Chapter 1
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1. God, having spoken to the fathers through the prophets in many parts and in various ways, in the past,
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2. has at the end of these days spoken to us by Son,[1] whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the ages;[2]
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3. who being the projection of His glory and the very image of His essence, and sustaining all things by the expression of His[S][3] own power,[4] when He had by Himself[5] provided purification for our[6] sins[7] He sat down on the highest Majesty’s right,[8]
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4. having become so much superior to the angels as He has inherited a more excellent name than they have.
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5. For to which of the angels did He[F] ever say, “You are my Son, today I begot you,”[9] and again, “I will be ‘Father’ to Him, and He will be ‘Son’ to me?”[10]
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6. Again, when He introduces the Firstborn[11] into the inhabited earth[12] He says, “Let all God’s angels worship Him[S].”[13]
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7. Further, about the angels He[F] says, “Who makes His angels winds,[14] His servants flames of fire”;[15]
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8. while to the Son He says: “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;[16] ‘Scepter of Uprightness’[17] is the scepter of Your kingdom.
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9. You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness, therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of exultation beyond Your companions.”[18]
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10. Also: “You, LORD,[19] in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are works of Your hands;
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11. they will perish but You continue on —they will all grow old like a garment;
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12. You will roll them up like a cloak and they will be changed, while You stay the same and Your years will never end.”
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13. On the other hand, to which of the angels did He ever say, “Sit on my right until I place your enemies as a stool under your feet”?[20]
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14. Are they not all ministering spirits being sent[21] to serve those who are going to inherit salvation?
Chapter 2
Chapter 2 Verse 1
1. So then, we really must pay the utmost attention to the things we have heard, so that we not drift away.[1]
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2. For if the word spoken through angels became binding, and every violation and disobedience received a deserved penalty,[2]
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3. how shall we escape if we are careless about that tremendous salvation?—it received its beginning through the Lord’s declaration and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him[S],[3]
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4. God adding His[F] attestation by signs, wonders, various miracles, and distributions of the Holy Spirit according to His own will.[4]
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5. Because it is not to angels that He has subjected the coming inhabited earth,[5] about which we are speaking;
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6. rather, there is a place where someone testified[6] saying: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or son of man that you care for him?
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7. You made him lower than the angels, for a little while;[7] You crowned him with glory and honor,[8]
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8. You subjected all things under his feet.” It follows that in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not so subjected. However, we do not yet see everything subjected to him, at present.
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9. But we do see Jesus, who ‘was made lower than the angels, for a little while’[9] (in order to suffer death), ‘crowned with glory and honor’—this, by the grace of God, so that He[S] might taste death on behalf of everyone.[10]
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10. Because it was appropriate to Him[F], for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons into glory,[11] to complete the Author of their salvation through sufferings.[12]
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11. For both He[S] who is sanctifying and those who are being sanctified are all from One, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them ‘brothers’,
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12. saying, “I will declare Your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing praise to You.”
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13. And again, “I will put my trust in Him[F]”; and again, “Here am I and the children whom God has given me.”[13]
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14. Since, then, the children have flesh and blood as their share, He[S] Himself likewise partook of the same, in order that through His death He might abolish the one who had[14] the power of death—that is, the devil—
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15. and set free these [the children] who during their whole lifetime were subject to slavery through fear of death.[15]
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16. (Now surely He does not assist angels,[16] but He does assist Abraham’s seed.)
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17. That is why He was obliged to become like those ‘brothers’ in all respects, so that He could be a merciful and faithful high priest, in what concerns God, with a view to making propitiation[17] for the sins of the people.
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18. For in that in which He Himself endured suffering, having been tested,[18] He is able to assist those who are being tested.
Chapter 3
Chapter 3 Verse 1
1. So then, holy brothers, you who share in the celestial calling, do contemplate the Apostle and High Priest of our confession,[1] Jesus Christ![2]
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2. who was faithful to the One who appointed Him, as also was Moses in all His[F] house.
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3. For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than was Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself
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4. —every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God—
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5. also, Moses was indeed faithful as a servant in all His house, providing evidence of those things that would later be spoken,[3]
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6. but Christ is faithful as a Son over His house, whose house are we, if, that is, we hold fast the confidence, even the boast,[4] of the Hope[5] firm to the end.[6]
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7. Therefore—just as the Holy Spirit says:[7] “Today, if you would hear His voice,
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8. do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, during the time of the testing[8] in the desert,
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9. where your fathers tested me, proved me and saw my works for forty years.
