Since then the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise partook of the same; that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death (that is, the Devil),

Therefore in all things it behoved him to be made like His brothers, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of His people.

so that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us,

And for this cause He is the Mediator of the new covenant, so that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, those who are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

For you have need of patience, so that after you have done the will of God you might receive the promise.

And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

Women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

For truly they chastened us for a few days according to their own pleasure, but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness.

For you have not come to the mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, nor to blackness and darkness and tempest,

Therefore Jesus also, so that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.