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God has spoken in the past through the prophets at many times and in many ways.
God has spoken in these recent days through a Son.
The ages were made through the Son of God.
All things are sustained by the word of the Son of God’s power.
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the representation of God’s essence.
The Son of God is far superior to the angels.
God commanded the angels to worship the Son when the Son was brought into the world.
The Son will rule as a king for ever and ever.
The Son loves righteousness and the Son hates lawlessness.
The earth and heavens will wear out like a garment and perish.
God told the Son to sit at his right hand until God made the Son’s enemies a stool for the Son’s feet.
The angels care for those who are going to inherit salvation.
Believers must pay attention to what they have heard so that they do not drift away from it.
Every transgression and disobedience would receive just punishment.
God testified to the message by signs, wonders, powerful deeds, and by the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Angels will not rule the world to come.
Man will rule the world to come.
Jesus was crowned with glory and honor because of his suffering and death.
Jesus tasted death for every man.
God plans to bring many sons to glory.
Both the one who sanctifies and those who are sanctified come from the one source, God.
The devil was made ineffective through Jesus’ death.
Through the death of Jesus, people are freed from the fear of death.
It was necessary so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest over God’s things, and so he might obtain forgiveness for the people’s sins.
Jesus is able to help those who are tempted because he was tempted also.
The author says Jesus is an apostle and a high priest.
Jesus has been considered worthy of greater glory because, while Moses was faithful in all God’s house, Jesus is the one who built the house.
Moses was a servant in God’s house.
Moses gave testimony about the things that were to be spoken of in the future.
Jesus’ role is as a Son in charge of God’s house.
The believers are God’s house if they hold fast to their confidence.
The Israelites hardened their hearts.
God swore that they would not enter his rest.
The brothers are warned to be careful not to turn away from the living God by unbelief.
The brothers are to encourage one another daily.
As partners of Christ, believers must firmly hold their confidence in him from the beginning to the end.
God was angry with those who sinned in the wilderness.
Their dead bodies lay in the wilderness.
They were not able to enter God’s rest, because of unbelief.
The believers and the Israelites had both heard the good news about God’s rest.
The good news did not benefit the Israelites because they did not join in faith with those who believed it.
Those who have believed enter God’s rest.
God finished his created works at the beginning of the world and then rested on the seventh day.
God said that the Israelites would not enter his rest.
God has set “Today” as the day for people to enter his rest.
A person must listen to God’s voice and not harden his heart.
A Sabbath rest is still reserved for God’s people.
A person who enters God’s rest also rests from his works.
Believers should be eager to enter God’s rest so that they do not fall into disobedience as the Israelites did.
The word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword.
The Word of God is able to divide soul from spirit and joints from marrow.
The Word of God is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
No created thing is hidden from God’s sight.
Jesus, the Son of God, serves as the great high priest for believers.
Jesus feels sympathy for the weaknesses of believers because he was in all ways tempted.
Jesus never sinned. Jesus was without sin.
In time of need, believers are to approach with confidence to the throne of grace.
For the people, every high priest offers gifts and sacrifices for sins.
The high priest also presents sacrifices for his own sins.
A man must be called by God to be a high priest of God.
God declared Christ to be a high priest.
Christ is God’s high priest forever.
Christ is a high priest of the order of Melchizedek.
Christ was heard by God because of his godly life.
Christ learned obedience from the things he suffered.
For everyone who obeys him, Christ became the cause of their eternal salvation.
The original readers were dull of hearing.
Believers grow spiritually by practicing distinguishing right from wrong, discerning both good and evil.
The author of Hebrews wants the believers to go forward to maturity.
The foundational teachings are repentance from dead works, faith in God, baptisms, laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
These enlightened people had tasted the heavenly gift, became sharers of the Holy Spirit, and tasted God’s Word and the powers of the age to come.
It is impossible for those who gained so much in Christ, but then fell away, to be restored again to repentance.
They are not able to be restored because they have crucified for themselves the very Son of God and exposed him to public shame.
