Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)
Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,
But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,
Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,
Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, but Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”
But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.
whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.
While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven.
So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
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