
The Epistle to the Hebrews

   {1:1} God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the
prophets by divers portions and in divers manners, {1:2} hath at the
end of these days spoken unto us in [his] Son, whom he appointed heir
of all things, through whom also he made the worlds; {1:3} who being
the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and
upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made
purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on
high; {1:4} having become by so much better than the angels, as he hath
inherited a more excellent name than they. {1:5} 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?

   {1:6} And when he again bringeth in the firstborn into the world he
saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. {1:7} And of the
angels he saith,
Who maketh his angels winds,
And his ministers a flame a fire:

   {1:8} but of the Son [he saith,]
Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever;
And the sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
{1:9} Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity;
Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee
With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

   {1:10} And,
Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth,
And the heavens are the works of thy hands:
{1:11} They shall perish; but thou continuest:
And they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
{1:12} And as a mantle shalt thou roll them up,
As a garment, and they shall be changed:
But thou art the same,
And thy years shall not fail.

   {1:13} But of which of the angels hath he said at any time,
Sit thou on my right hand,
Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet?

   {1:14} Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to do
service for the sake of them that shall inherit salvation?



   {2:1} Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things
that were heard, lest haply we drift away [from them]. {2:2} For if the
word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and
disobedience received a just recompense of reward; {2:3} how shall we
escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which having at the first
been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;
{2:4} God also bearing witness with them, both by signs and wonders,
and by manifold powers, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to
his own will. {2:5} For not unto angels did he subject the world to
come, whereof we speak. {2:6} But one hath somewhere testified, saying,
What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
Or the son of man, that thou visitest him?
{2:7} Thou madest him a little lower than the angels;
Thou crownedst him with glory and honor,
And didst set him over the works of thy hands:
{2:8} Thou didst put all things in subjection under his feet.

   For in that he subjected all things unto him, he left nothing that
is not subject to him. But now we see not yet all things subjected to
him. {2:9} But we behold him who hath been made a little lower than the
angels, [even] Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with
glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for
every [man]. {2:10} For it became him, for whom are all things, and
through whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make
the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings. {2:11} For
both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one:
for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, {2:12} saying,
I will declare thy name unto my brethren,
In the midst of the congregation will I sing thy praise.

   {2:13} And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold, I
and the children whom God hath given me. {2:14} Since then the children
are sharers in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook
of the same; that through death he might bring to nought him that had
the power of death, that is, the devil; {2:15} and might deliver all
them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to
bondage. {2:16} For verily not to angels doth he give help, but he
giveth help to the seed of Abraham. {2:17} Wherefore it behooved him in
all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a
merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make
propitiation for the sins of the people. {2:18} For in that he himself
hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.



   {3:1} Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling,
consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, [even] Jesus;
{3:2} who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also was Moses in
all his house. {3:3} For he hath been counted worthy of more glory than
Moses, by so much as he that built the house hath more honor than the
house. {3:4} For every house is builded by some one; but he that built
all things is God. {3:5} And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house
as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to
be spoken; {3:6} but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are
we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto
the end. {3:7} Wherefore, even as the Holy Spirit saith,
To-day if ye shall hear his voice,
{3:8} Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation,
Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
{3:9} Where your fathers tried [me] by proving [me,]
And saw my works forty years.
{3:10} Wherefore I was displeased with this generation,
And said, They do always err in their heart:
But they did not know my ways;
{3:11} As I sware in my wrath,
They shall not enter into my rest.

   {3:12} Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of
you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:
{3:13} but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called
To-day; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin:
{3:14} for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the
beginning of our confidence firm unto the end: {3:15} while it is said,
To-day if ye shall hear his voice,
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

   {3:16} For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they
that came out of Egypt by Moses? {3:17} And with whom was he displeased
forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the
wilderness? {3:18} And to whom sware he that they should not enter into
his rest, but to them that were disobedient? {3:19} And we see that
they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.





   {4:1} Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of
entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short
of it. {4:2} For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even
as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it
was not united by faith with them that heard. {4:3} For we who have
believed do enter into that rest; even as he hath said,
As I sware in my wrath,
They shall not enter into my rest:

   although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
{4:4} For he hath said somewhere of the seventh [day] on this wise, And
God rested on the seventh day from all his works; {4:5} and in this
[place] again,
They shall not enter into my rest.

   {4:6} Seeing therefore it remaineth that some should enter
thereinto, and they to whom the good tidings were before preached
failed to enter in because of disobedience, {4:7} he again defineth a
certain day, To-day, saying in David so long a time afterward (even as
hath been said before),
To-day if ye shall hear his voice,
Harden not your hearts.

