Jubilee2000 - Hebrews

Chapter 1

1:1  God, having spoken many times and in many ways in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

1:2  has in these last times spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the ages;

1:3  who being the brightness of his glory and the [express] image of his substance and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

1:4  being made so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

1:5  For unto which of the angels did he say at any time, Thou art my Son, this day I have begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

1:6  And again, when he brought in the firstbegotten into the world, he said, And let all the angels of God worship him.

1:7  And of the angels he said, Who makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire.

1:8  But unto the Son [he said], Thy throne, O God, [is] for ever and ever: a rod of equity [is] the sceptre of thy kingdom.

1:9  Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore, God, [even] thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

1:10  And Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

1:11  they shall perish; but thou dost remain; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

1:12  and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed; but thou art the same, and thy years shall never fail.

1:13  But to which of the angels did he say at any time, Sit on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool?

1:14  Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth in service for the love of those who are the heirs of saving health?:

Chapter 2

2:1  Therefore, it is necessary that we with more diligence keep the things which we have heard, so that we do not fall.

2:2  For if the word spoken by [the ministry of] angels was steadfast and every rebellion and disobedience received a just recompense of reward,

2:3  how shall we escape, if we belittle such great saving health? Which, having begun to be published by the Lord, has been confirmed unto us by those that heard him,

2:4  God also bearing [them] witness, both with signs and wonders and with diverse miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit, distributing them according to his own will?

2:5  For unto the angels he has not subjected the world to come, of which we speak.

2:6  But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou dost visit him?

2:7  Thou didst make him a little lower than the angels; thou didst crown him with glory and honour and didst set him over the works of thy hands.

2:8  Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing [that is] not put under him. But now we [do] not see yet that all things are put under him.

2:9  But we see this same Jesus, crowned with glory and honour, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

2:10  For it was expedient that he, for whom [are] all things and by whom [are] all things, preparing to bring forth many sons in [his] glory, should perfect the author of their saving health through sufferings.

2:11  For both he that sanctifies and those who are sanctified [are] all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

2:12  saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren; in the midst of the congregation I will praise thee.

2:13  And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God has given me.

2:14  Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that had the empire of death, that is, the devil,

2:15  and deliver those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

2:16  For verily he did not take the angels, but he took the seed of Abraham.

2:17  Therefore in all things he should be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things [pertaining] to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

2:18  For in that he himself has suffered and was tempted, he is also powerful to help those that are tempted.:

Chapter 3

3:1  Therefore, brethren, saints, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,

3:2  who was faithful to him that appointed him over all his house, as also Moses [was faithful].

3:3  For this [man] was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honour than the house.

3:4  For every house is built by someone, but he that created all things [is] God.

3:5  And Moses verily [was] faithful over all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after,

3:6  but Christ as [a] son over his own house, which house we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the glorious hope firmly until the end.

3:7  Therefore, as the Holy Spirit saith, Today if ye will hear his voice,

3:8  harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

3:9  Where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

3:10  Therefore, I was indignant with that generation and said, They do always err from [their] heart, and they have not known my ways.

3:11  So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

3:12  Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unfaithfulness, to depart from the living God.

3:13  But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

3:14  For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end;

3:15  while it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

3:16  For some of those that came out of Egypt with Moses, when they had heard, did provoke; howbeit not all.

3:17  But with whom was he indignant forty years? [Was it] not with those that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

3:18  And to whom he swore that they should not enter into his rest, but to those that disobeyed?

3:19  So we see that they could not enter in because of [their] unbelief.:

Chapter 4

4:1  Let us, therefore, fear, lest a promise being left [us] of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

4:2  For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them, but it did not profit those that heard the word without mixing [it] with faith.

4:3  (For we who have believed do enter into the rest) as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

4:4  For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh [day] like this, And God rested the seventh day from all his works.

4:5  And in this [place] again, They shall not enter into my rest.

4:6  Seeing, therefore, it remains that some must enter therein, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter in because of disobedience;

4:7  Again, he determines a certain day, [saying], Today, by David so long a time afterward; as it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

4:8  For if Jesus had given them rest, then he would not afterward have spoken of another day.

4:9  There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.

4:10  For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God [did] from his.

4:11  Let us therefore make haste to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

4:12  For the word of God [is] alive and efficient and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

4:13  Neither is there any created thing that is not manifested in his presence, but all things [are] naked and opened unto the eyes of him of whom we speak.

