HEBREWS
Hebrews 1
1 God, Who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the
fathers by the prophets,
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [His] Son, Whom He appointed heir
of all things, by Whom also He made the worlds;
3 Who being the brightness of [His] glory, and the express image of His person,
and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had purged sins, sat
down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
4 Being made so much better than the angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained
a more excellent name than they.
5 For unto which of the angels said He at any time, Thou art My Son, this day
have I begotten Thee? And again, I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to
Me a Son?
6 And again, when He bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, He saith,
And let all the angels of God worship Him.
7 And of the angels He saith, Who maketh His angels spirits, and His ministers
a flame of fire.
8 But unto the Son [He saith], Thy throne, O God, [is] for ever and ever: a
sceptre of righteousness [is] the sceptre of Thy kingdom.
9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, [even] Thy
God, anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows.
10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and
the heavens are the works of Thine hands:
11 They shall perish; but Thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a
garment;
12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but
Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail.
13 But to which of the angels said He at any time, Sit on My right hand, until
I make Thine enemies Thy footstool?
14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who
shall be heirs of salvation?
1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have
heard, lest at any time we should let [them] slip.
2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and
disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
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];
4 God also bearing [them] witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers
miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?
5 For unto the angels hath He not put in subjection the world to come, whereof
we speak.
6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is mankind, that Thou art
mindful of him? or the Son of man, that Thou visitest him?
7 Thou madest him a little lower than angels; Thou crownedst him with glory and
honour, and didst set him over the works of Thy hands:
8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that He put all
in subjection under him, He left nothing [that is] not put under him. But now
we see not yet all things put under him.
9 But we see Yahshua, Who was made a little lower than the angels, because of
the suffering of death crowned with glory and honour, that He by the grace of
God should taste death for every person.
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.
11 For both He That sanctifieth and they who are sanctified [are] all of one:
for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12 Saying, I will declare Thy name unto My brethren, in the midst of the church
will I sing praise unto Thee.
13 And again, I will put My trust in Him. And again, Behold I and the children
which God hath given Me.
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;
15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject
to bondage.
16 For verily He taketh not hold of angels; but He taketh hold of seed of
Abraham.
17 Wherefore in all things it behoved 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.
18 For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succour
them that are tempted.
1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the
Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Yahshua;
2 Who was faithful to Him That appointed Him, as also Moses [was faithful] in
all his house.
3 For this [man] was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he
who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
4 For every house is builded by some [one]; but He That built all things [is]
God.
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;
6 But the Christ as a son over His house; Whose house are we, if we hold fast
the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
7 Wherefore (as the Holy Spirit saith, Today if ye will hear His voice,
8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in
the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.
10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in
[their] heart; and they have not known My ways.
11 So I sware in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest),
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief,
in departing from the living God.
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called today; lest any of you be
hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we are made partakers of the Christ, if we hold the beginning of our
confidence stedfast unto the end;
15 While it is said, Today if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts,
as in the provocation.
16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of
17 But with whom was He grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that
sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom sware He that they should not enter into His rest, but to them
that believed not?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
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.
2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word
preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard
[it].
3 Now we which believed do enter into rest. [Though] He said, As I have sworn
in My wrath, they shall not enter into My rest, nevertheless the works were
finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For He spake in a certain place of the seventh [day] on this wise, And God
did rest the seventh day from all His works.
5 And in this [place] again, They shall not enter into My rest.
6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom
it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
7 Again, He limiteth a certain day, saying in David, Today, after so long a
time; as it is said, Today if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Yahshua had given them rest, then would He not afterward have spoken
of another day.
9 There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his
rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God [did] from His.
11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any one fall after the
same example of unbelief.
12 For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged
sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the
joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the
heart.
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.
14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the
heavens, Yahshua the Son of God, let us hold fast [our] profession.
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 as [we are, yet] without
sin.
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.
1 For every high priest taken from among mankind is ordained for people in
things [pertaining] to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for
sins:
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.
3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to
offer for sins.
4 And no one taketh this honour unto himself, but [only] when called of God, as
[was] Aaron.
5 So also the Christ glorified not Himself to be made high priest; but He That
said unto Him, Thou art My Son, today have I begotten Thee.
6 As He saith also in another [place], Thou [art] a priest for ever after the
order of Melchisedec.
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;
8 Though He was Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered;
9 And being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation unto all
them that obey Him;
10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
11 Of Whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are
dull of hearing.
12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye 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 meat.
13 For every one that useth milk [is] unskilful in the word of righteousness:
for he is a babe.
14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, [even] those who by
reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of the Christ, let us go
on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead
works, and of faith toward God,
2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection
of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
3 And this will we do, if God permit.
4 For [it is] impossible for those who were once enlightened, and tasted of the
heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
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.
