FBCL | Hebrews | Jesus – The Apostle & High Priest of Our Profession

Bless the Lord, O my soul: And all that is within me, bless his holy name. 2  Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all his benefits: 3  Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases; 4  Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; 5  Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s. 6  The Lord executeth righteousness And judgment for all that are oppressed. 7  He made known his ways unto Moses, His acts unto the children of Israel. 8  The Lord is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. 9  He will not always chide: Neither will he keep his anger for ever. 10  He hath not dealt with us after our sins; Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. 11  For as the heaven is high above the earth, So great is his mercy toward them that fear him. 12  As far as the east is from the west, So far hath he removed our transgressions from us. 13  Like as a father pitieth his children, So the Lord pitieth them that fear him. 14  For he knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust. 15  As for man, his days are as grass: As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 16  For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more. 17  But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, And his righteousness unto children’s children; 18  To such as keep his covenant, And to those that remember his commandments to do them. 19  The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; And his kingdom ruleth over all. 20  Bless the Lord, ye his angels, That excel in strength, that do his commandments, Hearkening unto the voice of his word. 21  Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts; Ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure. 22  Bless the Lord, all his works In all places of his dominion: Bless the Lord, O my soul.

And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; 2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. 3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. 4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. 5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; 6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. 7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. 11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. 13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; 15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. 16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. 17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, And he shall divide the spoil with the strong; Because he hath poured out his soul unto death: And he was numbered with the transgressors; And he bare the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.

And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle. 12 And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.

And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.