4:14  Having, therefore, a great high priest who penetrated the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast this profession [of our hope].

4:15  For we [do] not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted like as [we are], yet without sin.

4:16  Let us, therefore, come boldly unto the throne of his grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.:

Chapter 5

5:1  For every high priest is taken from among men, constituted on behalf of men in things relating to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins,

5:2  who can have compassion on the ignorant and on those that are in error; for he himself is also compassed with weakness.

5:3  And by reason of this he ought, as for the people so also for himself, to offer for sins.

5:4  And no one takes this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as [was] Aaron.

5:5  So also the Christ did not glorify himself to make himself high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son; today have I begotten thee.

5:6  As he said also in another [place], Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

5:7  Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, was heard because of [his] reverent fear;

5:8  although he was the Son [of God], yet he learned obedience by the things which he suffered;

5:9  and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal saving health unto all those that hearken unto him,

5:10  named by God high priest after the order of Melchisedec.

5:11  Of whom we have many things to say and difficult to declare, seeing ye are hard of hearing.

5:12  For you should now be teaching [others], if we look at the time, [yet] you need to be taught again which [are] the first elements of the oracles of God and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong food.

5:13  For any one that uses milk [is] not qualified in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.

5:14  But strong food belongs to those that are perfect, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.:

Chapter 6

6:1  Therefore, leaving now the word of the beginning [of the establishment] of the Christ, let us go on unto perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from works of death, and of faith in God,

6:2  of the doctrine of [the] baptisms, and of [the] laying on of hands, and of [the] resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

6:3  And this we will indeed do, if God permits.

6:4  For [it is] impossible that those who once received the light and tasted of that heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit

6:5  and likewise have tasted the good word of God and the virtue of the age to come,

6:6  and have backslidden, be renewed again by repentance, crucifying again for themselves the Son of God and putting him to an open shame.

6:7  For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it and brings forth herbs in season for those by whom it is dressed receives blessing from God;

6:8  but that which bears thorns and briers [is] rejected and [is] near unto cursing, whose end [shall be] by fire.

6:9  But, beloved, we expect better things than these of you, [things] near unto saving health, though we thus speak.

6:10  For God [is] not unjust to forget your work and labour of charity which ye have showed in his name, having helped the saints and helping them.

6:11  But we desire that each one of you show the same diligence until the end for the fulfillment of [your] hope,

6:12  that ye not become slothful, but imitators of those who by faith and patience inherit the promises.

6:13  For when God promised unto Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,

6:14  saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee and multiplying I will multiply thee.

6:15  And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

6:16  For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation [is] to them an end of all controversy.

6:17  In which God, desiring to show more abundantly unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath,

6:18  that by two immutable things, in which [it is] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us,

6:19  which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters even [into] that which is within the veil,

6:20  where [our] precursor, Jesus, has entered for us [and is] made high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.:

Chapter 7

7:1  For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

7:2  to whom Abraham also gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is King of peace;

7:3  without father, without mother, without lineage, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life, but made like unto the Son of God; abides a priest continually.

7:4  Now consider how great this one [was], unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.

7:5  And verily those that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they also have come out of the loins of Abraham;

7:6  but he whose descent is not counted in those took tithes from Abraham and blessed him that had the promises.

7:7  And without any contradiction the less is blessed of the better.

7:8  In the same manner, here men that die take tithes; but there he [received them], of whom it is witnessed that he lives.

7:9  And as I may so say, Levi also, who received tithes, paid tithes in Abraham.

7:10  For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.

7:11  If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need [was there] that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec and not be called after the order of Aaron?

7:12  For the priesthood being transposed, there is made of necessity a translation also of the law.

7:13  For he of whom these things are spoken pertains to another tribe, of which no one presided [at] the altar.

7:14  For [it is] manifest that our Lord sprang out of Juda, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

7:15  And it is yet far more manifest: if there arises another priest who is like unto Melchisedec,

7:16  who is not made according to the law of a carnal commandment, but by the virtue of an indissoluble life;

7:17  for the testimony is of this manner, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

7:18  For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness of it;

7:19  for the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope [did], by which we draw near unto God.

7:20  And [even more], inasmuch as it [is] not without an oath

7:21  (for the others indeed without an oath were made priests, but this one with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord swore and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec);

7:22  by so much better testament is Jesus made surety.