   {4:8} For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken
afterward of another day. {4:9} There remaineth therefore a sabbath
rest for the people of God. {4:10} For he that is entered into his rest
hath himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. {4:11}
Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man
fall after the same example of disobedience. {4:12} For the word of God
is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and
piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and
marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.
{4:13} And there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight: but
all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we
have to do. {4:14} Having then a great high priest, who hath passed
through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our
confession. {4:15} For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched
with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all
points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin. {4:16} Let us
therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may
receive mercy, and may find grace to help [us] in time of need.





   {5:1} For every high priest, being taken from among men, is
appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both
gifts and sacrifices for sins: {5:2} who can bear gently with the
ignorant and erring, for that he himself also is compassed with
infirmity; {5:3} and by reason thereof is bound, as for the people, so
also for himself, to offer for sins. {5:4} And no man taketh the honor
unto himself, but when he is called of God, even as was Aaron. {5:5} So
Christ also glorified not himself to be made a high priest, but he that
spake unto him,
Thou art my Son,
This day have I begotten thee:

   {5:6} as he saith also in another [place,]
Thou art a priest for ever
After the order of Melchizedek.

   {5:7} Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and
supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to
save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear, {5:8}
though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he
suffered; {5:9} and having been made perfect, he became unto all them
that obey him the author of eternal salvation; {5:10} named of God a
high priest after the order of Melchizedek. {5:11} Of whom we have many
things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of
hearing. {5:12} For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers,
ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first
principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of
milk, and not of solid food. {5:13} For every one that partaketh of
milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a
babe. {5:14} But solid food is for fullgrown men, [even] those who by
reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.



   {6:1} Wherefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of
Christ, let us press on unto perfection; not laying again a foundation
of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, {6:2} of the
teaching of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of
the dead, and of eternal judgment. {6:3} And this will we do, if God
permit. {6:4} For as touching those who were once enlightened and
tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy
Spirit, {6:5} and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the
age to come, {6:6} and [then] fell away, it is impossible to renew them
again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God
afresh, and put him to an open shame. {6:7} For the land which hath
drunk the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet
for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receiveth blessing from God:
{6:8} but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh
unto a curse; whose end is to be burned. {6:9} But, beloved, we are
persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation,
though we thus speak: {6:10} for God is not unrighteous to forget your
work and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye
ministered unto the saints, and still do minister. {6:11} And we desire
that each one of you may show the same diligence unto the fulness of
hope even to the end: {6:12} that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of
them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. {6:13} For
when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater,
he sware by himself, {6:14} saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee,
and multiplying I will multiply thee. {6:15} And thus, having patiently
endured, he obtained the promise. {6:16} For men swear by the greater:
and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.
{6:17} Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs
of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an
oath; {6:18} that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible
for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for
refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us: {6:19} which we have as
an anchor of the soul, [a hope] both sure and stedfast and entering
into that which is within the veil; {6:20} whither as a forerunner
Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest for ever after the
order of Melchizedek.



   {7:1} For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High,
who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed
him, {7:2} to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being
first, by interpretation, King of righteousness, and then also King of
Salem, which is King of peace; {7:3} without father, without mother,
without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life,
but made like unto the Son of God), abideth a priest continually. {7:4}
Now consider how great this man was, unto whom Abraham, the patriarch,
gave a tenth out of the chief spoils. {7:5} And they indeed of the sons
of Levi that receive the priest's office have commandment to take
tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren,
though these have come out of the loins of Abraham: {7:6} but he whose
genealogy is not counted from them hath taken tithes of Abraham, and
hath blessed him that hath the promises. {7:7} But without any dispute
the less is blessed of the better. {7:8} And here men that die receive
tithes; but there one, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth. {7:9}
And, so to say, through Abraham even Levi, who receiveth tithes, hath
paid tithes; {7:10} for he was yet in the loins of his father, when
Melchizedek met him. {7:11} Now if there was perfection through the
Levitical priesthood (for under it hath the people received the law),
what further need [was there] that another priest should arise after
the order of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron?
{7:12} For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a
change also of the law. {7:13} For he of whom these things are said
belongeth to another tribe, from which no man hath given attendance at
the altar. {7:14} For it is evident that our Lord hath sprung out of
Judah; as to which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priests. {7:15}
And [what we say] is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness
of Melchizedek there ariseth another priest, {7:16} who hath been made,
not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an
endless life: {7:17} for it is witnessed [of him,]
Thou art a priest for ever
After the order of Melchizedek.

