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1 In many portions and in many ways long ago, God, having spoken to our fathers through the prophets, 2 at the last of these days spoke to us through a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the ages; 3 who, being the brightness of his glory and exact representation of his being, upholding all the things by the word of his power and having made purification for sins, sat down at the right of the Majesty on high; 4 having become far superior to the angels, as he has inherited a more excellent name than they. 5 For to which of the angels did he ever say,

6 But again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, “And let all the angels of God worship him.” 7 And on the one hand, with regard to the angels, he says,

14 Are they not all ministering spirits, being sent for service for the sake of the ones going to inherit salvation?

2 Because of this, it is far more necessary for us to give attention to the things that have been heard, so that we might not drift away from them. 2 For if the message spoken through angels became valid and every transgression and disobedience received just penalty, 3 how will we escape, having neglected so great a salvation? Which salvation, first having been chosen to be spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by the ones having heard it; 4 God also testifying together with them by signs and wonders and various miracles and distributions of the Holy Spirit according to his will.

5 For it was not to angels that God subjected the world that is coming, about which we are speaking. 6 Instead, someone somewhere testified, saying,

For in subjecting all the things, he left nothing not subjected to him. But now we do not yet see all the things subjected to him, 9 but we see Jesus, the one made a little lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor because of his suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste of death on behalf of everyone. 10 For it was proper for him, because of whom all the things exist and through whom all the things exist, having brought many sons into glory, to perfect the founding leader of their salvation through sufferings. 11 For both the sanctifying and the ones being sanctified are all from one. For this reason, he is not ashamed to call them brothers, 12 saying,

14 Therefore, since the little children share in flesh and blood, he likewise also shared in the same things so that through his death he might abolish the one having the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and might release those people, as many as, in fear of death throughout all their lives, were held in slavery. 16 For of course he does not take hold of angels, but he takes hold of the offspring of Abraham, 17 from which he was obligated to become like his brothers in all things, so that he would be a merciful and faithful high priest concerning the things pertaining to God in order to make atonement for the sins of the people. 18 For in that he himself had suffered, having been tempted, he is able to help the ones being tempted.

3 Therefore, holy brothers, sharers of a heavenly calling, consider carefully the apostle and high priest of our confession, Jesus, 2 being faithful to the one having appointed him, as also Moses was in his house[fn]. 3 For this one has been considered worthy of greater glory than Moses, according to how much greater honor the one building it has than the house. 4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the one having built all things. 5 And Moses was indeed faithful as a servant in his entire house, for a testimony of the things that would be spoken in the future; 6 but Christ, as a Son over his house (whose house we are if we hold fast to the confidence and the boasting of our hope). 7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says:

12 Watch out, brothers, so that there will not be in any of you a wicked heart of unbelief, in the falling away from the living God. 13 Instead, exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” so that no one among you is hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become sharers of Christ, if indeed we hold firm the beginning of our confidence until the end, 15 while it is said,

16 For which ones, having heard, provoked him? Was it not all the ones having come out from Egypt through Moses? 17 And with whom was he very angry for 40 years? Was it not with the ones having sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, if not to the ones having disobeyed? 19 And we see that they were not able to enter, because of unbelief.

4 Therefore, let us be afraid lest while there remains a promise to enter into his rest, any of you might seem to have failed to attain it. 2 For we also are having good news proclaimed to us just as to them also. But the message of the hearing did not benefit them, not having been joined in faith with the ones having heard it.[fn] 3 For we, the ones having believed enter into rest, just as he said,

although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he has somewhere spoken thus about the seventh day:

“And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” 5 And again in this passage,

6 Therefore, since it remains for some to enter into it, and the ones previously having had the good news proclaimed to them did not enter because of their disobedience, 7 he again sets a certain day, calling it “Today,” speaking through David after so much time, just as it has already been said,

8 For if Joshua gave them rest, he would not have spoken about another day after these things. 9 Therefore, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 10 For the one having entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works. 11 Therefore, let us be eager to enter into that rest so that no one might fall into the same example of this disobedience. 12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 And no creature is hidden before him. Instead, all things are bare and laid open to the eyes of him to whom is our word.

14 Therefore, having a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us firmly hold to our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is not able to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one having been tempted according to all things, according to our likeness, yet without sin. 16 Let us then approach with confidence to the throne of grace so that we may receive mercy and find grace for timely help.

