to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.   Hebrews 12:24  ...

But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of...

The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”   Hebrews 12:21   It was the summer before I started school. So,...

You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm; to a trumpet blast or to...

See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son....

Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one falls...

Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. “Make level paths for your feet,” so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather...

No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who...

Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of...

Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? If you are not...

And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says, “My son, do not...

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.   Hebrews 12:4   Baseball used to be the...

Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.   Hebrews 12:3   I just don’t get...

fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and...

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so...

These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, since God had planned something better for us...

They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins,...

Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might...

And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets,...

By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.   Hebrews 11:31   Now...