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-\v 1 God has promised that we would rest, but we must be careful, because we can miss God's place of rest.
+\v 1 God has promised that we would rest, but we must be careful because we can miss God's place of rest.
 \v 2 We have heard the good news about how Jesus gives us God's rest, just as the people of Israel heard God promise that they would rest in Canaan. But just as that message did not help many of the people of Israel because they did not trust God as Joshua and Caleb did, the good news about Christ will not help us if we do not trust God.
 
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-\v 6 Some people still enter God's rest. But those who first heard God promise that they would rest—they did not enter that place of resting, because they refused to believe God.
-\v 7 But God set another time when we may enter that place of resting. That time is now! We know that is true because much later than when the people of Israel rebelled against God in the desert, he caused King David to write what I have already quoted,
+\v 6 Some people still enter God's rest. But those who first heard God promise that they would rest—they did not enter that place of resting because they refused to believe God.
+\v 7 But God set another time when we may enter that place of resting. That time is now! We know that is true because, much later than when the people of Israel rebelled against God in the desert, he caused King David to write what I have already quoted,
 \q "Right now, when you understand what God is saying to you, do not stubbornly disobey him."
 
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 \v 9 So, just as God rested on the seventh day after he finished creating everything, there remains a time when God's people will rest eternally.
 \v 10 Whoever enters God's place of resting has ceased from his work, just as God finished doing his work of creating everything.
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-\v 11 So we eagerly enter into the rest of God by following Christ, so that the example of those who disobey will not influence us and ruin us too.
+\v 11 So we eagerly enter into the rest of God by following Christ, so that the example of those who disobey will not influence us and ruin us also.
 
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 \v 12 God's words are alive and powerful, and they are able to cut like a sharp sword—cutting so deep that it can separate out the difference between our soul and our spirit. God's words are just like a sword that cuts deeply, down so deep they can cut into us like a sharp sword cuts through the joints of an animal. Those words cut even into the hardest places in us, like a sword that can cut down into the marrow within the bones. God's words are like a judge, deciding what thoughts are good or what thoughts are bad, and his words test the motives hidden deep within each of our hearts.
-\v 13 God knows everything about everyone. Nothing is hidden from him. Everything is completely open to him and he sees everything we do. We must all appear before God and we must tell him how we have lived our lives.
+\v 13 God knows everything about everyone. Nothing is hidden from him. Everything is completely open to him, and he sees everything we do. We must all appear before God, and we must tell him how we have lived our lives.
 
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-\v 14 So we have a great high priest who ascended through the heavens when he returned to God's presence. He is Jesus, God's Son. So let us courageously say openly that we trust Jesus Christ.
+\v 14 So, we have a great high priest who ascended through the heavens when he returned to God's presence. He is Jesus, God's Son. So let us courageously say openly that we trust Jesus Christ.
 \v 15 Our high priest can indeed have mercy on us and encourage us, we who tend to sin easily, because Satan also tempted him to sin in every way that he tempts us to sin—but he did not sin.
 \v 16 So let us come boldly to Christ, who rules from heaven and does for us what we do not deserve, so that he might kindly help us and have mercy on us when we need him to do so.
 
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-\v 1 When God chooses a high priest, he selects a man from the people. This man must serve God for the people; he must give God gifts and sacrifice animals to him for the people's sins.
+\v 1 When God chooses a high priest, he selects a man from the people. This man must serve God for the people; he must bring God gifts and sacrifice animals to him for the people's sins.
 \v 2 A high priest can be gentle with those who know little about God and with those who sin against him. This is because the high priest himself is weak with sin.
-\v 3 As a result, he also must sacrifice animals, because he sins just like the people do.
+\v 3 As a result, he also must sacrifice animals because he sins just like the people do.
 
