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Even though Jesus was God’s Son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered.

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    he humbled himself in obedience to God
    and died a criminal’s death on a cross.

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34 Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work.

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The Sovereign Lord has spoken to me,
    and I have listened.
    I have not rebelled or turned away.
I offered my back to those who beat me
    and my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard.
I did not hide my face
    from mockery and spitting.

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That is why, when Christ[a] came into the world, he said to God,

“You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings.
    But you have given me a body to offer.
You were not pleased with burnt offerings
    or other offerings for sin.
Then I said, ‘Look, I have come to do your will, O God—
    as is written about me in the Scriptures.’”[b]

First, Christ said, “You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings or burnt offerings or other offerings for sin, nor were you pleased with them” (though they are required by the law of Moses). Then he said, “Look, I have come to do your will.” He cancels the first covenant in order to put the second into effect.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:5 Greek he; also in 10:8.
  2. 10:5-7 Ps 40:6-8 (Greek version).

38 For I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who sent me, not to do my own will.

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10 When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

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But Christ, as the Son, is in charge of God’s entire house. And we are God’s house, if we keep our courage and remain confident in our hope in Christ.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 3:6 Some manuscripts add faithful to the end.

But to the Son he says,

“Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever.
    You rule with a scepter of justice.

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The Son Is Greater Than the Angels

For God never said to any angel what he said to Jesus:

“You are my Son.
    Today I have become your Father.[a]

God also said,

“I will be his Father,
    and he will be my Son.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 1:5a Or Today I reveal you as my Son. Ps 2:7.
  2. 1:5b 2 Sam 7:14.

And now in these final days, he has spoken to us through his Son. God promised everything to the Son as an inheritance, and through the Son he created the universe.

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15 But Jesus said, “It should be done, for we must carry out all that God requires.[a] So John agreed to baptize him.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:15 Or for we must fulfill all righteousness.

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