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Hebrews · read by Roy Hession
124 verses, in order. Only the verses Roy 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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 3
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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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 1
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So He became as far superior to the angels as the name He has inherited is excellent beyond theirs.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 1
Hebrews 2
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We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 1
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how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? This salvation was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 1
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But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 3
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In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting for God, for whom and through whom all things exist, to make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.Read from NKJV · (Suffering in the Christian Life) 4. Suffering as Testing
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He says: "I will proclaim Your name to My brothers; I will sing Your praises in the assembly."Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 3
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And again: "I will put My trust in Him." And once again: "Here am I, and the children God has given Me."Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 3
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Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,Read from KJV · (The Book of Ruth) 2. Boaz - the Kinsman
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and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.Read from KJV · (The Book of Ruth) 2. Boaz - the Kinsman
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For surely it is not the angels He helps, but the descendants of Abraham.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 3
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For this reason He had to be made like His brothers in every way, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 3
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Because He Himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being tempted.Read from KJV · (Suffering in the Christian Life) 4. Suffering as Testing
Hebrews 3
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Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 4
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Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's house, testifying to what would be spoken later.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 2
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But Christ is faithful as the Son over God's house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 2
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do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 2
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where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 2
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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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 2
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So I swore on oath in My anger, 'They shall never enter My rest.'"Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 2
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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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 2
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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 · Let Us Go on - Part 2
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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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 2
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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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 2
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So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.Read from NKJV · Let Us Go on - 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 KJV · Abraham: The Life of Faith - Part 2
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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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 1
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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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 1
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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 3
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He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and misguided, since he himself is beset by weakness.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 3
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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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 3
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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 KJV · (Suffering in the Christian Life) 4. Suffering as Testing
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Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from what He suffered.Read from KJV · (Suffering in the Christian Life) 4. Suffering as Testing
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And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey HimRead from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 3
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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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 2
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For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 2
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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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 2
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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 1
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instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.Read from NKJV · Let Us Go on - Part 1
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It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 2
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who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age—Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 2
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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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 2
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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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 2
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But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 2
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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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 2
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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 KJV · Abraham: The Life of Faith - Part 4
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saying, "I will surely bless you and multiply your descendants."Read from KJV · Abraham: The Life of Faith - Part 4
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And so Abraham, after waiting patiently, obtained the promise.Read from NKJV · Abraham: The Life of Faith - Part 4
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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 KJV · Jesus Our Hope - Part 1
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 · Let Us Go on - Part 3
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and Abraham apportioned to him a tenth of everything. First, his name means "king of righteousness." Then also, "king of Salem" means "king of peace."Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 3
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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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 3
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He of whom these things are said belonged to a different tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 3
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For it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah, a tribe as to which Moses said nothing about priests.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 3
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one who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the power of an indestructible life.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 4
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but Jesus became a priest with an oath by the One who said to Him: "The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind: 'You are a priest forever.'"Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 4
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Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 3
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Now there have been many other priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 3
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But because Jesus lives forever, He has a permanent priesthood.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 4
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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 KJV · (Gospel in the Book of Esther) 2. Esther at the Court for Her People
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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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 3
Hebrews 8
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The point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 4
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and who ministers in the sanctuary and true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 4
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And since every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, it was necessary for this One also to have something to offer.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 4
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Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer gifts according to the law.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 4
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The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: "See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain."Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 4
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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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 4
Hebrews 9
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Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.Read from KJV · God's Handbook on Holiness - Part 5
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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 KJV · God's Handbook on Holiness - Part 5
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Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,Read from KJV · God's Handbook on Holiness - Part 5
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containing the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. Inside the ark were the gold jar of manna, Aaron's staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 5
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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 KJV · God's Handbook on Holiness - Part 5
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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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 5
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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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 5
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They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 5
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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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 5
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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 KJV · God's Handbook on Holiness - Part 5
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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 KJV · Great Words of the Gospel - Part 3
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how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!Read from NKJV · The Power of the Blood - Sermon 1 of 5 - the Passover Lamb
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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 KJV · God's Handbook on Holiness - Part 5
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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 KJV · God's Handbook on Holiness - Part 5
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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 KJV · God's Handbook on Holiness - Part 5
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Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,Read from KJV · (Gospel in the Book of Esther) 5. Mordecai Speaks Peace to All His People
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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 KJV · God's Handbook on Holiness - Part 5
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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 4
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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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 4
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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 KJV · The Power of the Blood - Sermon 1 of 5 - the Passover Lamb
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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 · Let Us Go on - Part 3
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Since that time, He waits for His enemies to be made a footstool for His feet,Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 4
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Then He adds: "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more."Read from KJV · The 'No More' of Grace
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And where these have been forgiven, an offering for sin is no longer needed.Read from KJV · The 'No More' of Grace
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Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 5
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by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 5
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let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.Read from NKJV · Let Us Go on - Part 5
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Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 5
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but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 5
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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 KJV · (Suffering in the Christian Life) 1. Tribulation Worketh Patience
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 · Abraham: The Life of Faith - Part 4
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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 KJV · The Burnt Offering
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even though God had said to him, "Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned."Read from KJV · Abraham: The Life of Faith - Part 5
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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 KJV · Abraham: The Life of Faith - Part 5
Hebrews 12
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Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.Read from KJV · (Trees in the Christian Experience) 5. the Tree Cast Into the Bitter Water
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For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives."Read from KJV · (Suffering in the Christian Life) 2. the Chastening of the Lord
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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 KJV · (Suffering in the Christian Life) 2. the Chastening of the Lord
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If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.Read from KJV · Habakkuk - Part 2
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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 KJV · Habakkuk - Part 2
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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 KJV · Habakkuk - Part 2
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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 KJV · (Suffering in the Christian Life) 2. the Chastening of the Lord
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See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.Read from KJV · Jacob - Gods Unchanging Grace - Genesis 25 - Sermon 2 of 5
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For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He could find no ground for repentance, though he sought the blessing with tears.Read from KJV · Jacob - Gods Unchanging Grace - Genesis 25 - Sermon 2 of 5
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to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.Read from KJV · The Power of the Blood - Sermon 4 of 5 - the Sprinkling of the Blood
Hebrews 13
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Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.Read from KJV · God's Handbook on Holiness - Part 3
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And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.Read from KJV · God's Handbook on Holiness - Part 3
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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 KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 4
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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 KJV · (Men Who Saw God) 3. the Disciples
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I urge you, brothers, to bear with my word of exhortation, for I have only written to you briefly.Read from KJV · Let Us Go on - Part 1