5 For every high priest, being taken from among men on the behalf of men, is appointed in the things related to God so that he may offer gifts and sacrifices for sins; 2 being able to deal gently with the ones being ignorant and being deceived, because he also is subject to weakness. 3 And because of this, he is obligated, just as for the people, so also for himself, to offer sacrifices for sins. 4 And no one takes this honor for himself, but only being called by God, just as also Aaron was. 5 In the same way also, Christ did not glorify himself to become a high priest. Instead, the one having spoken to him said,

7 He, during the days of his flesh, offered up both prayers and requests with loud cries and tears to the one being able to save him from death and he was heard because of his godly life. 8 Even though being a son, he learned obedience from the things which he suffered. 9 And having been made perfect, he became, for all the ones obeying him, the source of eternal salvation, 10 having been designated by God as high priest, according to the order of Melchizedek, 11 concerning whom the message to us is great, but hard to speak about since you have become dull in your hearing. 12 For even though by this time you ought to be teachers, you again have need of someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have become ones having a need of milk, not solid food! 13 For anyone partaking of milk is inexperienced with the message of righteousness, because he is an infant. 14 But this solid food is for the mature ones, having through habit trained their senses for distinguishing both what is good and what is evil.

6 So then, having left the message of the beginning of Christ, let us go forward to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith in God, 2 teaching about baptisms and laying on of hands and resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment. 3 And this we will do, if God permits. 4 For it is impossible—for the ones having been once enlightened and having tasted of the heavenly gift and having become sharers of the Holy Spirit 5 and having tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come 6 but having fallen away—to restore them again to repentance since they are crucifying again for themselves the Son of God and exposing him to public shame. 7 For a land that drinks the rain that often comes upon it and produces useful vegetation for those for whom it is also cultivated shares in a blessing from God, 8 but producing thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to a curse, the end of which is for burning.

9 But concerning you, beloved ones, we are persuaded of things that are better and are accompanying salvation, even if we speak thus. 10 For God is not unjust, to forget your work and the love that you have demonstrated toward his name, having served the saints and continuing to serve them. 11 And we long for each of you to demonstrate the same diligence toward the full assurance of your hope until the end 12 so that you might not become dull, but imitators of the ones by faith and patience inheriting the promises.

13 For God, having promised to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, swore by himself, 14 saying, “I will most certainly bless you and multiply you.” 15 And in this way, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise. 16 For men swear by one who is greater, and an end of all disputes to them for confirmation is the oath, 17 in which God, intending even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable quality of his purpose, mediated it with an oath 18 so that by two unchangeable things, in which things it is impossible for God to lie, we, the ones having fled for refuge, might have a strong encouragement to hold firmly to the hope set before us; 19 which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both reliable and confirmed, and entering into the inside of the curtain, 20 where Jesus has entered as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

7 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, the one having met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2 to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth from all things, first indeed translated as “king of righteousness,” and then also “king of Salem,” that is, “king of peace,” 3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest perpetually.

4 But notice how great this one was, to whom the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth from the best plunder. 5 And the ones indeed from the sons of Levi having received the priesthood have a command according to the law to collect a tithe from the people, that is, from their brothers, even though they have come from the loin of Abraham. 6 But this one not being from their genealogy, has collected tithes from Abraham, and has blessed the one having the promises. 7 But without any dispute, the lesser is blessed by the greater. 8 And indeed here mortal men receive tithes, but there he is testified about that he lives on. 9 And, so to speak, Levi, the one collecting tithes, also had paid a tithe through Abraham, 10 because he was still in the loin of his father when Melchizedek met him.

11 If indeed then, perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the people had been given the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek and to not be said to be according to the order of Aaron? 12 For when the priesthood is changed, from necessity a change of the law also takes place. 13 For he about whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar. 14 For it is obvious that our Lord has sprung up from Judah, a tribe in regard to which Moses said nothing concerning priests. 15 And this is still even more obvious if another priest emerges according to the likeness of Melchizedek, 16 who has become a priest not according to a law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an indestructible life. 17 For it is being testified:

18 For on the one hand, there is an annulment of the former commandment because it is weak and useless 19 (for the law perfected nothing), and on the other hand is the introduction of a better hope, through which we come near to God. 20 And by as much as not without swearing an oath,—for indeed they without swearing an oath are become priests, 21 but he with an oath-taking, through the one saying to him,

22 and according to so much more, Jesus has become a guarantor of a better covenant. 23 And the ones, on the one hand, having become priests are many, since by death they are prevented from continuing, 24 but he, on the other hand, since he remains forever, has the permanent priesthood, 25 because of which he is also able to save completely the ones approaching God through him, always living to intercede on behalf of them. 26 For such a high priest was indeed suitable for us: holy, innocent, pure, separated from the sinners, and having become higher than the heavens; 27 who does not have each day a need, even as the high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first on behalf of his own sins and then on behalf of those of the people, for he did this, having offered himself once and never again. 28 For the law appoints as high priests men having weakness, but the word of the swearing of an oath, which came after the law, appoints a Son, having been made perfect forever.

