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The LORD spoke to Moses and said, "Consecrate to me every first-born that opens the womb among the Israelites, both of man and beast, for it belongs to me."
[EX 13:1-2]
"You shall also make a plate of pure gold
and engrave on it, as on a seal engraving, 'Sacred to the LORD.'
This plate is to be tied over the miter with a violet ribbon in
such a way that it rests on the front of the miter, over Aaron's
forehead. Since Aaron bears whatever guilt the Israelites may
incur in consecrating any of their sacred gifts, this plate must
always be over his forehead, so that they may find favor with the
LORD. The tunic of fine linen shall be brocaded. The miter
shall be made of fine linen. The sash shall be of variegated work.
Likewise, for the glorious adornment of Aaron's sons you
shall have tunics and sashes and turbans made. With these you
shall clothe your brother Aaron and his sons. Anoint and ordain them, consecrating
them as my priests."
[EX 28:36-41]
They themselves are to eat of these things by
which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration; but
no layman may eat of them, since they are sacred. [EX 29:33]
Thus also shall you purge the altar
in making atonement for it; you shall anoint it in order to
consecrate it. Seven days you shall spend in making atonement
for the altar and in consecrating it. Then the altar will be most
sacred, and whatever touches it will become sacred. [Taken from EX
29:36-37]
"There, at the altar, I will meet the
Israelites; hence, it will be made sacred by my glory. Thus I will
consecrate the meeting tent and the altar, just as I also
consecrate Aaron and his sons to be my priests. I will dwell in
the midst of the Israelites and will be their God. They shall know
that I, the LORD, am their God who brought them out of the land of
Egypt, so that I, the LORD, their God, might dwell among them." [EX
29:43-46]
When you have consecrated them, they shall be
most sacred; whatever touches them shall be sacred. [EX 30:29]
"Aaron and his sons you shall also anoint and
consecrate as my priests. To the Israelites you shall say: As
sacred anointing oil this shall belong to me throughout your
generations. It may not be used in any ordinary anointing of the
body, nor may you make any other oil of a like mixture. It is
sacred, and shall be treated as sacred by you. Whoever prepares a
perfume like this, or whoever puts any of this on a layman, shall
be cut off from his kinsmen." [Taken from EX 30:30-33]
"Take the anointing oil and anoint the
Dwelling and everything in it, consecrating it and all its
furnishings, so that it will be sacred." [Taken from EX 40:9]
"Then bring Aaron and his sons to the
entrance of the meeting tent, and there wash them with water.
Clothe Aaron with the sacred vestments and anoint him, thus
consecrating him as my priest. Bring forward his sons also, and
clothe them with the tunics. As you have anointed their father,
anoint them also as my priests. Thus, by being anointed, shall
they receive a perpetual priesthood throughout all future
generations." [EX 40:12-15]
Bringing forward Aaron and his sons, he first
washed them with water. Then he put the tunic on Aaron, girded him
with the sash, clothed him with the robe, placed the ephod on him,
and girded him with the embroidered belt of the ephod, fastening
it around him. He then set the breastpiece on him, with the Urim
and Thummim in it, and put the miter on his head, attaching the
gold plate, the sacred diadem, over the front of the miter, at his
forehead, as the LORD had commanded him to do. Taking the
anointing oil, Moses anointed and consecrated the Dwelling, with
all that was in it. Then he sprinkled some of this oil seven times
on the altar, and anointed the altar, with all its appurtenances,
and the laver, with its base, thus consecrating them. He also
poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head, thus
consecrating him. Moses likewise brought forward Aaron's sons,
clothed them with tunics, girded them with sashes, and put turbans
on them, as the LORD had commanded him to do. [LEV 8:6-13]
[Moses] also made atonement for the
altar by pouring out the blood at its base when he consecrated it.
