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1 God, having spoken long ago to our fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, 2 in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the ages, 3 who, being the radiance of His glory and the exact expression of His substance, and upholding all things by the power of His word, through having made the purification of sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having become by so much superior to the angels, as much as He has inherited a name more excellent beyond theirs. 5 For to which of the angels did He ever say: "You are my Son; today I have begotten You"? And again: "I will be to Him for a Father, and He will be to Me for a Son"? 6 And again, when He brings the Firstborn into the world, He says: "And let all God's angels worship Him." 7 And indeed as to the angels He says: "The One making His angels winds, and His ministers a flame of fire." 8 But unto the Son: "Your throne, O God, is to the age of the age, and the scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom. 9 You have loved righteousness and have hated wickedness; because of this, God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of exultation above Your companions." 10 And: "You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are works of Your hands. 11 They will perish but You remain; and all will grow old like a garment; 12 and like a robe You will roll them up, and like a garment they will be changed; but You are the same, and Your years will never end." 13 Now to which of the angels did He ever say: "Sit at My right hand, until I may place Your enemies as a footstool for Your feet"? 14 Are they not all ministering spirits, being sent forth for service for the sake of those being about to inherit salvation? 2 Because of this, it behooves us to give heed more abundantly to the things we have heard, lest ever we should drift away. 2 For if the word having been spoken by angels was unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense, 3 how shall we escape, having neglected such a great salvation, which, having received a commencement declared by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those having heard, 4 God bearing witness with them both by signs and wonders, and by various miracles and distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to His will. 5 For not to angels did He subject the world that is coming, of which we are speaking, 6 but someone somewhere has testified, saying, "What is man, that You are mindful of him, or the son of man, that You care for him? 7 You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor; 8 You have put in subjection all things under his feet. For in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing unsubject to him. But at present not yet do we see all things having been subjected to him. 9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, because of the suffering of death, having been crowned with glory and with honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone. 10 For it was fitting to Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, having brought many sons to glory, to make perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings. 11 For both the One sanctifying and those being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers, 12 saying: "I will declare Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing Your praises." 13 And again: "I will be trusting in Him." And again: "Behold, I and the children whom God has given Me." 14 Therefore, since the children have partaken of blood and of flesh, He also likewise took part in the same things, so that through His death He might destroy the one holding the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and might set free those who all their time to live were subject to slavery through fear of death. 16 For surely He helps not the angels, but He helps the seed of Abraham. 17 Therefore it behooved Him to be made like the brothers in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, in order to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18 For in that He Himself has suffered, having been tempted, He is able to help those being tempted. 3 Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling, carefully consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2 being faithful to the One having appointed Him, as Moses also in all His house. 3 For He has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by so much as the one having built it has greater honor than the house itself. 4 For every house is built by someone, but the One having built everything is God. 5 And indeed Moses was faithful as a servant in all His house, unto a testimony of the things going to be spoken, 6 but Christ as the Son over His house, whose house we are, if indeed we should hold our confidence and the boast of our hope. 7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says: "Today if you should hear His voice, 8 do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, 9 where forty years your fathers tried Me by testing and saw My works. 10 Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Always they go astray in their heart; and they have not known My ways;' 11 so I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter into My rest.'" 12 Take heed, brothers, lest ever there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, into falling away from the living God. 13 But encourage one another every day, while it is called today, so that not one of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if indeed we should hold firm unto the end the assurance from the beginning. 15 As it is said: "Today if you should hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion." 16 For who were those having heard, rebelled, but not all those having come out of Egypt by the leading of Moses? 17 And with whom was He indignant forty years, if not with those having sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, if not to those having disobeyed? 19 And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief. 4 Therefore, of the promise to enter into His rest left remaining, we should fear, lest ever any of you should seem to have fallen short. 