   {7:18} For there is a disannulling of a foregoing commandment
because of its weakness and unprofitableness {7:19} (for the law made
nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through
which we draw nigh unto God. {7:20} And inasmuch as [it is] not without
the taking of an oath {7:21} (for they indeed have been made priests
without an oath; but he with an oath by him that saith of him,
The Lord sware and will not repent himself,
Thou art a priest for ever);

   {7:22} by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better
covenant. {7:23} And they indeed have been made priests many in number,
because that by death they are hindered from continuing: {7:24} but he,
because he abideth for ever, hath his priesthood unchangeable. {7:25}
Wherefore also he is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near
unto God through him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for
them. {7:26} For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless,
undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
{7:27} who needeth not daily, like those high priests, to offer up
sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the [sins] of the
people: for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.
{7:28} For the law appointeth men high priests, having infirmity; but
the word of the oath, which was after the law, [appointeth] a Son,
perfected for evermore.



   {8:1} Now in the things which we are saying the chief point [is
this]: We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of
the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, {8:2} a minister of the
sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.
{8:3} For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and
sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that this [high priest] also have
somewhat to offer. {8:4} Now if he were on earth, he would not be a
priest at all, seeing there are those who offer the gifts according to
the law; {8:5} who serve [that which is] a copy and shadow of the
heavenly things, even as Moses is warned [of God] when he is about to
make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things
according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mount. {8:6} But
now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is
also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon
better promises. {8:7} For if that first [covenant] had been faultless,
then would no place have been sought for a second. {8:8} For finding
fault with them, he saith,
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,
That I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the
      house of Judah;
{8:9} Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the
      land of Egypt;
For they continued not in my covenant,
And I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
{8:10} 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 on their heart also will I write them:
And I will be to them a God,
And they shall be to me a people:
{8:11} And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen,
And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord:
For all shall know me,
From the least to the greatest of them.
{8:12} For I will be merciful to their iniquities,
And their sins will I remember no more.

   {8:13} In that he saith, A new [covenant] he hath made the first
old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto
vanishing away.



   {9:1} Now even a first [covenant] had ordinances of divine service,
and its sanctuary, [a sanctuary] of this world. {9:2} For there was a
tabernacle prepared, the first, wherein [were] the candlestick, and the
table, and the showbread; which is called the Holy place. {9:3} And
after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of
holies; {9:4} having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the
covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein [was] a golden pot
holding the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the
covenant; {9:5} and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the
mercy-seat; of which things we cannot now speak severally. {9:6} Now
these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually
into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services; {9:7} but into
the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood,
which he offereth for himself, and for the errors of the people: {9:8}
the Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holy place hath
not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle is yet standing;
{9:9} which [is] a figure for the time present; according to which are
offered both gifts and sacrifices that cannot, as touching the
conscience, make the worshipper perfect, {9:10} [being] only (with
meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until
a time of reformation. {9:11} But Christ having come a high priest of
the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
{9:12} nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his
own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained
eternal redemption. {9:13} For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the
ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto
the cleanness of the flesh: {9:14} how much more shall the blood of
Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish
unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living
God? {9:15} And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant,
that a death having taken place for the redemption of the
transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been
called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. {9:16} For
where a testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him that
made it. {9:17} For a testament is of force where there hath been
death: for it doth never avail while he that made it liveth. {9:18}
Wherefore even the first [covenant] hath not been dedicated without
blood. {9:19} For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses unto
all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves
and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled
both the book itself and all the people, {9:20} saying, This is the
blood of the covenant which God commanded to you-ward. {9:21} Moreover
the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry he sprinkled in like
manner with the blood. {9:22} And according to the law, I may almost
say, all things are cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of
blood there is no remission. {9:23} It was necessary therefore that the
copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but
the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
{9:24} For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, like
in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before
the face of God for us: {9:25} nor yet that he should offer himself
often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place year by year
with blood not his own; {9:26} else must he often have suffered since
the foundation of the world: but now once at the end of the ages hath
he been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. {9:27}
And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this
[cometh] judgment; {9:28} so Christ also, having been once offered to
bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to
them that wait for him, unto salvation.



   {10:1} For the law having a shadow of the good [things] to come, not
the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year
by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw
nigh. {10:2} Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the
worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more
consciousness of sins. {10:3} But in those [sacrifices] there is a
remembrance made of sins year by year. {10:4} For it is impossible that
the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. {10:5} Wherefore
when he cometh into the world, he saith,
Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not,
But a body didst thou prepare for me;
{10:6} In whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hadst no
      pleasure:
{10:7} Then said I, Lo, I am come (In the roll of the book it is
      written of me)
To do thy will, O God.

