'People' in the Bible

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

He can deal gently with people who are ignorant and easily deceived, since he himself is subject to weakness.

For that reason he is obligated to offer sacrifices for his own sins as well as for those of the people.

In fact, though by now you should be teachers, you still need someone to teach you the basic truths of God's word. You have become people who need milk instead of solid food.

But solid food is for mature people, whose minds are trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

For it is impossible to keep on restoring to repentance time and again people who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have become partners with the Holy Spirit,

For people swear by someone greater than themselves, and an oath given as confirmation puts an end to all argument.

The descendants of Levi who accept the priesthood have a commandment in the Law to collect a tenth from the people, that is, from their own brothers, even though they are also descendants of Abraham.

Now if perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood for on this basis the people received the Law what further need would there be to speak of appointing another kind of priest according to the order of Melchizedek, not one according to the order of Aaron?

He has no need to offer sacrifices every day like high priests do, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he sacrificed himself.

but God found something wrong with his people when he said, "Look! 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.

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

But only the high priest went into the second part, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins committed by the people in ignorance.

For after every commandment in the Law had been spoken to all the people by Moses, he took the blood of calves and goats, together with some water, scarlet wool, and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,

Indeed, just as people are destined to die once and after that to be judged,

so the Messiah was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people. And he will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly wait for him.

For we know the one who said, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay them back," and again, "The Lord will judge his people."

At times you were made a public spectacle by means of insults and persecutions, while at other times you associated with people who were treated this way.

All these people died having faith. They did not receive the things that were promised, yet they saw them in the distant future and welcomed them, acknowledging that they were strangers and foreigners on earth.

For people who say such things make it clear that they are looking for a country of their own.

because he preferred being mistreated with God's people to enjoying the pleasures of sin for a short time.

By faith he established the Passover and the sprinkling of blood to keep the destroyer of the firstborn from touching the people.

Women received their dead raised back to life. Other people were brutally tortured, but refused to be ransomed, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

All these people won approval for their faith but they did not receive what was promised,

to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to a judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of righteous people who have been made perfect,

That is why Jesus, in order to sanctify the people by his own blood, also suffered outside the city gate.