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Hebrews Chapter 1

Read Hebrews 1:1-4

1. What are the two ways God has spoken to us and how are they different?

2. What are the eight ways the author describes the Son?

Read Hebrews 1:5-9

3. In what ways is the Son different from angels?

4. Why are these differences important and what heresy does it address?

Read Hebrews 1:10-14

5. What power does the author attribute to the Son?

6. How does this reflect Revelation 22:13?

7. What power does the author attribute to angels?

8. According to verse 14, what is the primary function of angels?

Look at all your answers to the Hebrews 1 questions. Now reflect on 2 Timothy 3:16-17

Teaching (about God):

Rebuking (about us):

Correction and Training (immediate change):

Hebrews Chapter 2

Read Hebrews 2:1-4

1. What is the warning we are given?

2. What message did the angels bring? (Deut. 33:1-2, Acts 7:38, 53)

3. What is the salvation spoken of by God and how was it confirmed (3 ways)?

Read Hebrews 2:5-9

4. Who is being spoken of in verses 6-8?

5. What is the difference between angels and mankind?

6. What is man’s failure?

7. Why is Jesus mentioned in this section?


8. What was being accomplished by Jesus becoming man?

9. What is our relationship with Jesus?


10. What did Christ’s humanity accomplish?

11. What did He need to become to save mankind and why?





Hebrews Chapter 3

Read Hebrews 3:1-6

1. What does it mean that Jesus is our “apostle” and “high priest”?

2. Why is Jesus compared to Moses?

3. What does Moses signify to the Hebrews?

4. How is Jesus shown to be different from Moses?

Read Hebrews 3:7-11

5. Who is being addressed in this section?

6. What event is unbelief in Christ being compared to and why?

7. What is the end result of this behavior?


8. What is the remedy for a hard heart?

9. What is our role in an unbelieving world?


10. Who is the author talking about?

11. How did God view these people and how did He deal with them?





Hebrews Chapter 4

Read Hebrews 4:1-3

1. What is the word “therefore” referring back to?

2. What concept is this section building off of?

3. What work did He complete at the very beginning?

Read Hebrews 4:4-7

4. Why does the author use vague statements about quoted passages? Or the authorship?

5. What determines if you enter into His rest?

6. Is God’s rest still open to all?

Read Hebrews 4:8-13

7. Did God’s rest come through Joshua or Moses?

8. How does Sabbath rest compare to eternal rest?

9. Which rest is the author telling us to make every effort to enter and why?

10. How do verses 12 and 13 build on this theme of rest?

11. How does the Word of God judge and what role does it play in the account we must give?


12. What does the word “therefore” refer back to?

13. What is the role of Jesus expressed here and what are His qualifications?

14. What are we able to do because Jesus fulfills His role?





Hebrews Chapter 5

Read Hebrews 5:1-4

1. What role does the high priest serve?

2. What are the characteristics of the high priest?

3. Who becomes a high priest and how do they become one?

Read Hebrews 5:5-10

4. How is the Messiah like a high priest?

5. How is the Messiah greater than earthly high priests?

6. What is significant about a priest in the order of Melchizedek? (Genesis 14:18-20)

7. How did God save Him from death in verse 7?


8. What message is the author addressing?

9. Why is the author unable to expound on this message?

10. What do we know about the spiritual growth of those receiving this letter?


11. What is spiritual milk? (1 Peter 2:2, 1 Corinthians 3:2)

12. What determines spiritual maturity and what are outward signs of spiritual maturity?





Hebrews Chapter 6

Read Hebrews 6:1-3

1. What does “therefore” refer back to?

2. What six foundational OT teachings should be build beyond as we mature?

Read Hebrews 6:4-8

3. Who is it impossible to renew? Why? (Matthew 12:22-37)

4. In the analogy given, what do the different lands share and how do they differ?

5. What was the “rain” that is shared by both groups and how is their reaction different?

Read Hebrews 6:9-12

6. What is the author convinced of concerning the dear friends spoken of?

7. What does God recognize?


8. Why did God swear this promise by His own name? (Genesis 22:15-19)

9. How is the Abrahamic covenant different from the Mosaic covenant?

10. What two unchangeable things are referred to here?

11. What are we to place our confidence in?


12. What is our hope?

13. How was it obtained?





Hebrews Chapter 7

Read Hebrews 7:1-3

1. What event is the author retelling? (Genesis 14:18-20)

2. Was the lineage of this priest significant? Was his name significant?

3. What does he have in common with the Messiah?

Read Hebrews 7:4-10

4. In what two ways was Melchizedek greater than Abraham?

5. Who is referred to as dead in verse 8 and who is considered alive and why?

6. Why does the author conclude that Levi (Mosaic priesthood) is under Melchizedek?


7. Can perfection be reached through the Law?

8. Can Jesus be a Levitical priest? Why or why not?

9. Why is the Melchizedek order necessary and how is it obtained?


10. Does following the Law create an inward change in a person?

11. What is the hope we have in Jesus and how is it greater than the Law? (Hint v.19b)


