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{\MT The Letter to the Hebrews

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}God, having
in
the
past
spoken
to
the
fathers
through
the
prophets
at
many times
and
in various
ways,
\VS{2}has
at
the
end
of
these
days
spoken
to
us
by
his
Son,
whom
he
appointed
heir
of
all
things,
through
whom
also
he
made
the
worlds.
\VS{3}His Son
is
the
radiance
of
his
glory,
the
very image
of
his substance,
and upholding
all
things
by
the
word
of
his
power,
who,
when
he
had
by
himself purified
us
of
our
sins,
sat
down
on
the
right
hand
of
the
Majesty
on
high,
\VS{4}having
become
as
much
better
than
the
angels
as
the
more
excellent
name
he
has
inherited
is
better
than
theirs.
\VS{5}For
to
which
of
the
angels
did
he
say
at
any
time,
\par }{\Q “You
are
my
Son.
\par }{\QB Today
I
have become
your
father?”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 1:5 }
Psalm 2:7}
\par }{\MM and
again,
\par }{\Q “I
will
be
to
him
a
Father,
\par }{\QB and
he
will
be
to
me
a
Son?”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 1:5 }
2 Samuel 7:14; 1 Chronicles 17:13}
\par }{\PP \VS{6}When
he
again
brings
in
the
firstborn
into
the
world
he
says, “Let
all
the
angels
of
God
worship
him.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 1:6 }
Deuteronomy 32:43 LXX}
\VS{7}Of
the
angels
he
says,
\par }{\Q “He
makes
his
angels
winds,
\par }{\QB and
his
servants
a
flame
of
fire.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 1:7 }
Psalm 104:4}
\par }{\PP \VS{8}But
of
the
Son
he says,
\par }{\Q “Your
throne, O
God,
is
forever
and
ever.
\par }{\QB The
scepter
of uprightness
is
the
scepter
of
your
Kingdom.
\par }{\Q \VS{9}You
have
loved
righteousness
and
hated
iniquity;
\par }{\QB therefore
God,
your
God,
has
anointed
you
with
the
oil
of
gladness
above
your fellows.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 1:9 }
Psalm 45:6-7}
\par }{\PP \VS{10}And,
\par }{\Q “You,
Lord,
in
the
beginning,
laid
the
foundation
of
the
earth.
\par }{\QB The
heavens
are
the
works
of
your
hands.
\par }{\Q \VS{11}They
will
perish,
but
you
continue.
\par }{\QB They
all
will grow
old
like
a
garment does.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}You
will
roll
them
up
like
a
mantle,
\par }{\QB and
they
will
be
changed;
\par }{\QB but
you
are
the
same.
\par }{\QB Your
years
won’t
fail.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 1:12 }
Psalm 102:25-27}
\par }{\PP \VS{13}But
which
of
the
angels
has
he
told
at
any
time,
\par }{\Q “Sit
at
my
right
hand,
\par }{\QB until
I
make
your
enemies
the
footstool
of
your
feet?”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 1:13 }
Psalm 110:1}
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Aren’t
they
all
serving
spirits,
sent
out
to
do
service
for
the
sake
of
those
who
will
inherit
salvation?

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Therefore
we
ought
to
pay greater
attention
to
the
things
that
were
heard, lest
perhaps
we
drift
away.
\VS{2}For
if
the
word
spoken
through
angels
proved
steadfast,
and
every
transgression
and
disobedience
received
a
just
penalty,
\VS{3}how
will
we
escape
if
we
neglect
so
great
a
salvation—which
at
the
first having
been
spoken
through
the
Lord,
was
confirmed
to
us
by
those
who
heard,
\VS{4}God
also testifying
with
them,
both
by
signs
and
wonders,
by
various works
of
power,
and
by
gifts
of
the
Holy
Spirit,
according
to
his
own
will?
\par }{\PP \VS{5}For
he
didn’t
subject
the
world
to
come,
of
which
we
speak,
to
angels.
\VS{6}But
one
has
somewhere
testified,
saying,
\par }{\Q “What
is
man,
that
you think
of
him?
\par }{\QB Or
the
son
of
man,
that
you care
for
him?
\par }{\Q \VS{7}You
made
him
a
little
lower
than
the
angels.
\par }{\QB You
crowned
him
with
glory
and
honor.\FTNT{*}{{\FR 2:7 }
TR adds “and set him over the works of your hands”}
\par }{\QB \VS{8}You
have
put
all
things
in
subjection
under
his
feet.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 2:8 }
Psalm 8:4-6
}
\par }{\PP For
in
that
he
subjected
all
things
to
him,
he
left
nothing
that
is
not
subject
to
him.
