Whence it was right for him to be in all respects made like to his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful highpriest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and highpriest of our profession, Jesus;

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who being a brightness from his glory and an image of his being, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself accomplished a cleansing of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

where as forerunner for us Jesus entered, having become a highpriest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek.

wherefore he is able also to save to the utmost those who come to God through him, since he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

Now the principal thing among those of which we are speaking is this: We have such a highpriest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

not with the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, and obtained for us everlasting redemption.

but he, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down for ever on the right hand of God,

looking to the author and perfecter of the faith, Jesus, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

So then, the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down on the right hand of God;

And it came to pass, while he blessed them, that he parted from them.

who said, Men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This Jesus, who hath been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same manner in which ye beheld him going into heaven.

whom heaven indeed must receive until the times of a restoration of all things; of which times God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from the days of old.

Who is he that condemneth? Christ is he that died, yea rather, who rose again, who is also at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

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hath at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, by whom he also made the worlds,

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ;

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Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest haply we let them slip.

but Christ as a son over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and joyousness of our hope.

let us hold fast the profession of our hope without wavering, for he is faithful who promised;

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

And the whole multitude of the people was praying without at the time of the incense.

in whom we have our boldness and our access in confidence, through faith in him.