7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and
bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing
from God:
8 But that which beareth thorns and briers [is] rejected, and [is] nigh unto
cursing; whose end [is] to be burned.
9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that
accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
10 For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work and love, which ye shewed
toward His name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full
assurance of hope unto the end:
12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and
patience inherit the promises.
13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater,
He sware by Himself,
14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply
thee.
15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
16 For people swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation [is] to them
an end of all strife.
17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the
immutability of His counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath:
18 That by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie,
we might have a strong consolation, who fled for refuge to lay hold upon the
hope set before us:
19 Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and
which entereth into that within the veil;
20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, [even] Yahshua, made high priest
for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
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;
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;
3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of
days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest
continually.
4 Now consider how great this one [was], unto whom even the patriarch Abraham
gave the tenth of the spoils.
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:
6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and
blessed him that had the promises.
7 And without all contradiction the
less is blessed of the better.
8 And here people that die receive tithes; but there he, o f whom it is
witnessed that he liveth.
9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in
Abraham.
10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
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?
12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also
of the law.
13 For He of Whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which
no one gave attendance at the altar.
14 For [it is] evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses
spake nothing concerning priesthood.
15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec
there ariseth another priest,
16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power
of an endless life.
17 For He testifieth, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of
Melchisedec.
18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the
weakness and unprofitableness.
19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope
[did]; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
20 And inasmuch as not without an oath [He was made priest]:
21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by Him
That said unto Him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest for
ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
22 By so much was Yahshua made a surety of a better covenant.
23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue
by reason of death:
24 But this [Priest], because He continueth ever, hath an unchangeable
priesthood.
25 Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God
by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.
26 For such an high priest became us, [Who is] holy, harmless, undefiled,
separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
27 Who needeth 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.
28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of
the oath, which was since the law, [maketh] the Son, Who is consecrated for
evermore.
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;
2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord
pitched, not mankind.
3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore
[it is] of necessity that this one have somewhat also to offer.
4 For if He were on earth, He should not be a priest, seeing that there are
those who offer gifts according to law:
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, saith He,
[that] thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the
mount.
6 But now hath He obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also He is
the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
7 For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then should no place have
been sought for the second.
8 For finding fault with them, He saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of
Judah:
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, saith the Lord.
10 For this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after
those days, saith 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:
11 And they shall not teach each one his neighbour, and each one his brother,
saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know Me, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their
iniquities will I remember no more.
13 In that He saith, A new [covenant], He hath made the first old. Now that
which decayeth and waxeth old [is] ready to vanish away.
1 Then verily the first [covenant] had also ordinances of divine service,
and a worldly sanctuary.
2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein [was] the
candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
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;
5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we
cannot now speak particularly.
6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the
first tabernacle, accomplishing the service [of God].
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:
8 The Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not
yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
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 conscience;
10 [Which stood] only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal
ordinances, imposed [on them] until the time of reformation.
11 But the Christ being come 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
creation;
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].
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer
sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
14 How much more shall the blood of the Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit
offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to
serve the living God?
15 And for this cause He is the mediator of the new covenant, that by means of
death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the first
covenant, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal
inheritance.
16 For where a covenant [is], there must also of necessity be the death of the
appointed [victim].
17 For a covenant [is] of force over the dead: otherwise it is of no strength
at all while the appointed [victim] liveth.
18 Whereupon neither the first [covenant] was dedicated without blood.
19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to 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,
20 Saying, This [is] the blood of the covenant which God hath enjoined unto
you.
21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the
vessels of the ministry.
22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding
of blood is no remission.
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.
24 For the 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:
25 Nor yet that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest entereth into
the holy place every year with blood of others;
26 For then must He often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but
now once in the end of the world hath He appeared to put away sin by the
sacrifice of Himself.
27 And as it is appointed unto mankind once to die, but after this the
judgment:
28 So the 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.
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.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because that the
worshippers once purged should have no more conscience of sins.
3 But in those [sacrifices there is] a remembrance again [made] of sins every
year.
4 For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take
away sins.
5 Wherefore when He cometh into the world, He saith, Sacrifice and offering
Thou wouldest not, but a body hast Thou prepared Me:
6 In burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin Thou hast had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of Me,) to
do Thy will, O God.
8 Above when He said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and [offering]
for sin Thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure [therein]; which are offered
by the law;
9 Then said He, Lo, I come to do Thy will. He taketh away the first, that He
may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of
Yahshua the Christ once [for all].
11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same
sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12 But this [Priest], after He had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat
down on the right hand of God;
13 From henceforth expecting till His enemies be made His footstool.
14 For by one offering He hath
perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
15 [Whereof] the Holy Spirit also is a witness to us: for after having said
before,
16 This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith
the Lord, I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write
them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these
[is, there is] no more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood
of Yahshua,
20 By a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil,
that is to say, His flesh;
21 And [having] an high priest over the house of God;
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.
