This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
Parallel translations
- KJV Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
- BSB We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,
- NKJV This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil,
- NASB This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and reliable and one which enters within the veil,
- NLT This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary.
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This hope is an anchor for the soul, sure and steadfast, reaching into the inner sanctuary behind the veil. Our hope is firmly fixed where Christ has gone before us.
Overview
The writer pictures hope as an anchor, but one secured not below in shifting seas but above, within the heavenly sanctuary beyond the veil. The 'veil' recalls the curtain before the Most Holy Place, now opened through Christ. Believers' hope is anchored in heaven itself, where Jesus their high priest ministers.
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- Rom 5:5–10and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
- Ps 43:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.
- Rom 8:28–39We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
- Heb 9:7but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.
- Lev 16:2and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother, not to come at all times into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die: for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
- Lev 16:15“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat.
- Ps 62:5–6My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.
- Col 3:1If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
- Matt 27:51Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.
- Heb 9:3After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,
- Isa 25:3–4Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.
- Ps 42:11Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
- 2 Tim 2:19However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”
- Acts 27:29Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.
- Jer 17:7–8“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.
- Isa 12:2Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
- Rom 4:16For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
- Ps 146:5–6Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:
- Acts 27:40Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.
- Isa 28:16Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.
- Heb 4:16Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.
- Heb 10:20–21by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
- Ps 42:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
- 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
- Eph 2:6and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
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