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10. In consequence I became very angry with that generation and said, ‘Their heart always leads them astray; they have not known my ways.’
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11. So I took an oath in my wrath, ‘As if they will ever enter my rest!’”[9] —
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12. take care, brothers, that there not be a malignant heart of unbelief in any of you, so as to go away from[10] the living God;
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13. rather, exhort yourselves[11] every day, while it is called ‘today’, so that none of you be hardened through sin’s deceitfulness.
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14. For we have become associates of the Christ, if, that is, we hold fast the beginning of the Endeavor[12] firm to the end,
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15. while it is still being said, “Today,[13] if you would hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
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16. So who were they who, upon hearing, rebelled? Really now, was it not all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?[14]
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17. And with whom was He[F] angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert?
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18. Or to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, if not to those who disobeyed?
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19. So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.[15]
Chapter 4
Chapter 4 Verse 1
1. Therefore we should fear, since a promise of entering His rest still stands, lest any one of you should expect to have come short of it.[1]
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2. Really, because we are continually hearing Good News[2] just like they did, but the word that they heard did not profit them, since they were not intimately united with the faith of those who obeyed.
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3. Now we who have believed do enter that rest, just as He has said, “So I took an oath in my wrath, ‘As if they will ever enter my rest!’”—His works were certainly finished from the foundation of the world,
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4. because somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day like this, “And on the seventh day God rested from all His works,”[3]
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5. while again, in this place, “As if they will ever enter my rest!”[4]
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6. Therefore since it remains for some to enter into it, and those who formerly had the Good News proclaimed to them did not enter because of disobedience,
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7. He again designates a certain day, after such a long time,[5] saying through David: “Today” (as was stated above), “Today, if you would hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”
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8. Because if Jesus[6] had given them rest, He would not have spoken afterward of another day.
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9. So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
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10. Further, the one having entered into His rest has himself also rested from his own works,[7] just as God did from His.
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11. Therefore, let us take pains to enter into that rest so that no one may fall through the same pattern of disobedience.
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12. Because the Word of God is living and efficient, and sharper than any two-edged sword, actually penetrating to the point of separating soul and spirit,[8] joints and marrow; in fact, it is able to evaluate a heart’s reflections and intentions.[9]
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13. Nothing in all creation is hidden from His sight; rather all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.[10]
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14. Therefore, since we have a Great High Priest who has passed through the heavens,[11] Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the Confession.
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15. For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but He was tested in all points, in similar ways, without sin.
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16. So let us approach the throne of grace[12] with confidence, that we may receive mercy and find grace, for timely help.
Chapter 5
Chapter 5 Verse 1
1. Now every high priest taken from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins,
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2. being able to deal gently[1] with those who sin in ignorance and go astray, since he himself is also subject to weakness.
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3. Because of this he must offer sacrifices for his own sins as well, just as he does for the people’s.
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4. Also, no one receives this honor on his own, but upon being called by God, just like Aaron.[2]
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5. So also Christ did not exalt Himself to become High Priest, but it was He[F] who said to Him[S], “You are my Son; today I have begotten You.”[3]
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6. Just as He[F] also says in another place, “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”[4]
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7. He[S], in the days of His flesh, having offered up both prayers and supplications, with a loud cry and tears, to the One who was able to save Him from death, and having been answered because of His godly fear,[5]
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8. although being SON, He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.
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9. And having been completed[6] He became the Source of eternal salvation for all those obeying Him,[7]
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10. having been designated by God as High Priest ‘according to the order of Melchizedek’;
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11. concerning whom we have much to say, but it is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.[8]
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12. Really, because although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary principles of God’s oracles all over again; you have come to the point[9] of needing milk, not solid food!
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13. Surely; whoever lives on milk is an infant, and therefore unskilled in the Word of righteousness.