8 Now the point concerning the things being said is this: We have such a high priest who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2 a servant of the holy place and the true tabernacle that the Lord, not a man, set up. 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, because of which it is necessary also for this one to have something that he might offer. 4 Now if indeed he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are the ones offering the gifts according to the law; 5 who serve an example and a shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses had been warned, being about to complete the tabernacle, for he says, “See that you will make everything according to the type that was shown to you on the mountain.” 6 But now he has obtained a far superior ministry, in as much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been legislated on better promises. 7 For if that first covenant would have been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second one. 8 For finding fault with them, he says,

13 By saying “new,” he has made the first obsolete, and what is being made obsolete and growing old is near disappearing.

9 Now indeed the first covenant had regulations for worship and the earthly holy place, 2 for a tabernacle was prepared, the first one, in which were both the lampstand and the table, and the presentation of the loaves, which is called ‘Holy,’ 3 and behind the second curtain was a tent which is called ‘the Holy of Holies,’ 4 having a golden incense altar and the ark of the covenant, having been covered completely all around with gold, in which was a golden jar holding the manna, and the rod of Aaron that budded, and the tablets of the covenant, 5 and above it, cherubim of glory overshadowing the atonement lid, about which things it is not now the time to speak according to each part. 6 And when these things had been thus prepared, the priests always enter into the first tabernacle, performing their services; 7 but into the second tent, once in the year only the high priest enters, and not without blood that he offers on behalf of himself and of the unintentional sins of the people. 8 This is what the Holy Spirit is making clear, that the way of the holy places is not yet to be revealed, the first tabernacle still having a place, 9 which is a parable for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are being offered, not being able according to the conscience to perfect the worshiper, 10 only concerning foods and drinks and different baptisms, regulations of the body, being imposed until a time of new order.

11 But Christ, having come as a high priest of the good things having come into existence, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by human hands, that is, not of this creation;[fn] 12 and not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered into the holy places once and never again, having himself obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and sprinkling ashes of a heifer on the ones that had been defiled sanctifies them for the cleansing of their flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your[fn] conscience from dead works to serve the living God! 15 And for this reason, he is a mediator of a new covenant, so that, a death having happened for redemption of the transgressions related to the first covenant, the ones called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 16 For where there is a covenant, there is a necessity for the death of the one having covenanted it to be proven. 17 For a covenant is in force on the basis of the dead, because it never has force when the one covenanting it lives. 18 So not even the first covenant had been inaugurated without blood. 19 For every command having been spoken according to the law by Moses to all the people, having taken the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and red wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people, 20 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.” 21 And in a similar way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and all the containers of the service. 22 And according to the law, almost everything is cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

23 Therefore it is necessary on the one hand for the examples of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these, but on the other hand, the heavenly things themselves, with better sacrifices than these, 24 for Christ did not enter into holy places made with hands—copies of the true ones—but into heaven itself, to be made visible now in the presence of God on our behalf, 25 and not in order to offer himself many times, even as the high priest enters into the holy places each year with blood that is not his own; 26 since it was necessary for him to suffer many times from the foundation of the world. But now he has been revealed once at the end of the ages for the annulment of sin through the sacrifice of himself. 27 And just as it is appointed to men to die once, and after that, the judgment, 28 so also, Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many people, will appear for a second time, apart from sin, for salvation to the ones eagerly waiting for him.

10 For the law, having a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the image itself of those things—is never able to make perfect the ones approaching with the same sacrifices that they continually bring every year. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased being offered, because the ones serving would no longer have consciousness of sins, having been cleansed once? 3 But with those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 5 Therefore, entering into the world, he says,

8 When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor did you take pleasure in them” (which things are offered according to the law), 9 then he had said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second. 10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and never again. 11 And indeed, every priest stands every day serving and repeatedly offering the same sacrifices that never are able to take away sins. 12 But he, having offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 waiting from then until his enemies might be made a footstool for his feet. 14 For by one offering he has perfected for all time the ones being sanctified. 15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after having said,

18 Now where there is forgiveness for these things, there is no longer sacrifice on behalf of sin.

19 Therefore, brothers, having confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 20 which has inaugurated for us a fresh and living way through the curtain, that is, his flesh, 21 and a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts having been sprinkled clean from a wicked conscience and our body having been washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold tightly the confession of our hope without wavering, because the one having promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider one another to stimulate love and good deeds, 25 not abandoning our own meeting together, just as is the habit for some people, but exhorting one another, and so much more in as much as you see that day approaching.

