Hebrews 4 Cross References - WPNT

¹ Therefore we should fear, since a promise of entering His rest still stands, lest any one of you should expect to have come short of it. ² Really, because we are continually hearing good news just like they did, but the word that they heard did not profit them, since they were not intimately united with the faith of those who obeyed. ³ Now we who have believed do enter that rest, just as He has said, “So I took an oath in my wrath, ‘As if they will ever enter my rest!’”—His works were certainly finished from the foundation of the world, ⁴ because somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day like this, “And on the seventh day God rested from all His works,” ⁵ while again, in this place, “As if they will ever enter my rest!” ⁶ Therefore since it remains for some to enter into it, and those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not enter because of disobedience, ⁷ He again designates a certain day, after such a long time, saying through David: “Today” (as was stated above), “Today, if you would hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.” ⁸ Because if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken afterward of another day. ⁹ So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. ¹⁰ Further, the one having entered into His rest has himself also rested from his own works, just as God did from His. ¹¹ Therefore, let us take pains to enter into that rest so that no one may fall through the same pattern of disobedience. ¹² Because the Word of God is living and efficient, and sharper than any two-edged sword, actually penetrating to the point of separating soul and spirit, joints and marrow; in fact, it is able to evaluate a heart’s reflections and intentions. ¹³ Nothing in all creation is hidden from His sight; rather all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. ¹⁴ Therefore, since we have a Great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the Confession. ¹⁵ For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but He was tested in all points, in similar ways, without sin. ¹⁶ So let us approach the throne of grace with confidence, that we may receive mercy and find grace, for timely help.

²¹ And she will give birth to a Son and you will call His name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

⁷ “Keep asking, and it will be given to you; keep seeking, and you will find; keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. ⁸ For each one asking, receives; and the one seeking, finds; and to the one knocking it will be opened. ⁹ Or which man is among you who, if his son asks for bread will give him a stone? ¹⁰ Or if he asks for a fish will give him a snake? ¹¹ If you then, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in the heavens give good things to those who ask Him!

¹³ “Go in through the narrow gate; because wide is the gate and broad is the way which leads away into perdition, and those who are going in through it are many.

²¹ “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’, will go into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who does the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

²¹ “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’, will go into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who does the will of my Father who is in the heavens. ²² Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and cast out demons in Your name, and perform many mighty works in Your name?’

²² Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and cast out demons in Your name, and perform many mighty works in Your name?’ ²³ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me you practitioners of lawlessness!’

²⁶ But every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be compared to a foolish man who built his house on the sand; ²⁷ and the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall!”

¹⁶ And when evening came they brought to Him many who were demonized. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, ¹⁷ so that what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet should be fulfilled, namely: “He Himself took our infirmities and bore our diseases.”

¹² But from the days of John the Baptizer until now the kingdom of the heavens is being aggressive and aggressive people are seizing upon it.

²⁸ Come to me all you who are laboring and are loaded down, and I will give you rest.

²⁸ Come to me all you who are laboring and are loaded down, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, because I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls;

²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, because I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls; ³⁰ for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

²⁰ A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not quench, until He sends justice forth to victory.

³⁵ so that what was spoken through the prophet should be fulfilled, namely: “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world.”

⁴³ Therefore I say to you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation producing the fruits of it.

⁹ So go on the roads leading out of town, and as many as you may find invite to the wedding feast.’ ¹⁰ And going out on the roads those servants gathered together everyone they found, both evil and good; and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

⁴³ He says to them: “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord’ saying,

⁴⁸ But if that bad servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his return’,

³¹ “When the Son of the Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on His throne of glory. ³² And all the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

¹ A beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Son of God!

³⁶ Because David himself said by the Holy Spirit: ‘The LORD said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I place your enemies as a stool for your feet”.’

¹⁹ So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at God’s right.

² where He was tested for forty days by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, so after they were completed He was hungry .

¹¹ “Now here is the parable: The seed is the Word of God.

⁴⁵ But if that servant should say in his heart, ‘My master won’t come for a while’, and should begin to hit the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, ⁴⁶ the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him, and at an hour that he does not know, and will cut him in two and appoint his portion with the unbelievers.

²⁴ “Exert yourselves to enter through the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will try to enter and not manage it. ²⁵ When once the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ and in answer he will say to you, ‘I don’t know you; where are you from?’ ²⁶ then you will begin by saying, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets’. ²⁷ But he will say: ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you are from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’ ²⁸ “There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, but you yourselves being thrown out. ²⁹ They will even come from the east, the west, the north and the south, and recline in the Kingdom of God. ³⁰ Yes indeed, there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be last.”

