Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says. If you hear God's voice today,

And he dreamed: A stairway was set on the ground with its top reaching heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down on it.

This stone that I have set up as a marker will be God’s house, and I will give to You a tenth of all that You give me.”

this Priest, after offering one Sacrifice for sins, sat down forever on God's right hand;

so that you may never grow careless, but may learn to follow the example of those who through their faith and endurance are the possessors of God's promises.

And in proportion as Jesus was not appointed priest without God's making oath to it,

Now the main point in what I am saying is this: We have such a high priest as this, and he has taken his seat in heaven at the right hand of God's Majesty,

And it is through his doing of God's will that we have been once for all purified from sin through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ in sacrifice.

but only the dreadful prospect of judgment and that blazing indignation which is to devour God's enemies.

Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

but you will need endurance if you are to carry out God's will and receive the blessing he has promised.

For it was by it that the men of old gained God's approval.

Faith enabled Abraham, when he was put to the test, to offer Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had accepted God's promises was ready to sacrifice his only son,

Therefore, thus says the Lord [to Jeremiah],
“If you repent [and give up this mistaken attitude of despair and self-pity], then I will restore you [to a state of inner peace]
So that you may stand before Me [as My obedient representative];
And if you separate the precious from the worthless [examining yourself and cleansing your heart from unwarranted doubt concerning My faithfulness],
You will become My spokesman.
Let the people turn to you [and learn to value My values]—
But you, you must not turn to them [with regard for their idolatry and wickedness].

Yet though they all gained God's approval by their faith, they none of them received what he had promised,

Be careful that no one fails to gain God's favor, or some poisonous root may come up to trouble and contaminate you all??16 some immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his very birthright for one single meal.

Do not forget your former leaders, the men who brought you God's message. Remember how they ended their lives and imitate their faith.

You must not be carried away with strange varieties of teaching. The true way to steadfastness of heart is through God's mercy, not through scruples about food, which have never done their adherents any good.

So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;

For God's mercy has appeared and brought salvation to all men,

And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

I have been greatly pleased and encouraged over your love, for the hearts of God's people have been cheered, my brother, by you.

By faith Rahab, the loose woman, was not put to death with those who had gone against God's orders, because she had taken into her house in peace those sent to see the land.

Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.

expecting and hastening towards the coming of God's day, at which the heavens on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements in flames be melted as wax?

So there must still be a promised Sabbath of Rest for God's people.

So let us come with courage to God's throne of grace to receive his forgiveness and find him responsive when we need his help.

Ground that drinks in frequent showers and produces vegetation that is of use to those for whom it is cultivated receives God's blessing.

The next sabbath almost the whole town turned out to hear God's message.

Then Paul and Barnabas courageously spoke out, "God's message had to be spoken to you Jews first, but since you continue to thrust it from you and since you show yourselves unworthy to receive eternal life, now and here we turn to the heathen.

The heathen kept on listening and rejoicing and giving the glory to God's message, and all who had been destined to eternal life believed,

and from there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had first been committed to God's favor for the work which they had finished.

Then they told God's message to him and to all the members of his household.

The Roman Officer, who was standing facing Jesus, on seeing the way in which he expired, exclaimed: "This man must indeed have been 'God's Son'!"

But when the Jews at Thessalonica learned that God's message had been proclaimed at Berea by Paul, they came there too to excite the masses and stir up a riot.

So for a year and a half he settled down among them and went on teaching God's message.

But as he bade them goodbye, he promised, "I will come back to you again, if it is God's will." Then he set sail from Ephesus.

But now I count as nothing the sacrifice of my life, if only I can finish my race and render the service entrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of faithfully telling the good news of God's favor.

for I never shrank from telling you God's whole plan.

The people standing near him said, "Do you mean to insult God's high priest?"

There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.

But Peter told him, "May your money perish with you, because you thought you could obtain God's free gift with money!

For the music director; a well-written song by David. It was written when Doeg the Edomite went and informed Saul: "David has arrived at the home of Ahimelech." Why do you boast about your evil plans, O powerful man? God's loyal love protects me all day long!

With it we give praise to our Lord and Father; and with it we put a curse on men who are made in God's image.

We would share personal thoughts with each other; in God's temple we would walk together among the crowd.

Jacob went on his way, and God’s angels met him.

When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s camp.” So he called that place Mahanaim.

And it was made clear to those prophets that they were God's servants not for themselves but for you, to give you word of the things which have now come to your ears from the preachers of the good news through the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; things which even angels have a desire to see.

Because it is God's pleasure that foolish and narrow-minded men may be put to shame by your good behaviour:

This is God's purpose for you: because Jesus himself underwent punishment for you, giving you an example, so that you might go in his footsteps:

But Jacob said, “No, please! If I have found favor with you, take this gift from my hand. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing God’s face, since you have accepted me.