[Taken from LEV 8:15]
Taking some of the anointing oil and some of the
blood that was on the altar, Moses sprinkled with it Aaron and his
vestments, as well as his sons and their vestments, thus
consecrating both Aaron and his vestments and his sons and their
vestments. [LEV 8:30]
Honor him as sacred who offers up the food of
your God; treat him as sacred, because I, the LORD, who have
consecrated him, am sacred. [LEV 21:8]
The LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron and his
sons to respect the sacred offerings which the Israelites
consecrate to me; else they will profane my holy name. I am the
LORD. Tell them: If any one of you, or of your descendants
in any future generation, dares, while he is in a state of
uncleanness, to draw near the sacred offerings which the
Israelites consecrate to the LORD, such a one shall be cut off
from my presence. I am the LORD." [Taken from LEV 22:1-3]
"They shall keep my charge and not do wrong
in this matter; else they will die for their profanation. I am the
LORD who have consecrated them." [LEV 22:9]
On the same day he shall reconsecrate his head and begin anew the period of his dedication to the LORD as a
nazirite [Taken from NUM 6:11-12]
Indeed, all the first-born among the Israelites,
both of man and of beast, belong to me; I consecrated them to
myself on the day I slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt.
[NUM 8:17]
The LORD said to Moses, "Tell Eleazar, son
of Aaron the priest, to remove the censers from the embers; and
scatter the fire some distance away, for these sinners have
consecrated the censers at the cost of their lives. Have them
hammered into plates to cover the altar, because in being
presented before the LORD they have become sacred. In this way
they shall serve as a sign to the Israelites." [NUM 17:1-3]
The LORD said to Moses, "Give the Levites
these instructions: When you receive from the Israelites the
tithes I have assigned you from them as your heritage, you are to
make a contribution from them to the LORD, a tithe of the tithes;
and your contribution will be credited to you as if it were grain
from the threshing floor or new wine from the press. Thus you too
shall make a contribution from all the tithes you receive from the
Israelites, handing over to Aaron the priest the part to be
contributed to the LORD. From all the gifts that you receive, and
from the best parts, you are to consecrate to the LORD your own full contribution."
[NUM 18:25-29]
"You shall consecrate to the LORD, your
God, all the male firstlings of your herd and of your flock. You
shall not work the firstlings of your cattle, nor shear the
firstlings of your flock." [DEUT 15:19]
An angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and
said to her, "Though you are barren and have had no children,
yet you will conceive and bear a son. Now, then, be careful to
take no wine or strong drink and to eat nothing unclean. As for
the son you will conceive and bear, no razor shall touch his head,
for this boy is to be consecrated to God from the womb. It is he
who will begin the deliverance of Israel from the power of the
Philistines." [JUDG 13:3-5]
So while he slept, Delilah wove his seven locks
of hair into the web, and fastened them in with the pin. Then she
said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" Awakening
from his sleep, he pulled out both the weaver's pin and the web.
Then she said to him, "How can you say that you love me when
you do not confide in me? Three times already you have mocked me,
and not told me the secret of your great strength!" She
importuned him continually and vexed him with her complaints till
he was deathly weary of them. So he took her completely into his
confidence and told her, "No razor has touched my head, for I
have been consecrated to God from my mother's womb. If I am
shaved, my strength will leave me, and I shall be as weak as any
other man." When Delilah saw that he had taken her completely
into his confidence, she summoned the lords of the Philistines,
saying, "Come up this time, for he has opened his heart to
me." So the lords of the Philistines came and brought up the
money with them. She had him sleep on her lap, and called for a
man who shaved off his seven locks of hair. Then she began to
mistreat him, for his strength had left him. When she said,
"The Philistines are upon you, Samson!", and he woke
from his sleep, he thought he could make good his escape as he had
done time and again, for he did not realize that the LORD had left
him. [Taken from JUDG 16:14-20]
There was a man in the mountain region of
Ephraim whose name was Micah. He said to his mother, "The
eleven hundred shekels of silver over which you pronounced a curse
in my hearing when they were taken from you, are in my possession.
It was I who took them; so now I will restore them to you."
When he restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his
mother, she took two hundred of them and gave them to the
silversmith, who made of them a carved idol overlaid with silver.
Then his mother said, "May the LORD bless my son! I have
consecrated the silver to the LORD as my gift in favor of my son,
by making a carved idol overlaid with silver." It remained in
the house of Micah. Thus the layman Micah had a sanctuary. He also
made an ephod and household idols, and consecrated one of his
sons, who became his priest. In those days there was no king in
Israel; everyone did what he thought best. There was a young
Levite who had resided within the tribe of Judah at Bethlehem of
Judah. From that city he set out to find another place of
residence. On his journey he came to the house of Micah in the
mountain region of Ephraim. Micah said to him, "Where do you
come from?" He answered him, "I am a Levite from
Bethlehem in Judah, and am on my way to find some other place of
residence." "Stay with me," Micah said to him.