²¹ So that slave came and reported these things to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his slave, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame’. ²² And the slave said, ‘Master, what you ordered has been done, and there is still room’. ²³ Then the master said to the slave: ‘Go out to the roads and hedges and make people come in, so that my house may be filled. ²⁴ For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will get a taste of my banquet!’”

¹⁶ The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then the Kingdom of God is being proclaimed, and every one is trying to force his way into it.

⁴² Why David himself affirms in the book of Psalms, ‘The LORD said to my Lord: sit at my right hand

²⁸ However, you are those who have continued with me in my trials.

⁵¹ And it happened, as He was blessing them, that He left them and was carried up into heaven.

²⁴ But as for Jesus Himself, He did not entrust Himself to them, because He knew all men

²² In fact the Father does not judge anyone but has committed all the judging to the Son, ²³ so that all will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. ²⁴ “Most assuredly I say to you that the one listening to my word and believing on Him who sent me has eternal life; he will not go into judging but has moved out of the death into the life. ²⁵ “Most assuredly I say to you that a time is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live. ²⁶ Because just as the Father has life in Himself just so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself; ²⁷ furthermore He gave Him the authority to pass judgment, because He is Son of Man . ²⁸ Do not marvel at this, because a time is coming in which all those in the graves will hear His voice ²⁹ and will come out—those who did good things into the resurrection of life, but those who practiced evil things into the resurrection of condemnation.

²⁷ Do not work for the food that wastes away but for the food that endures into life eternal, which the Son of Man will give you; because on Him God the Father has set His seal.”

⁵¹ I am the living bread which came down out of Heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. Actually, the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give on behalf of the life of the world.”

⁴⁶ Which of you convicts me of sin? So if I speak the truth, why do you not believe me?

³⁰ Then, when He had received the sour wine, Jesus said, “Paid in full!!” And bowing His head He dismissed His spirit.

¹⁷ The third time He says to him, “Simon, son of Jonah, are you fond of me?” Peter was grieved in that the third time He said to him, “Are you fond of me?” and said to Him: “Lord, you know all things. You know that I’m fond of you!” Jesus says to him: “Feed my sheep.

¹¹ and they said: “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into the sky? This very Jesus who is being taken up from you into the sky, He will come again in the precise manner that you observed Him going into the sky.”

²⁹ “Men, brothers, be it permitted to speak to you plainly about the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

³¹ he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah, that His soul was not abandoned in Hades, nor did His flesh see decay.

³⁷ Now upon hearing this they were cut to the heart and said to Peter, and the rest of the Apostles, “Men, brothers, what shall we do?!”

²¹ whom Heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, of which times God spoke long ago by the mouth of all His holy prophets.

²⁶ God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to you first, to bless you by turning each of you away from your iniquities.”

³¹ Well when they had prayed, the place where they were gathered was shaken, and they were all filled with Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God with boldness.

³³ Well upon hearing it they became infuriated and started plotting to kill them.

⁴⁵ which, having received it in turn, our fathers with Joshua brought into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, until the days of David;

²⁰ After these things (it was about four hundred and fifty years), He gave judges until Samuel the prophet. ²¹ And then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul, a son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. ²² And removing him He raised up for them David as king, about whom He gave witness and said: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will’. ²³ God, from this man’s seed, according to promise, has brought Salvation to Israel,

⁴⁶ But Paul and Barnabas speaking boldly said: “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. But since you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, now we are being turned to the Gentiles.

⁴⁶ But Paul and Barnabas speaking boldly said: “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. But since you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, now we are being turned to the Gentiles. ⁴⁷ Because that is just how the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have set you to be a light for ethnic nations, that you should be for salvation up to the last place on earth’.”

³¹ because He has appointed a day in which He will judge the inhabited world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained; He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”

¹⁹ Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision

²⁵ So being in disagreement among themselves they started to leave, after Paul had said this one word: “The Holy Spirit spoke correctly to our fathers through Isaiah the prophet,

²⁸ Therefore let it be known to you that the salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen!”

¹⁶ I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, because it is the power of God for the salvation of each one who believes (for the Jew first, then the Greek);

¹⁶ in the day when God, according to my Gospel, will judge people’s secrets by Jesus Christ.

²⁵ Now circumcision does have value if you keep the Law, but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

³ So, what if some did not believe? Their unbelief will not nullify God’s faithfulness, will it? ⁴ Of course not! Rather, let God be found true, but every man a liar; just as it is written: “That you may be justified in your words, and may overcome when you are judged.”

²³ all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

¹ Therefore, having been justified by faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ² through whom also we have had the access, by the Faith, into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

¹⁵ —you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fear all over again, but you did receive the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!” ¹⁶ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are God’s children ¹⁷ —if children, also heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ (if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him).

³⁴ Who is he who condemns? Christ is He who died, but even more, was indeed raised, who indeed is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes on our behalf.

¹⁶ (However, they did not all obey the gospel; because Isaiah says: “LORD, who has believed our message?”) ¹⁷ So, the faith is from a message, and that message is by the Word of God.

²⁰ Granted. Because of unbelief they were broken off, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear!

³⁰ For just as you also were once disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy through their disobedience, ³¹ so also these have now been disobedient that through the mercy shown to you they also may be shown mercy. ³² Yes, God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that He might show mercy to all.

⁹ For this very reason Christ both died and rose, and lived, so as to rule both dead and living. ¹⁰ But you, why do you judge your brother? And you too, why do you look down on your brother? Because we will all stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ. ¹¹ For it is written: “‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall acknowledge God.’” ¹² So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

²⁴ Now to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God,

⁵ Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and expose the motives of the hearts. At that time the praise that comes to each will be from God.

²⁹ Now I say this, brothers, the time has been shortened, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none,

²⁶ So that is how I ‘run’, with a definite goal; that is how I fight, with well-aimed blows. ²⁷ Yes, I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

¹² So then, let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall!

³ Even if I give away all my possessions and hand over my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

²⁴ But if everyone is prophesying, and an unbeliever or outsider comes in, he is reproved by all, he is examined by all. ²⁵ And thus the secrets of his heart are exposed, and so, falling on his face he will worship God, affirming, “Truly God is among you.”

¹⁷ However, we are not like the rest who retail the word of God; rather, we speak in Christ, out of sincerity, as of God in His very presence.

² Rather, we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in deception nor falsifying the Word of God, but by the open proclamation of the Truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience, in the sight of God.

¹⁰ Because we must all be exposed before Christ’s Judgment Seat, that each one may receive his due for the things he did while in the body, whether good or bad.

²¹ Because He made the One who did not know sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become God’s righteousness.

⁴ because the weapons of our warfare are not physical, but are powerful in God for demolishing strongholds: ⁵ demolishing sophistries and every arrogance that sets itself up against the knowledge of God; taking captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ;

⁸ Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. ⁹ But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more cheerfully about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may take up residence upon me. ¹⁰ So then, I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

⁸ Further, the Scripture, foreseeing that “God justifies the nations by faith”, proclaimed the Gospel in advance to Abraham: “All the nations will be blessed through you”.

¹³ Rather, you know that I preached the Gospel to you the first time in spite of a physical infirmity.

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² in which you once walked, according to the Aeon of this world, the ruler of the domain of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of the disobedience;

¹⁸ because through Him we both have access to the Father, by one Spirit.

¹² in whom we have the boldness and the access with confidence through faith in Him.

¹⁰ He who descended is the very one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.)

⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of the disobedience.

¹³ Now all things, upon being exposed, are revealed by the light, for whatever reveals is light.

¹⁷ also, grasp the helmet of the salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God;

⁷ but divested Himself, taking a slave’s form, coming to be in the likeness of men. ⁸ And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient to the point of death —even death on a cross!

¹² So then, my dear ones, just as you have always obeyed (not only in my presence but now much more in my absence), keep working out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

⁶ Don’t be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition along with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; ⁷ and the peace of God, that surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

⁶ Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,

⁵ You see, our Gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with complete certainty (of course you know what sort of men we proved to be among you for your sake).

¹³ Another reason we give thanks to God continually is that when you received from us the spoken word of God, you welcomed it not as the word of men but, as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed operative in you who believe.

²³ Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹² and so that all may be condemned who have not believed the truth but have taken pleasure in wickedness. ¹³ Now we are obligated to always give thanks to God about you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you into salvation, through sanctification of spirit and belief in truth,

⁸ Now physical exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, holding promises for both this present life and the one to come.

¹³ if we are faithless, He remains faithful—He is incapable of denying Himself.

¹⁶ They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him, being detestable, disobedient and disqualified for any good work.

¹⁴ who gave Himself for us, so that He might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify for Himself a special people, zealous for good works.

