The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the HEBREWS
The Modern Young's Literal Translation© 2005



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CHAPTER 1

1  In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets,
2  did speak to us in a Son in these last days, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages;
3  who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of His might -- having made a cleansing of our sins through Himself, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,
4  having become so much better than the messengers, as He did inherit a more excellent name than they.
5  For to which of the messengers said He ever, `You are My Son -- I have begotten you today?' and again, `I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son?'
6  and when again He may bring in the first-born to the world, He said, `And let them bow before him -- all messengers of God;'
7  and unto the messengers, indeed, He said, `Who is making His messengers spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire;'
8  and unto the Son: `Your throne, O God, [is] to the age of the age; a scepter of righteousness [is] the scepter of Your reign;
9  You did love righteousness, and did hate lawlessness; because of this did He anoint You -- God, your God -- with oil of gladness above Your partners;'
10  and, `You, at the beginning, Lord, did found the earth, and the heavens are a work of Your hands;
11  these shall perish, and You do remain, and all, as a garment, shall become old,
12  and You shall roll them together as a mantle, and they shall be changed, and You are the same, and Your years shall not fail.'
13  And unto which of the messengers said He ever, `Sit at My right hand, till I may make your enemies your footstool?'
14  are they not all spirits of service -- for ministration being sent forth because of those about to inherit salvation?


CHAPTER 2

1  Because of this it is necessary for [us] to take heed more abundantly to the things heard, for fear that we may glide aside,
2  for if the word being spoken through messengers did become steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience did receive a just recompense,
3  how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation? which a beginning receiving -- to be spoken through the Lord -- by those having heard was confirmed to us,
4  God also bearing joint-witness both with signs and wonders, and various powers, and distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to His will.
5  For He did not subject the coming world to messengers, concerning which we speak,
6  and one in a certain place did testify fully, saying, `What is man, that You are mindful of him, or a son of man, that You do look after him?
7  You did make him some little less than messengers, with glory and honor You did crown Him, and did set Him over the works of Your hands,
8  You did put all things in subjection under His feet,' for in the subjecting the all things to Him, He did leave nothing unsubjected to Him, and now not yet do we see the all things subjected to Him,
9  and Him who was made some little less than messengers we see -- Jesus -- because of the suffering of the death, having been crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God He might taste of death for every one.
10  For it was becoming to Him, because of whom [are] the all things, and through whom [are] the all things, bringing many sons to glory, the author of their salvation through sufferings to make perfect,
11  for both He who is sanctifying and those sanctified [are] all of one, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12  saying, `I will declare Your name to my brethren, in the midst of an assembly I will sing praise to You;' and again, `I will be trusting on Him;'
13  and again, `Behold I and the children that God did give to me.'
14  Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death He might destroy him having the power of death -- that is, the devil --
15  and might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage,
16  for, doubtless, it does not lay hold of messengers, but it lays hold of seed of Abraham,
17  for what reason it did be appropriate for Him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that He might become a kind and steadfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people,
18  for in that He suffered, being tempted Himself, He is able to help those who are tempted.


CHAPTER 3

1  For what reason, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,
2  being steadfast to Him who did appoint Him, as also Moses in all his house,
3  for this one has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses , inasmuch as he who does build it has more honor than the house,
4  for every house is built by some one, and He who did build the all things [is] God,
5  and Moses indeed [was] steadfast in all his house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken,
6  and Christ, as a Son over His house, whose house are we, if we hold fast the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end.
7  For what reason, (as the Holy Spirit said, `Today, if you may hear His voice --
8  you may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,
9  in which your fathers did tempt Me , they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;
10  for what reason I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;
11  so I swore in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest--!')
12  See, brethren, for fear that there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,
13  but exhort you one another every day, while the Today is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,
14  for we have become partakers of the Christ, if we may hold fast the beginning of the confidence unto the end,
15  in its being said, `Today, if you may hear His voice, you may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,'
16  for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses;
17  but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
18  and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? --
19  and we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.


CHAPTER 4

1  We may fear, then, that a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,
2  for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,
3  for we do enter into the rest -- we who did believe, as He said, `So I swore in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest--;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,
4  for He spoke in a certain place concerning the seventh [day] thus: `And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'
5  and in this [place] again, `If they shall enter into My rest--;'
6  since then, it remains for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief --
7  again He does limit a certain day, `Today,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it has been said, `Today, if you may hear His voice, you may not harden your hearts,'
8  for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken concerning another day after these things;
9  there does remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,
10  for he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own.
11  May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one may fall in the same example of the unbelief,
12  for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;
13  and there is not a created thing not revealed before Him, but all things [are] naked and open to His eyes -- with whom is our reckoning.
14  Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens -- Jesus the Son of God -- may we hold fast the profession,
15  for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathize with our infirmities, but [one] tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin;
16  we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace -- for seasonable help.