Land that receives rain but bears thorns and thistles has its end in burning.
The author expects better things concerning these believers, things that are about salvation.
God will not forget their work, love of God, and service to the saints.
The believers should imitate the faith and patience of those who inherit the promises of God.
Abraham had to wait patiently to obtain what God promised him.
God guaranteed his promise with an oath to show more clearly the unchangeable quality of his purpose.
It is impossible for God to lie.
The believer’s hope in God is a secure and reliable anchor for his soul.
Jesus entered into the inner place behind the curtain as the forerunner for the believers.
Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High.
Abraham gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything he had captured.
The name Melchizedek means “king of righteousness” and “king of peace.”
Melchizedek was without ancestors and has no end of life.
The priests of the Law are descended from Levi, and before him, from Abraham.
Melchizedek was the greater person because he blessed Abraham.
Levi also paid tithes to Melchizedek, because Levi was of the seed of Abraham, and Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek.
The law must be changed when the priesthood changes.
Jesus descended from the tribe of Judah, which had never before served at the altar as priests.
Jesus became a priest after the order of Melchizedek based on the power of an indestructible life.
The former commandment, the Law, has been set aside because it is weak and useless.
God swore that Jesus would be a priest forever.
Jesus is the guarantee of a better covenant.
Jesus is able to completely save those who draw near to God through him because he always lives to intercede for them.
Jesus is holy, innocent, pure, and separated from sinners.
Jesus did not need to make any offering for his own sins, because he is sinless.
Jesus offered up himself once for the sins of the people.
The priests who were appointed through the Law were weak, but Jesus has been made perfect forever.
The believers’ high priest is sitting at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens.
The true tabernacle is in the heavens.
Every priest must have something to offer.
The priests who offered gifts according to the Law were on the earth.
The priests on earth served an example and a shadow of the heavenly things.
The earthly tabernacle was built according to the pattern God showed Moses on the mountain.
Christ has a superior priestly ministry because he is the mediator of a better covenant, established on better promises.
God promised to make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
God said he would put his laws into the people’s minds, and write them on their hearts.
In the new covenant, all will know the Lord, from the least to the greatest.
God said he would remember the people’s sins no more.
In announcing a new covenant, God made the first covenant obsolete, growing old and disappearing.
The place of worship for the first covenant was the earthly holy place which was called the “tabernacle.”
In the holy place of the earthly tabernacle were the lampstand, the table, and the bread of the presence.
In the most holy place of the earthly tabernacle were the altar for incense and the ark of the covenant.
The high priest entered the Holy of Holies once each year, after making a blood sacrifice for himself and the people.
The earthly tabernacle and the gifts and sacrifices being offered there served as an illustration in the present time.
The offerings of the earthly tabernacle were not able to perfect the worshiper’s conscience.
The regulations of the earthly tabernacle were provided until the new order would be put in place.
The sacred tent in which Christ serves is more perfect, is not made by human hands, and does not belong to this created world.
Christ made an offering of his own blood by which he entered the Holy of Holies.
Christ’s offering secured everlasting redemption for everyone.
Christ’s blood cleanses the believer’s conscience from dead deeds to serve the living God.
Christ is the mediator of a new covenant.
A death is required in order for a will to be in force.
The death of calves and goats was required for the first covenant.
Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
Christ now appears in heaven itself, in the presence of God, on our behalf.
Christ offers himself one time, at the end of the ages, to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
After every person dies, they face the judgment.
Christ will appear a second time for the salvation of those who wait eagerly for him.
The law is only a shadow of the realities in Christ.
The repeated sacrifices made through the law remind the worshipers of sins committed year after year.
It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
God prepared a body for Christ.
God set aside the first practice of the sacrifices offered according to the law.
God established the second practice of the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Christ is waiting until his enemies are humbled and made a stool for his feet.
Christ has perfected forever those who are sanctified by his one offering.
Additional sacrifices are no longer required where there is forgiveness of sins.
Believers can now enter the most holy place by Jesus’ blood.