By God's power we will conquer; he will trample down our enemies.

And they brought Uriah [God’s spokesman] from Egypt and led him to King Jehoiakim, who executed him with a sword and threw his dead body among the graves of the common people.

Submit humbly, therefore, to God's mighty hand, so that he may in due time raise you up.

Not as lords over God's heritage, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.

Therefore, brothers, make all the greater efforts to make God's call and choice of you certain. For if you have these qualities, you will never stumble,

For they wilfully ignore the fact that long ago there existed heavens and an earth which had been formed at God's command out of water and by water,

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who has existed from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and God's message is always in your hearts, and you have been victorious over the evil one.

Think what love the Father has had for us, in letting us be called God's children, for that is what we are. This is why the world does not know what we are??ecause it has never come to know him.

"Should the one who is fighting the Almighty find fault with him? Let God's accuser answer."

He is the grandest of God's undertakings, yet his creator is approaching him with his sword.

I, a ruler in the church, send word to the noble sister who is of God's selection, and to her children, for whom I have true love; and not only I, but all who have knowledge of what is true;

they have testified before the church to your love. Please see them off on their journey in a way appropriate to God's service.

The children of your noble sister, who is of God's selection, send you their love.

God's messenger said to him, "Put the meat and unleavened bread on this rock, and pour out the broth." Gideon did as instructed.

And the people were looking on. And the rulers made sport of him, saying, He was a saviour of others; let him do something for himself, if he is the Christ, the man of God's selection.

and you by God's power are being protected through faith to receive a salvation that is now ready to be disclosed at the last time.

who has gone to heaven and is at God's right hand, with angels, hierarchies, and powers made subject to him.

But he answering said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which goes out through God's mouth.

That was what I did at Jerusalem; yes, I received authority from the high priests and shut behind the prison bars many of God's people. Yes, when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them, and often in all the synagogues

And, coming near, the tempter said to him, - If thou art God's, Son, speak! that, these stones, may become, loaves.

and saith to him - If thou art God's, Son, cast thyself down, - for it is written, To his messengers, will he give charge concerning thee; and, on hands, will they bear thee up, lest once thou strike, against a stone, thy foot.

"So you must understand that this message of God's salvation has been sent to the heathen; and they will listen to it!"

proved to be God's Son in power by the resurrection from the dead -- I mean, Jesus Christ, our Lord,

For I am not ashamed of the good news, for it is God's power for the salvation of everyone who trusts, of the Jew first and then of the Greek.

Although they know full well God's sentence that those who practice such things deserve to die, yet they not only practice them but even applaud others who do them.

Now we know that God's judgment justly falls on those who practice such sins as these.

But in your stubbornness and impenitence of heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when the justice of God's judgments will be uncovered.

for there is no partiality in God's dealings.

What then, if some of them have proved unfaithful? Can their unfaithfulness make null and void God's faithfulness?

But now God's way of giving men right standing with Himself has come to light; a way without connection with the law, and yet a way to which the law and the prophets testify.

God's own way of giving men right standing with Himself is through faith in Jesus Christ. It is for everybody who has faith, for no distinction at all is made.

For everybody has sinned and everybody continues to come short of God's glory,

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him home and explained God's way to him more accurately.

Then law crept in to multiply the offense. Though sin has multiplied, yet God's favor has surpassed it and overflowed,

For sin must not any longer exert its mastery over you, for now you are not living as slaves to law but as subjects to God's favor.

What are we to conclude? Are we to keep on sinning, because we are not living as slaves to law but as subjects to God's favor? Never!

Pay attention to yourselves and to the entire flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to be shepherds of God's church, which he acquired with his own blood.

For in accordance with my better inner nature I approve God's law,

The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirits that we are God's children;

that even nature itself might finally be set free from its bondage to decay, so as to share the glorious freedom of God's children.

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.

But what does it say? "God's message is close to you, on your very lips and in your heart"; that is, the message about faith which we preach.

Come and witness God's exploits! His acts on behalf of people are awesome!

“Gilead remained beyond the Jordan;
And why did Dan live as an alien on ships?
Asher sat [still] on the seacoast,
And remained by its landings.
[These did not come to battle for God’s people.]

and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. They stumble over it because they are disobeying God's word, and to this they were also appointed.

Acknowledge God's power, his sovereignty over Israel, and the power he reveals in the skies!

Be on the watch, and make strong the rest of the things which are near to death; because as judged by me your works have not come up to God's measure.

I will sing praises to God's name! I will magnify him as I give him thanks!