And now he can help those who are tempted, because he himself was tempted and suffered.

In his life on earth Jesus made his prayers and requests with loud cries and tears to God, who could save him from death. Because he was humble and devoted, God heard him.

"Turn to me now and be saved, people all over the world! I am the only God there is.

"Who is this coming from the city of Bozrah in Edom? Who is this so splendidly dressed in red, marching along in power and strength?" It is the LORD, powerful to save, coming to announce his victory.

Now then, as soon as you hear the sound of the trumpets, oboes, lyres, zithers, harps, and all the other instruments, bow down and worship the statue. If you do not, you will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace. Do you think there is any god who can save you?"

If the God whom we serve is able to save us from the blazing furnace and from your power, then he will.

"And now I command that if anyone of any nation, race, or language speaks disrespectfully of the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, he is to be torn limb from limb, and his house is to be made a pile of ruins. There is no other god who can rescue like this."

When he got there, he called out anxiously, "Daniel, servant of the living God! Was the God you serve so loyally able to save you from the lions?"

And the Father, who sent me, also testifies on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen his face,

You study the Scriptures, because you think that in them you will find eternal life. And these very Scriptures speak about me!

What my Father has given me is greater than everything, and no one can snatch them away from the Father's care.

The Father and I are one."

To him who by means of his power working in us is able to do so much more than we can ever ask for, or even think of:

He will change our weak mortal bodies and make them like his own glorious body, using that power by which he is able to bring all things under his rule.

and it is for this reason that I suffer these things. But I am still full of confidence, because I know whom I have trusted, and I am sure that he is able to keep safe until that Day what he has entrusted to me.

To him who is able to keep you from falling and to bring you faultless and joyful before his glorious presence---

For the Law of Moses could not make anything perfect. And now a better hope has been provided through which we come near to God.

No one can please God without faith, for whoever comes to God must have faith that God exists and rewards those who seek him.

These are the ones who rejected God and believed that he could do nothing to them.

How I wish I knew where to find him, and knew how to go where he is.

Ambassadors will come from Egypt; the Ethiopians will raise their hands in prayer to God.

Sing to God, kingdoms of the world, sing praise to the Lord,

"They will say that only through me are victory and strength to be found; but all who hate me will suffer disgrace.

Return, all of you who have turned away from the LORD; he will heal you and make you faithful. You say, "Yes, we are coming to the LORD because he is our God.

Let us, then, always offer praise to God as our sacrifice through Jesus, which is the offering presented by lips that confess him as Lord.

Jesus answered him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one goes to the Father except by me.

He has brought us by faith into this experience of God's grace, in which we now live. And so we boast of the hope we have of sharing God's glory!

It is through Christ that all of us, Jews and Gentiles, are able to come in the one Spirit into the presence of the Father.

In union with Christ and through our faith in him we have the boldness to go into God's presence with all confidence.

I am writing this to you, my children, so that you will not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have someone who pleads with the Father on our behalf---Jesus Christ, the righteous one.

And Christ himself is the means by which our sins are forgiven, and not our sins only, but also the sins of everyone.

In the case of the priests the tenth is collected by men who die; but as for Melchizedek the tenth was collected by one who lives, as the scripture says.

He was made a priest, not by human rules and regulations, but through the power of a life which has no end.

But Jesus lives on forever, and his work as priest does not pass on to someone else.

For Christ did not go into a Holy Place made by human hands, which was a copy of the real one. He went into heaven itself, where he now appears on our behalf in the presence of God.

And so I will give him a place of honor, a place among the great and powerful. He willingly gave his life and shared the fate of evil men. He took the place of many sinners and prayed that they might be forgiven."

He is astonished to see that there is no one to help the oppressed. So he will use his own power to rescue them and to win the victory.

You have defended us in the past, so do not be angry with Jerusalem any longer. It is your city, your sacred hill. All the people in the neighboring countries look down on Jerusalem and on your people because of our sins and the evil our ancestors did.

And I will do whatever you ask for in my name, so that the Father's glory will be shown through the Son.

I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, who will stay with you forever.

"When that day comes, you will not ask me for anything. I am telling you the truth: the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name.

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your happiness may be complete.

"I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those you gave me, for they belong to you.

And now I am coming to you; I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world. Holy Father! Keep them safe by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one just as you and I are one.

And now I am coming to you, and I say these things in the world so that they might have my joy in their hearts in all its fullness.

I do not ask you to take them out of the world, but I do ask you to keep them safe from the Evil One.

Dedicate them to yourself by means of the truth; your word is truth.

And for their sake I dedicate myself to you, in order that they, too, may be truly dedicated to you.

I pray that they may all be one. Father! May they be in us, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they be one, so that the world will believe that you sent me.

I in them and you in me, so that they may be completely one, in order that the world may know that you sent me and that you love them as you love me.

Righteous Father! The world does not know you, but I know you, and these know that you sent me.

Who, then, will condemn them? Not Christ Jesus, who died, or rather, who was raised to life and is at the right side of God, pleading with him for us!

For there is one God, and there is one who brings God and human beings together, the man Christ Jesus,

I am writing this to you, my children, so that you will not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have someone who pleads with the Father on our behalf---Jesus Christ, the righteous one.

And Christ himself is the means by which our sins are forgiven, and not our sins only, but also the sins of everyone.

Another angel, who had a gold incense container, came and stood at the altar. He was given a lot of incense to add to the prayers of all God's people and to offer it on the gold altar that stands before the throne.

The smoke of the burning incense went up with the prayers of God's people from the hands of the angel standing before God.