7:23  And the others, truly, were many priests because they were not able to continue by reason of death:

7:24  but this [man], because he continues forever, has the intransmissible priesthood.

7:25  Therefore he is able also to save to the uttermost those that come unto God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.

7:26  For it was expedient that we have such a high priest, [who is] holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens,

7:27  who needs not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins and then for the people's; for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

7:28  For the law makes men high priests who have weakness; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, has made perfect [a] Son forever.:

Chapter 8

8:1  Now of the things which we have spoken, [this is] the sum: We have such a high priest who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

8:2  [a] minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

8:3  For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices; therefore, [it is] also necessary that this one have something to offer.

8:4  For if he were on earth, he should not even be a priest, being present still the other priests that offer gifts according to the law,

8:5  (who serve as an example and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was admonished [of God] when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, [that] thou make all things according to the pattern showed unto thee in the mount);

8:6  but now a more excellent ministry is his, in that he is the mediator of a better testament, which was established upon better promises.

8:7  For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then no place should have been sought for the second.

8:8  For finding fault with them, he said, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new testament with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

8:9  not according to the testament that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in my testament, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

8:10  For this [is] the testament that I will ordain to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my laws into their soul and write them upon their hearts, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

8:11  and no one shall teach his neighbour nor anyone his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

8:12  For I will reconcile their iniquities and their sins, and their iniquities I will remember no more.

8:13  In that he says, New, he has made the first old. Now that which decays and waxes old [is] ready to vanish away.:

Chapter 9

9:1  Nevertheless the first had [its] justifications of worship and [its] worldly sanctuary.

9:2  For there was a tabernacle made: the first, in which [was] the candlestick and the table and the showbread, which is called the sanctuary.

9:3  And after the second veil [was] the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

9:4  which had a golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, in which [was] the golden urn that had the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the testament,

9:5  and over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the seat reconciliation, of which we cannot now speak particularly.

9:6  Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service [of God].

9:7  But into the second the high priest [went] alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for his [own] ignorance, and [for] that of the people:

9:8  The Holy Spirit signifying in this, that the way into the sanctuary was not yet made manifest, as long as the first tabernacle was yet standing:

9:9  Which [was] a figure of that time present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience,

9:10  but in foods and drinks and different washings and carnal ordinances, imposed [on them] until the time of correction.

9:11  But Christ being now come, high priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

9:12  neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the sanctuary designed for eternal redemption.

9:13  For if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctified to the purifying of the flesh,

9:14  how much more shall the blood of the Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from the works of death to serve the living God?

9:15  And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, so that death intervening for the redemption of the rebellions [that took place] under the first testament, those who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

9:16  For where a testament [is], there must also of necessity intervene [the] death of the testator.

9:17  For a testament [is] confirmed by the death: otherwise it is not valid as long as the testator lives.

9:18  From which came that not even the first [one] was dedicated without blood.

9:19  For when Moses had read every commandment of the law to all the people, taking the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book and all the people,

9:20  saying, This [is] the blood of the testament which God has commanded unto you.

9:21  Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry.

9:22  And almost all things are by the law purged with blood, and without shedding of blood [there] is no remission.

9:23  So that it was necessary that the figures of the heavenly things should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

9:24  For Christ is not entered into the sanctuary made with hands (which is a figure of the true), but into the heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us,

9:25  nor yet that he should offer himself many times (as the high priest enters into the sanctuary each year with blood that is not his own);

9:26  otherwise it would have been necessary for him to suffer many times since the foundation of the world; but now once in the consummation of the ages he has appeared to abolish sin by the sacrifice of himself.

9:27  And as it is appointed unto men to die once, and after this the judgment;

9:28  so also the Christ is offered once to take away the sins of many; and unto those that wait for him without sin he shall appear the second time unto saving health.:

Chapter 10

10:1  For the law having a shadow of good things to come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never make perfect those who come by the same sacrifices which they offer year by year continually.

10:2  Otherwise, they would cease to offer them, because those that sacrifice, once purged, would have no more conscience of sin.

10:3  But in these [sacrifices] each year [the same] remembrance of sins is made.

10:4  For the blood of bulls and of goats cannot take away sins.

10:5  Therefore when he came into the world, he said, Sacrifice and offering thou dost not desire, but a body hast thou prepared me;

10:6  in burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

10:7  Then said I, Behold, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God.