"Be father and priest to me, and I will give you ten silver
shekels a year, a set of garments, and your food." So the
young Levite decided to stay with the man, to whom he became as
one of his own sons. Micah consecrated the young Levite, who
became his priest, remaining in his house. Therefore Micah said,
"Now I know that the LORD will prosper me, since the Levite
has become my priest." [JUDG 17:1-13]
David answered the priest: "The king gave
me a commission and told me to let no one know anything about the
business on which he sent me or the commission he gave me. For
that reason I have arranged a meeting place with my men. Now what
have you on hand? Give me five loaves, or whatever you can
find." But the priest replied to David, "I have no
ordinary bread on hand, only holy bread; if the men have abstained
from women, you may eat some of that." David answered the
priest: "We have indeed been segregated from women as on
previous occasions. Whenever I go on a journey, all the young men
are consecrated - even for a secular journey. All the more so
today, when they are consecrated at arms!" So the priest gave
him holy bread, for no other bread was on hand except the
showbread which had been removed from the LORD'S presence and
replaced by fresh bread when it was taken away.
[1SAM 21:3-7]
When Toi, king of Hamath, heard that David had
defeated all the forces of Hadadezer, he sent his son Hadoram to
King David to greet him and to congratulate him for his victory
over Hadadezer in battle, because Toi had been in many battles
with Hadadezer. Hadoram also brought with him articles of silver,
gold, and bronze. These, too, King David consecrated to the LORD,
together with the silver and gold he had taken from every nation
he had conquered: from Edom and Moab, from the Ammonites, from the
Philistines, from the Amalekites, and from the plunder of
Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah. [2SAM 8:9-12]
On that day the king consecrated the middle of
the court facing the temple of the LORD [Taken from 1KGS 8:64]
The LORD said to him: "I have heard the
prayer of petition which you offered in my presence. I have
consecrated this temple which you have built; I confer my name
upon it forever, and my eyes and my heart shall be there always.
As for you, if you live in my presence as your father David lived,
sincerely and uprightly, doing just as I have commanded you,
keeping my statutes and decrees, I will establish your throne of
sovereignty over Israel forever, as I promised your father David
when I said, 'You shall always have someone from your line on the
throne of Israel.' But if you and your descendants ever withdraw
from me, fail to keep the commandments and statutes which I set
before you, and proceed to venerate and worship strange gods, I
will cut off Israel from the land I gave them and repudiate the
temple I have consecrated to my honor. Israel shall become a
proverb and a byword among all nations, and this temple shall
become a heap of ruins. Every passerby shall catch his breath in
amazement, and ask, 'Why has the LORD done this to the land and to
this temple?' Men will answer: 'They forsook the LORD, their God,
who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt; they adopted
strange gods which they worshiped and served. That is why the LORD
has brought down upon them all this evil.'" [1KGS 9:3-9]
Jeroboam did not give up his evil ways after
this event, but again made priests for the high places from among
the common people. Whoever desired it was consecrated and became a
priest of the high places. This was a sin on the part of the house
of Jeroboam for which it was to be cut off and destroyed from the
earth. [1KGS 13:33-34]
The sons of Amram were Aaron and Moses. Aaron
was set apart to be consecrated as most holy [Taken from 1CHRON 23:13]
This Shelomith and his brethren superintended
all the stores of the votive offerings dedicated by King David,
the heads of the families, the commanders of thousands and of
hundreds, and the commanders of the army, from the booty they had
taken in the wars, for the enhancement of the house of the LORD.
Also, whatever Samuel the seer, Saul, son of Kish, Abner, son of
Ner, Joab, son of Zeruiah, and all others had consecrated, was
under the charge of Shelomith and his brethren.