But
now
we don’t
yet
see
all
things
subjected
to
him.
\VS{9}But
we
see
him
who
has
been
made
a
little
lower
than
the
angels,
Jesus,
because
of
the
suffering
of
death
crowned
with
glory
and
honor,
that
by
the
grace
of
God
he
should
taste
of
death
for
everyone.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}For
it became
him,
for
whom
are
all
things
and
through
whom
are
all
things,
in
bringing
many children
to
glory,
to
make
the
author
of
their
salvation
perfect
through
sufferings.
\VS{11}For
both
he
who
sanctifies
and
those
who
are
sanctified
are
all
from
one,
for
which
cause
he
is
not
ashamed
to
call
them
brothers,\FTNT{†}{{\FR 2:11 }
The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”}
\VS{12}saying,
\par }{\Q “I
will declare
your
name
to
my
brothers.
\par }{\QB Among
the
congregation
I
will
sing
your
praise.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 2:12 }
Psalm 22:22}
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Again, “I
will
put
my
trust
in
him.”
Again, “Behold,
here
I
am
with
the
children
whom
God
has
given
me.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 2:13 }
Isaiah 8:18}
\VS{14}Since
then
the
children
have
shared
in
flesh
and
blood,
he
also
himself
in
the
same
way
partook
of
the
same,
that
through
death
he
might
bring
to nothing
him
who
had
the
power
of
death,
that
is,
the
devil,
\VS{15}and
might deliver
all
of
them
who
through
fear
of
death
were
all
their lifetime
subject
to bondage.
\VS{16}For most
certainly,
he
doesn’t
give
help
to
angels,
but
he
gives
help
to
the offspring\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 2:16 }
or, seed}
of
Abraham.
\VS{17}Therefore
he
was
obligated
in
all
things
to
be
made
like
his
brothers,
that
he
might
become
a
merciful
and
faithful
high
priest
in
things
pertaining
to
God,
to
make atonement
for
the
sins
of
the
people.
\VS{18}For
in
that
he
himself
has
suffered being
tempted,
he
is
able
to
help
those
who
are
tempted.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Therefore,
holy
brothers,
partakers
of
a
heavenly
calling,
consider
the
Apostle
and
High
Priest
of
our
confession:
Jesus,
\VS{2}who
was
faithful
to
him
who
appointed
him,
as
also
Moses
was
in
all
his
house.
\VS{3}For
he
has
been
counted
worthy
of
more
glory
than
Moses,
because
he
who
built
the
house
has
more
honor
than
the
house.
\VS{4}For
every
house
is
built
by
someone;
but
he
who
built
all
things
is
God.
\VS{5}Moses
indeed
was
faithful
in
all
his
house
as
a
servant,
for
a
testimony
of
those
things
which
were afterward
to
be
spoken,
\VS{6}but
Christ\FTNT{*}{{\FR 3:6 }
“Christ” means “Anointed One”.}
is faithful
as
a
Son
over
his
house.
We
are
his
house,
if
we
hold
fast
our
confidence
and
the glorying
of
our
hope
firm
to
the
end.
\VS{7}Therefore,
even
as
the
Holy
Spirit
says,
\par }{\Q “Today
if
you
will
hear
his
voice,
\par }{\QB \VS{8}don’t
harden
your
hearts
as
in
the rebellion,
\par }{\QB in
the
day
of
the
trial
in
the
wilderness,
\par }{\QB \VS{9}where
your
fathers
tested
me
and
tried
me,
\par }{\QB and
saw
my
deeds
for
forty
years.
\par }{\Q \VS{10}Therefore
I
was displeased
with
that
generation,
\par }{\QB and
said, ‘They
always err
in
their
heart,
\par }{\QB but
they
didn’t
know
my
ways.’
\par }{\Q \VS{11}As
I
swore
in
my
wrath,
\par }{\QB ‘They
will
not
enter
into
my
rest.’ ”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 3:11 }
Psalm 95:7-11}
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Beware,
brothers, lest
perhaps
there
might
be
in
any
one
of
you
an
evil
heart
of
unbelief,
in falling
away
from
the
living
God;
\VS{13}but
exhort
one
another
day
by
day,
so
long
as
it
is
called “today”,
lest
any
one
of
you
be
hardened
by
the
deceitfulness
of
sin.