   {10:8} Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt
offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst
pleasure therein (the which are offered according to the law), {10:9}
then hath he said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the
first, that he may establish the second. {10:10} By which will we have
been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once
for all. {10:11} And every priest indeed standeth day by day
ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which can
never take away sins: {10:12} but he, when he had offered one sacrifice
for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; {10:13}
henceforth expecting till his enemies be made the footstool of his
feet. {10:14} For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that
are sanctified. {10:15} And the Holy Spirit also beareth witness to us;
for after he hath said,
{10:16} This is the covenant that I will make with them
After those days, saith the Lord:
I will put my laws on their heart,
And upon their mind also will I write them;

   [then saith he,]
{10:17} And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

   {10:18} Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering
for sin. {10:19} Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the
holy place by the blood of Jesus, {10:20} by the way which he dedicated
for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his
flesh; {10:21} and [having] a great priest over the house of God;
{10:22} let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having
our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body
washed with pure water, {10:23} let us hold fast the confession of our
hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised: {10:24} and
let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works;
{10:25} not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of
some is, but exhorting [one another]; and so much the more, as ye see
the day drawing nigh. {10:26} For if we sin wilfully after that we have
received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a
sacrifice for sins, {10:27} but a certain fearful expectation of
judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries.
{10:28} A man that hath set at nought Moses law dieth without
compassion on [the word of] two or three witnesses: {10:29} of how much
sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged 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? {10:30} For we know him that said, Vengeance
belongeth unto me, I will recompense. And again, The Lord shall judge
his people. {10:31} It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the
living God. {10:32} But call to remembrance the former days, in which,
after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;
{10:33} partly, being made a gazingstock both by reproaches and
afflictions; and partly, becoming partakers with them that were so
used. {10:34} For ye both had compassion on them that were in bonds,
and took joyfully the spoiling of you possessions, knowing that ye have
for yourselves a better possession and an abiding one. {10:35} Cast not
away therefore your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward.
{10:36} For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of
God, ye may receive the promise.
{10:37} For yet a very little while,
He that cometh shall come, and shall not tarry.
{10:38} But my righteous one shall live by faith:
And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.

   {10:39} But we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition; but
of them that have faith unto the saving of the soul.



   {11:1} Now faith is assurance of [things] hoped for, a conviction of
things not seen. {11:2} For therein the elders had witness borne to
them. {11:3} By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by
the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things
which appear. {11:4} By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent
sacrifice than Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he
was righteous, God bearing witness in respect of his gifts: and through
it he being dead yet speaketh. {11:5} By faith Enoch was translated
that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God
translated him: for he hath had witness borne to him that before his
translation he had been well-pleasing unto God: {11:6} And without
faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing [unto him]; for he that
cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of
them that seek after him. {11:7} By faith Noah, being warned [of God]
concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an
ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world,
and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
{11:8} By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a
place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not
knowing whither he went. {11:9} By faith he became a sojourner in the
land of promise, as in a [land] not his own, dwelling in tents, with
Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: {11:10} for he
looked for the city which hath the foundations, whose builder and maker
is God. {11:11} By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive
seed when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had
promised: {11:12} wherefore also there sprang of one, and him as good
as dead, [so many] as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the
sand, which is by the sea-shore, innumerable. {11:13} These all died in
faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and
greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers
and pilgrims on the earth. {11:14} For they that say such things make
it manifest that they are seeking after a country of their own. {11:15}
And if indeed they had been mindful of that [country] from which they
went out, they would have had opportunity to return. {11:16} But now
they desire a better [country], that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is
not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he hath prepared for
them a city. {11:17} By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac:
yea, he that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only
begotten [son]; {11:18} even he to whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy
seed be called: {11:19} accounting that God [is] able to raise up, even
from the dead; from whence he did also in a figure receive him back.
{11:20} By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things
to come. {11:21} By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the
sons of Joseph; and worshipped, [leaning] upon the top of his staff.
{11:22} By faith Joseph, when his end was nigh, made mention of the
departure of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning
his bones. {11:23} By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three
months by his parents, because they saw he was a goodly child; and they
were not afraid of the king's commandment. {11:24} By faith Moses, when
he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
{11:25} choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people of God,
than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; {11:26} accounting the
reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he
looked unto the recompense of reward. {11:27} By faith he forsook
Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him
who is invisible. {11:28} By faith he kept the passover, and the
sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not
touch them. {11:29} By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry
land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were swallowed up. {11:30} By
faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed
about for seven days. {11:31} By faith Rahab the harlot perished not
with them that were disobedient, having received the spies with peace.
{11:32} And what shall I more say? for the time will fail me if I tell
of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah; of David and Samuel and the
prophets: {11:33} who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought
righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, {11:34}
quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from
weakness were made strong, waxed mighty in war, turned to flight armies
of aliens. {11:35} Women received their dead by a resurrection: and
others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance; that they might
obtain a better resurrection: {11:36} and others had trial of mockings
and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: {11:37} they
were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain
with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being
destitute, afflicted, ill-treated {11:38} (of whom the world was not
worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of
the earth. {11:39} And these all, having had witness borne to them
through their faith, received not the promise, {11:40} God having
provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they
should not be made perfect.