10:8  Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and [offering] for sin thou dost not desire, neither hadst pleasure [therein], which are offered by the law;

10:9  then he said, Behold, I come to do thy will, O God. He took away the first, that he may establish the second.

10:10  In this will, we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus, the Christ, once [for all].

10:11  And so every priest stands daily ministering and offering many times the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,

10:12  but this [man], after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, is seated at the right hand of God,

10:13  waiting for that which follows, [that is], until his enemies are made his footstool.

10:14  For by one offering he has perfected for ever those that are sanctified.

10:15  Likewise the Holy Spirit gives us the same witness, who afterwards said,

10:16  This is the testament that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will give my laws in their hearts, and in their souls will I write them;

10:17  and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

10:18  Now where remission of these [is, there is] no more offering for sin.

10:19  Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,

10:20  by a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

10:21  and [having] that great priest over the house of God,

10:22  let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts purified from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water;

10:23  let us hold fast the profession of [our] hope without wavering (for he [is] faithful that promised).

10:24  And let us consider one another to provoke unto charity and unto good works,

10:25  not forsaking our gathering together, as the manner of some [is], but exhorting [one another] and so much the more, when ye see that day approaching.

10:26  For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,

10:27  but a certain fearful hope of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

10:28  He that despised the law of Moses died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

10:29  Of how much greater punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God and has counted the blood of the covenant, with which he was sanctified, an unholy thing and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

10:30  For we know [who] he [is] that has said, Vengeance [belongs] to me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

10:31  [It is] a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

10:32  But bring to memory the former days, in which, after ye received the light, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

10:33  on the one hand ye were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and on the other ye became companions of those that were so used.

10:34  For ye had compassion of me in my bonds and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing that in yourselves ye have a better substance in the heavens, and that abides.

10:35  Do not lose, therefore, this your confidence, which has great recompense of reward;

10:36  for patience is necessary, so that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

10:37  For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come and will not tarry.

10:38  Now the just shall live by faith, but if [any man] draws back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

10:39  But we are not of those who draw back unto perdition, but faithful unto the saving of the soul.:

Chapter 11

11:1  Faith, therefore, is the substance of things waited for, the evidence of things not seen.

11:2  For by it the elders obtained a good report.

11:3  Through faith we understand that the ages were framed by the word of God, that which is seen being made of that which was not seen.

11:4  By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and by it he being dead yet speaks.

11:5  By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death, and was not found because God had translated him, for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

11:6  But without faith [it is] impossible to please God; for he that comes to God must believe that he is and [that] he is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him.

11:7  By faith Noah, having received revelation of things not seen as yet, with great care prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and was made heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

11:8  By faith Abraham, being called, hearkened to go out into the place which he should afterwards receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he went.

11:9  By faith he sojourned in the promised land, as [in] a strange country, dwelling in booths with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;

11:10  for he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker [is] God.

11:11  By faith also Sara herself [being sterile] received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she believed him to be faithful who had promised.

11:12  Therefore there sprang even of one, and him as good as dead, so [many] as the stars of the sky in multitude and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

11:13  These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but seeing them afar off and believing [them] and embracing [them] and confessing that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

11:14  For those that say such things declare plainly that they seek their native country.

11:15  And truly, if they had been mindful of that [country] from which they came out, they might have had time to have returned.

11:16  But now they desire a better [country], that is, a heavenly one; therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

11:17  By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac, and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten [son],

11:18  of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called,

11:19  accounting that God [was] able to raise [him] up, even from the dead; from whence he also received him in a figure.

11:20  By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning what they should become.

11:21  By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph, and worshipped, [leaning] upon the top of his staff.

11:22  By faith Joseph, as he died, made mention of the departing of the sons of Israel, and gave [a] commandment concerning his bones.

11:23  By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents because they saw [he was] a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

11:24  By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,

11:25  choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season,

11:26  esteeming the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.

11:27  By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

11:28  By faith he kept the passover and the sprinkling of the blood lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.

11:29  By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry [land], which the Egyptians attempted to do [and] were drowned.

11:30  By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were compassed about seven days.

11:31  By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish together with the disobedient, having received the spies with peace.