CHAPTER 5

1  For every chief priest -- taken out of men -- is set in things [pertaining] to God in behalf of men, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins,
2  able to be gentle to those ignorant and going astray, since himself also is compassed with infirmity;
3  and because of this infirmity he ought, as for the people, to offer for sins so also for himself;
4  and no one does take the honor to himself, but he who is called by God, as also Aaron:
5  so also the Christ did not glorify Himself to become chief priest, but He who spoke unto him: `You are My Son, I have begotten You today;'
6  as also in another [place] He said, `You [are] a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;'
7  who in the days of His flesh having offered up both prayers and supplications unto Him who was able to save Him from death -- with strong crying and tears -- and having been heard in respect to that which He feared,
8  through being a Son, did learn by the things which He suffered -- the obedience,
9  and having been made perfect, He did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,
10  having been addressed by God a chief priest, according to the order of Melchisedek,
11  concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since you have become dull of hearing,
12  for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again you have need that one teach you what [are] the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and you have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,
13  for every one who is partaking of milk [is] unskilled in the word of righteousness -- for he is an infant,
14  and the strong food is of perfect men, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.


CHAPTER 6

1  For what reason, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, we may advance unto the perfection, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,
2  of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands also, of rising again of the dead also, and of judgment age-during,
3  and this we will do, if God may permit,
4  for [it is] impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and having became partakers of the Holy Spirit,
5  and did taste the good saying of God, the powers also of the coming age,
6  and having fallen away, to again renew [them] to reformation, having crucified again the Son of God to themselves, and exposed to public shame.
7  For earth, that is drinking in the rain many times coming upon it, and is bringing forth herbs fit for those because of whom also it is dressed, does partake of blessing from God,
8  and that which is bearing thorns and briers [is] disapproved of, and near to cursing, whose end [is] for burning;
9  and we are persuaded, concerning you, beloved, the things that are better, and accompanying salvation, though even thus we speak,
10  for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labor of the love, that you showed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;
11  and we desire each one of you to show the same diligence, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end,
12  that you may not become slothful, but followers of those who are inheriting the promises through faith and patient endurance.
13  For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself,
14  saying, `Blessing indeed I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you;'
15  and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise;
16  for men indeed do swear by the greater, and an end of all controversy to them for confirmation [is] the oath,
17  in which God, more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath,
18  that through two immutable things, in which [it is] impossible for God to lie, we who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before [us] may have a strong comfort,
19  which we have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and entering into that within the veil,
20  where a forerunner for us did enter -- Jesus, having become chief priest after the order of Melchisedek -- to the age.


CHAPTER 7

1  For this Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who did meet Abraham turning back from the slaughter of the kings, and did bless him,
2  to whom also did Abraham divide a tenth of all, (first, indeed, being interpreted, `King of righteousness,' and then also, King of Salem, which is, King of Peace,)
3  without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, and being made like to the Son of God, does remain a priest continually.
4  And see how great this one [is], to whom also Abraham the patriarch did give out a tenth of the best of the spoils,
5  and those, indeed, out of the sons of Levi receiving the priesthood, a command have to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is, their brethren, even though they came forth out of the loins of Abraham;
6  and he who was not reckoned by genealogy of them, received tithes from Abraham, and he has blessed him having the promises,
7  and apart from all controversy, the less is blessed by the better --
8  and here, indeed, men who die do receive tithes, and there [he], who is testified to that he was living,
9  and so to speak, through Abraham even Levi who is receiving tithes, has paid tithes,
10  for he was yet in the loins of the father when Melchisedek met him.
11  If indeed, then, perfection were through the Levitical priesthood -- for the people under it had received law -- what further need, according to the order of Melchisedek, for another priest to arise, and not to be called according to the order of Aaron?
12  for the priesthood being changed, of necessity also, a change of the law does come,
13  for He of whom these things are said has had part in another tribe, of whom no one gave attendance at the altar,
14  for [it is] evident that our Lord has arisen out of Judah, in regard to which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
15  And it is yet more abundantly most evident, if according to the similitude of Melchisedek there does arise another priest,
16  who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,
17  for He does testify -- `You [are] a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;'
18  for a disannulling indeed does come of the command going before because of its weakness, and unprofitableness,
19  (for did the law perfect nothing) and the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
20  And inasmuch as [it is] not apart from oath, (for those indeed are become priests apart from oath,
21  and He with an oath through Him who is saying unto him, `The Lord swore, and will not repent, You [are] a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;')
22  by so much has Jesus become surety of a better covenant,
23  and those indeed who have become priests are many, because by death they are hindered from remaining;
24  and He, because of His remaining -- to the age, has the priesthood not transient,
25  from where also He is able to save to the very end, those coming through Him unto God -- ever living to make intercession for them.
26  For such a chief priest did become us -- kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens,
27  who has no necessity daily, as the chief priests, first to offer up sacrifice for his own sins, then for those of the people; for this he did once, having offered up himself;
28  for the law does appoint men chief priests, having infirmity, but the word of the oath that [is] after the law [appoints] the Son -- to the age having been perfected.


