You have loved right and hated wrong! That is why God, your God, has anointed you with exhilarating oil beyond all your comrades."

This is why we must give the very closest attention to the message we have heard, to keep from ever losing our hold upon it.

For both he who purifies them and they who are purified spring from one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

That was why I was angry with that generation, And I said, 'Their minds are always wandering, And they have never found my paths.'

And this is why he is the negotiator of a new agreement, in order that as someone has died to deliver them from the offenses committed under the old agreement, those who have been offered it may receive the unending inheritance they have been promised.

That is why the Christ, when he was coming into the world, said, "You have not wished sacrifice or offering, but you have provided a body for me.

But, as it is, their aspirations are for a better, a heavenly country! That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city to receive them.

And why should I go on? For my time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,