SPECIAL TOPIC: END OR FULL (telos) IN THE BOOK OF HEBREWS

This culmination of spiritual things is a recurrent theme in Hebrews.

1. telos ‒ end, fulfillment (Heb. 3:6,14; 6:8,11)
2. teleiōo &8210; "to make perfect"
   1. (Jesus) to perfect the author of their salvation through suffering (cf. Heb. 2:10)
   2. (Jesus) having been made perfect through suffering (cf. Heb. 5:8-9)
   3. the Law made nothing perfect (cf. Heb. 7:19)
   4. a Son, made perfect forever (cf. Heb. 7:28)
   5. make the worshiper perfect (cf. Heb. 9:9)
   6. make perfect those who draw near (cf. Heb.10:1)
   7. He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified (cf.Heb. 10:14)
   8. apart from us they should not be made perfect (cf. Heb. 11:40)
   9. the spirit of righteous men made perfect (cf. Heb. 12:23)
3. teleios, the mature (cf. Heb. 5:14)
4. teleios, more perfect tabernacle (cf. Heb. 9:11)
5. teleiotēs, press on to maturity (cf. Heb. 6:1)
6. teleiōsis, if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (cf. Heb. 7:11)
7. teleiōtēs, the author and perfecter of the faith (cf. Heb. 12:2)

Jesus brings the maturity and completion that the Mosaic Covenant could never do!

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