[1CHRON 26:26-28]
I intend to build a house for the honor of the
LORD, my God, and to consecrate it to him [Taken from 2CHRON 2:3]
But after he had become strong, he became proud
to his own destruction and broke faith with the LORD, his God. He
entered the temple of the LORD to make an offering on the altar of
incense. But Azariah the priest, and with him eighty other priests
of the LORD, courageous men, followed him. They opposed King
Uzziah, saying to him: "It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn
incense to the LORD, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who
have been consecrated for this purpose. Leave the sanctuary, for
you have broken faith and no longer have a part in the glory that
comes from the LORD God." Uzziah, who was holding a censer
for burning the incense, became angry, but at the moment he showed
his anger to the priests, while they were looking at him in the
house of the LORD beside the altar of incense, leprosy broke out
on his forehead. Azariah the chief priest and all the other
priests examined him, and when they saw that his forehead was
leprous, they expelled him from the temple. He himself fled
willingly, for the LORD had afflicted him. King Uzziah remained a
leper to the day of his death. As a leper he dwelt in a segregated
house, for he was excluded from the house of the LORD. Therefore
his son Jotham was regent of the palace and ruled the people of
the land. [2CHRON 26:16-21]
The priests entered the interior of the LORD'S
house to cleanse it; and whatever they found in the LORD'S temple
that was unclean they brought out to the court of the LORD'S
house, where the Levites took it from them and carried it out to
the Kidron Valley. They began the work of consecration on the
first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month
they arrived at the vestibule of the LORD; they consecrated the
LORD'S house during eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the
first month, they had finished. [Taken from 2CHRON 29:16-17]
"All the articles which King Ahaz during his
reign had thrown away because of his apostasy, we have restored
and consecrated, and they are now before the LORD'S altar." [Taken
from 2CHRON 29:19]
Accordingly the couriers, with the letters
written by the king and his princes, traversed all Israel and
Judah, and at the king's command they said: "Israelites,
return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that he
may return to you, the remnant left from the hands of the Assyrian
kings. Be not like your fathers and your brethren who proved
faithless to the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that he
delivered them over to desolation, as you yourselves now see. Be
not obstinate, as your fathers were; extend your hands to the LORD
and come to his sanctuary that he has consecrated forever, and
serve the LORD, your God, that he may turn away his burning anger
from you. For when you return to the LORD, your brethren and your
children will find mercy with their captors and return to this
land; for merciful and compassionate is the LORD, your God, and he
will not turn away his face from you if you return to him." [2CHRON
30:6-9]
Hezekiah then gave orders that chambers be
constructed in the house of the LORD. When this had been done, the
offerings, tithes and consecrated things were deposited there in
safekeeping. The overseer of these things was Conaniah the Levite,
and his brother Shimei was second in charge. Jehiel, Azaziah,
Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath and
Benaiah were supervisors subject to Conaniah and his brother
Shimei by appointment of King Hezekiah and of Azariah, the prefect
of the house of God. Kore, the son of Imnah, a Levite and the
keeper of the eastern gate, was in charge of the free-will gifts
made to God; he distributed the offerings made to the LORD and the
most holy of the consecrated things. Under him in the priestly
cities were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah and
Shecaniah, who faithfully made the distribution to their brethren,
great and small alike, according to their classes. There was also
a register by ancestral houses of males thirty years of age and
over, for all priests who were eligible to enter the house of the
LORD according to the daily rule to fulfill their service in the
order of their classes. The priests were inscribed in their family
records according to their ancestral houses, and the Levites of
twenty years and over according to their various offices and
classes. A distribution was also made to all who were inscribed in
the family records, for their little ones, wives, sons and
daughters - thus for the entire assembly, since they were to
sanctify themselves by sharing faithfully in the consecrated
things. [Taken from 2CHRON 31:11-18]
He said to the Levites who were to instruct all
Israel, and who were consecrated to the LORD: "Put the holy
ark in the house built by Solomon, son of David, king of Israel.
