Have you suffered so many things for nothing? – if indeed it was for nothing.

if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.

In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.

He who calls you is trustworthy, and he will in fact do this. ¹ 

who gave himself as a ransom for all, revealing God’s purpose at his appointed time. ¹ 

You know that everyone in the province of Asia ¹  deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

And no one assumes this honor ¹  on his own initiative, ²  but only when called to it by God, ³  as in fact Aaron was.

And this is even clearer if another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,

Now the first covenant, ¹  in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.

So whoever knows what is good to do ¹  and does not do it is guilty of sin. ² 

You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you. ¹ 

Everyone who practices sin ¹  also practices lawlessness; ²  indeed, ³  sin is lawlessness.

Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that ¹  Jesus is the Son of God?

We swear we have done this because we were worried that ¹  in the future your descendants would say to our descendants, ‘What relationship do you have with the Lord God of Israel? ² 

Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah will become holy in the sight of the Lord who rules over all, so that all who offer sacrifices may come and use some of them to boil their sacrifices in them. On that day there will no longer be a Canaanite ¹  in the house of the Lord who rules over all.

When he learned of this, ¹  Jesus said to them, “Why are you arguing ²  about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Have your hearts been hardened?

Look, a time ¹  is coming – and has come – when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, ²  and I will be left alone. ³  Yet ⁴  I am not alone, because my Father ⁵  is with me.

“For indeed both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together in this city against ¹  your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, ² 

Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough – you are, in fact, without yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. ¹  In fact, it would be better for me to die than – no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting! ²