   {12:1} Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so
great a cloud of witnesses, 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, {12:2} looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of
[our] faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,
despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of
God. {12:3} For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of
sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.
{12:4} Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin:
{12:5} and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you
as with sons,
My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord,
Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;
{12:6} For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,
And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

   {12:7} It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as
with sons; for what son is there whom [his] father chasteneth not?
{12:8} But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made
partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. {12:9} Furthermore, we
had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence:
shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits,
and live? {12:10} For they indeed for a few days chastened [us] as
seemed good to them; but he for [our] profit, that [we] may be
partakers of his holiness. {12:11} All chastening seemeth for the
present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth
peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, [even the
fruit] of righteousness. {12:12} Wherefore lift up the hands that hang
down, and the palsied knees; {12:13} and make straight paths for your
feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather
be healed. {12:14} Follow after peace with all men, and the
sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord: {12:15} looking
carefully lest [there be] any man that falleth short of the grace of
God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and
thereby the many be defiled; {12:16} lest [there be] any fornication,
or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own
birthright. {12:17} For ye know that even when he afterward desired to
inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a
change of mind [in his father,] though he sought it diligently with
tears. {12:18} For ye are not come unto [a mount] that might be
touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness,
and tempest, {12:19} and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of
words; which [voice] they that heard entreated that no word more should
be spoken unto them; {12:20} for they could not endure that which was
enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;
{12:21} and so fearful was the appearance, [that] Moses said, I
exceedingly fear and quake: {12:22} but ye are come unto mount Zion,
and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to
innumerable hosts of angels, {12:23} to the general assembly and church
of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of
all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, {12:24} and to Jesus
the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that
speaketh better than [that of] Abel. {12:25} See that ye refuse not him
that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that
warned [them] on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape] who turn away
from him that [warneth] from heaven: {12:26} whose voice then shook the
earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more will I make to
tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven. {12:27} And this
[word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are
shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are
not shaken may remain. {12:28} Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that
cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service
well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe: {12:29} for our God is a
consuming fire.



   {13:1} Let love of the brethren continue. {13:2} Forget not to show
love unto strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
{13:3} Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that
are illtreated, as being yourselves also in the body. {13:4} [Let]
marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the bed [be] undefiled:
for fornicators and adulterers God will judge. {13:5} Be ye free from
the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself
hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise
forsake thee. {13:6} So that with good courage we say,
The Lord is my helper; I will not fear:
What shall man do unto me?

   {13:7} Remember them that had the rule over you, men that spake unto
you the word of God; and considering the issue of their life, imitate
their faith. {13:8} Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday and to-day,
[yea] and for ever. {13:9} Be not carried away by divers and strange
teachings: for it is good that the heart be established by grace; not
by meats, wherein they that occupied themselves were not profited.
{13:10} We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat that serve
the tabernacle. {13:11} For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is
brought into the holy place by the high priest [as an offering] for
sin, are burned without the camp. {13:12} Wherefore Jesus also, that he
might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered without the
gate. {13:13} Let us therefore go forth unto him without the camp,
bearing his reproach. {13:14} For we have not here an abiding city, but
we seek after [the city] which is to come. {13:15} Through him then let
us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the
fruit of lips which make confession to his name. {13:16} But to do good
and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well
pleased. {13:17} Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit [to
them]: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give
account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this
[were] unprofitable for you. {13:18} Pray for us: for we are persuaded
that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all
things. {13:19} And I exhort [you] the more exceedingly to do this,
that I may be restored to you the sooner. {13:20} Now the God of peace,
who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with
the blood of an eternal covenant, [even] our Lord Jesus, {13:21} make
you perfect in every good thing to do his will, working in us that
which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom [be]
the glory for ever and ever. Amen. {13:22} But I exhort you, brethren,
bear with the word of exhortation, for I have written unto you in few
words. {13:23} Know ye that our brother Timothy hath been set at
liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you. {13:24} Salute
all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy
salute you. {13:25} Grace be with you all. Amen.