CHAPTER 8

1  And the sum concerning the things spoken of [is]: we have such a chief priest, who did sit down at the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens,
2  a servant of the holy places, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord did set up, and not man,
3  for every chief priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, by reason of which [it is] necessary for this one to have also something that he may offer;
4  for if, indeed, he were upon earth, he would not be a priest -- (there being the priests who are offering according to the law, the gifts,
5  who do serve unto an example and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses had been divinely warned, being about to construct the tabernacle, for `See (said He) you may make all things according to the pattern that was shown to you in the mount;') --
6  and now He has obtained a more excellent service, how much also is He mediator of a better covenant, which has been sanctioned on better promises,
7  for if that first were faultless, a place would not have been sought for a second.
8  For finding fault, He said to them, `Behold, days come, says the Lord, and I will complete with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, a new covenant,
9  not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of My taking [them] by their hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt -- because they did not remain in My covenant, and I did not regard them, said the Lord, --
10  because this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, said the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and I will write them upon their hearts, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me for a people;
11  and they shall not teach each his neighbor, and each his brother, saying, Know you the Lord, because they shall all know Me from the small one of them unto the great one of them,
12  because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will remember no more;' --
13  in the saying `new,' He has made the first old, and what does become obsolete and is old [is] near disappearing.


CHAPTER 9

1  It had, indeed, then (even the first tabernacle) ordinances of service, also a worldly sanctuary,
2  for a tabernacle was prepared, the first, in which was both the lamp-stand, and the table, and the bread of the presence -- which is called `Holy;'
3  and after the second veil a tabernacle that is called `Holy of holies,'
4  having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid all round about with gold, in which [is] the golden pot having the manna, and the rod of Aaron that budded, and the tables of the covenant,
5  and over it cherubim of the glory, overshadowing the mercy-seat, concerning which we are not now to speak particularly.
6  And these things having been thus prepared, into the first tabernacle, indeed, at all times the priests do go in, performing the services,
7  and into the second, once in the year, only the chief priest, not apart from blood, which he does offer for himself and the errors of the people,
8  the Holy Spirit evidencing this that the way of the holy [places] has not yet been revealed, the first tabernacle having yet a standing;
9  which [is] a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to make perfect him who is serving,
10  only in victuals, and drinks, and different baptisms, and fleshly ordinances -- till the time of reformation imposed upon [them].
11  And Christ being come, chief priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands -- that is, not of this creation --
12  neither through blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, did enter in into the holy places once, having obtained age-during redemption;
13  for if the blood of bulls, and goats, and ashes of an heifer, sprinkling those defiled, does sanctify to the purifying of the flesh,
14  how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer Himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15  And because of this, He is mediator of a new covenant, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance,
16  for where a covenant [is], the death of the covenant-victim is necessary to come in,
17  for a covenant over dead victims [is] steadfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim lives,
18  from which not even the first has been initiated apart from blood,
19  for every command having been spoken, according to law, by Moses, to all the people, having taken the blood of the calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he did sprinkle both the book itself and all the people,
20  saying, `This [is] the blood of the covenant that God enjoined unto you,'
21  and both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the service he did sprinkle with blood in like manner,
22  and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness does not come.
23  [It is] necessary, for that reason, the pattern indeed of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these;
24  for the Christ enter did not into holy places made with hands -- figures of the true -- but into the heaven itself, now to be revealed in the presence of God for us;
25  nor that He may offer Himself many times, even as the chief priest does enter into the holy places every year with blood of others;
26  since it had been necessary for Him to suffer many times from the foundation of the world, but now once, at the full end of the ages, for putting away of sin through his sacrifice, He has been revealed;
27  and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this -- judgment,
28  so also the Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from a sin-offering,  to those waiting for him -- to salvation!