2 And indeed we are those having had the gospel preached just as they did; but the message of their hearing did not profit them, not having been united with the faith of those having heard. 3 For those having believed enter into the rest, as He has said: "So I swore in my wrath, 'they shall not enter into My rest.'" And yet the works have been finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For He has spoken somewhere concerning the seventh day in this way, "And on the seventh day God rested from all His works." 5 And again in this passage. "They shall not enter into My rest." 6 Therefore, since it remains for some to enter into it, and those having received the good news formerly did not enter in because of disobedience, 7 again He appoints a certain day as "Today," saying through David after so long a time, just as it has been said, "Today, if you shall hear His voice, do not harden your hearts." 8 For if Joshua had given rest to them, He would not have spoken after this about another day. 9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 10 For the one having entered into His rest, he also rested from his works, as God did from the own. 11 Therefore we should be diligent to enter into that rest, so that no one should fall by the same example of disobedience. 12 For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating even as far as the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrows, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 And there is no creature hidden before Him, but all things are uncovered and laid bare to the eyes of Him to whom is our reckoning. 14 Therefore having a great high priest having passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, we should hold firmly to our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest not being able to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one having been tempted in all things by the same way, without sin. 16 Therefore we should come with boldness to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need. 5 For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed on behalf of men in things relating to God, that he should offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins, 2 being able to exercise forbearance with those being ignorant and going astray, since he himself also is encompassed by weakness; 3 and because of this, he is obligated to offer sacrifices for sins, so also for himself, just as for the people. 4 And no one takes upon himself the honor, but rather being called by God, just as Aaron also. 5 So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become a high priest, but the One having said to Him: "You are My Son, today I have begotten You." 6 Just as He says also in another place: "You are a priest to the age, according to the order of Melchizedek." 7 He in the days of His flesh, having offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One being able to save Him from death, and having been heard because of reverent submission, 8 though being a Son, He learned obedience from the things He suffered, 9 and having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all those obeying Him, 10 having been designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek. 11 Concerning this there is much speech from us, and difficult in interpretation to speak, since you have become sluggish in the hearings. 12 For even by the time you ought to be teachers, you have need of one to teach you again what is the beginning of the principles of the oracles of God; and you have become those having need of milk, and not of solid food. 13 For everyone partaking of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. 14 But solid food is for the mature, the ones by constant use having trained the senses for distinguishing both good and evil. 6 Therefore, having left the beginning teaching of the Christ, we should go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and faith in God, 2 instruction about baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 3 And this we will do, if God permits. 4 For it is impossible for those once having been enlightened, and having tasted of the heavenly gift, and having become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and having tasted the goodness of God's word and the power of the coming age-- 6 and then having fallen away--to restore them again to repentance, crucifying in themselves the Son of God and subjecting Him to open shame. 7 For land having drunk in the rain coming often upon it and producing vegetation useful for those for the sake of whom also it is tilled, partakes of blessing from God. 8 But that bringing forth thorns and thistles is worthless and near to a curse, of which the end is unto burning. 9 But even if we speak like this, beloved, we are persuaded of better things concerning you, and things accompanying salvation. 10 For God is not unjust to forget your work and the love that you have shown toward His name, having ministered to the saints, and still ministering. 11 And we desire each of you to show the same earnestness, toward the full assurance of the hope unto the end, 12 so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those inheriting the promises through faith and patience. 13 For God, having made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, swore by Himself, 14 saying, "Surely if blessing, I will bless you; and multiplying, I will multiply you." 15 And thus having waited patiently, he obtained the promise. 16 For men swear by one greater, and an end of all their disputes, for confirmation, is the oath, 17 in which God, desiring to show more abundantly the unchangeableness of His purpose to the heirs of the promise, guaranteed it by an oath, 18 so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have strong encouragement, having fled for refuge, to take hold of the hope being set before us, 19 which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and unshakable and entering into that within the veil, 20 where Jesus, the forerunner for us, has entered, having become a high priest to the age, according to the order of Melchizedek. 