³ Because we ourselves were also foolish at one time, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, detestable, hating one another.

² has at the end of these days spoken to us by Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the ages; ³ who being the projection of His glory and the very image of His essence, and sustaining all things by the expression of His\up6 [S]\up0 own power, when He had by Himself provided purification for our sins He sat down on the highest Majesty’s right,

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⁸ while to the Son He says: “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; ‘Scepter of Uprightness’ is the scepter of Your kingdom.

¹ So then, we really must pay the utmost attention to the things we have heard, so that we not drift away.

¹ So then, we really must pay the utmost attention to the things we have heard, so that we not drift away. ² For if the word spoken through angels became binding, and every violation and disobedience received a deserved penalty, ³ how shall we escape if we are careless about that tremendous salvation?—it received its beginning through the Lord’s declaration and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him\up6 [S]\up0,

⁶ rather, there is a place where someone testified saying: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or son of man that you care for him?

¹⁷ That is why He was obliged to become like those ‘brothers’ in all respects, so that He could be a merciful and faithful high priest, in what concerns God, with a view to making propitiation for the sins of the people.

¹⁷ That is why He was obliged to become like those ‘brothers’ in all respects, so that He could be a merciful and faithful high priest, in what concerns God, with a view to making propitiation for the sins of the people. ¹⁸ For in that in which He Himself endured suffering, having been tested, He is able to assist those who are being tested.

⁵ also, Moses was indeed faithful as a servant in all His house, providing evidence of those things that would later be spoken, ⁶ but Christ is faithful as a Son over His house, whose house are we, if, that is, we hold fast the confidence, even the boast, of the Hope firm to the end. ⁷ Therefore—just as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you would hear His voice, ⁸ do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, during the time of the testing in the desert,

¹¹ So I took an oath in my wrath, ‘As if they will ever enter my rest!’”— ¹² take care, brothers, that there not be a malignant heart of unbelief in any of you, so as to go away from the living God;

¹⁴ For we have become associates of the Christ, if, that is, we hold fast the beginning of the Endeavor firm to the end, ¹⁵ while it is still being said, “Today, if you would hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

¹⁸ Or to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, if not to those who disobeyed?

¹⁸ Or to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, if not to those who disobeyed? ¹⁹ So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.

¹ Therefore we should fear, since a promise of entering His rest still stands, lest any one of you should expect to have come short of it. ² Really, because we are continually hearing good news just like they did, but the word that they heard did not profit them, since they were not intimately united with the faith of those who obeyed. ³ Now we who have believed do enter that rest, just as He has said, “So I took an oath in my wrath, ‘As if they will ever enter my rest!’”—His works were certainly finished from the foundation of the world,

³ Now we who have believed do enter that rest, just as He has said, “So I took an oath in my wrath, ‘As if they will ever enter my rest!’”—His works were certainly finished from the foundation of the world,

³ Now we who have believed do enter that rest, just as He has said, “So I took an oath in my wrath, ‘As if they will ever enter my rest!’”—His works were certainly finished from the foundation of the world, ⁴ because somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day like this, “And on the seventh day God rested from all His works,”

⁴ because somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day like this, “And on the seventh day God rested from all His works,” ⁵ while again, in this place, “As if they will ever enter my rest!” ⁶ Therefore since it remains for some to enter into it, and those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not enter because of disobedience,

⁹ So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

¹¹ Therefore, let us take pains to enter into that rest so that no one may fall through the same pattern of disobedience.

¹⁴ Therefore, since we have a Great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the Confession.

² being able to deal gently with those who sin in ignorance and go astray, since he himself is also subject to weakness.

¹¹ You see, we really do want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so as to fulfill the hope;

²⁰ where Forerunner Jesus has entered on our behalf, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

¹⁹ (for the Law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

²⁵ Therefore He is able to save absolutely those who come to God through Him, since He always lives and can intercede on their behalf.

²⁵ Therefore He is able to save absolutely those who come to God through Him, since He always lives and can intercede on their behalf. ²⁶ Now such a High Priest was fitting for us—holy, innocent, undefiled, having been set apart from sinners, and having become higher than the heavens—

²⁶ Now such a High Priest was fitting for us—holy, innocent, undefiled, having been set apart from sinners, and having become higher than the heavens—

¹ Now the main point of the things we are saying is this: We do have such a High Priest, who sat down at the right of the Majesty’s throne in the heavens,

⁵ while above it were cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat (this is not the place to go into detail about them).

¹² and with His own blood, not that of goats and calves.

