Hebrews
1:1 God,
who at several times and in divers manners spoke in time past unto the fathers
by the prophets,
1:2 Has
in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all
things, by whom also he made the worlds;
1:3
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image
of his person, and upholding all things by the word (o. rhema) 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 said he at any time, You are
my Son, this day have I begotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father, and
he shall be to me a Son?
1:6
And again, when he brings in the First-Born into the world,
he says, And let all the angels of God worship him.
1:7
And of the angels he says, Who makes his angels spirits,
(o. pneuma) and his ministers a flame of fire.
1:8
But unto the Son he says, Your throne, O God, is for ever
and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of your kingdom.
1:9
You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore
God, even your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
1:10 And,
You, Lord, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens
are the works of yours hands:
1:11
They shall perish; but you remain; and they all shall wax
old as does a garment;
1:12
And as a vesture shall you fold them up, and they shall
be changed: but you are the same, and your years shall not fail.
1:13
But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my
right hand, until I make yours enemies your footstool?
1:14
Are they not all ministering spirits, (o. pneuma) sent forth
to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
2:1
Therefore we ought to give the more earn heed to the things
which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
2:2
For if the word (o. logos) spoken by angels was steadfast,
and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
2:3 How
shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to
be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
2:4 God also
bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and
gifts of the Holy Spirit, (o. pneuma) according to his own will?
2:5
For unto the angels has he not put in subjection the world
to come, whereof we speak.
2:6
But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man,
that you are mindful of him? or the son of man that you visit him?
2:7
You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned
him with glory and honour, and did set him over the works of your hands:
2:8 You have
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 see not yet all
things put under him.
2:9
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels
for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace
of God should taste death for every man.
2:10
For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom
are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their
salvation perfect through sufferings.
2:11
For both he that santifies and they who are sanctified are
all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
2:12
Saying, I will declare your name unto my brethren, in the
midst of the church will I sing praise unto you.
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 power of death, that is, the devil;
2:15
And deliver them who through fear of death were all their
lifetime subject to bondage.
2:16
For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but
he took on him the seed of Abraham.
2:17
Wherefore in all things it was essential for him to be made
like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in
things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
2:18 For
in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help them that are
tempted.
3:1 Wherefore,
holy brethren, 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, as also Moses
was faithful in all his house.
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 some man; but he that built all things is God.
3:5
And Moses verily was faithful in 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; whose house are
we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the
end.
3:7 Wherefore
(as the Holy Spirit (o. pneuma) says, To day if all of you will hear his voice,
3:8 Harden
not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
3:9 When
your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
3:10
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said,
They do always go astray in 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 unbelief, in departing from the living God.
3:13
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day;
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, To day if all of you will hear his voice,
harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
3:16
For some, when they had heard, did provoke: nevertheless
not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
3:17
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with
them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
3:18
And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his
rest, but to them that believed not?
3:19
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
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 the word (o. logos) preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith
in them that heard it.
4:3
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said,
As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall 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 likewise,
And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
4:5
And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
4:6 Seeing
therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first
preached entered not in because of unbelief:
4:7
Again, he limits a certain day, saying in David, To day,
after so long a time; as it is said, To day if all of you will hear his voice,
harden not your hearts.
4:8
For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward
have spoken of another day.
4:9
There remains therefore a rest to 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 labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same
example of unbelief.
4:12
For the word (o. logos) of God is active, and powerful,
and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of
soul and spirit, (o. pneuma) and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner
of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
4:13
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his
sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have
to do. (o. logos)
4:14
Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed
into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
4:15 For
we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities;
but was in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
4:16
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that
we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
5:1
For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for
men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for
sins:
5:2 Who
can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for
that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
5:3
And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also
for himself, to offer for sins.
5:4
And no man takes this honour unto himself, but he that is
called of God, as was Aaron.
5:5
So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high
priest; but he that said unto him, You are my Son, to day have I begotten you.
5:6 As
he says also in another place, You are 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, and was
heard in that he feared;
5:8
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things
which he suffered;
5:9
And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal
salvation unto all them that obey him;
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Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
5:11 Of
whom we have (o. logos) many things to say, (o. logos) and hard to be uttered,
seeing all of you are dull of hearing.
5:12
For when for the time all of you ought to be teachers, all
of you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the
oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong food.
5:13 For
every one that uses milk is unskillful in the word (o. logos) of righteousness:
for he is a babe.
5:14
But strong food belongs to them that are of full age, even
those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and
evil.
6:1 Therefore
leaving the principles of the doctrine (o. logos) of Christ, let us go on unto
perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and
of faith toward God,
6:2
Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands,
and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
6:3
And this will we do, if God permit.