7 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, having met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and having blessed him, 2 is he to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth of all, first indeed being translated, "king of righteousness;" and then also, "king of Salem," which is, "king of peace." 3 Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but having been made like the Son of God, he remains a priest unto all time. 4 Now consider how great this one was, to whom even Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth out of the best spoils. 5 And indeed, those out from the sons of Levi receiving the priestly office have a commandment to take a tenth from the people, according to the Law, that is, from their brothers, though having come out of the loin of Abraham. 6 But the one not tracing his ancestry from them has collected a tenth from Abraham and has blessed the one having the promises. 7 And apart from all dispute, the inferior is blessed by the superior. 8 And indeed here, dying men receive tithes; but in that place, it is testified that he lives on; 9 and so, to say a word, even Levi, the one receiving tithes, has been tithed through Abraham. 10 For he was still in the loin of his father when Melchizedek met him. 11 Then indeed, if perfection were by the Levitical priesthood (for upon it the people had received the Law) what need was there still for another priest to arise, according to the order of Melchizedek, and not to be named according to the order of Aaron? 12 For of the priesthood being changed, from necessity a change of Law also takes place. 13 For he concerning whom these things are said belonged to another tribe, from which no one has served at the altar. 14 For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, a tribe as to which Moses spoke nothing concerning priests. 15 And it is yet more abundantly evident if another priest according to the likeness of Melchizedek arises, 16 who has been constituted not according to a law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an indestructible life. 17 For it is testified: "You are a priest to the age, according to the order of Melchizedek." 18 For indeed, there is a putting away of the preceding commandment, because of its weakness and uselessness 19 (for the Law perfected nothing), and the introduction of a better hope, by which we draw near to God. 20 And inasmuch as it was not apart from an oath, for those ones truly are becoming priests without an oath, 21 He, however, was with an oath through the One saying to Him: "The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind, 'You are a priest to the age.'" 22 By so much also, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant. 23 And indeed those having become priests are many, because of being prevented from continuing by death. 24 But because of His abiding to the age, He holds the permanent priesthood, 25 wherefore also He is able to save to the uttermost those drawing near to God through Him, always living for to intercede for them. 26 For such a high priest indeed was fitting for us, holy, innocent, undefiled, having been separated from sinners, and having become higher than the heavens, 27 who has no need every day, as the first high priests, to offer up sacrifices for the own sins, then for those of the people; for He did this once for all, having offered up Himself. 28 For the Law appoints as high priests men having weakness; but the word of the oath, which is after the Law, a Son having been perfected to the age. 8 Now the point of the things being spoken of is that we have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2 a minister in the holy places and in the true tabernacle, which the Lord has pitched, not man. 3 For every high priest is appointed in order to offer both gifts and sacrifices; wherefore it was necessary for this One also to have something that He might offer. 4 Then certainly if He were on earth, not even would He be a priest, there being those offering the gifts according to Law, 5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly, as Moses was divinely instructed, being about to complete the tabernacle. For He says, "See that you shall make all things according to the pattern having been shown you in the mountain." 6 But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted upon better promises. 7 For if what was first had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second. 8 For finding fault with them, He says: "Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, and I will ratify 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 of My having taken hold of their hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord, putting My Laws into their mind, and I will inscribe them upon their hearts; and I will be to them God, and they will be to Me for a people. 11 And they shall not teach, each his neighbor, and each his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' because all will know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, 12 because I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I shall remember their sins no more. 13 In saying, "new," He has made obsolete the first; and that which is growing old and aging is near vanishing. 9 Therefore also indeed, the first had regulations of worship and an earthly sanctuary. 2 For a tabernacle was prepared, the first room in which were both the lampstand and the table, and the bread of the presentation, which is called the Holy Place. 3 Now behind the second veil was a tabernacle, being called the Holy of Holies, 4 having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant, having been covered around in every part with gold, in which was the golden pot having the manna, and the staff of Aaron having budded, and the tablets of the covenant. 5 And above it were the cherubim of glory, overshadowing the mercy seat; concerning which it is not now the time to speak in detail. 6 Now these things having been prepared thus, indeed the priests enter into the first tabernacle regularly, accomplishing the sacred services. 7 But only the high priest enters into the second, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and the sins of ignorance of the people. 