²⁴ For Christ did not enter into Holy Places made by hands, mere copies of the true ones, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in God’s presence on our behalf;

²⁶ —otherwise He would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world; but now, once for all at the end of the ages, He has been revealed to nullify sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

¹² but He Himself, having offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, sat down at God’s right.

¹⁹ Therefore, brothers, having courage to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ by a new and living way that He inaugurated for us, through the curtain, that is to say, His flesh, ²¹ and having a Great Priest over the house of God, ²² let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts having been sprinkled from an evil conscience and our body having been washed with clean water. ²³ Let us hold fast the confession of the Hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

²³ Let us hold fast the confession of the Hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

⁶ Now without faith it is impossible to please Him, because the one approaching God must believe that He exists and that He becomes a rewarder of those who earnestly seek Him.

¹³ These all died believing—not having received the promises, but having seen and welcomed them from a distance, thus confessing that they were aliens and sojourners on the earth. ¹⁴ Now those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. ¹⁵ If they were actually remembering that land from which they had departed, they would have had opportunity to return.

²⁵ choosing rather to be maltreated along with God’s people than to have the temporary pleasure of sin,

² looking unto Jesus, the Founder and Perfecter of the Faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured a cross, scorning its ignominy, and took His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

¹⁵ taking care that no one come short of the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springing up cause trouble and thereby many be defiled,

²⁵ See to it that you not refuse Him who speaks. Because if they did not escape who refused Him who gave divine warning on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from Him who warns from Heaven!

⁶ So we can say with confidence: “The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?” ⁷ Remember your leaders, those who spoke the Word of God to you, whose faith imitate, considering the outcome of their conduct.

¹⁸ Having willed it, He brought us forth by a word of truth, so that we might be a sort of first fruits of His products.

²¹ Therefore, laying aside all filthiness and overflow of evil, receive with meekness the implanted Word which is able to save your souls.

¹² It was revealed to them that they were not ministering these things to themselves, but to you; which things have now been announced to you by those who proclaimed the gospel to you, with the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things that angels really desire to look into.

²⁰ who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake,

²³ having been begotten again, not from a corruptible seed but an incorruptible, through the living Word of God that remains valid forever.

⁴ Coming to Him, a living stone—rejected indeed by men but chosen by God, precious— ⁵ you also, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ who formerly were not a people but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.

²² who did not commit sin, neither was deceit found in His mouth;

¹ Therefore, since Christ suffered on our behalf in flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mentality (for the one who has ‘suffered in flesh’ has been made to cease from sin) ² so as not to live your remaining time in flesh for human lusts any longer, but for the will of God.

¹⁰ Therefore, brothers, you should be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble. ¹¹ Because in this way you will be granted the abundant entrance into the unending kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

⁵ And you know that He was revealed in order to remove our sins—in Him there is no sin.

¹⁶ and He had seven stars on His right hand and a sharp two-edged sword coming out of His mouth; and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength.

¹⁶ Repent! Or else I will come at you swiftly and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

²³ And I will execute her children; and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will give to each one of you according to your works.

¹⁴ So I said to him, “My lord, you know.” So he said to me: “These are those who come out of the Great Tribulation—they washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ Therefore they are before the throne of God, and they serve Him day and night in His sanctuary. And He who sits on the throne will shelter them. ¹⁶ They shall not hunger anymore, nor thirst anymore; the sun will absolutely not strike them, nor any heat; ¹⁷ because the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

¹³ I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on’ (“Yes” says the Spirit) ‘so that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow along with them’.”

¹⁵ And out of His mouth goes a sharp, two-edged sword, so that with it He may strike the nations. And He Himself will shepherd them with a rod of iron. And He Himself treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

²¹ And the rest were killed by the sword that proceeds from the mouth of the One riding the horse. And all the birds were filled with their flesh.

⁴ And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them; also, I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded on account of the testimony of Jesus and on account of the Word of God, even those who had not worshipped the Beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

¹¹ Then I saw a tremendous white throne and the One who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the sky fled away; and no place was found for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne; and books were opened. And another Book was opened, namely, of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things that were written in the books. ¹³ The ocean gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them; and they were judged each one according to their works. ¹⁴ And Death and Hades were thrown into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death, the Lake of Fire. ¹⁵ And if anyone was not found written in the Book of Life he was thrown into the Lake of Fire.

⁴ And He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there will be no more death nor sorrow nor crying nor pain —they will exist no more because the first things have gone.”