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   However, His works have been finished since the creation of the world.   
   4 (Ex 20:11; 31:17) For He spoke somewhere about the seventh day like this:   
   "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works."(Ge 2:2.)   
   5 (Heb 3:11; 4:3) And again in the present passage He said,   
   "They shall not enter My rest."(Ps 95:11.)   
   6 (Heb 3:18-19) Since therefore it remains for some to enter it,   
   and they to whom it was first preached did not enter due to unbelief,   
   7 (Ps 95:7; Heb 3:7-8) again He establishes a certain day,   
   "Today," saying through David, after so long a time, as it has been said:   
   "Today, if you will hear His voice,   
   do not harden your hearts."(Ps 95:7-8.)   
   8 (Jos 22:4) For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have later   
   spoken of another day.   
   9 Therefore a rest remains for the people of God.   
   10 (Rev 14:13) For whoever enters His rest will also cease from his own works,   
   as God did from His.   
   11 (Heb 3:12) Let us labor therefore to enter that rest, lest anyone fall   
   by the same pattern of unbelief.   
   12 (Eph 6:17; Isa 49:2; Jer 23:29) For the word of God is alive, and active,   
   and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul   
   and spirit, of joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intents   
   of the heart.   
   13 (Ps 33:13-15; Job 26:6) There is no creature that is not revealed   
   in His sight, for all things are bare and exposed to the eyes of Him   
   to whom we must give account.   
      
   [1] Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into   
   his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.   
   [2] For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word   
   preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard   
   it.   
   [3] For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have   
   sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were   
   finished from the foundation of the world.   
   [4] For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God   
   did rest the seventh day from all his works.   
   [5] And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.   
   [6] Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to   
   whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:   
   [7] Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long   
   a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your   
   hearts.   
   [8] For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have   
   spoken of another day.   
   [9] There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.   
   [10] For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own   
   works, as God did from his.   
   [11] Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall   
   after the same example of unbelief.   
   [12] For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any   
   twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit,   
   and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents   
   of the heart.   
   [13] Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but   
   all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to   
   do.   
      
   Jesus the Great High Priest   
      
   14 (Heb 6:20; 1:2-3) Since then we have a great High Priest who has passed   
   into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to our confession.   
   15 (2Co 5:21; Jn 8:46) For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathise   
   with our weaknesses, but One who was in every sense tempted like we are,   
   yet without sin.   
   16 (Eph 3:12; Php 4:6-7) Let us then come with confidence   
   to the throne of grace,   
   that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.   
      
   [14] Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the   
   heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.   
   [15] For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling   
   of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet   
   without sin.   
   [16] Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may   
   obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.   
      
   Hebrews 5   
      
   1 (Heb 8:3; 10:11; 2:17) For every high priest chosen from among men   
   is appointed to represent men in things pertaining to God,   
   that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.   
   2 (Heb 2:18; 7:28) He is able to have compassion on the ignorant   
   and on those who are wayward, for he himself is also subject to weakness.   
   3 (Heb 7:27; 9:7; Lev 9:7) Because of this he must offer sacrifices   
   for his own sins, just as he does for the people.   
   4 (Ex 28:1; Nu 16:40) No man takes this honor for himself,   
   but he who is called by God receives it, just as Aaron did.   
   5 (Jn 8:54; Ps 2:7) So also Christ did not glorify Himself to be made   
   a High Priest, but it was He who said to Him:   
   "You are My Son;   
   today I have become Your Father."–7 (Ps 40:6–8.)   
   6 (Heb 7:17; Ps 110:4; Heb 7:21) As He also says in another place:   
   "You are a priest forever   
   in the order of Melchizedek."(Ps 110:4.)   
   7 (Mt 27:46; 27:50) In the days of His flesh, Jesus offered up prayers   
   and supplications with loud cries and tears to Him who was able to save   
   Him from death. He was heard because of His godly fear.   
   8 (Php 2:8) Though He was a Son, He learned obedience through the things   
   that He suffered,   
   9 (Heb 2:10) and being made perfect, He became the source of eternal   
   salvation for all those who obey Him,   
   10 (Heb 5:5-6; 6:20) being designated by God a High Priest according   
   to the order of Melchizedek.   
      
   [1] For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things   
   pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:   
   [2] Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the   
   way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.   
   [3] And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself,   
   to offer for sins.   
   [4] And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of   
   God, as was Aaron.   
   [5] So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he   
   that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.   
   [6] As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the   
   order of Melchisedec.   
   [7] 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;   
   [8] Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he   
   suffered;   
   [9] And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto   
   all them that obey him;   
   [10] Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.   
      
   Warning Against Apostasy   
      
   11 (2Pe 3:16) Concerning this we have much to say that is hard to explain,   
   since you have become hard of hearing.   
   12 (Heb 6:1; Ac 7:38) For though by now you should be teachers, you need   
   someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God   
   and have come to need milk rather than solid food.   
   13 (1Co 14:20; 1Pe 2:2) Everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word   
   of righteousness, for he is a baby.   
   14 (Isa 7:15; 1Co 2:6) But solid food belongs to those who are mature,   
   for those who through practice have powers of discernment that are trained   
   to distinguish good from evil.   
      
   [11] Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye   
   are dull of hearing.   
   [12] For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one   
      
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