8 By this the Holy Spirit was signifying that the way into the holy places has not yet been made manifest, the first tabernacle still having a standing, 9 which is a symbol for the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, not being able to make perfect in regard to conscience of the one worshiping, 10 consisting only in foods and drinks and various washings--ordinances of the flesh being imposed until the time of reformation. 11 But Christ, having appeared as high priest of the good things having come, by the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by hands, that is, not of this creation, 12 nor by blood of goats and calves, but through the own blood, He entered once for all into the holy places, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and of bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those having been defiled sanctify them for the purification of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our conscience from dead works, in order to serve the living God! 15 And because of this, He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those having been called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 16 For where there is a will, it is necessary to establish the death of the one having made it. 17 For a will is affirmed after death, since it is not in force at the time when the one having made it is living, 18 wherefore neither has the first been inaugurated apart from blood. 19 For of every commandment having been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, having taken the blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 20 saying, "This is the blood of the covenant, which God commanded unto you." 21 And likewise he sprinkled also the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with blood. 22 And almost all things are purified with blood according to the Law, and apart from blood-shedding there is no forgiveness. 23 Therefore it was necessary indeed for the representations of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ has entered not into holy places made by hands, copies of the true ones, but into heaven itself, now to appear for us in the presence of God, 25 nor that He should offer Himself repeatedly, just as the high priest enters into the holy places every year with the blood of another. 26 Otherwise it was necessary for Him to have suffered repeatedly from the foundation of the world. But now He has been revealed once in the consummation of the ages for the putting away of sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 27 And inasmuch as it is apportioned to men to die once, and after this, judgment, 28 so also Christ, having been offered once in order to bear the sins of many, will appear for a second time, apart from sin, to those awaiting Him for salvation. 10 For the Law, having a shadow of the good things coming, not the form of the things themselves, never is able each year, with the same sacrifices which they offer continually, to perfect those drawing near. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased being offered, because of those serving having been cleansed once, no longer having conscience of sins? 3 But in these, there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and of goats to take away sins. 5 Therefore coming into the world, He says: "Sacrifice and offering You have not desired, but a body You have prepared me. 6 In burnt offerings and offerings for sin You have not delighted. 7 Then I said, 'Behold, I have come-- in the scroll of the book it is written of Me-- to do Your will, O God.'" 8 Saying above, "Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offerings for sin, You have not desired, nor have You delighted in" (which are offered according to the Law), 9 then He said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will." He takes away the first that He might establish the second. 10 By that will, we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And indeed every priest stands every day, ministering and offering the same sacrifices repeatedly, which never are able to take away sins. 12 But this One, having offered one sacrifice for sins in perpetuity, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 the henceforth awaiting until His enemies should be placed as a footstool for His feet. 14 For by one offering, He has perfected for all time those being sanctified. 15 And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after having said before: 16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them, after those days, says the Lord, putting My Laws into their hearts, and I will inscribe them into their mind," 17 and, "Their sins and their lawless acts, I will remember no more." 18 Now where there is forgiveness of these, no longer is there an offering for sin. 19 Therefore, brothers, having confidence for entering the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way, which He dedicated for us through the veil that is His flesh, 21 and having a great priest over the house of God, 22 we should draw near with a sincere heart, in full assurance of faith, our hearts having been sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our body having been washed with pure water. 23 We should hold fast to the confession of our hope, unwavering; for the One having promised is faithful. 24 And we should think toward stirring up one another to love and to good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling together of ourselves as is the custom with some, but encouraging one another, and so much more as you see the Day drawing near. 26 For if we sin willingly after we are to receive the knowledge of the truth, no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain terrifying expectation of judgment and fury of fire being about to devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone having set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercies on the basis of two or three witnesses. 29 How much worse punishment do you think will he deserve, the one having trampled upon the Son of God, and having esteemed ordinary the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and having insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know the One having said, "Vengeance is Mine; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge His people." 