6:4
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened,
and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
(o. pneuma)
6:5 And
have tasted the good word (o. rhema) of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6:6 If
they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify
to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
6:7
For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often
upon it, and brings forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receives
blessing from God:
6:8
But that which bears thorns and briers is rejected, and
is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
6:9
But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and
things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
6:10
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour
of love, (o. agape) which all of you have showed toward his name, in that all
of you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
6:11
And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence
to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
6:12
That all of you be not slothful, but followers of them who
through faith and patience inherit the promises.
6:13
For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear
by no greater, he swore by himself,
6:14
Saying, Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying
I will multiply you.
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 strife.
6:17 Wherein
God, willing more abundantly to show 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 was 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 hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and
steadfast, and which enters into that within the veil;
6:20
Where the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made
an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
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 also Abraham 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 descent, 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 man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of
the spoils.
7:5 And
verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood,
have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is,
of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:
7:6
But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes
of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.
7:7
And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the
better.
7:8 And
here men that die receive tithes; but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed
that he lives.
7:9 And
as I may so say, Levi also, who receives 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 changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the
law.
7:13 For
he of whom these things are spoken pertains to another tribe, of which no man
gave attendance at the altar.
7:14
For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which
tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
7:15
And it is yet far more evident: for that after the embodiment
of Melchisedec there arises another priest,
7:16
Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment,
but after the power of an endless life.
7:17
For he testifies, You are 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 thereof.
7:19
For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of
a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
7:20
And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:
7:21 (For
those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said
unto him, The Lord swore and will not repent, You are a priest for ever after
the order of Melchisedec:)
7:22
By so much was Jesus made a guarantor of a better testament.
7:23 And
they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason
of death:
7:24 But
this man, because he continues ever, has an unchangeable priesthood.
7:25
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost
that come unto God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.
7:26 For
such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, 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 which have infirmity;
but the word (o. logos) of the oath, which was since the law, makes the Son, who
is consecrated for evermore.
8:1
Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum:
We have such an high priest, who is set on 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:
wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
8:4 For if
he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that
offer gifts according to the law:
8:5
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things,
as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for,
See, says he, that you make all things according to the pattern showed to you
in the mount.
8:6 But
now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator
of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
8:7
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should
no place have been sought for the second.
8:8
For finding fault with them, he says, Behold, the days come,
says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with
the house of Judah:
8:9
Not according to the covenant 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 continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, says the Lord.
8:10 For
this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,
says the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts:
and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
8:11
And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every
man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least
to the greatest.
8:12 For
I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities
will I remember no more.
8:13
In that he says, A new covenant, he has made the first old.
Now that which decays and waxs old is ready to vanish away.
9:1
Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine
service, and a worldly sanctuary.
9:2
For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was
the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called the sanctuary.
9:3 And
after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
9:4 Which
had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold,
wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the
tables of the covenant;
9:5
And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercy seat;
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 went the high priest alone once every
year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the
people:
9:8 The
Holy Spirit (o. pneuma) this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all
was not yet made manifest, while the first tabernacle was yet standing:
9:9 Which
was a figure for the time then 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 Which
stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed
on them until the time of reformation.
9:11
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come,
by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say,
not of this building;
9:12
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own
blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption
for us.
9:13 For
if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the
unclean, santifies to the purifying of the flesh:
9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the
eternal Spirit (o. pneuma) offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience
from dead works to serve the living God?
9:15
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament,
that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under
the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal
inheritance.
9:16 For
where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
9:17 For
a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at
all while the testator lives.
9:18
Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without
blood.
9:19 For
when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he
took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop,
and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
9:20
Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God has
commanded with authority 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 is no remission.
9:23
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in
the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves
with better sacrifices than these.
9:24
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with
hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear
in the presence of God for us:
9:25
Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high
priest enters into the holy place every year with blood of others;
9:26
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation
of the world: but now once in the end of the world has he appeared to put away
sin by the sacrifice of himself.
9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this
the judgment:
9:28 So
Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for
him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
10:1
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and
not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered
year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
10:2
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because
that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
10:3 But
in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
10:4 For
it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
10:5 Wherefore
when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you would not, but
a body have you prepared me:
10:6
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no
pleasure.
10:7 Then
said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do your
will, O God.
10:8 Above
when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin
you would not, neither had pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
10:9 Then
said he, Lo, I come to do your will, O God. He takes away the first, that he may
establish the second.
10:10
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering
of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
10:11
And every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes
the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
10:12
But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins
for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
10:13
From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
10:14 For
by one offering he has perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
10:15
Whereof the Holy Spirit (o. pneuma) also is a witness to
us: for after that he had said before,
10:16
This is the covenant that I will make with them after those
days, says the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds
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 holiest
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 an high priest over the house of God;
10:22 Let
us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled
from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
10:23
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering;
(for he is faithful that promised;)
10:24
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love (o.
agape) and to good works:
10:25
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the
manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as all of
you see the day approaching.
