Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession;

That is

And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and

upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God,

fixing our eyes on Jesus, the

author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

While He was blessing them, He parted from them and was carried up into heaven.

They also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.”

whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time.

who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was

raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.

Jesus

in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the

world.

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Let

For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it.

but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house—whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;

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When they go in, the prince shall go in among them; and when they go out, he shall go out.

And the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

And the whole multitude of the people were in prayer outside at the hour of the incense offering.

in whom we have boldness and

confident access through faith in Him.