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"Blessed are you when people revile and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven." (vv. 11, 12a)

“And what more should I say? For time would fail me to tell ... though they were commended for their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had provided something better so that they would not, without us, be made perfect.” (vv. 32, 39-40)

“Endure trials for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as children; for what child is there whom a parent does not discipline? If you do not have that discipline in which all children share, then you are illegitimate and not his children.” (vv. 7-8)

“Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.” (v. 2)

], a lawyer, asked him a question to test hm. ‘Teacher, which commandment is the greatest?’” (vv. 35-36)

“Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who approach … And it is by God’s will that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” (vv. 1, 10)

“But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, ‘he sat down at the right hand of God’, and since then has been waiting ‘until his enemies would be made a footstool for his feet.’ For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.” (vv. 12-14)

“Let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith … Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful.” (vv. 22-23)

“I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another. If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you.” (vv. 17-18)

“Then he said to them, ‘Give therefore to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are God’s.’” (v. 21)

“How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!” (v. 14)