10:26
For if we sin willfully after that we have received the
knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
10:27
But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery
indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
10:28
He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two
or three witnesses:
10:29
Of how much greater punishment, suppose all of you, shall
he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted
the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has
done despite unto the Spirit (o. pneuma) of grace?
10:30
For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me,
I will recompense, says 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 call to remembrance the former days, in which, after
all of you were illuminated, all of you endured a great fight of afflictions;
10:33 Partly,
whilst all of you were made a gazing-stock both by reproaches and afflictions;
and partly, whilst all of you became companions of them that were so used.
10:34 For
all of you had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of
your goods, knowing in yourselves that all of you have in heaven a better and
an enduring substance.
10:35
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great
recompence of reward.
10:36
For all of you have need of patience, that, after all of
you have done the will of God, all of you 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 draw back,
my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
10:39
But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but
of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped 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 worlds were framed
by the word (o. rhema) of God, so that things which are seen were not made of
things which do appear.
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 him: for he
that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him.
11:7
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as
yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which
he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
11:8 By
faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after
receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing where he went.
11:9 By
faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in
tabernacles 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 Through
faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered
of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
11:12 Therefore
sprang there 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 having seen them far
off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were
strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
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For they that say such things declare plainly that they
seek a country.
11:15 And
truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they
might have had opportunity to have returned.
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But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly:
wherefore 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,
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Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall your seed be called:
11:19 Accounting
that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received
him in a figure.
11:20
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things
to come.
11:21 By
faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped,
leaning upon the top of his staff.
11:22
By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing
of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
11:23 By
faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they
saw he was a proper 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 Christ greater riches than the
treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence 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
Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of
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 assaying to do 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 perished not with them that believed
not, when she had received the spies with peace.
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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:
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Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness,
obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.
11:34
Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword,
out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the
armies of the aliens.
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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 had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of 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; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
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, having obtained a good report through faith,
received not the promise:
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God having provided some better thing for us, that they
without us should not be made perfect.
12:1
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great
a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so
easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
12:2 Looking
unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set
before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right
hand of the throne of God.
12:3
For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners
against himself, lest all of you be wearied and faint in your minds.
12:4
All of you have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against
sin.
12:5 And
all of you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children,
My son, despise not you the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked
of him:
12:6 For
whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.
12:7 If all
of you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he
whom the father chastens not?
12:8
But if all of you be without chastisement, whereof all are
partakers, then are all of you bastards, and not sons.
12:9
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected
us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto
the Father of spirits, (o. pneuma) and live?
12:10
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their
own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
12:11 Now
no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward
it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
12:12 Wherefore
lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
12:13
And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is
lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
12:14
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no
man shall see the Lord:
12:15
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God;
lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble 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 all of you know how that afterward, when he would have
inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance,
though he sought it carefully with tears.
12:18
For all of you 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; (o. rhema) which voice they that
heard implored that the word (o. logos) 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 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:)
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But all of you 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 general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven,
and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits (o. pneuma) of just men made perfect,
12:24 And
to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that
speaks better things that that of Abel.
12:25
See that all of you refuse not him that speaks. For if they
escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape,
if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:
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Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised,
saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
12:27
And this word, Yet once more, 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
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved,
let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly
fear:
12:29 For
our God is a consuming fire.
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Let brotherly love continue.
13:2
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some
have entertained angels unexpectedly.
13:3
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and
them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
13:4
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but
whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
13:5
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content
with such things as all of you have: for he has said, I will never leave you,
nor forsake you.
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
them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word (o. logos)
of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
13:8 Jesus
Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
13:9
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines.
For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats,
which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
13:10
We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which
serve the tabernacle.
13:11
For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into
the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
13:12 Wherefore
Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without
the gate.
13:13 Let
us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
13:14 For
here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
13:15
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to
God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
13:16 But
to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well
pleased.
13:17 Obey
them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your
souls, as they that must give account, (o. logos) that they may do it with joy,
and not with grief: for that is useless for you.
13:18
Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in
all things willing to live honestly.
13:19
But I plead to you the rather to do this, that I may be
restored to you the 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 everlasting
covenant,
13:21 Make
you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing
in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
13:22 And
I plead to you, brethren, suffer the word (o. logos) of exhortation: for I have
written a letter unto you in few words.
13:23
Know all of you that our brother Timothy is set at liberty;
with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.
13:24
Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the
saints. They of Italy salute you.
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Grace be with you all. Amen.