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 \v 4 But no one can honor himself by deciding to become the high priest. Instead, God chose each man to become a high priest, as he chose Aaron to be the first high priest.
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-\v 7 In the days when Christ was living here in the world, he prayed to God and cried out loudly to him in tears. He asked God, who could save him from dying. And God listened to him, because Christ honored him and obeyed him.
+\v 7 In the days when Christ was living here in the world, he prayed to God and cried out loudly in tears to him who could save him from dying. And God listened to him because Christ honored him and obeyed him.
 \v 8 Although Christ is God's own son, he learned to obey God by suffering and dying.
 
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-\v 1-3 So, we must not keep discussing what we first learned about Christ, things that all believers must learn at first. Some of these things are how to stop doing sinful deeds, those that lead to death, and how to start trusting in God. There are also important things we teach: various kinds of baptism, why we often pray while putting our hands on each other; and also about how God will raise us all from the dead and judge everyone in a way that will last forever. Indeed, we will discuss these things again later, if God gives us the chance to do it. But now we must discuss things that are harder to understand; these are things that will help us to trust in Christ in all times, no matter what happens.
+\v 1-3 So, we must not keep discussing what we first learned about Christ, things that all believers must learn at first. Some of these things are: how to stop doing sinful deeds—those that lead to death—and how to start trusting in God. There are also important things we teach: about various kinds of baptism and why we often pray while putting our hands on each other, and also about how God will raise us all from the dead and judge everyone in a way that will last forever. Indeed, we will discuss these things again later, if God gives us the chance to do it. But now we must discuss things that are harder to understand; these are things that will help us to trust in Christ at all times, no matter what happens.
 
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-\v 4 I will explain why it is important to do this. Some people have at one time understood the message about Christ. They learned what it was like for God to forgive them and for Christ to love them, and they received gifts from the Holy Spirit.
+\v 4 I will explain why it is important to do this. Some people had at one time understood the message about Christ. They learned what it was like for God to forgive them and for Christ to love them, and they received gifts from the Holy Spirit.
 \v 5 They found for themselves that God's message is good, and they learned how God will work powerfully in the future.
 \v 6 But now, if these people reject Christ, no one will be able to persuade them to stop sinning and to trust in him again! That is because it is as though these people have nailed the Son of God to his cross again! They are causing people to despise Christ in front of others.
 
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-\v 9 You can see that I am warning you, dear friends, not to reject Christ. At the same time, I am certain that you are doing better than that. You are doing the things that are in conformity with the fact that God is saving you.
-\v 10 Since God always acts justly, he will not overlook all you have done for him; he will not overlook how you have loved and helped your fellow believers, and how you are still helping them.
+\v 9 You can see that I am warning you, dear friends, not to reject Christ. At the same time, I am certain that you are doing better than that. You are doing the things that conform to the fact that God is saving you.
+\v 10 Since God always acts justly, he will not overlook all you have done for him; he will not overlook how you have loved and helped your fellow believers and how you are still helping them.
 
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 \v 11 We greatly desire that all of you continue to show the same effort you are showing now, so that to the very end of your lives you will be sure you will receive all that God promised to give you.
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 \v 18 He did that to strongly encourage us, because he has done two things that cannot change: He promised to help us, and he told us that he would declare himself guilty if he did not help us. Now, God cannot lie. That is why we have trusted in him, just as he has encouraged us to do.
 
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-\v 19 Yes, we confidently expect to receive what God has promised to do for us. It is as if we were a ship whose anchor is holding us firmly in one place. The one we confidently expect to hold us is Jesus, because he has gone into God's very presence. This is why he is just like the high priests who go behind the curtain into the innermost part of the temple, where God is present.
-\v 20 Jesus went into God's presence ahead of us to allow us to enter in that same place with God, too. Jesus has become a high priest forever, in the way that Melchizedek was a high priest.
+\v 19 Yes, we confidently expect to receive what God has promised to do for us. It is as if we were a ship whose anchor is holding us firmly in one place. The one we confidently expect to hold us is Jesus, because he has gone into God's very presence. This is why he is just like the high priests who go behind the curtain into the innermost part of the temple where God is present.
+\v 20 Jesus went into God's presence ahead of us to allow us to also enter in that same place with God. Jesus has become a high priest forever, in the way that Melchizedek was a high priest.
 
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