31 it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 32 But remember the former days in which, having been enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings, 33 this indeed, being made a spectacle both by revilings and tribulations; now this, having become partners of those passing through them thus. 34 For both you sympathized with the prisoners and you accepted the plundering of your possessions with joy, knowing yourselves to have a better and abiding possession. 35 Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. 36 For you have need of endurance, so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise. 37 For "Yet in a very while little, the One coming will come, and will not delay. 38 But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he might shrink back, My soul does not take pleasure in him." 39 But we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of faith to the preserving of the soul. 11 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not being seen. 2 For in this the ancients were commended. 3 By faith we understand the universe to have been formed by the word of God, so that the things being seen have not been made from the things being visible. 4 By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God bearing witness to his gifts; and through it, having died, he still speaks. 5 By faith Enoch was translated not to see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him up. For before the translation, he was commended to have pleased God. 6 And without faith, it is impossible to please Him. For it behooves the one drawing near to God to believe that He exists and that He becomes a rewarder to those earnestly seeking Him out. 7 By faith Noah, having been divinely instructed concerning the things not yet seen, having been moved with fear, prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is according to faith. 8 By faith Abraham, being called to go out into a place that he was going to receive for an inheritance, obeyed and went out, not knowing where he is going. 9 By faith he sojourned in the land of the promise, as in a foreign country, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint-heirs of the same promise. 10 For he was awaiting the city having foundations, of which the architect and builder is God. 11 By faith also Sarah, herself barren, received power for the conception of seed, even beyond the opportune age, since she considered the One having promised faithful. 12 Therefore also were born from one man, and he having been as good as dead, as the stars of heaven in multitude, and countless as the sand by the shore of the sea. 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and having embraced them, and having confessed that they are strangers and sojourners on the earth. 14 For those saying such things make manifest that they are seeking their own country. 15 And indeed if they had been remembering that from where they came out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But now they stretch forward to a better one, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them. 17 By faith Abraham, being tested, has offered up Isaac. Even the one having received the promises was offering up his only begotten son, 18 as to whom it was said, "In Isaac your offspring will be reckoned," 19 having reasoned that God was able even to raise him out from the dead, from where he received him also in a simile. 20 By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the things coming. 21 By faith Jacob, dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped on the top of his staff. 22 By faith Joseph, dying, made mention concerning the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions concerning his bones. 23 By faith Moses, having been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw the little child was beautiful, and they did not fear the edict of the king. 24 By faith Moses, having become grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, 25 having chosen to suffer affliction with the people of God, rather than to have the fleeting enjoyment of sin, 26 having esteemed the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking toward the reward. 27 By faith he left Egypt, not having feared the anger of the king; for he persevered, as seeing the Invisible One. 28 By faith he has kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one destroying the firstborn would not touch them. 29 By faith they passed through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians, an attempt having made, were swallowed up. 30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell, having been encircled for seven days. 31 By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those having disobeyed, having received the spies with peace. 32 And what more shall I say? For the time will fail me, telling of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, also David, and Samuel, and the prophets, 33 who by faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises; shut the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouths of the sword; acquired strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put to flight foreign armies. 35 Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection. 36 And others received the trial of mockings and of scourgings, and in addition, of chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were killed by slaughter of the sword; they wandered in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, being oppressed, being mistreated; 38 of whom the world was not worthy; wandering in deserts, and mountains, and caves, and holes of the earth. 39 And these all, having been commended through the faith, did not receive the promise, 40 God having planned something better for us, so that not apart from us, they should be made perfect. 