CHAPTER 10

1  For the law having a shadow of the coming good things -- not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make those coming near perfect,
2  since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having been purified once?
3  but in those [sacrifices] is a remembrance of sins every year,
4  for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5  For what reason, coming into the world, He said, `Sacrifice and offering You did not will, and You did prepare a body for Me,
6  in burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offerings, You did not delight,
7  then I said, Behold, I come, (in a volume of the book it has been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Your will;'
8  saying above -- `Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering You did not will, nor delight in,' -- which are offered according to the law --
9  then He said, `Behold, I come to do, O God, Your will;' He does take away the first that He may establish the second;
10  in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once,
11  and every priest, indeed, has stood daily serving, and the same sacrifices offering many times, that are never able to take away sins.
12  And He, having offered one sacrifice for sin -- to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, --
13  as to the rest, expecting till He may place His enemies [as] His footstool,
14  for by one offering He has perfected those sanctified to the end;
15  and the Holy Spirit does testify to us also, for after that He has said before,
16  `This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days, said the Lord, giving My laws on their hearts, and I will write them upon their minds,'
17  and ` I will remember their sins and their lawlessness no more;'
18  and where forgiveness of these [is], there is no more offering for sin.
19  Having, for that reason, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus,
20  which way He did initiate for us -- new and living, through the veil, that is, His flesh --
21  and a high priest over the house of God,
22  may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;
23  may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope, (for faithful [is] He who did promise),
24  and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,
25  not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain [is], but exhorting, and so much the more as you see the day coming near.
26  For we -- willfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth -- no more does there remain a sacrifice for sins,
27  but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers;
28  any one who did set a law of Moses at nothing, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, does die,
29  of how much sorer punishment shall he be counted worthy who did trample on the Son of God, and did count the blood of the covenant a common thing, in which he was sanctified, and did despite to the Spirit of the grace?
30  for we have known Him who is saying, `Vengeance [is] Mine, I will recompense, says the Lord;' and again, `The Lord shall judge His people;' --
31  fearful [is] the falling into the hands of a living God.
32  And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, you did endure much conflict of sufferings,
33  partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living,
34  for also you sympathized with my bonds, and you did receive the robbery of your goods with joy, knowing that you have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.
35  You may not cast away, then, your boldness, which has great recompense of reward,
36  for you have need of patience, that the will of God having done, you may receive the promise,
37  for yet a very very little, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry;
38  and `the righteous shall live by faith,' and `if he may draw back, My soul has no pleasure in him,'
39  and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.


CHAPTER 11

1  And faith is a confidence of things hoped for, a conviction of matters not seen,
2  for in this were the elders testified of;
3  by faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of God, in regard to the things seen not having come out of things appearing;
4  by faith did Abel offer a better sacrifice to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, does yet speak.
5  By faith Enoch was translated -- not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to -- that he had pleased God well,
6  and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it is necessary for him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becomes a rewarder.
7  By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and according to faith he became heir of the righteousness.
8  By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing where he did go;
9  by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob in tabernacles, fellow-heirs of the same promise,
10  for he was looking for the city having the foundations, whose artificer and constructor [is] God.
11  By faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed, and she bare after the time of life, seeing she did judge Him who did promise faithful;
12  for what reason, also from one were begotten -- and that of one who had become dead -- as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that [is] by the sea-shore -- the innumerable.
13  All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and having been persuaded, and having saluted [them], and having confessed that they are strangers and sojourners upon the earth,
14  for those saying such things make known that they seek a country;
15  and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return,
16  but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, for what reason God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.
17  By faith Abraham had offered up Isaac, being tried, and he did offer up the only begotten who did receive the promises,
18  of whom it was said -- `In Isaac shall a seed be called to you;'
19  reckoning that God is able to raise up even out of the dead, from where also in a figure he did receive [him].
20  By faith, concerning coming things, Isaac did bless Jacob and Esau;
21  by faith Jacob dying -- did bless each of the sons of Joseph, and did bow down upon the top of his staff;
22  by faith, Joseph dying, did make mention concerning the outgoing of the sons of Israel, and did give command concerning his bones.
23  By faith Moses, having been born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child comely, and were not afraid of the decree of the king;
24  by faith Moses, having become great, did refuse to be called a son of the daughter of Pharaoh,
25  having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin's pleasure for a season,
26  having reckoned the reproach of the Christ greater wealth than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward;
27  by faith he left Egypt behind, not having been afraid of the wrath of the king, for, as seeing the Invisible One -- he endured;
28  by faith he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that He who is destroying the first-born might not touch them.
29  By faith they did pass through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians having received a trial of, were swallowed up;
30  by faith the walls of Jericho did fall, having been surrounded for seven days;
31  by faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disbelieved, having received the spies with peace.
32  And what shall I yet say? for the time will fail me recounting about Gideon, Barak also, and Samson, and Jephthah, David also, and Samuel, and the prophets,
33  who did subdue kingdoms through faith, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped mouths of lions,
34  quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were made powerful out of infirmities, became strong in battle, caused camps of the aliens to give way.
35  Women received their dead by a rising again, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that they might receive a better rising again,
36  and others did receive trial of mockings and scourgings, and yet of bonds and imprisonment;
37  they were stoned, they were sawn apart, they were tried; they died in the killing of the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins -- being destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated,
38  of whom the world was not worthy; in deserts wandering, and [in] mountains, and [in] caves, and [in] the holes of the earth;
39  and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,
40  God having provided something better for us, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.


