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For if the message delivered through angels proved to be true, and every transgression and act of disobedience met with just retribution,

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For if Joshua had given them the true rest, we should not afterwards hear God speaking of another still future day.

Εἰ Ei “If”

Now if the crowning blessing was attainable by means of the Levitical priesthood--for as resting on this foundation the people received the Law, to which they are still subject-- what further need was there for a Priest of a different kind to be rais

Εἰ Ei “If”

And this is still more abundantly clear when we read that it is as belonging to the order of Melchizedek that a priest of a different kind is to arise,

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If then He were still on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since here there are already those who present the offerings in obedience to the Law,

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For if that first Covenant had been free from imperfection, there would have been no attempt to introduce another.

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For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have contracted defilement make them holy so as to bring about ceremonial purity,

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And if they had cherished the remembrance of the country they had left, they would have found an opportunity to return;

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And if you are left without discipline, of which every true son has had a share, that shows that you are bastards, and not true sons.

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Be careful not to refuse to listen to Him who is speaking to you. For if they of old did not escape unpunished when they refused to listen to him who spoke on earth, much less shall we escape who turn a deaf ear to Him who now speaks from Heaven.

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And if any one of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask God for it, who gives with open hand to all men, and without upbraiding; and it will be given him.

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For if any one listens but does not obey, he is like a man who carefully looks at his own face in a mirror.

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If a man thinks that he is scrupulously religious, although he is not curbing his tongue but is deceiving himself, his religious service is worthless.

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If, however, you are keeping the Law as supreme, in obedience to the Commandment which says "You are to love your fellow man just as you love yourself," you are acting rightly.

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But if you are making distinctions between one man and another, you are guilty of sin, and are convicted by the Law as offenders.

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For He who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not commit murder," and if you are a murderer, although not an adulterer, you have become an offender against the Law.

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For we often stumble and fall, all of us. If there is any one who never stumbles in speech, that man has reached maturity of character and is able to curb his whole nature.

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Remember that we put the horses' bit into their mouths to make them obey us, and so we turn their whole bodies round.

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But if in your hearts you have bitter feelings of envy and rivalry, do not speak boastfully and falsely, in defiance of the truth.

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Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. The man who speaks evil of a brother-man or judges his brother-man speaks evil of the Law and judges the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are no longer one who obeys the Law, but one who judges it.

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Rejoice triumphantly in the prospect of this, even if now, for a short time, you are compelled to sorrow amid various trials.

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And if you address as your Father Him who judges impartially in accordance with each man's actions, then spend in fear the time of your stay here on earth,

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if you have had any experience of the goodness of the Lord.

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For it is an acceptable thing with God, if, from a sense of duty to Him, a man patiently submits to wrong, when treated unjustly.

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If you do wrong and receive a blow for it, what credit is there in your bearing it patiently? But if when you do right and suffer for it you bear it patiently, this is an acceptable thing with God.

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