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And concerning the angels he says, "The one who makes his angels winds, and his servants a flame of fire,"

Verse ConceptsAngels as God's servantsServants Of The LordGod Dispensing WindFire From God's ServantsAngelsministering

how will we escape [if we] neglect so great a salvation which had [its] beginning [when it] was spoken through the Lord [and] was confirmed to us by those who heard,

Verse ConceptsForeknowledgeConfirmationComplacencydelay, humanHearingHistoryNeglecting God's ThingsWitnesses, To Jesus ChristSalvation, Described AsChrist PreachingEscaping EvilThe Gospel Of Salvation

For this one is considered worthy of greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the one who builds it has greater honor than the house.

Verse ConceptsMoses, Significance OfOccupationsProperty, HousesTeachingWorthinessPreeminence Of ChristBuilding HousesChrist's Own GloryHonour The Honourable

For who, [when they] heard [it], were disobedient? Surely [it was] not all who went out from Egypt through Moses?

Verse ConceptsAttitudes Of RebellionUnbelief, Nature And Effects OfLeaving EgyptHearing God's Voice

And with whom was he angry [for] forty years? [Was it] not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

Verse ConceptsDesertsIrritationMisused Privileges40 To 50 YearsDying In The WildernessDying In The Desert Sinners Grasped By Death

And to whom did he swear [they would] not enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

Verse ConceptsGod Swearing Harmdisobedience

{For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us}, just as those also [did], but the message {they heard} did not benefit them, [because they] were not united with those who heard [it] in faith.

Verse ConceptsFutilityFaith, Nature OfHearingPreaching, Effects OfProfitsUnbelief, As Response To GodUnbelieversWordsCauses of failure inKeeping FaithHaving FaithValueevangelizingUnbelief Toward GodUnbelief Toward Christ

For we who have believed enter into rest, just as he has said, "As I swore in my anger, '{They will never enter} into my rest.'" And yet these works have been accomplished from the foundation of the world.

Verse ConceptsCompletionHeaven,  Redeemed CommunityOpportunities, And SalvationPerfection, DivineEntering LifeSaved By FaithGod Swearing HarmFrom The BeginningGod Giving RestNew Testament Claiming Old Testament Is InspiredRestFinishing Strongfinishing

Since therefore it remains [for] some to enter into it, and the ones to whom the good news was proclaimed previously did not enter because of disobedience,

Verse ConceptsSpiritual FailureExclusionEntering LifeCauses of failure indisobedience

For the one who has entered into his rest has also himself rested from his works, just as God [did] from his own [works].

Verse ConceptsWorks Of The LawstruggleRestStruggles

Thus also Christ did not glorify himself to become high priest, but the one who said to him, "You are my Son, today I have begotten you,"

Verse ConceptsJesus As The Beloved SonThe Beloved SonMessianic Titles, High PriestConceptionJesus Christ, Son Of GodSeeking HonourRivers

who in the days of his flesh offered up both prayers and supplications, with loud crying and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard as a result of his reverence.

Verse ConceptsCryingPraying LoudlyPainPrayerfulnessAbility, God's PowerHumility Of ChristReverence To GodTearsAbility, Of God To SaveOvercoming DeathJesus PrayingGod Answered Prayersupplicationpietyreverencepetition

in order that through two unchangeable things, in which [it is] impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge may have powerful encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before [us],

Verse ConceptsCertaintyGod Is TruthfulAfflictions, Consolation DuringTypes Of ChristImpossible For GodHow God Can't LieTwo Intangible ThingsGod EncouragingOthers Who FledThe Hope Of The GospelimpossibleFinding Comfort In God

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham [as he] was returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Characteristics OfdefeatMelchizedekMeeting PeopleKilling KingsPeople Who Blessed OthersAbolishing Death

to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth of everything--in the first place, [his name] is translated "king of righteousness," and then also "king of Salem," that is, "king of peace";

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Characteristics OfInterpreting LanguageChrist Our RighteousnessTithing For PeopleMen Of PeaceTithes And Offering

But see how great this man [was], to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth from the spoils!

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Characteristics OfPatriarchsGreat Individuals

And indeed those of the sons of Levi who receive the priesthood have a commandment to collect a tenth from the people according to the law, that is, from their brothers, although {they are descended from Abraham}.

Verse ConceptsTithesBringing In The Tithe

But the one who did not trace [his] descent from them collected tithes from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises.

Verse ConceptsGod's Promise To AbrahamTithing For PeoplePeople Who Blessed Others

And, {so to speak}, even Levi, the one who receives tithes, has paid tithes through Abraham.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, New Testament ReferencesTithing For PeopleThe Tithe For Levites

For the one about whom these [things] are spoken belongs to another tribe from which no one has officiated at the altar.

who has become [a priest] not according to a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

Verse ConceptsJesus Christ, Eternity OfGod, Power OfChrist's Life

who does not {need every day} like the former high priests to offer up sacrifices for his own sins [and] then for the [sins] of the people, because he did this once for all [when he] offered up himself.

Verse ConceptsExpiationAtonement, Made OnceSacrifice, Nt Fulfilment OfSin, God's Remedy ForSin OfferingUniquenessAbolish, Fulfilled By ChristChrist, The High PriestOnceOnly OnceDoing RepeatedlyAtoning By SacrificesRivers

For the law appoints men [as] high priests who have weakness, but the statement of the oath, after the law, [appoints] a Son, who is made perfect {forever}.

Verse ConceptsJesus Christ, Eternity OfGod, Perfection OfPriesthood, In NtConsecrationUnblemishmentChrist Made PerfectRivers

Now [this is] the main point in what has been said: we have a high priest such as this, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

Verse ConceptsGod, Majesty OfGod, Sovereignty OfRight Hand Of GodThroneHeaven, God's ThroneMessianic Titles, High PriestRight SidesChrist And HeavenRivers

Now if he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, [because there] are those who offer the gifts according to the law,

Verse ConceptsFulfilling The Law

who serve a sketch and shadow of the heavenly [things], just as Moses was warned [when he] was about to complete the tabernacle, for he says, "See to it that you make everything according to the pattern which was shown to you on the mountain."

Verse ConceptsArchitectureForeshadowingMoses, Life OfPriesthood, In NtShadowsDivine PlansAntitypesDesignPatternsThe Temple In HeavenHeavenly Visionreality

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled sanctify [them] for the ritual purity of the flesh,

Verse ConceptsLimitednessBullsAshesSprinklingHeifersSprinkling BloodLimitations Of The BodyAshes Of SacrificesPurifying OneselfSacrificing CattleSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

And because of this, he is the mediator of a new covenant, in order that, [because] a death has taken place for the redemption of transgressions [committed] during the first covenant, those who are the called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Through Jesus ChristCovenant, the newAtonement, in NTHeirsReceiving An InheritanceInheritance, SpiritualMediationMoses, Significance OfNewnessRansomRedemption, In NtRevelation, In OtTypesChrist, The MediatorGod's Call, ResultsAdvocatesEternal PossessionThe Effect Of Christ's DeathRedemptionPromisesThe Blood Of JesuscovenantNew

For a will [is] in force concerning those who are dead, since [it is] never in force when the one who made the will is alive.

Verse ConceptsThe Fact Of Deathlosing a loved oneDeath Of Loved OneLife After Death

For the law, possessing a shadow of the good [things] that are about to come, not the form of things itself, [is] never able {year by year} by means of the same sacrifices which they offer without interruption to make perfect those who draw near.

Verse ConceptsFreedom from the LawLaws, AbolishedForeshadowingRestored In Jesus ChristPerfection, HumanPriesthood, In NtShadowsWorship, Acceptable AttitudesLaw, TemporaryAnimal Sacrifices, As A Type Of ChristAntitypesUnceasingEvery YearDoing RepeatedlyOffering SacrificesReligious FreedomFreedomSacrificeSelf Imagelawimagereality

For otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the ones who worship, having been purified once and for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?

Verse ConceptsConsciousnessSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfCessationPurifying OneselfGuiltconscience

For we know the one who said, "Vengeance [is] mine, I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people."

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeRetributionGod Executes VengeanceRevenge

sometimes being publicly exposed both to insults and to afflictions, and sometimes becoming sharers with those who were treated in this way.

Verse ConceptsReproachSpectaclePersecutionAbuse

But we are not among those who shrink back to destruction, but among those who have faith to the preservation of [our] souls.

Verse ConceptsPerditionSteadfastness, Examples OfSaved By FaithBackslidersThe SoulpreservationChrist As The Object Of Saving Faith

For those who say such [things] make clear that they are seeking a homeland.

Verse ConceptsSeeking For Concrete Things

with reference to whom it was said, "In Isaac your descendants will be named,"

Verse ConceptsConcubines

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, in order that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

Verse ConceptsFirstbornMoses, Significance OfSprinklingTouchSprinkling BloodDeath Of The FirstbornThe DestroyerExploits Of Faith

who through faith conquered kingdoms, accomplished justice, obtained what was promised, shut the mouths of lions,

Verse ConceptsBitingAnimal LifeLionsMouthsGod's PromisesDeliverance From LionsExploits Of FaithOther References To Mouths

For consider the one who endured such hostility by sinners against himself, so that you will not grow weary in your souls [and] give up.

Verse ConceptsBad LanguagediscouragementMonotonySuffering, Encouragements InThoughtfulnessEndurance In DiscouragementDo Not Grow WearyLosing CourageMental Abusetired

and to the noise of a trumpet, and to the sound of words which those who heard begged [that] not [another] word be spoken to them.

Verse ConceptsTrumpets For SignallingGod Being SilentGod Speaking

Watch out that you do not refuse the one who is speaking! For if those did not escape [when they] refused the one who warned [them] on earth, much less [will] we [escape], [if we] reject the [one who warns] from heaven,

Verse ConceptsFaith, As A Body Of BeliefsComplacencyGospel, Responses ToImpenitence, Results OfSalvation, Necessity And Basis OfWatchfulness, Of BelieversRejection Of God's CallEscaping EvilNo EscapeGod Speaks From Heaven

We have an altar from which those who serve in the tabernacle do not have the right to eat.

Verse ConceptsAltarsMinistry, Nature OfTypes Of ChristAltars, In HeavenThe TabernacleServing The Church

Know [that] our brother Timothy has been released, with whom I will see you, if he comes quickly [enough].

Verse ConceptsPeople Set Free By Peoplejail