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14. On the other hand, solid food is for the mature, those who by habitual use have trained their senses to distinguish good from bad.[10]
Chapter 6
Chapter 6 Verse 1
1. Therefore, leaving the elementary teaching about Christ, let us move on toward perfection, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and trust in God,
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2. of teaching about baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.[1]
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3. We will do this, that is, if indeed God should permit it.[2]
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4. Because, it is impossible to bring back into repentance those who were once for all enlightened, who have partaken[3] of the heavenly gift and were made sharers in the Holy Spirit,[4]
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5. who have experienced God’s good event[5] and capabilities of the coming age,[6]
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6. and yet have fallen away—they would be crucifying the Son of God all over again, just for themselves, holding Him up to contempt.[7]
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7. Now the ground that drinks in the rain that frequently falls on it and produces a crop useful to those for whom it is really cultivated receives blessing from God;
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8. but should it bear thorns and thistles, it is disqualified, almost a curse, whose destiny is a burning.[8]
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9. For all that, dear ones, we are confident of the better things concerning you—things that accompany salvation—even though we speak like this.
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10. Because God is not unjust so as to ignore your work, even the labor of love you have invested in His name, in that you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.
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11. You see, we really do want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so as to fulfill the hope;
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12. so that you not become lazy, but rather imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.[9]
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13. Now when God made a promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself
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14. saying, “Indeed, blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.”[10]
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15. And so, after he had been patient,[11] he obtained the promise.
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16. Because since men swear by the greater, and for them the confirming oath puts an end to every dispute,
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17. similarly God, being determined to show even more clearly to the heirs of the promise the unchanging nature of His purpose, guaranteed it by an oath,
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18. so that by two unalterable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we should have a strong encouragement, we who have taken refuge by grasping the hope set before us;
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19. which hope we have as an anchor for the soul, both certain and secure,[12] actually entering the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,
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20. where Forerunner Jesus has entered on our behalf, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
Chapter 7
Chapter 7 Verse 1
1. Now this Melchizedek—king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
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2. to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all (first, his name means ‘king of righteousness’, and then again ‘king of Salem’, which means ‘king of peace’),
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3. without father, without mother, without genealogy; having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but having been made like the Son of God[1]—remains a priest continually.
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4. Now consider how great this personage was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils:[2]
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5. You see, those of the sons of Levi who receive the priesthood have a command, according to the Law, to collect a tithe from the people—that is, from their brothers—even though they too came out of Abraham’s body;
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6. but he whose descent is not counted among them collected a tithe from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.
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7. Now without dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.
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8. Also, here men who die receive tithes, but there he of whom it is testified that he lives
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9. —in a word, even Levi, who receives tithes, paid the tithe through Abraham,
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10. because he was still in the reproductive system of his fore-father when Melchizedek met him.[3]
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11. Now then, if there could be perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the people had received the Law), what further need would there be for a different kind of priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, rather than being called according to the order of Aaron?
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12. (Because when the priesthood is changed there is also a change of law, of necessity.)
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13. For He of whom these things are said belongs to a different tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.
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14. For it is evident that our Lord arose out of Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
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15. And it all becomes clearer still if a different kind of priest, in the likeness of Melchizedek, appears,
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16. who has come, not on the basis of a law about a physical rule but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life.[4]
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17. Because He testifies: “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”
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18. You see, there is an annulling of the former rule because of its weakness and uselessness
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19. (for the Law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
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20. Further, inasmuch as it was not without the taking of an oath
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21. —they indeed had become priests without an oath-taking, but He[S] with an oath by Him[F] who said to Him[S]: “The LORD has sworn and will not change His[F] mind; you are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek”[5] —
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22. by so much Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
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23. Also, there have been many priests because death prevented them from continuing in office;
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24. while He[S], because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.
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25. Therefore He is able to save absolutely[6] those who come to God through Him, since He always lives and can intercede on their behalf.
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26. Now such a High Priest was fitting for us—holy, innocent, undefiled, having been set apart from sinners, and having become higher than the heavens—
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27. who, unlike those high priests, does not need to offer up daily sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people; because He did this once for all when He offered up Himself.
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28. The Law appoints as high priest men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, that came after the Law, appointed Son, forever perfect.[7]
Chapter 8
Chapter 8 Verse 1
1. Now the main point of the things we are saying is this: We do have such a High Priest, who sat down[1] at the right of the Majesty’s throne in the heavens,
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2. Minister of the Holy Places, that is, of the true Tabernacle which the Lord set up, not man.
