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For the lawhaving a shadow of good things to come, and not the veryimage of the things,cannever with thosesacrificeswhich they offered year by year*continually*make the comers thereuntoperfect.
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Above when he said*, Sacrificeandofferingand burnt offeringsand offering forsin thou wouldestnot,neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offeredby the law;
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Notforsaking the assembling of ourselvestogether,as the manner of some is; butexhorting one another: and so much the more,as ye see the dayapproaching.
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Of how muchsorerpunishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God,and hath counted the blood of the covenant,wherewithhe was sanctified, an unholy thing,and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
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Forye had compassion of me in mybonds,andtookjoyfullythespoiling of yourgoods, knowinginyourselves that ye haveinheaven a betterand an enduringsubstance.
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By faithAbeloffered unto God a more excellentsacrificethanCain,bywhich he obtained witness that he wasrighteous,Godtestifyingofhisgifts:andbyit he being deadyetspeaketh.
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By faithEnoch was translated that he shouldnotseedeath;andwasnotfound, becauseGod had translatedhim:forbeforehistranslation he had this testimony, that he pleasedGod.
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Butwithoutfaith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to Godmustbelievethat he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seekhim.
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By faithNoah, being warned of Godof things notseen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an arkto the saving of hishouse;by the which he condemned the world,andbecameheir of the righteousness which is byfaith.
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By faithAbraham, when he was called to go outinto a placewhich he should afterreceivefor an inheritance,obeyed; and he went out, notknowingwhither he went.
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Through faithalsoSaraherselfreceivedstrengthtoconceiveseed,and was delivered of a child when she was pastage*, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
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Therefore sprang thereevenofone,andhim as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude,andas the sandwhich is by the seashoreinnumerable.
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Thesealldiedinfaith,not having received the promises,but having seenthem afar off,and were persuaded of them, andembraced them, andconfessedthat they werestrangersandpilgrimson the earth.
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By faithMoses, when he was born, was hid three monthsofhisparents,because they saw he was a properchild;and they werenotafraid of the king'scommandment.
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Andwhat shall Imoresay? for the time would failme to tellofGedeon,and of Barak,and of Samson,and of Jephthae; of Davidalso,andSamuel,and of the prophets:
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Quenched the violence of fire,escaped the edge of the sword, out ofweakness were made strong, waxedvaliantinfight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
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They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slainwith the sword*: they wandered aboutinsheepskinsandgoatskins*; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
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Wherefore seeing we alsoare compassed about* with so great a cloud of witnesses,letus lay asideeveryweight,and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us runwithpatience the race that is set beforeus,
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LookinguntoJesus the authorandfinisher of our faith;whofor the joy that was set beforehimendured the cross,despising the shame,and is set downat the right hand of the throne of God.
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And ye have forgotten the exhortationwhichspeaketh unto youas unto children,Myson,despisenotthou the chastening of the Lord,norfaint when thou art rebukedofhim:
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Furthermorewe have hadfathers of ourflesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall wenotmuchrather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits,andlive?
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Nowno*chasteningforthepresentseemeth to bejoyous,butgrievous:neverthelessafterward it yieldeth the peaceablefruit of righteousness unto them which are exercisedthereby*.
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For ye knowhow that afterward*, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he foundnoplace of repentance,though he soughtitcarefullywithtears.
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To the general assemblyandchurch of the firstborn, which are writteninheaven,and to God the Judge of all,and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
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See that ye refusenot him that speaketh. Foriftheyescapednot who refused him that spakeonearth,muchmore shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh fromheaven:
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And this word, Yet once more,signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.