
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Haggai 2:6
For thus says the Lord of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.
Haggai 2:21
Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth.
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Haggai 2:6
For thus says the Lord of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.
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Psalms 102:26
They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away.
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Daniel 2:44
And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever.
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Hebrews 13:15
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
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Deuteronomy 4:24
For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
2 Thessalonians 1:8
In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
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