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3. Every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices (it follows that it is necessary for this One also to have something He might offer)
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4. —if He were on earth He would not be a priest, there already being priests who offer the gifts according to the Law;[2]
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5. who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things[3] (that is why Moses was warned by God when he was ready to assemble the Tabernacle: “See to it,” He says, “that you make everything according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain”)—
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6. but now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, just as He is Mediator of a better covenant, which was enacted as law on the basis of better promises.[4]
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7. Now if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for a second one;
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8. but finding fault with them[5] He says: “Listen! Days are coming,” says the LORD, “when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah[6] —
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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,[7] because they did not abide by my covenant and so I disregarded them,” says the LORD.
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10. “Now this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the LORD,[8] “I will put my laws into their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God and they will be my people.
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11. Further, not one of them will teach his neighbor and not one his brother saying, ‘Get to know the LORD!’ because they all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.
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12. For I will be merciful to their wrongdoings; I will not at all remember their sins and their lawless deeds.”[9]
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13. By saying ‘new’ He has made the first one ‘old’; and what is obsolete and aging is near the end.
Chapter 9
Chapter 9 Verse 1
1. Now that first covenant did indeed have regulations for divine service and the earthly sanctuary.
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2. Yes, a tabernacle was set up: the first part, which is called the Holy Place, in which were the lamp stand, the table and the showbread;
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3. and behind the second curtain an area called the Holy of Holies,
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4. having a golden censer[1] and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold—in it were a golden jar holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant;
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5. while above it were cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat (this is not the place to go into detail about them).[2]
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6. Now when these things had been thus prepared, the priests continually went into the first part, performing the divine services,
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7. but into the second one only the high priest could go, once a year and only with blood, which he offered for himself and for the people’s sins of ignorance;[3]
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8. the Holy Spirit was making clear that the way into the Most Holy Place was not yet open to the public while the first tabernacle was still in existence.
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9. It was a figure during the time then present, a time when both gifts and sacrifices were being offered that were incapable of clearing the conscience of the worshipper—
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10. they were only about foods and drinks and various ceremonial washings and physical regulations, things imposed until the time of restructuring.[4]
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11. But Christ entered once for all into the real Holy Places, having obtained eternal redemption—He had come as High Priest of the good things that are about to be, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
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12. and with His own blood, not that of goats and calves.
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13. For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who had been ceremonially defiled, restored ceremonial purity to the body,
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14. how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the Holy Spirit[5] offered Himself[6] unblemished to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
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15. For this reason He is mediator of a new covenant, so that those who have been called[7] may receive the promised eternal inheritance—since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant.[8]
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16. Now where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be established;
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17. because a will is in force after men are dead, since it never takes effect while the one who made it lives.
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18. Therefore, not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood;
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19. because when every commandment of the Law had been proclaimed by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the scroll itself[9] and all the people,
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20. saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has decreed to you.”[10]
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21. Then he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the divine service with the blood in the same way.
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22. In fact, according to the Law nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.[11]
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23. So then, it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with such, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than those.[12]
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24. For Christ did not enter into Holy Places made by hands, mere copies of the true ones,[13] but into Heaven itself, now to appear in God’s presence on our behalf;
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25. but not in order to offer Himself repeatedly, like the high priest who entered the Most Holy Place year by year with another’s blood
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26. —otherwise He would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world; but now, once for all at the end of the ages, He has been revealed to nullify sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
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27. Also, inasmuch as men are destined to die but once, after which the judgment,[14]
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28. so the Christ also, having been offered once for all to bear the sins of many—He will appear a second time to those who are eagerly waiting for Him, apart from sin, into salvation.[15]
Chapter 10
Chapter 10 Verse 1
1. You see, the Law is but a shadow of the good things to come, not their actual matter, so it can never perfect those who approach with the same sacrifices that they offer endlessly, year after year.
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2. Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshippers would have had no more consciousness of sins, having been cleansed once for all?
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3. However, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,
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4. because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.[1]
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5. Therefore, upon coming into the world He[S] says: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You prepared a body for me;[2]
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6. with burnt offerings and sin offerings You were not pleased.
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7. Then I said, ‘Yes indeed, I have come to do Your will, O God —thus it is written about me in the scroll of the book.’”[3]
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8. First He says, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor were You pleased with them” (which are offered according to the Law),
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9. then He says, “Yes indeed, I have come to do Your will, O God.”[4] He removes the first in order to establish the second.
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10. By that will[5] we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.[6]
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11. Now every priest has stood ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices that can never take away sins;
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12. but He Himself, having offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, sat down at God’s right.