It shall no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Serve now the
LORD, your God, and his people Israel." [Taken from 2CHRON 35:3]
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became
king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did evil in the
sight of the LORD, his God, and he did not humble himself before
the prophet Jeremiah, who spoke the word of the LORD. He also
rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by
God. He became stiff-necked and hardened his heart rather than
return to the LORD, the God of Israel. Likewise all the princes of
Judah, the priests and the people added infidelity to infidelity,
practicing all the abominations of the nations and polluting the
LORD'S temple which he had consecrated in Jerusalem. Early and
often did the LORD, the God of their fathers, send his messengers
to them, for he had compassion on his people and his dwelling
place. But they mocked the messengers of God, despised his
warnings, and scoffed at his prophets, until the anger of the LORD
against his people was so inflamed that there was no remedy. [2CHRON
36:11-16]
I addressed them in these words: "You are
consecrated to the LORD, and the utensils are also consecrated;
the silver and the gold are a free-will offering to the LORD, the
God of your fathers. Keep good watch over them till you weigh them
out in Jerusalem in the presence of the chief priests and Levites
and the family leaders of Israel, in the chambers of the house of
the LORD." [EZRA 8:28-29]
Thus all Israel, in the days of Zerubbabel (and
in the days of Nehemiah), gave the singers and the gatekeepers
their portions, according to their daily needs. They made their
consecrated offering to the Levites, and the Levites made theirs
to the sons of Aaron. [NEH 12:47]
At this the people fell prostrate and worshiped
God; and they cried out: "Lord, God of heaven, behold their
arrogance! Have pity on the lowliness of our people, and look with
favor this day on those who are consecrated to you." [Taken
from JDTH 6:18-19]
On the anniversary of the day on which the
Gentiles had defiled it, on that very day it was reconsecrated
with songs, harps, flutes, and cymbals. [1MACC 4:54]
When the Gentiles round about heard that the
altar had been rebuilt and the sanctuary consecrated as before,
they were very angry. So they decided to destroy the descendants
of Jacob who were among them, and they began to massacre and
persecute the people. [1MACC 5:1-2]
Encouraged by Judas' noble words, which had
power to instill valor and stir young hearts to courage, the Jews
determined not to delay, but to charge gallantly and decide the
issue by hand-to-hand combat with the utmost courage, since their
city and its temple with the sacred vessels were in danger. They
were not so much concerned about their wives and children or their
brothers and kinsmen; their first and foremost fear was for the
consecrated sanctuary. [2MACC 15:17-18]
Beloved of his people, dear to his Maker,
dedicated from his mother's womb, Consecrated to the LORD as a
prophet, was Samuel, the judge and priest. At God's word he
established the kingdom and anointed princes to rule the people. [SIRACH
46:13]
The tract that you set aside for the LORD shall
be twenty-five thousand cubits across by twenty thousand north and
south. In this sacred tract the priests shall have twenty-five
thousand cubits on the north, ten thousand on the west, ten
thousand on the east, and twenty-five thousand on the south; and
the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in its center. The consecrated
priests, the Zadokites, who fulfilled my service and did not stray
along with the Israelites as the Levites did, shall have within
this tract of land their own most sacred domain, next to the
territory of the Levites. [EZEK 48:9-12]
Like grapes in the desert, I found Israel; Like
the first fruits of the fig tree in its prime, I considered your
fathers. When they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to
the Shame, they became as abhorrent as the thing they loved.
[HOSEA 9:10]
Silence in the presence of the Lord GOD! for
near is the day of the LORD, Yes, the LORD has prepared a
slaughter feast, he has consecrated his guests. On the day of the
LORD'S slaughter feast I will punish the princes, and the king's
sons, and all that dress in foreign apparel. I will punish, on
that day, all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of
their master with violence and deceit. [Taken from ZEPH 1:7-9]
When the days were completed for their
purification according to the law of Moses, they took [Jesus] up
to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in
the law of the Lord, "Every male that opens the womb shall be
consecrated to the Lord" [Taken from LK 2:22-23]
Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many
good works from my Father. For which of these are you trying to
stone me?" The Jews answered him, "We are not stoning
you for a good work but for blasphemy. You, a man, are making
yourself God." Jesus answered them, "Is it not written
in your law, 'I said, "You are gods"'? If it calls them
gods to whom the word of God came, and scripture cannot be set
aside, can you say that the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world blasphemes because I said, 'I am the Son
of God'? If I do not perform my Father's works, do not believe me;
but if I perform them, even if you do not believe me, believe the
works, so that you may realize (and understand) that the Father is
in me and I am in the Father." (Then) they tried again to
arrest him; but he escaped from their power. He went back across
the Jordan to the place where John first baptized, and there he
remained. Many came to him and said, "John performed no sign,
but everything John said about this man was true." And many
there began to believe in him. [Taken from JN 10:32-42]
But now I am coming to you. I speak this in the
world so that they may share my joy completely. I gave them your
word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the
world any more than I belong to the world. I do not ask that you
take them out of the world but that you keep them from the evil
one. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the
world. Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth. As you
sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. And I
consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated
in truth. "I pray not only for them, but also for those who
will believe in me through their word, so that they may all be
one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be
in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. And I have
given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we
are one, I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to
perfection as one, that the world may know that you sent me, and
that you loved them even as you loved me. Father, they are your
gift to me. I wish that where I am they also may be with me, that
they may see my glory that you gave me, because you loved me
before the foundation of the world." [Taken from JN 17:13-24]
Keep watch over yourselves and over the whole
flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, in
which you tend the church of God that he acquired with his own
blood. I know that after my departure savage wolves will come
among you, and they will not spare the flock. And from your own
group, men will come forward perverting the truth to draw the
disciples away after them. So be vigilant and remember that for
three years, night and day, I unceasingly admonished each of you
with tears. And now I commend you to God and to that gracious word
of his that can build you up and give you the inheritance among
all who are consecrated. [Taken from ACTS 20:28-32]
Many times, in synagogue after synagogue, I
punished them in an attempt to force them to blaspheme; I was so
enraged against them that I pursued them even to foreign cities.
