Reading 1, Hebrews 7:25-8:6 25 It follows, then, that his power to save those who come to God through him is absolute, since he lives for ever to intercede for them.26 Such is the high priest that met our need, holy, innocent and uncontaminated, set apart from...

Reading 1, Hebrews 7:1-3, 15-17 1 Melchizedek, king of Salem, a priest of God Most High, came to meet Abraham when he returned from defeating the kings, and blessed him;2 and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. By the interpretation of his name, he is, first,...

Reading 1, Hebrews 6:10-20 10 God would not be so unjust as to forget all you have done, the love that you have for his name or the services you have done, and are still doing, for the holy people of God.11 Our desire is that every one of you should go on showing the...

Reading 1, Hebrews 5:1-10 1 Every high priest is taken from among human beings and is appointed to act on their behalf in relationships with God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins;2 he can sympathise with those who are ignorant or who have gone astray, because he...

Reading 1, Isaiah 62:1-5 1 About Zion I will not be silent, about Jerusalem I shall not rest until saving justice dawns for her like a bright light and her salvation like a blazing torch.2 The nations will then see your saving justice, and all kings your glory, and...

Reading 1, Hebrews 4:12-16 12 The word of God is something alive and active: it cuts more incisively than any two-edged sword: it can seek out the place where soul is divided from spirit, or joints from marrow; it can pass judgement on secret emotions and thoughts.13...

Reading 1, Hebrews 4:1-5, 11 1 Let us beware, then: since the promise never lapses, none of you must think that he has come too late for the promise of entering his place of rest.2 We received the gospel exactly as they did; but hearing the message did them no good...

Reading 1, Hebrews 3:7-14 7 That is why, as the Holy Spirit says: If only you would listen to him today!8 Do not harden your hearts, as at the rebellion, as at the time of testing in the desert,9 when your ancestors challenged me, and put me to the test, and saw what...

Reading 1, Hebrews 2:14-18 14 Since all the children share the same human nature, he too shared equally in it, so that by his death he could set aside him who held the power of death, namely the devil,15 and set free all those who had been held in slavery all their...

Reading 1, Hebrews 2:5-12 5 It was not under angels that he put the world to come, about which we are speaking.6 Someone witnesses to this somewhere with the words: What are human beings that you spare a thought for them, a child of Adam that you care for him?7 For a...