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13. Since that time He is waiting until His enemies are placed as a footstool for His feet,
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14. because by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.[7]
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15. Now the Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this, after having foreseen it:
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16. “‘This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,’ says the LORD, ‘I will put my laws on their hearts and I will write them on their minds,
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17. and I will not at all remember their sins and lawless deeds.’”[8]
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18. Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.[9]
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19. Therefore, brothers, having courage to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
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20. by a new and living way that He inaugurated for us, through the curtain, that is to say, His flesh,
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21. and having a Great Priest over the house of God,
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22. let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts having been sprinkled[10] from an evil conscience and our body having been washed with clean water.[11]
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23. Let us hold fast the confession of the Hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
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24. And let us contemplate one another, for the stirring up of love and good works,
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25. not forsaking the assembling of ourselves (like some are doing), but exhorting one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
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26. Because, if we deliberately keep on sinning after having received the real knowledge of the Truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
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27. just a certain fearful anticipation of judgment and fierce fire that is ready to consume the hostiles.
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28. Anyone who rejected Moses’ law died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
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29. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be deemed worthy who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has regarded as unholy the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified,[12] and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
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30. For we know Him who said, “‘Vengeance is up to me,’ says the Lord,[13] ‘I will repay.’” And again, “The LORD will judge His people.”[14]
Chapter 10 Verse 31
31. It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God!
Chapter 10 Verse 32
32. However, remember those earlier days in which, having been enlightened, you endured a great struggle of sufferings:
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33. partly being publicly exposed to both insults and oppression, and partly siding with those who were so treated.
Chapter 10 Verse 34
34. Indeed, you also shared in the suffering of my chains;[15] you even accepted the plundering of your possessions with joy, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and enduring possession in the heavens.
Chapter 10 Verse 35
35. So do not throw away your confidence, which has a great recompense.
Chapter 10 Verse 36
36. You need perseverance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
Chapter 10 Verse 37
37. For in a very little while: “He who is coming will come and will not delay.
Chapter 10 Verse 38
38. Now the righteous one will live by faith, yet if he backs away, my soul has no pleasure in him.”[16]
Chapter 10 Verse 39
39. But we are not of those who back away into ruin,[17] but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.
Chapter 11
Chapter 11 Verse 1
1. Now faith is a realization of things being hoped for, an evidence of things not seen.[1]
Chapter 11 Verse 2
2. By it the ancients were approved.
Chapter 11 Verse 3
3. By faith we understand that the ages[2] were created by a word from God, so that the things that are seen were made out of things invisible.
Chapter 11 Verse 4
4. By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than did Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous,[3] God testifying concerning his gifts; and by means of it he still speaks, even though being dead.
Chapter 11 Verse 5
5. By faith Enoch was transferred so as not to see death, and could not be found because God had translated him; before his translation he had obtained witness that he was pleasing to God.[4]
Chapter 11 Verse 6
6. Now without faith it is impossible to please Him, because the one approaching God must believe that He exists and that He becomes a rewarder of those who earnestly seek Him.[5]
Chapter 11 Verse 7
7. By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen,[6] moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that is according to faith.[7]
Chapter 11 Verse 8
8. By faith Abraham, upon being called to go forth to the place that he would receive as an inheritance, obeyed and went, though not being acquainted with where he was going.[8]
Chapter 11 Verse 9
9. By faith he migrated into the land of promise as into a foreign country, dwelling in tents, along with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise;
Chapter 11 Verse 10
10. for he was waiting expectantly for the city with the real foundations, whose designer and builder is God.
Chapter 11 Verse 11
11. By faith Sarah herself also received power to conceive seed, and she bore a child[9] when she was past the normal age, since she judged Him faithful who had promised.
Chapter 11 Verse 12
12. And so from one man, actually an impotent,[10] were begotten descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
Chapter 11 Verse 13
13. These all died believing—not having received the promises, but having seen and welcomed them from a distance, thus confessing that they were aliens and sojourners on the earth.
Chapter 11 Verse 14
14. Now those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.
Chapter 11 Verse 15
15. If they were actually remembering that land from which they had departed, they would have had opportunity to return.
Chapter 11 Verse 16
16. Instead they are aspiring to a better home—a heavenly one.[11] Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; in fact He has prepared a city for them.
