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Hebrews 1

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^{Hebrews 1:2 [1]} Every born-again believer (saint) has been reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, made holy and set apart for God's purpose.

^{Hebrews 1:2 [2]} Lit brethren.

^{Hebrews 1:4 [3]} The key to understanding this and other statements about love is to know that this love (the Greek word agape) is not so much a matter of emotion as it is of doing things for the benefit of another person, that is, having an unselfish concern for another and a willingness to seek the best for another.

^{Hebrews 1:16 [4]} Or in.

^{Hebrews 1:18 [5]} This refers to the entire body of born-again believers (whether past, present, or future), not a local congregation.

^{Hebrews 1:18 [6]} Christ is the first to be resurrected with an incorruptible, immortal body. Others who were raised had to die again.

^{Hebrews 1:22 [7]} Lit body of flesh.

^{Hebrews 1:23 [8]} Paul may be referring to the fact that the created world displays proof of the existence of an omnipotent, benevolent God (cf ROM 1:20), without whom there would be no possibility of salvation. Such a God is the foundation of the "good news."

^{Hebrews 1:24 [9]} I.e. since the church is Christ's body, figuratively speaking, whatever the church suffers can be considered additional sufferings by Christ Himself, and all such suffering was ordained and destined by God; what is left to suffer in God's plan is what is "lacking of Christ's afflictions." Paul, as a member of the church, was destined to suffer through persecution etc., thereby taking his share of the church body's divinely-ordained suffering.

^{Hebrews 1:26 [10]} I.e. that believing Gentiles would be united with believing Jews into one body of believers.

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