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But God said [this] about the angels [Psa. 104:4 LXX], "He [i.e., God] makes His angels to be [like] winds and His servants [like] flames of fire." [Note: The idea is probably that angels obediently serve God's purpose similar to the way wind and lightening do].

Verse ConceptsAngels as God's servantsServants Of The LordGod Dispensing WindFire From God's ServantsAngelsministering

It is also of His Son that God says, "Thou, O Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Thy hands.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsBeginningAstronomyCreation Of The Physical HeavensAbolish, Temporary ThingsAmbidextrousIn The Beginninga new beginningNew Beginnings

For if the word uttered through angels stood firm, so that every transgression and act of disobedience met with its just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?

Verse ConceptsAngels as God's servantsDisobedience, To GodThe Recompense Of The WickedAngels Giving The LawGod Has RequitedAngels As MediatorsAngels Activities Among Believers

how can we escape, if we pay no attention at all to a salvation that is so great? This is so because it was first proclaimed by the Lord Himself, and then it was proved to us to be valid by the very men who heard Him themselves,

Verse ConceptsForeknowledgeConfirmationComplacencydelay, humanHearingHistoryNeglecting God's ThingsWitnesses, To Jesus ChristSalvation, Described AsChrist PreachingEscaping EvilThe Gospel Of Salvation

For it was not to angels that He gave authority over that world to be, of which we are speaking.

Verse ConceptsThe Future AgeAngelsPerspectiveconnectedness

For it was fitting for God [that is, an act worthy of His divine nature] that He, for whose sake are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the author and founder of their salvation perfect through suffering [bringing to maturity the human experience necessary for Him to be perfectly equipped for His office as High Priest].

Verse ConceptsGod, Perfection OfIncarnationNaturePerfection, DivineReinstatementGloryNames And Titles For ChristChrist, Names ForAdoption Through ChristExistence Through GodGod's FullnessChrist The BeginningBeginning Of SalvationBelievers As Sons Of GodChrist Made PerfectPeople Made PerfectThe Gospel Of SalvationSufferingRaising Children

And again, I will be a man who has trusted in him. And again, Behold, I and the children that God has given me.

Verse ConceptsTrust, Importance OfSpiritual AdoptionAdoption Through ChristChildren In The FaithFaith And Trust

where your forefathers so sorely tried My patience and saw all that I did during forty years.

Verse Concepts40 To 50 YearsTesting Godimprovement

in that it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation;

Verse ConceptsForeknowledgeHearing God's VoiceAvoiding ObstinacyTodayDeadlinesrebellion

So let us fear that when the promise for us to be admitted to His rest is still remaining valid some one of you may be found to have missed it.

Verse ConceptsSabbath, In NtGod Is UnchangeableEntering LifeFear God!God Giving RestCauses of failure inMissing The Markfearless

Again, in that passage He says, They will never enter My rest.

Verse ConceptsEntering Life

Since then it still remains that some are being admitted to it and that those who first had the good news told to them were not admitted because of disobedience,

Verse ConceptsSpiritual FailureExclusionEntering LifeCauses of failure indisobedience

He again sets a definite day, [a new] “Today,” [providing another opportunity to enter that rest by] saying through David after so long a time, just as has been said before [in the words already quoted],

Today if you hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts.”

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Of The WillOpportunities, And SalvationRepentance, Importance OfSeasons, Of LifeStubbornnessStiffnecked PeopleHearing God's VoiceAvoiding ObstinacyNowToday

For, if, unto them, Joshua had given rest, it had not in that case, concerning another day, been speaking, after, these things.

Verse ConceptsRest, EternalGod Giving RestRest

For, he that hath entered into his rest, He too, hath rested from his works, just as, from his own, God, rested .

Verse ConceptsWorks Of The LawstruggleRestStruggles

For that reason he is obligated to offer sacrifices for his own sins as well as for those of the people.

