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During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.
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Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.
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one who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life.
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But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.
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They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.
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because a will is in force only when somebody has died; it never takes effect while the one who made it is living.
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For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence.
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Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All
The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
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but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
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By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.
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All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.
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By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son,
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Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection.
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since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.
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At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”
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Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.
