Tag: hebrews

‘For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.’ — Hebrews 13:14 Jesus suffered outside of Jerusalem in an unholy place. He became a reproach for us. As His followers, we should be willing to take

‘Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set

‘But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.’ — Hebrews 11:6 The most essential thing for

‘Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that

God made a covenant with His people Israel that included a tabernacle and a sacrificial system. The nature of this covenant is temporary. The fact that the sacrifices had to be repeatedly offered shows their transitory nature.  The new covenant

‘For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them

‘Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.’ — Hebrews 7:25 For those familiar with the centuries-old Levitical priesthood established by the

‘Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection…‘ — Hebrews 6:1 The entire book of Hebrews is an exhortation to believers to grow up, to mature in the things of God, to keep

‘Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;’ — Hebrews 5:7 The role of

‘Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.’ — Hebrews 4:11 The word ‘rest’ is found eight times in Hebrews 3-4. The type of rest talked about is similar to the