¹⁸ There are these two things, then, that cannot change and about which God cannot lie. So we who have found safety with him are greatly encouraged to hold firmly to the hope placed before us. ^19 (A)We have this hope as an anchor for our lives. It is safe and sure, and goes through the curtain of the heavenly temple into the inner sanctuary. ^20 (B)On our behalf Jesus has gone in there before us and has become a high priest forever, in the priestly order of Melchizedek.^[a]