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Hebrews · read by Bob Hoekstra
64 verses, in order. Only the verses Bob read aloud are shown.
Hebrews 3
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So I swore on oath in My anger, 'They shall never enter My rest.'"Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #22 - a Covenant of Better Promises Part 2
Hebrews 4
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Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it.Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it.Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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For somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this manner: "And on the seventh day God rested from all His works."Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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And again, as He says in the passage above: "They shall never enter My rest."Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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Since, then, it remains for some to enter His rest, and since those who formerly heard the good news did not enter because of their disobedience,Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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God again designated a certain day as "Today," when a long time later He spoke through David as was just stated: "Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts."Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.Read from NKJV · The Ability of God's Word - Study 1
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Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.Read from NKJV · Growing in Grace #6 - the 'Much More' Grace of God
Hebrews 6
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And this we will do, if God permits.Read from ESV · Promise Believers #1 - Man's Promises or God's Promises
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When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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And so Abraham, after waiting patiently, obtained the promise.Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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Men swear by someone greater than themselves, and their oath serves as a confirmation to end all argument.Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,Read from NKJV · Lives Filled With Hope
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where Jesus our forerunner has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
Hebrews 7
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This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #21 - a Covenant of Better Promises Part 1
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Without father or mother or genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, like the Son of God, he remains a priest for all time.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #21 - a Covenant of Better Promises Part 1
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Now if perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for on this basis the people received the law), why was there still need for another priest to appear—one in the order of Melchizedek and not in the order of Aaron?Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #21 - a Covenant of Better Promises Part 1
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So the former commandment is set aside because it was weak and uselessRead from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #03 - the Old Covenant of Law
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(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #04 - the Old Covenant of Law
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Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #21 - a Covenant of Better Promises Part 1
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Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #21 - a Covenant of Better Promises Part 1
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Unlike the other high priests, He does not need to offer daily sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people; He sacrificed for sin once for all when He offered up Himself.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #21 - a Covenant of Better Promises Part 1
Hebrews 8
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Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #21 - a Covenant of Better Promises Part 1
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For if that first covenant had been without fault, no place would have been sought for a second.Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #1 - Living by God's Sufficiency
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But God found fault with the people and said: "Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #02 - the New Covenant Part 2
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It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not abide by My covenant, and I disregarded them, declares the Lord.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #02 - the New Covenant Part 2
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For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #02 - the New Covenant Part 2
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No longer will each one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #02 - the New Covenant Part 2
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For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more."Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #02 - the New Covenant Part 2
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By speaking of a new covenant, He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #02 - the New Covenant Part 2
Hebrews 9
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Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #21 - a Covenant of Better Promises Part 1
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A tabernacle was prepared. In its first room were the lampstand, the table, and the consecrated bread. This was called the Holy Place.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #21 - a Covenant of Better Promises Part 1
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Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #21 - a Covenant of Better Promises Part 1
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But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #21 - a Covenant of Better Promises Part 1
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He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #21 - a Covenant of Better Promises Part 1
Hebrews 10
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For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #21 - a Covenant of Better Promises Part 1
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Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #21 - a Covenant of Better Promises Part 1
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The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First He says:Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #1 - Living by God's Sufficiency
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"This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds."Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #3 - a God of Promise (New Testament)
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Then He adds: "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more."Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #02 - the New Covenant Part 2
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Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #01 - the New Covenant Part 1
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by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #1 - Living by God's Sufficiency
Hebrews 11
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By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son,Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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even though God had said to him, "Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned."Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
Hebrews 12
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Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.Read from NKJV · The Ability of God's Word - Study 1
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Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.Read from NKJV · The Ability of God's Word - Study 1
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And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: "My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.Read from NKJV · Parents and Children
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For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives."Read from NKJV · Parents and Children
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Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?Read from NKJV · Family God's Way #5 - Parents and Children
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If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.Read from NKJV · Parents and Children
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Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?Read from NKJV · Family God's Way #5 - Parents and Children
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Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.Read from NKJV · Family God's Way #5 - Parents and Children
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No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.Read from NKJV · Family God's Way #5 - Parents and Children
Hebrews 13
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So we say with confidence: "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?"Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #1 - Man's Promises or God's Promises
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Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.Read from NKJV · Being Built Up as Living Stones
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Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #05 - the New Covenant of Grace
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Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #20 - New Covenant Obedience Part 2
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equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.Read from NKJV · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #6 - Being Equipped for Ministry