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Hebrews · read by Pat Kenney
138 verses, in order. Only the verses Pat read aloud are shown.
Hebrews 1
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On many past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 1
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But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 1
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The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 1
Hebrews 3
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where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 4 & 5
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Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.'Read from NKJV · Hebrews 4 & 5
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See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 4 & 5
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But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 4 & 5
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We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 4 & 5
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For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?Read from NKJV · Hebrews 4 & 5
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And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?Read from NKJV · Hebrews 4 & 5
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So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 4 & 5
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 · Hebrews 4 & 5
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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 · Hebrews 4 & 5
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And again, as He says in the passage above: "They shall never enter My rest."Read from NKJV · Hebrews 4 & 5
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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 · Hebrews 4 & 5
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Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 4 & 5
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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 · Hebrews 4 & 5
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Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 4 & 5
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Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 4 & 5
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For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 4 & 5
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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 · Hebrews 4 & 5
Hebrews 5
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Every high priest is appointed from among men to represent them in matters relating to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 4 & 5
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That is why he is obligated to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 4 & 5
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So also Christ did not take upon Himself the glory of becoming a high priest, but He was called by the One who said to Him: "You are My Son; today I have become Your Father."Read from NKJV · Hebrews 4 & 5
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During the days of Jesus' earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 4 & 5
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And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey HimRead from NKJV · Hebrews 4 & 5
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and was designated by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 4 & 5
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We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 4 & 5
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Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to reteach you the basic principles of God's word. You need milk, not solid food!Read from NKJV · Hebrews 4 & 5
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For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 6
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But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 6
Hebrews 6
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Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith in God,Read from NKJV · Hebrews 6
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who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age—Read from NASB1995 · Hebrews 6
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and then have fallen away—to be restored to repentance, because they themselves are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting Him to open shame.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 6
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For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 6
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Even though we speak like this, beloved, we are convinced of better things in your case—things that accompany salvation.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 6
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For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 6
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We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, in order to make your hope sure.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 6
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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 · Hebrews 6
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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 · Hebrews 6
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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 · Hebrews 6
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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 · Hebrews 6
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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 · Hebrews 6
Hebrews 8
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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 · Hebrews 9 & 10
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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 · Hebrews 9 & 10
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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 · Hebrews 9 & 10
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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 · Hebrews 9 & 10
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For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more."Read from NKJV · Hebrews 9 & 10
Hebrews 9
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Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 9 & 10
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Above the ark were the cherubim of glory, overshadowing the mercy seat. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 9 & 10
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When everything had been prepared in this way, the priests entered regularly into the first room to perform their sacred duties.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 9 & 10
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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 · Hebrews 9 & 10
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By this arrangement the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 9 & 10
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It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 9 & 10
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They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 9 & 10
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But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come, He went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made by hands and is not a part of this creation.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 9 & 10
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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 · Hebrews 9 & 10
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For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean,Read from NKJV · Hebrews 9 & 10
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Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 9 & 10
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That is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 9 & 10
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For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,Read from NKJV · Hebrews 9 & 10
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saying, "This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep."Read from NKJV · Hebrews 9 & 10
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In the same way, he sprinkled with blood the tabernacle and all the vessels used in worship.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 9 & 10
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So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 9 & 10
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For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 9 & 10
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Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 9 & 10
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Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 9 & 10
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Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,Read from NKJV · Hebrews 9 & 10
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so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 9 & 10
Hebrews 10
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If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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Then I said, 'Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.'"Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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In the passage above He says, "Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor did You delight in them" (although they are offered according to the law).Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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Then He adds, "Here I am, I have come to do Your will." He takes away the first to establish the second.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.Read from ESV · Hebrews 11
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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 · Hebrews 11
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But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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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 · Hebrews 11
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Then He adds: "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more."Read from NASB1995 · Hebrews 11
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And where these have been forgiven, an offering for sin is no longer needed.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge His people."Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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Remember the early days that you were in the light. In those days, you endured a great conflict in the face of suffering.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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Sometimes you were publicly exposed to ridicule and persecution; at other times you were partners with those who were so treated.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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For, "In just a little while, He who is coming will come and will not delay.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
Hebrews 11
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Now faith is the assurance of what we hope for and the certainty of what we do not see.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous when God gave approval to his gifts. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see 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.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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Now those who say such things show that they are seeking a country of their own.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.Read from NKJV · 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 · Hebrews 11
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Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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By faith Moses' parents hid him for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were unafraid of the king's edict.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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He chose to suffer oppression with God's people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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He valued disgrace for Christ above the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his reward.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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By faith Moses left Egypt, not fearing the king's anger; he persevered because he saw Him who is invisible.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch Israel's own firstborn.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to follow, they were drowned.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies in peace, did not perish with those who were disobedient.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions,Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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quenched the raging fire, and escaped the edge of the sword; who gained strength from weakness, became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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These were all commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
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God had planned something better for us, so that together with us they would be made perfect.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 11
Hebrews 12
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Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 6
Hebrews 13
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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 · Hebrews 6
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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 · Hebrews 6