"On one such occasion I was traveling to Damascus with the
authorization and commission of the chief priests. At midday,
along the way, O king, I saw a light from the sky, brighter than
the sun, shining around me and my traveling companions. We all
fell to the ground and I heard a voice saying to me in Hebrew,
'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to
kick against the goad.' And I said, 'Who are you, sir?' And the
Lord replied, 'I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. Get up now,
and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you for this purpose,
to appoint you as a servant and witness of what you have seen (of
me) and what you will be shown. I shall deliver you from this
people and from the Gentiles to whom I send you, to open their
eyes that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power
of Satan to God, so that they may obtain forgiveness of sins and
an inheritance among those who have been consecrated by faith in
me.' And so, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the
heavenly vision. On the contrary, first to those in Damascus and
in Jerusalem and throughout the whole country of Judea, and then
to the Gentiles, I preached the need to repent and turn to God,
and to do works giving evidence of repentance. That is why the
Jews seized me (when I was) in the temple and tried to kill me.
But I have enjoyed God's help to this very day, and so I stand
here testifying to small and great alike, saying nothing different
from what the prophets and Moses foretold, that the Messiah must
suffer and that, as the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles."
[Taken from ACTS 26:11-23]
For it was not to angels that he subjected the
world to come, of which we are speaking. Instead, someone has
testified somewhere: "What is man that you are mindful of
him, or the son of man that you care for him? You made him for a
little while lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and
honor, subjecting all things under his feet." In
"subjecting" all things (to him), he left nothing not
"subject to him." Yet at present we do not see "all
things subject to him," but we do see Jesus "crowned
with glory and honor" because he suffered death, he who
"for a little while" was made "lower than the
angels," that by the grace of God he might taste death for
everyone. For it was fitting that he, for whom and through whom
all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make
the leader to their salvation perfect through suffering. He who
consecrates and those who are being consecrated all have one
origin. Therefore, he is not ashamed to call them
"brothers," saying: "I will proclaim your name to
my brothers, in the midst of the assembly I will praise you";
and again: "I will put my trust in him"; and again:
"Behold, I and the children God has given me." Now since
the children share in blood and flesh, he likewise shared in them,
that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of
death, that is, the devil, and free those who through fear of
death had been subject to slavery all their life. Surely he did
not help angels but rather the descendants of Abraham; therefore,
he had to become like his brothers in every way, that he might be
a merciful and faithful high priest before God to expiate the sins
of the people. Because he himself was tested through what he
suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested. [HEB 2:5-18]
Then he says, "Behold, I come to do your
will." He takes away the first to establish the second. By
this "will," we have been consecrated through the
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. [Taken from HEB
10:9-10]
For by one offering he has made perfect forever
those who are being consecrated. [HEB 10:14]
We should not stay away from our assembly, as is
the custom of some, but encourage one another, and this all the
more as you see the day drawing near. If we sin deliberately after
receiving knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains
sacrifice for sins but a fearful prospect of judgment and a
flaming fire that is going to consume the adversaries. Anyone who
rejects the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the
testimony of two or three witnesses. Do you not think that a much
worse punishment is due the one who has contempt for the Son of
God, considers unclean the covenant-blood by which he was
consecrated, and insults the spirit of grace? We know the one who
said: "Vengeance is mine; I will repay," and again:
"The Lord will judge his people." It is a fearful thing
to fall into the hands of the living God. [HEB 10:25-31]
Therefore, Jesus also suffered outside the gate,
to consecrate the people by his own blood. Let us then go to him
outside the camp, bearing the reproach that he bore. For here we
have no lasting city, but we seek the one that is to come. [Taken
from HEB
13:12-14]
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