Hebrews 3:1

Believers, sharing a heavenly calling, are urged to fix their attention on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of their confession. Christ is the one sent from God and the one who represents us to God.

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• 2 Tim 1:9who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
• Phil 3:14I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
• Heb 4:14–15Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.
• 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
• Eph 4:1I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
• Heb 7:26For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
• Eph 4:4There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;
• Heb 2:17Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
• Rom 8:28–30We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
• Heb 10:21and having a great priest over God’s house,
• 1 Th 2:12to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
• 1 Cor 9:23Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
• Rom 15:8Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,
• 2 Tim 2:7Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.
• 1 Tim 6:12Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
• Heb 2:11For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
• Hag 1:5Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
• Ps 110:4Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
• John 20:21Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”
• Jude 1:1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
• 1 Cor 1:2to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
• Rom 9:24us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
• 2 Th 1:11To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith, with power;
• Rom 1:6–7among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;
• Heb 3:14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
• 2 Th 2:14to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Isa 1:3The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know, my people don’t consider.”
• Rom 15:27Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.
• Ezek 18:28Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
• 1 Th 5:27I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.
• John 20:27Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”
• Col 1:22yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,
• 1 Tim 6:2Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.
• Isa 5:12The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
• 1 Pet 5:10But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
• Ezek 12:3“Therefore, you son of man, prepare your stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight. You shall move from your place to another place in their sight. It may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.
• Hag 2:15Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in Yahweh’s temple.
• Col 1:12giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;
• Isa 41:20that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that Yahweh’s hand has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
• Rom 11:17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;

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