12. How is Jesus greater than all Levitical priests?

13. What are the characteristics of Jesus our high priest?





Hebrews Chapter 8

Read Hebrews 8:1-2

1. What main point does the author intend to convey in this letter?

2. What audience is this intended to reach?

Read Hebrews 8:3-6

3. What two things does a priest offer and why?

4. Why couldn’t a Levitical priest fulfill the Law?

5. What does the tabernacle resemble?

6. How is Jesus established as the greater priest?

Read Hebrews 8:7-13

7. What was wrong with the old covenant?

8. Why did God start with the old covenant?

9. Why does God mention Israel and Judah in verse 8?

10. How did God turn away from His people?

11. How was the new covenant different from the old covenant? (Hint v.12)

12. When will the old covenant disappear?





Hebrews Chapter 9

Read Hebrews 9:1-5

1. Who determined what the earthly tabernacle contained?

2. What was the purpose of the tabernacle?

Read Hebrews 9:6-10

3. What were the parameters for priests serving in the tabernacle?

4. How can the Law be broken in ignorance?

5. What did all of this symbolize and what purpose did it serve?


6. What tabernacle is referred to in verse 11?

7. What did Christ offer in the Most Holy Place?

8. What is the end result of the offering made by Christ?


9. How is the new covenant like a will?

10. How did Christ’s sacrifice resemble the service of Moses?

11. Why is blood necessary?


12. In what three ways was Christ’s service greater than others?





Hebrews Chapter 10

Read Hebrews 10:1-7

1. What is the failure of sacrifice under the old covenant?

2. What did the old covenant sacrifices do that the new sacrifice doesn’t (Hint v.3)?

3. Who determined what sacrifice would be necessary?


4. Why wasn’t God pleased with the old covenant even though He established it?

5. How does the author show Christ fulfilling the Law?


6. How does Christ fulfill the prophecy in Psalms?


7. How is it possible for us to enter the Most Holy Place in the new covenant?

8. How are we told to approach God and what makes that possible?

9. What validates our hope?

10. In light of this, how are we to live until He returns?


11. What warning are we given in verse 26?

12. How is this more severe than offending the Law under the old covenant?


13. What suffering comes with faith and how are we to respond?

14. What encouragement does the author give in verse 39?





Hebrews Chapter 11

Read Hebrews 11:1-7

1. What is faith and how did it impact those under the old covenant?

2. What does faith tell us about creation?

3. How did faith impact Cain and Abel? What was the duration of Abel’s faith?

4. What did Enoch’s faith allow him to do? Is this possible without faith?

5. What did faith allow Noah to do? How was his faith rewarded?


6. Faith led to Abraham’s what?

7. Faith made what possible for Sarah?

8. What did all these people have in common?

9. What did God do for all of them?


10. How did Abraham work out his faith?

11. How was faith exhibited by Isaac, Jacob and Joseph?


12. How did the faith of Moses act contrary to self-preservation?

13. How did God respond to the faith shown by Moses, Joshua and Rahab?


14. How does the author expand the focus on faith and God’s people?

15. Why does the author value the faith of believers even when they appear to suffer and fail?

Read Hebrews 11:39

16. What is God’s plan concerning faith?

17. How do we rely on those of the old covenant and how do they rely upon us?


Hebrews Chapter 12

Read Hebrews 12:1-3

1. What does the word “therefore” refer back to?

2. How does the author encourage us and what are we told to do?

3. How does Jesus serve as our example?


4. What is the purpose of discipline and how should we view it?

5. What is the end result of enduring discipline?

6. When do we see the full purpose of discipline and hardship and what role does faith play?


7. How do we live at peace with one another?

8. How does verse 15 seem contrary to living at peace and how do we fulfill verse 16?


9. What mountain is the author referring to and why?

10. What was given on that mountain?


11. What mountain is the author referring to and why?

12. What was given on this mountain and how was it different from the previous mountain?


13. What two events are being compared and how are they different?

14. What should our response to this knowledge be?





Hebrews Chapter 13

Read Hebrews 13:1-6

1. Who is the author talking about and what is the cause of their suffering?

2. Why is marriage honorable and who determines the standards we are to keep?

3. Why should we be content even when we lack things?


4. What do verses 7 and 8 have to do with one another?

5. How does verse 9 build off of the previous two verses?


6. How does the author use the comparison of the tabernacle and the cross to guide our faith?

7. How do we see faith and works together?


8. What weight is on the shoulders of church leaders and how to we assist with it?

9. Why is submission important and beneficial?


10. What two things does the author ask God to give the church?

11. How is that possible?

12. What did the author share in this letter so that we might obtain the same blessing?





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