26 For if we deliberately keep on sinning after we receive the full knowledge of the truth, a sacrifice on behalf of sins no longer remains, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and of fire of zeal that is going to consume the adversaries. 28 Anyone having rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy at the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much worse punishment do you think will deserve the one having trampled underfoot the Son of God and having considered the blood of the covenant—by which he was sanctified—as profane and having insulted the Spirit of grace! 30 For we know the one having said, “Vengeance is mine; I will pay back.” 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 struggle of sufferings, 33 at times indeed being publicly exposed both to reproach and persecution, but at other times having become partners of the ones being treated in this way. 34 For you also sympathized with the prisoners, and you welcomed with joy the seizure of your possessions, knowing yourselves to have a better and abiding possession.[fn] 35 So you must 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 might obtain the promise.

39 But we ourselves are not of shrinking back to destruction, but of faith to the preservation of the soul.

11 Now faith is assurance of things being hoped for, proof of things not being seen. 2 For by this the ancients were commended. 3 By faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by the word of God—so that what is seen was not made from what is visible. 4 By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying because of his gifts, and through faith, having died, he still speaks. 5 By faith Enoch was transferred, so that he did not see death, and “He was not found, because God transferred him.” For before his transfer, he was reported to have been well-pleasing to God. 6 Now without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing, for it is necessary for the one coming to God to believe that he exists and is a rewarder of the ones seeking him. 7 By faith Noah, having been warned about the things not yet being seen, having become reverent, built an ark for salvation of his household, through which he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. 8 By faith, Abraham, being called, obeyed to go out to a place that he was going to receive for an inheritance and went out, not fully knowing where he is going. 9 By faith he lived as a foreigner in the land of the promise, having lived in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise, 10 for he was waiting for the city having foundations, whose architect and builder is God. 11 By faith, even Sarah herself received ability for the conception of an offspring, even beyond the time of full age, since she considered to be faithful the one having promised.[fn] 12 Therefore, also from one man—and he having become dead—these children were born, just as the stars of the sky in their great number and countless as the sand along the shore of the sea. 13 According to their faith all these died without receiving the promises, but seeing and greeting them from far off, and having confessed that they are strangers and foreigners on the earth. 14 For those saying such things are making it clear that they seek a homeland. 15 And if indeed they had been thinking of that land from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But now they reach for a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he prepared a city for them. 17 By faith Abraham, being tested, had offered Isaac; even the one having welcomed the promises offered up his one and only son, 18 to whom it was said, “Through Isaac your offspring will be named,” 19 having reasoned that God is able to raise up even from the dead, and in a parable, he received him back from there. 20 By faith also, concerning coming things, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau. 21 By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped on the end of his staff. 22 By faith Joseph, coming to an end, mentioned about the exodus of the sons of Israel and commanded them about his bones. 23 By faith Moses, having been born, was hidden for three months by his parents because they saw that the little child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the decree of the king. 24 By faith Moses, having become great, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. 25 Rather, he chose to suffer evil together with the people of God than to have the temporary enjoyment of sin. 26 He considered the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking away toward his reward. 27 By faith he left Egypt behind, not having feared the wrath of the king, for he endured as if he were seeing the unseen one. 28 By faith he has performed the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch them. 29 By faith they passed through the Red Sea as if through dry land, which the Egyptians, having taken an attempt, were swallowed up. 30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, having been encircled for seven days. 31 By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish together with the ones having disobeyed, having welcomed the spies with peace. 32 And what more might I say? For the time will fail me, fully relating about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, and also Samuel and the prophets, 33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, worked justice, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, 34 extinguished the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were empowered out of weakness, became strong in battle, and routed foreign armies. 35 Women received back their dead by resurrection, but others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection; 36 and others received a trial of mockings and of whippings, and even more of chains and of imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tried, they died with slaughter of a sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins, destitute, oppressed, mistreated;[fn] 38 (of which people the world was not worthy), being caused to wander about in deserts and mountains and caves and the holes in the ground. 39 And all these people, having been commended because of their faith, did not receive the promise, 40 God having provided something better concerning us, so that without us, they would not be made perfect.

12 For that very reason, we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, having laid aside every weight and the easily entangling sin, let us run with endurance the race that is placed before us, 2 looking away to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of the faith, who, for the joy that is placed before him, endured a cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider the one that has endured such opposition by sinners against themselves[fn], so that you might not become weary in your souls, giving up.