Chapter 11 Verse 17
17. By faith Abraham, upon being tested, offered up Isaac; yes, he who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his only begotten,[12]
Chapter 11 Verse 18
18. of whom it had been said, “Through Isaac will your seed be reckoned,”[13]
Chapter 11 Verse 19
19. calculating that God was indeed able to raise him from the dead; from whence in fact he did receive him, figuratively speaking.
Chapter 11 Verse 20
20. By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
Chapter 11 Verse 21
21. By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons and worshipped, leaning on the top of his staff.[14]
Chapter 11 Verse 22
22. By faith Joseph, near the end, thought of the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave orders concerning his bones.[15]
Chapter 11 Verse 23
23. By faith Moses was hidden for three months by his parents, after he was born, because they saw he was a fine child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.
Chapter 11 Verse 24
24. By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,[16]
Chapter 11 Verse 25
25. choosing rather to be maltreated along with God’s people than to have the temporary pleasure of sin,
Chapter 11 Verse 26
26. considering the reproach of Christ[17] to be greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; because he was looking ahead to the reward.
Chapter 11 Verse 27
27. By faith he left Egypt behind, not fearing the king’s rage,[18] because he persevered as though seeing Him who is invisible.
Chapter 11 Verse 28
28. By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch them.
Chapter 11 Verse 29
29. By faith they passed through the Red Sea as on dry ground, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were swallowed up.[19]
Chapter 11 Verse 30
30. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, having been encircled for seven days.[20]
Chapter 11 Verse 31
31. By faith the prostitute Rahab, having received the spies in peace, did not perish with the disobedient.[21]
Chapter 11 Verse 32
32. And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell about Gideon, about Barak and Samson and Jephtha, about David and Samuel and the prophets,
Chapter 11 Verse 33
33. who through faith subdued kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, closed lions’ mouths,
Chapter 11 Verse 34
34. quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became mighty in battle, put to flight foreign armies.
Chapter 11 Verse 35
35. Women received their dead back by resurrection; while others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, so that they might obtain a better resurrection.[22]
Chapter 11 Verse 36
36. Still others were tried by mockings and scourgings, and even by chains and imprisonment.
Chapter 11 Verse 37
37. They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were tempted, they were murdered by sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, mistreated
Chapter 11 Verse 38
38. —of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.[23]
Chapter 11 Verse 39
39. Now all these did not receive the promise, though having been approved through faith,
Chapter 11 Verse 40
40. God having planned something better for us,[24] so that they should not be perfected without us.
Chapter 12
Chapter 12 Verse 1
1. So then, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we too must run with endurance the race that is set before us, laying aside every impediment and the sin[1] that so easily ensnares,
Chapter 12 Verse 2
2. looking unto Jesus, the Founder and Perfecter of the Faith, who for the joy[2] that was set before Him endured a cross, scorning its ignominy, and took His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
Chapter 12 Verse 3
3. Do consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so as not to grow weary, losing courage in your souls.
Chapter 12 Verse 4
4. In your struggle against sin[3] you have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed.[4]
Chapter 12 Verse 5
5. And you have forgotten the exhortation that instructs you as sons: “My son, do not make light of the LORD’s discipline, nor lose heart when you are reproved by Him;
Chapter 12 Verse 6
6. because whom the LORD loves He chastens, yes scourges every son whom He accepts.”[5]
Chapter 12 Verse 7
7. If you are enduring discipline, God is dealing with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not discipline?
Chapter 12 Verse 8
8. But if you are without discipline (something everyone undergoes),[6] then you are illegitimate and not sons.
Chapter 12 Verse 9
9. Furthermore, we have had our human fathers as correctors and respected them. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits[7] and live?
Chapter 12 Verse 10
10. Now they indeed disciplined us during a short period as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, so that we may partake of His holiness.
Chapter 12 Verse 11
11. Now no discipline seems to be pleasant at the time, but painful; yet afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised by it.[8]
Chapter 12 Verse 12
12. Therefore strengthen the listless hands and weakened knees,
Chapter 12 Verse 13
13. and make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame not be turned aside but rather be healed.[9]
Chapter 12 Verse 14
14. Pursue peace with all, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord;[10]
Chapter 12 Verse 15
15. taking care that no one come short of the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springing up cause trouble and thereby many be defiled,
Chapter 12 Verse 16
16. that no one be a fornicator, or worldly like Esau, who in exchange for one meal gave up his birthright.