The believer’s heart has been sprinkled clean from an evil conscience, and his body has been washed with pure water.
Believers must hold tightly to the confession of their hope.
Believers must encourage one another more and more as they see the day drawing near.
The expectation of those who deliberately go on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth is judgment and a fiery zeal that consumes God’s enemies.
The person who treats the blood of Christ by which he was sanctified as something unholy deserves punishment without mercy beyond the punishment given under the law of Moses.
Vengeance belongs to the Lord.
The believers had accepted with joy the seizure of their possessions, knowing they had a better and everlasting possession.
The believer needs to retain his confidence so he may receive what God has promised.
The righteous will live by faith.
God is not pleased with those who shrink back.
The author’s expectation is that those who received this letter will have faith for keeping their souls.
A person of faith confidently expects and has certainty toward God’s promises that are yet to be fulfilled.
The visible things of the universe were not made out of things that were visible.
God praised Abel because Abel by faith offered God a more appropriate sacrifice than Cain did.
One who comes to God must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Noah demonstrated his faith by building an ark to save his family according to God’s warning.
Abraham and Sarah received by faith the power to conceive even when they were too old.
The ancestors of faith saw and welcomed God’s promises from far off.
The ancestors of faith considered themselves strangers and aliens on the earth.
God has prepared a heavenly city for those of faith.
Abraham believed God would be able to raise up Isaac from the dead.
Joseph prophesied of the departure of the children of Israel from Egypt when his end was near.
Moses chose by faith to share mistreatment with God’s people, considering the disgrace of following Christ as greater riches.
Moses observed the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood by faith in order to save the Israelites’ firstborn sons.
Rahab by faith received the spies in safety, which prevented her from perishing.
Some of the ancestors of faith conquered kingdoms, escaped the sword, became mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.
Some of the ancestors of faith suffered torture, mocking, whippings, chains, imprisonments, stoning, sawing in two, death, and destitution.
Despite the faith of these ancestors, they did not receive in their earthly lives what God had promised them.
The ancestors of faith will receive the promises of God and be perfected with the new covenant believers in Christ.
The believer should throw off the sin that easily entangles him in order to run with endurance the race placed before him.
Jesus endured the cross and despised its shame for the joy that was set before him.
By considering Jesus, who endured hateful speech from sinners, a believer can avoid becoming weary or fainthearted.
The Lord disciplines those whom he loves and receives.
A person without the Lord’s discipline is an illegitimate child and not God’s child.
God disciplines his children for their good, so they can share in his holiness.
Discipline produces peaceful fruit of righteousness.
Believers should pursue peace with all people.
A root of bitterness must not grow up and cause trouble and pollute many.
Esau was rejected when he desired to inherit the blessing with tears after selling his own birthright.
The Israelites begged that not another word be spoken to them.
Believers in Christ come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God.
Believers in Christ come to the assembly of all the firstborn registered in heaven.
Believer in Christ come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous, and to Jesus.
Those who turn away will not escape from God.
God has promised to shake the earth and the heaven.
The believers will receive a kingdom that cannot be shaken.
Believers should serve God with reverence and awe.
Believers should worship God in this way because he is a consuming fire.
Some have welcomed angels without knowing it.
Believers should remember them as if they were in prison also, and as if their bodies were being mistreated also.
Marriage must be respected by all.
God judges the sexually immoral and adulterers.
A believer can be free from the love of money because God has said he will never leave nor forsake him.
Believers should imitate the faith of those who have led them and who have spoken God’s Word to them.
The author warns the believers about strange teachings involving rules about food.
The bodies of the animals were burned outside the camp.
Jesus suffered outside the city gate.
Believers must go to Jesus outside the camp, bearing his disgrace.
Believers have no permanent city here on earth. They seek the one coming.
Believers seek the city that is to come.
Believers should constantly offer up a sacrifice of praise to God.
Believers should obey and submit to their leaders.
God works in the believer that which is well pleasing in God’s sight.
The author will come with Timothy when he visits the believers.