23 Let us hold fast the profession of [our] faith without wavering; (for He
[is] faithful That promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some
[is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as ye see the day
approaching.
26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the
truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which
shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who
hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the
covenant, wherewith He was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite
unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know Him That said, Vengeance [belongeth] unto Me, I will recompense,
saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge His people.
31 [It is] a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were
illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and
afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of
your goods, knowing yourselves that ye have a better and an enduring substance.
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of
reward.
36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye
might receive the promise.
37 For yet a little while, and He That shall come will come, and will not
tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if [any] draw back, my soul shall have
no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that
believe to the saving of the soul.
1 Now faith is the substance of
things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God,
so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
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 speaketh.
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.
6 But without faith [it is] impossible to please [Him]: for he that cometh to
God must believe that He is, and [that] He is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek Him.
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.
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 whither
he went.
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:
10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker
[is] God.
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.
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.
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen
them afar off, and embraced [them], and confessed that they were strangers and
pilgrims on the earth.
14 For they that say such things
declare plainly that they seek a country.
15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that [country] from whence they came
out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
16 But now they desire a better [country], that is, an heavenly: wherefore God
is not ashamed to be called their God: for He prepared for them a city.
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had
received the promises offered up his only begotten [son],
18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
19 Accounting that God [was] able to raise [him] up, even from the dead; from
whence also he received him in a figure.
20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
21 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and
worshipped, [leaning] upon the top of his staff.
22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the sons of
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.
24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of
Pharaoh's daughter;
25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy
the pleasures of sin for a season;
26 Esteeming the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures in
Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
27 By faith he forsook
28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest the
destroyer of the firstborn should touch them.
29 By faith they passed through the
30 By faith the walls of
31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she
had received the spies with peace.
32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and
[of] Barak, and [of] Samson, and [of] Jephthae; [of] David also, and Samuel,
and [of] the prophets:
33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained
promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
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.
35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured,
not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
36 And others had trial of [cruel] mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of
bonds and imprisonment:
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;
38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and [in]
mountains, and [in] dens and caves of the earth.
39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the
promise:
40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should
not be made perfect.
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 doth so easily
beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Yahshua the author and finisher of faith; Who for the joy that
was set before Him endured the stake, despising shame, and is set down at the
right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider Him That endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself,
lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto sons:
My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art
rebuked of Him:
6 For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He
receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is
he whom the father chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye
bastards, and not sons.
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, and live?
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.
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous:
nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto
them which are exercised thereby.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
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.
14 Follow peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the
Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest any one fail of the grace of God; lest any root of
bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one
morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17 For ye 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.
18 For ye are not come unto that that was touched, and that burned with fire
and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which [voice] they that
heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as [a
man or] a beast touch the mountain, [the man] shall be stoned [or the beast
thrust through with a dart]:
21 And so terrible was the sight, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and
quake:)
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the
heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
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 of just ones made
perfect,
24 And to Yahshua the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of
sprinkling, that speaketh better things than [that of] Abel.
25 See that ye refuse not Him That speaketh. For if they escaped not who
refused Him That spake on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape], if we turn
away from Him That [speaketh] from heaven:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now He hath promised, saying, Yet once
more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that
are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be
shaken may remain.
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:
29 For our God [is] a consuming fire.
1 Let brotherly love continue.
2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained
angels unawares.
3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; [and] them which suffer
adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
4 Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and
adulterers God will judge.
5 [Let your] behaviour [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such
things as ye have: for He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not fear what
mankind shall do unto me.
7 Remember them which [are your] leaders, who have spoken unto you the word of
God, whose faith follow, considering the aim of [their] conversation:
8 Yahshua the Christ, the same yesterday and to day and forever.
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.
10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the
tabernacle.
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.
12 Wherefore Yahshua also, that He might sanctify the people with His own
blood, suffered without the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp, bearing His reproach.
14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
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.
16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God
is well pleased.
17 Obey them that [are your] leaders, and submit: for they watch for your
souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with
grief: for that [is] unprofitable for you.
18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing
to live honestly.
19 But I beseech [you] the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the
sooner.
20 Now the God of peace, That brought again from the dead our Lord Yahshua, the
great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21 Make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that
which is wellpleasing in His sight, through Yahshua the Christ; to Whom [be]
glory for ever and ever. Amen.
22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have
written a letter unto you in few words.
23 Know ye that [our] brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come
shortly, I will see you.
24 Salute all them that [are your] leaders, and all the saints. They of
25 Grace [be] with you all. Amen.