Chapter 12 Verse 17
17. Because you do indeed know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing he was rejected; he found no place for a change of mind,[11] though he sought it diligently with tears.
Chapter 12 Verse 18
18. Now you have not come to a touchable mountain burning with fire, to blackness and darkness, to tempest;
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19. to a trumpet blast and spoken words such that those who heard begged that no further word be spoken to them
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20. (because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain it must be stoned!”[12]
Chapter 12 Verse 21
21. and the sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling!”);
Chapter 12 Verse 22
22. but you have come to Mount Zion, even to the City of the Living God, Heavenly Jerusalem; to myriads of angels in festal gathering,
Chapter 12 Verse 23
23. to an assembly of firstborn ones[13] who have been enrolled in heaven; to God, Judge of all; to the spirits of the perfected righteous;
Chapter 12 Verse 24
24. to Jesus, Mediator of a new covenant, and to a blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.[14]
Chapter 12 Verse 25
25. See to it that you not refuse Him who speaks. Because if they did not escape who refused Him who gave divine warning on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from Him who warns from Heaven!
Chapter 12 Verse 26
26. Then His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth but also the heaven.”[15]
Chapter 12 Verse 27
27. Now the ‘yet once more’ clearly indicates the removal of the things being shaken (created things), so that the unshakables may remain.
Chapter 12 Verse 28
28. Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us hold on to the grace by which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear;
Chapter 12 Verse 29
29. because our God is indeed a consuming fire.[16]
Chapter 13
Chapter 13 Verse 1
1. Let brotherly love continue.
Chapter 13 Verse 2
2. Do not forget hospitality to strangers, for in doing so some have entertained angels without knowing it.
Chapter 13 Verse 3
3. Remember the prisoners as if chained with them, those who are being mistreated as if you yourselves were physically there.
Chapter 13 Verse 4
4. Marriage is honorable among all and the marriage bed undefiled,[1] but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.[2]
Chapter 13 Verse 5
5. Your way of life should be free from the love of money, being content with what you have, because He Himself has said: “I absolutely will not desert you; I most certainly will not abandon you.”[3]
Chapter 13 Verse 6
6. So we can say with confidence: “The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?”[4]
Chapter 13 Verse 7
7. Remember your leaders, those who spoke the Word of God to you, whose faith imitate, considering the outcome of their conduct.
Chapter 13 Verse 8
8. Jesus Christ is Himself,[5] yesterday and today and into the ages.
Chapter 13 Verse 9
9. Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings, because it is good that the heart be established by grace, not foods, by which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
Chapter 13 Verse 10
10. We have an altar from which those who serve in the Tabernacle have no right to eat.[6]
Chapter 13 Verse 11
11. Because the bodies of the animals—whose blood, concerning sin, is brought into the Holies by the high priest—are burned up outside the camp,
Chapter 13 Verse 12
12. therefore Jesus also, so that He might sanctify the people by His own blood, suffered outside the city gate.
Chapter 13 Verse 13
13. So then, let us go out to Him, outside the camp, bearing His disgrace;[7]
Chapter 13 Verse 14
14. because here we do not have a permanent city, but we seek the coming one.
Chapter 13 Verse 15
15. Through Him therefore, at all times, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God[8]—the fruit of lips that identify with His name.
Chapter 13 Verse 16
16. (But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.)
Chapter 13 Verse 17
17. Obey your leaders and submit, for they keep watch over your souls, as those who must give account, so that they may do it with joy and not sighing (which would be unprofitable for you).
Chapter 13 Verse 18
18. Pray for us; for we are confident that we have a good conscience, desiring to live commendably in all things;
Chapter 13 Verse 19
19. I especially urge you to do this so that I may be restored to you more quickly.[9]
Chapter 13 Verse 20
20. Now may the God of peace—who through the blood of the eternal covenant[10] brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep—
Chapter 13 Verse 21
21. equip you for every good work to do His will,[11] working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Chapter 13 Verse 22
22. Now I appeal to you, brothers, bear with this word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.[12]
Chapter 13 Verse 23
23. Know that brother Timothy has been released, with whom I will see you, if he comes quickly.
Chapter 13 Verse 24
24. Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you.
Chapter 13 Verse 25
25. The Grace be with you all.Amen.