11:32  And what shall I more say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon and [of] Barak and [of] Samson and [of] Jephthae, [of] David also and Samuel and [of] the prophets,

11:33  who by faith won kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

11:34  quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered from infirmities, were made valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of foreign [enemies];

11:35  women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection;

11:36  and others experienced [cruel] mockings and scourgings, and added to this, bonds and imprisonment;

11:37  they were stoned; they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; poor, afflicted, mistreated,

11:38  (of whom the world was not worthy); they wandered in deserts and [in] mountains and [in] dens and caves of the earth.

11:39  And these all, approved by testimony of faith, received not the promise,

11:40  God having provided some better thing for us, that [they] without us should not be made perfect.:

Chapter 12

12:1  Therefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, leaving behind all the weight of the sin which surrounds us, let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

12:2  with our eyes fixed on Jesus, the author and finisher of [our] faith, who having been offered joy, endured the stake, despising the shame and was seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

12:3  For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself lest ye be wearied in your souls and faint.

12:4  Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, fighting against sin.

12:5  And ye have quite forgotten the consolation which speaks unto you as unto sons, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art reproved of him:

12:6  for whom the Lord loves, he chastens and scourges everyone whom he receives as [a] son.

12:7  If ye endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father does not chasten?

12:8  But if ye are without chastisement, of which all [the sons] are partakers, then ye are bastards, and not sons.

12:9  Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence; is it not much better to be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live?

12:10  For they verily for a few days chastened [us] as it seemed good unto them, but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness.

12:11  It is true that no chastening at present seems to be [cause] for joy, but rather for grief; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto those who are exercised by it.

12:12  Therefore, lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,

12:13  and make straight steps unto your feet, so that which is lame will not turn out of the way, but let it rather be healed.

12:14  Follow peace with everyone and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord:

12:15  looking diligently that no one deviate from the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up impede [you], and thereby many be defiled,

12:16  lest there [be] any fornicator or profane person as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.

12:17  For ye know how that afterward, desiring to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

12:18  For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched and that burned with fire nor unto blackness and darkness and tempest

12:19  and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which [voice] those that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more;

12:20  (for they could not endure that which was commanded, and if so much as a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart:

12:21  and so terrible was the sight [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake);

12:22  but ye are come unto mount Sion and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

12:23  to the congregation of the church of the firstborn, who are registered in the heavens and to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect

12:24  and to Jesus, the mediator of the new testament and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better than [that of] Abel.

12:25  See that you do not refuse him that speaks. For if those who refused him that spoke on earth did not escape, much less [shall we escape], if we turn away from him that [speaks] from the heavens,

12:26  whose voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, saying, Yet even once, I shall shake not the earth only, but also the heaven.

12:27  And this [word], Yet even once, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

12:28  Therefore, receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us hold fast to the grace, by which we serve God, pleasing him with reverence and godly fear:

12:29  for our God [is] a consuming fire.:

Chapter 13

13:1  Let brotherly love continue.

13:2  Do not forget to show hospitality; for thereby some, having entertained angels, were kept.

13:3  Remember those that are in bonds as bound with them [and] those who suffer adversity as being yourselves also in the body.

13:4  Let Marriage [be] honourable in all and the bed undefiled; but the fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

13:5  [Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness, [and be] content with such things as ye have; for he has said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

13:6  So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

13:7  Remember your pastors, who have spoken unto you the word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of [their] conversation:

13:8  Jesus Christ the same yesterday and today and for the ages.

13:9  Be not taken out of the way with diverse and strange doctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace, not with foods which have not profited those that have been occupied with them.

13:10  We have an altar, of which those who serve the tabernacle have no faculty to eat.

13:11  For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.

13:12  Therefore, Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered outside the gate.

13:13  Let us go forth, therefore, unto him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

13:14  For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one that is coming.

13:15  By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of [our] lips confessing his name.

13:16  Do not forget to do good and to fellowship; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

13:17  Listen to your pastors, and do not resist them, for they watch for your souls as those that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief; for that [is] unprofitable for you.

13:18  Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience in all things desiring to conduct ourselves well.

13:19  And I beseech [you] all the more to do this, that I may be restored unto you sooner.

13:20  Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the eternal testament,

13:21  make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom [be] glory for the ages of the ages. Amen.

13:22  And I beseech you, brethren, that ye receive [this] word of exhortation, that I have written unto you briefly.

13:23  Know ye that [our] brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.

13:24  Salute all thy pastors and all the saints. The [brethren] of Italy salute you.

13:25  Grace [be] with you all. Amen.: