Furthermore, every priest stands day after day performing his religious duties, offering repeatedly (pollakis | πολλάκις | adverb) the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
for then he would have had to suffer again and again (pollakis | πολλάκις | adverb) since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the climax of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice.
Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly (pollakis | πολλάκις | adverb), as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood not his own,
For the field that soaks up the frequent (pollakis | πολλάκις | adverb) rain that falls on it and yields a crop useful for those for whom it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.
For many are living (I have often (pollakis | πολλάκις | adverb) told you about them but now tell you even with tears) as enemies of the cross of Christ.
in toil and hard work, often (pollakis | πολλάκις | adverb) in need of sleep, in hunger and thirst, many (pollakis | πολλάκις | adverb) times (pollakis | πολλάκις | adverb) without food, in cold and nakedness.
On my frequent (pollakis | πολλάκις | adverb) journeys I have been exposed to dangers from rivers, dangers from bandits, dangers from my own people, dangers from Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the countryside, dangers at sea, dangers at the hands of false brothers;
Are they servants of Christ? — I am talking like a madman! — I am even more so: in far more labors, in prison more often, in beatings more severe, facing death again and again (pollakis | πολλάκις | adverb).
And we are sending along with them our brother whom we have often (pollakis | πολλάκις | adverb) tested in many matters and found to be eager, and now he is all the more eager because of his great confidence in you.