12 Therefore we also, having such a great cloud of witnesses encompassing us, having laid aside every weight and the sin easily entangling, should run with endurance the race lying before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who in view of the joy lying before Him endured the cross, having despised its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider fully the One having endured such great hostility from sinners against Himself, so that you shall not grow weary, fainting in your souls. 4 Not yet have you resisted unto blood, struggling against sin, 5 and you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as to sons: "My son, do not regard lightly the Lord's discipline, nor faint being reproved by Him. 6 For the Lord disciplines whom He loves, and He scourges every son whom He receives. 7 If you endure discipline, God is treating you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, of which they have all become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Furthermore indeed, we have had fathers of our flesh, correctors, and we respected them; and shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits and shall live? 10 For truly they were disciplining us for a few days, according to that seeming good to them; but He for our benefitting, in order to share His holiness. 11 And all discipline indeed for those being present, does not seem to be of joy, but of grief; but afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those having been trained by it. 12 Therefore lift up the drooping hands and enfeebled knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame should not be put out of joint, but rather should be healed. 14 Pursue peace with all, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord, 15 observing lest any be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up should trouble you and by this, the many might be defiled, 16 lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright. 17 For you know that even afterward, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, although having earnestly sought it with tears. 18 For you have not come to that being touched and having been kindled with fire, and to darkness, and to gloom, and to storm, 19 and to the sound of a trumpet, and to a voice of words which those having heard excused themselves, asking the word not to be addressed to them, 20 for they could not bear that being commanded: "If even a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned." 21 And the thing appearing was so fearful that Moses said, "I am greatly afraid and trembling." 22 But you have come to Mount Zion, and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, 23 and to the assembly, to the church of the firstborn having been enrolled in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous having been perfected, 24 and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkling of blood, speaking better things than that of Abel. 25 Take heed lest you refuse the One speaking. For if they did not escape, having refused the One divinely instructing them on earth, much less we, turning away from the One from the heavens, 26 whose voice shook the earth at that time; but now He has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also heaven." 27 And this, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of the things being shaken, as having been created, so that the things not being shaken should remain. 28 Therefore, receiving a kingdom not to be shaken, we may have grace, by which we may serve God well pleasingly, with fear and reverence. 29 For also, our God is a consuming fire. 13 Let brotherly love abide. 2 Do not be forgetful of hospitality, for through this, some have entertained angels unawares. 3 Remember prisoners as being bound with them; those being mistreated as yourselves also being in the body. 4 Let marriage be honorable in all, and the marriage bed undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers. 5 Let your manner of life be without covetousness, being satisfied with the present; for He Himself has said: "Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you." 6 So we are confident to say: "The Lord is my helper, and I will not be afraid; what shall man do to me?" 7 Remember those leading you, who spoke the word of God to you, of whom, considering the outcome of their way of life, you are to imitate the faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and to the ages. 9 Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, in which those being devoted were not profited. 10 We have an altar from which those serving in the tabernacle have no authority to eat. 11 For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought for sin into the holy places by the high priest are burned outside the camp. 12 Therefore Jesus also suffered outside the gate, so that he might sanctify the people by the own blood. 13 Therefore we should go forth to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach. 14 For here we do not have an abiding city, but we are seeking for the coming one. 15 Through Him then, we should offer the sacrifice of praise continually, everything to God, that is, the fruit of the lips confessing His name. 16 And do not be forgetful of the good, and of the sharing; for God is well pleased with such sacrifices. 17 Obey you those leading and be submissive--for they watch over your souls, as about to give account--so that they may do this with joy and not groaning, for this is unprofitable for you. 18 Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to conduct ourselves well in all things. 19 And more abundantly I exhort you to do this, so that I may be restored to you more quickly. 20 Now may the God of peace, having brought out from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus, by the blood of the eternal covenant, 21 equip you in everything good, in order to do His will, working in us that which is well pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory to the ages of the ages. Amen. 22 Now I exhort you, brothers, bear with the word of exhortation, for I have only written to you in few words. 23 You know our brother Timothy has been released, with whom I will see you if he should come sooner. 24 Greet all those leading you and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you. 25 Grace be with all of you.