Therefore He had to be made like His brothers, so that He could be a sympathetic High Priest, as well as a faithful one, in things relating to God, in order to atone for the people's sins.

Therefore, my Christian brothers, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Messenger and High Priest whom we profess to follow,

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He is the reflection of God's glory and the perfect representation of His being, and continues to uphold the universe by His mighty word. After He had procured man's purification from sins, He took His seat at the right hand of God's majesty,

(6:19) where Jesus has blazed the way for us and became a High Priest with the rank of Melchizedek.

Therefore, because He Himself lives always to intercede for them always, He is able to save completely any and all who come to God through Him.

Now the main point in what I am saying is this: We have such a High Priest as this, one who has taken His seat at the right hand of God's majestic throne in heaven

and not with blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He once for all went into the real sanctuary and secured our eternal redemption.

But this One offered up once for all and for all time one sacrifice for sins, and once for all took His seat at God's right hand,

keeping our eyes on Jesus, the perfect leader and example of faith, who, instead of the joy which lay before Him, endured the cross with no regard for its shame, and since has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

So the Lord Jesus, after He had spoken to them, was caught up into heaven and took His seat at God's right hand.

And while He was blessing them, He parted from them, and was taken up to heaven.

and said to them, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This very Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in just the way you have seen Him go up into heaven."

Yet heaven must retain Him till the time for the universal restoration of which God in the early ages spoke through the lips of His holy prophets.

who can condemn them? Christ Jesus who died, or rather, who was raised from the dead, is now at God's right hand, and is actually pleading for us.

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but in these latter days He has spoken to us through a Son, whom He had appointed lawful owner of everything, and through whom He had made the worlds.

The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ.

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This is why we must pay much closer attention to the message once heard, to keep from drifting to one side.

but Christ as a Son set over the house of God was faithful; and we are that house, if we keep up our courage and the joy that hope inspires to the very end.

let us, without ever wavering, keep on holding to the hope that we profess, for He is to be trusted who has made the promise,

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And the curtain of the sanctuary was torn in two, from top to bottom.

while all the throng of people were praying outside at the hour of the incense burning.

By union with Him and through faith in Him we have a free and confidential introduction to God.