Verse ConceptsNecessityAtoning By SacrificesOffering Sacrifices

Thus, also the Christ, glorified not himself to become a high-priest, but he that spake unto him - My Son, art, thou, I, this day, have begotten thee;

Verse ConceptsJesus As The Beloved SonThe Beloved SonMessianic Titles, High PriestConceptionJesus Christ, Son Of GodSeeking HonourRivers

Who, in the days of his flesh, having offered up, both supplications and entreaties unto him that was able to save him out of death, with mighty outcries and tears, and been hearkened to by reason of his devoutness,

Verse ConceptsCryingPraying LoudlyPainPrayerfulnessAbility, God's PowerHumility Of ChristReverence To GodTearsAbility, Of God To SaveOvercoming DeathJesus PrayingGod Answered Prayersupplicationpietyreverencepetition

although being a Son, he learned obedience from the things that he suffered.

Verse ConceptsLearningThe Submission Of ChristObedienceSuffering

For although you ought to be teachers of others because you have been Christians so long, you actually need someone to teach you over and over again the very elements of the truths that God has given us, and you have gotten into such a state that you are in constant need of milk instead of solid food.

Verse ConceptsNeedElementsChildishnessSpiritual VitalityTeachersTeachingSpiritual ImmaturityTeaching In The ChurchBeginning To TeachStaying Strong And Not Giving UpEating MeatMaturity

and have known by experience the truth of the divine promises, and the miracles of the age that was to come; it is impossible,

Verse ConceptsLast DaysThe Future AgeGoodness As A Fruit Of The SpiritGoodness

Saying, Be certain that I will give you my blessing, and make your numbers very great.

Verse ConceptsMultiplyingGod Multipling PeopleGod Will BlessBlessing Others

For it is a custom among men to take oath by something greater than themselves, and an oath taken for confirmation settles any dispute among them.

Verse ConceptsConfirmationSwearing OathsSwearing BySwearing

For Melchizedek, the king of Salem, a priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham on his return from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him ??2 who had a tenth part of everything assigned him by Abraham ??this Melchizedek is primarily a king of righteousness (that is the meaning of his name); then, besides that, king of Salem (which means, king of peace).

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Characteristics OfdefeatMelchizedekMeeting PeopleKilling KingsPeople Who Blessed OthersAbolishing Death

and it was to him that Abraham apportioned a tithe of all the spoil. He was first, as his name signifies, King of righteousness, and then King of Salem, that is, King of Peace;

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Characteristics OfInterpreting LanguageChrist Our RighteousnessTithing For PeopleMen Of PeaceTithes And Offering

Now see how great this man must have been that even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of his spoils.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Characteristics OfPatriarchsGreat Individuals

Now indeed those of the sons of Levi who receive the priesthood have commandment to collect tithes from the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, although having come out of the loins of Abraham.

Verse ConceptsTithesBringing In The Tithe

But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

Verse ConceptsGod's Promise To AbrahamTithing For PeoplePeople Who Blessed Others

Now beyond any contradiction, it is always the inferior that is blessed by the superior.

Verse ConceptsGreat And SmallBlessing

Now if there were perfection through the Levitical priesthood, (and it was under it that the people received the Law) why was it still necessary for another kind of priest to arise, after the order of Melchizedek, instead of being reckoned according to the order of Aaron?

Verse ConceptsAaron, As High PriestHigh Priest, In OtMelchizedekRestored In Jesus ChristPerfection, HumanPriesthood, In NtRitual LawAaron, PositionChrist, The High PriestPeople Made PerfectThe Law Given To IsraelRoyal Priesthoodpriests

It is evident that, when the priest hood is changed, there is of necessity a change also of the law.

Verse ConceptsChangeRiversconnectednesspriests

Yet the one these things are spoken about belongs to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever officiated at the altar.

And, yet more abundantly evident it is - that, according to the likeness of Melchizedek, there is to be raised up, a different priest.

Verse ConceptsChrist, The High PriestChrist Like People

who is appointed not on the basis of a physical qualification but on the basis of a power flowing from a life that cannot end.

Verse ConceptsJesus Christ, Eternity OfGod, Power OfChrist's Life