CHAPTER 12

1  For that reason, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, having put off every weight, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,
2  looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him -- did endure a cross, having despised shame, did sit down on the right hand also of the throne of God;
3  for consider again Him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to Himself, that you may not be wearied in your souls -- being faint.
4  Not yet did you resist unto blood -- striving with the sin;
5  and you have forgotten the exhortation that does speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,
6  for whom the Lord does love He does chasten, and He chastises every son whom He receives;'
7  if you endure chastening, as to sons God bears Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father does not chasten?
8  and if you are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are bastards, and not sons.
9  Then, indeed, we have had fathers of our flesh, chastising [us], and we were reverencing [them]; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?
10  for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;
11  and all chastening for the present, indeed, does not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it -- it does yield.
12  For what reason, set you up the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees;
13  and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;
14  pursue peace with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,
15  looking diligently over for fear that any one be failing of the grace of God, for fear that any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;
16  for fear that any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who did sell his birthright in exchange for one morsel of food,
17  for you know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for he found not a place of reformation, though having sought it with tears.
18  For you came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19  and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of sayings, which those having heard did entreat that a word might not be added to them,
20  for they were not bearing that which is commanded, `And if a beast may touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or with an arrow shot through,'
21  and, (so terrible was the sight,) Moses said, `I am exceedingly fearful, and trembling.'
22  But, you came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,
23  to the company and assembly of the first-born enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men made perfect,
24  and to a mediator of a new covenant -- Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!
25  See, may you not refuse Him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused Him who was divinely speaking upon earth -- much less we who do turn away from Him who [speaks] from heaven,
26  whose voice the earth shook then, and now has He promised, saying, `Yet once -- I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven;'
27  and this -- `Yet once' -- does make evident the removal of the things shaken, as of things having been made, that the things not shaken may remain;
28  for what reason, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;
29  for also our God [is] a consuming fire.


CHAPTER 13

1  Let brotherly love remain;
2  be not forgetful of the hospitality, for through this certain did entertain messengers unawares;
3  be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being in the body;
4  honorable [is] the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and God shall judge whoremongers and adulterers.
5  The behavior without covetousness, being content with the things present, for He has said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake you,'
6  so that we do boldly say, `The Lord [is] a helper to me, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.'
7  Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak the word of God to you, whose faith -- considering the issue of the behavior -- be imitating,
8  Jesus Christ the same yesterday and today, and to the ages;
9  be not carried about with various and strange teachings, for [it is] good that the heart be confirmed by grace, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;
10  we have an altar, of which they who are serving the tabernacle have no authority to eat,
11  for of those beasts whose blood is brought for sin into the holy places through the chief priest -- of these the bodies are burned without the camp.
12  For what reason, also Jesus -- that He might sanctify the people through [His] own blood -- did suffer without the gate;
13  now, then, may we go forth unto Him without the camp, bearing His reproach;
14  for we have not here an abiding city, but we seek the coming one;
15  through Him, then, we may offer up a sacrifice of praise always to God, that is, the fruit of lips, giving thanks to His name;
16  and of doing good, and of fellowship, be not forgetful, for God is well-pleased with such sacrifices.
17  Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that they may do this with joy, and not sighing, for this [is] unprofitable to you.
18  Pray for us, for we trust that we have a good conscience, willing to behave well in all things,
19  and more abundantly do I call upon [you] to do this, that I may be restored to you more quickly.
20  And the God of the peace, who did bring up the great shepherd of the sheep out of the dead -- in the blood of an age-during covenant -- our Lord Jesus,
21  make you perfect in every good work to do His will, doing in you that which is well-pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom [is] the glory -- to the ages of the ages! Amen.
22  And I entreat you, brethren, allow the word of the exhortation, for also I have written to you through few words.
23  Know you that the brother Timotheus is released, with whom, if he may come more shortly, I will see you.
24  Salute all those leading you, and all the saints; those from Italy do salute you:
25  the grace [is] with you all! Amen.



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