Hebrews 13:7-25 (HCSB)7 Remember your leaders who have spoken God’s word to you. As you carefully observe the outcome of their lives, imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 9 Don’t be led astray by various kinds of strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established by grace and not by foods, since those involved in them have not benefited. 10 ...  Read More

Hebrews 13:1-6 (HCSB)Final Exhortations 13 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Don’t neglect to show hospitality, for by doing this some have welcomed angels as guests without knowing it.3 Remember the prisoners, as though you were in prison with them, and the mistreated, as though you yourselves were suffering bodily. 4 Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because Go...  Read More

Hebrews 12:14-29 (HCSB)Warning against Rejecting God’s Grace14 Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness—without it no one will see the Lord. 15 Make sure that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up, causing trouble and by it, defiling many. 16 And make sure that there isn’t any immoral or irreverent person like Esau, who sold his birthright in exchange for...  Read More

Hebrews 12:1-13 (HCSB)The Call to Endurance12 Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us, 2 keeping our eyes on Jesus, the source and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that lay before Him endured a cross and despised the shame and has...  Read More

Hebrews 11 (HCSB)Heroes of Faith 11 Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen. 2 For our ancestors won God’s approval by it. 3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by God’s command, so that what is seen has been made from things that are not visible. 4 By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was approved as a rig...  Read More

When Faith Brings OppositionThe writer's declaration of the supremacy of Christ was written around AD 64-68.Study the Word: Jesus is the final sacrifice for sin.  The writer of Hebrews continued to compare the old covenant, so familiar to his Jewish readers, with the work of Jesus.  Every time, Jesus is better.  Key Truth: Jesus' blood sacrifice provided redemption once and for all (Hebrews 9:6-7,...  Read More

Why are we often so tempted to try to earn our salvation instead of trusting God’s gracious gift? What did the author mean by “re-crucifying” Jesus (vs. 6:6)? Why is it encouraging that our hope of salvation is based in  1) God’s promises and   2) God’s inability to lie (6:16-17)? For most of the OT, Levitical priests were the mediator between God and man. How is Jesus better than them and the sac...  Read More

Hebrews 10 (HCSB)The Perfect Sacrifice 10 Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the actual form of those realities, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year. 2 Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, once purified, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? 3 But in the sa...  Read More

Hebrews 9 (HCSB)Old Covenant Ministry9 Now the first covenant also had regulations for ministry and an earthly sanctuary. 2 For a tabernacle was set up, and in the first room, which is called the holy place, were the lampstand, the table, and the presentation loaves. 3 Behind the second curtain, the tabernacle was called the most holy place. 4 It contained the gold altar of incense and the ark of ...  Read More

Hebrews 8A Heavenly Priesthood 8 Now the main point of what is being said is this: We have this kind of high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2 a minister of the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that was set up by the Lord and not man. 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; therefore it was necessary for this priest a...  Read More

Hebrews 7 (HCSB)The Greatness of Melchizedek 7 For this Melchizedek— King of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham and blessed him as he returned from defeating the kings, 2 and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything; first, his name means king of righteousness, then also, king of Salem, meaning king of peace; 3 without father, mother, or genealogy, having neither beginning of days n...  Read More

Hebrews 6 (HCSB)Warning against Regression 6 Therefore, leaving the elementary message about the Messiah, let us go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, faith in God, 2 teaching about ritual washings, laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. 3 And we will do this if God permits. 4 For it is impossible to renew to repentance t...  Read More