4 You have not yet resisted to the point of blood, struggling against sin, 5 and you have completely forgotten the exhortation that instructs you as sons:

7 Endure for 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 all men have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not his sons. 9 Furthermore, on the one hand, we had the fathers of our flesh as discipliners and we were respectful of them; on the other hand, will we not much more be subjected to the Father of the spirits and live? 10 For indeed, they were disciplining us for a few days according to what seems best to them, but he, to benefit us, so that we might share his holiness. 11 Now every discipline does not seem to be joy at the present, but pain, but afterward it produces the peaceful fruit of righteousness for the ones having been trained by it. 12 Therefore, make straight the drooping hands and the knees that have been paralyzed, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame might not be dislocated, but rather might be healed.

14 Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord, 15 carefully watching that no one is falling short from the grace of God, not any root of bitterness is growing up to cause trouble, and by this many might become defiled, 16 not any sexually immoral or profane one such as Esau, who in exchange for one meal sold his own birthright. 17 For you know that even afterwards, desiring to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, because he found no place for repentance, even though he sought it with tears.

18 For you have not come to what can be touched and to a blazing fire and to darkness and to gloom and to a storm 19 and to a sound of a trumpet and to a voice of words of which the ones having heard begged for not a word to be added to them. 20 For they could not endure what was ordered: “If even an animal might touch the mountain, it must be stoned.” 21 And the thing being made visible was so fearful that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.” 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly 23 and to the church of the firstborn ones, who have been registered in the heavens, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous ones made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood speaking better than Abel. 25 See that you do not refuse the one speaking. For if those did not escape, having refused the one warning them on earth, much less we who are turning away from the one from heaven, 26 the voice of whom at that time shook the earth, but now he has promised, saying, “Still once I myself will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.” 27 But this phrase, “Still once” indicates the removal of the things being shaken, that is, of the things created, so that the things not being shaken might remain. 28 Therefore, receiving an unshakeable kingdom, let us have gratitude, through which let us serve well-pleasingly to God, with reverence and awe, 29 for indeed our God is a consuming fire.

13 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Do not neglect hospitality, for through this, some have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. 3 Remember the prisoners, as having been bound with them, and the ones being mistreated, as yourselves also being in body. 4 Marriage must be honorable among all, and the marriage bed pure, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers. 5 Your manner of life must be free from the love of money, being content with the things being present, for he himself has said, “I will never leave you, nor never will I forsake you,” 6 so that, being confident, we say,

7 Remember your leaders, who spoke the Word of God to you, of whom considering the outcome of their conduct, imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. 9 Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be confirmed by grace, not by foods with which the ones walking in them were not benefitted. 10 We have an altar from which the ones serving in the tabernacle have no authority to eat. 11 For the blood of which animals is brought on behalf of sin by the high priest into the holy places, but the bodies of these animals are burned up outside the camp. 12 So Jesus also suffered outside the gate, so that he might sanctify the people through his own blood. 13 Let us therefore go to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach. 14 For we do not have a lasting city here, but we are seeking the one coming. 15 Through him, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips acknowledging his name. 16 But let us not neglect the doing of good and sharing, for God is well-pleased with such sacrifices. 17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls, as ones who will give account, in order that they might do this with joy and not with groaning, for this would be unprofitable to you.

18 Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to conduct ourselves honorably in all things. 19 But I encourage you even more to do this, so that I will be restored to you soon.

20 Now the God of peace, the one having brought up from the dead ones the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus, by the blood of the eternal covenant, 21 may he prepare you in every thing good to do his will, working in us what is well-pleasing before him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

22 Now I encourage you, brothers, bear with the word of exhortation, for only through a few words I have written to you. 23 Know that our brother Timothy has been set free, with whom I will see you if he comes soon.

Instead of his, some ancient manuscripts read your.

Some older version add and you have put him over the works of your hands.

Some ancient manuscripts read in all his house.

Other versions read, But the message of the hearing, not having been joined with faith in those who heard it, did not benefit them.

Other versions read, Christ came as a high priest of the good things that are to come.

Some ancient manuscripts have our instead of your.

Some older versions have For you had compassion on me in my chains.

There is some question about whether it was Abraham’s faith or Sarah’s faith that was in view. By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren, that Abraham received ability to father a child. This happened even though he was too old, since he considered as faithful the one who had given the promise.

Some older versions omit they were tried.

Some ancient manuscripts read against himself.

Some ancient manuscripts add Amen.