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Daily Thoughts from Hebrews: Faith That Clings (11:1-3)

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word

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Daily Thoughts from Hebrews: Yellow Beauty Rose (10:32-39)

But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with

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Daily Thoughts from Hebrews: Defiant Sin (10:26-31)

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume

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Daily Thoughts from Hebrews: Privilege (10:19-25)

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since

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Daily Thoughts from Hebrews: The Sitting Priest (10:11-18)

And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down

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Daily Thoughts from Hebrews: Ultimate David, Ultimate Sacrifice (10:1-10)

For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those

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Daily Thoughts from Hebrews: The End of the Age (9:23-28)

Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ has entered, not into holy

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Daily Thoughts from Hebrews: He Comes Calling (9:15-22)

Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed

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Daily Thoughts from Hebrews: Pure Conscience (9:11-14)

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all

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Daily Thoughts from Hebrews: Real Salvation (9:1-10)

Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness. For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence.

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Daily Thoughts from Hebrews: The New Covenant Is Here (8:8-13)

For he finds fault with them when he says: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant

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Daily Thoughts from Hebrews: Type and Shadow (8:1-7)

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, a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that

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Daily Thoughts from Hebrews: Planned Changes (7:11-28)

Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of

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Daily Thoughts from Hebrews: Our Melchizedekian Priest (7:1-10)

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is

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Daily Thoughts from Hebrews: Anchor for the Soul (6:13-20)

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself, saying, “Surely I will bless you and multiply you.” And thus Abraham, having patiently waited,

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