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],

But now he has attained a more excellent ministry, by as much as he is also mediator of a better covenant which has been enacted upon better promises.

[because] God had provided something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect without us.

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

For what [was] impossible for the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God [did]. [By] sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

to whom God wanted to make known what [is] the glorious wealth of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,

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Therefore let us approach with confidence to the throne of grace, in order that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Therefore, brothers, [since we] have confidence for the entrance into the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,

But as for me, the approach to God [is] for my good. I have set the Lord Yahweh [as] my refuge, in order to tell all your works.

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

through whom also we have [obtained] access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in the hope of the glory of God.

But now in Christ Jesus you, the ones who once were far away, have become near by the blood of Christ.

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

General references

" 'It will be an eternal decree for them. The one who spatters the waters of impurity will wash his garments, and the one who touches the waters of impurity will be unclean until the evening.