\VS{14}For
we
have
become
partakers
of
Christ,
if
we
hold
the
beginning
of
our
confidence
firm
to
the
end,
\VS{15}while
it
is
said,
\par }{\Q “Today
if
you
will
hear
his
voice,
\par }{\QB don’t
harden
your
hearts,
as
in
the rebellion.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 3:15 }
Psalm 95:7-8}
\par }{\PP \VS{16}For
who,
when
they
heard,
rebelled?
Wasn’t
it
all
those
who
came
out
of
Egypt led
by
Moses?
\VS{17}With
whom
was
he displeased
forty
years?
Wasn’t
it
with
those
who
sinned,
whose
bodies
fell
in
the
wilderness?
\VS{18}To
whom
did
he
swear
that
they wouldn’t
enter
into
his
rest,
but
to
those
who
were
disobedient?
\VS{19}We
see
that
they weren’t
able
to
enter
in
because
of
unbelief.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Let’s
fear
therefore, lest
perhaps
anyone
of
you
should
seem
to
have
come
short
of
a
promise
of
entering
into
his
rest.
\VS{2}For
indeed
we
have
had
good
news
preached
to
us,
even
as
they
also
did,
but
the
word
they
heard
didn’t
profit
them,
because
it
wasn’t mixed
with
faith
by
those
who
heard.
\VS{3}For
we
who
have
believed
do
enter
into
that
rest,
even
as
he
has
said, “As
I
swore
in
my
wrath,
they
will
not
enter
into
my
rest;”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 4:3 }
Psalm 95:11
}
although
the
works
were
finished
from
the
foundation
of
the
world.
\VS{4}For
he
has
said
this
somewhere
about
the
seventh
day, “God
rested
on
the
seventh
day
from
all
his
works;”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 4:4 }
Genesis 2:2}
\VS{5}and
in
this
place
again, “They
will
not
enter
into
my
rest.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 4:5 }
Psalm 95:11}
\par }{\PP \VS{6}Seeing
therefore
it
remains
that
some
should
enter
into
it,
and
they
to
whom
the
good
news
was
preached
before
failed
to
enter
in
because
of
disobedience,
\VS{7}he
again defines
a
certain
day, “today”,
saying
through
David
so
long
a
time
afterward (just
as
has
been
said),
\par }{\Q “Today
if
you
will
hear
his
voice,
\par }{\QB don’t
harden
your
hearts.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 4:7 }
Psalm 95:7-8}
\par }{\PP \VS{8}For
if
Joshua
had
given
them
rest,
he
would
not
have
spoken
afterward
of
another
day.
\VS{9}There
remains
therefore
a
Sabbath
rest
for
the
people
of
God.
\VS{10}For
he
who
has
entered
into
his
rest
has
himself
also
rested
from
his
works,
as
God
did
from
his.
\VS{11}Let’s
therefore give diligence
to
enter
into
that
rest,
lest
anyone
fall
after
the
same
example
of
disobedience.
\VS{12}For
the
word
of
God
is
living
and
active,
and
sharper
than
any
two-edged
sword,
piercing
even
to
the dividing
of
soul
and
spirit,
of
both
joints
and
marrow,
and
is
able
to discern
the
thoughts
and
intentions
of
the
heart.
\VS{13}There
is
no
creature
that
is
hidden
from
his
sight,
but
all
things
are
naked
and
laid
open
before
the
eyes
of
him
to
whom
we
must give
an
account.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Having
then
a
great
high
priest
who
has
passed
through
the
heavens,
Jesus,
the
Son
of
God, let’s
hold tightly
to
our
confession.
\VS{15}For
we
don’t
have
a
high
priest
who
can’t
be touched
with
the feeling
of
our
infirmities,
but
one
who
has
been
in
all points
tempted
like
we
are,
yet
without
sin.
\VS{16}Let’s
therefore
draw
near
with
boldness
to
the
throne
of
grace,
that
we
may
receive
mercy
and
may
find
grace
for
help
in
time
of
need.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{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.
\VS{2}The high priest
can
deal
gently
with
those
who
are
ignorant
and going
astray,
because
he
himself
is
also surrounded
with
weakness.
\VS{3}Because
of
this,
he
must
offer sacrifices
for
sins
for
the
people,
as
well
as
for
himself.
\VS{4}Nobody
takes
this
honor
on
himself,
but
he
is
called
by
God,
just
like
Aaron
was.
\VS{5}So
also
Christ
didn’t
glorify
himself
to
be
made
a
high
priest,
but
it
was
he
who
said
to
him,
\par }{\Q “You
are
my
Son.
\par }{\QB Today
I
have
become
your
father.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 5:5 }
Psalm 2:7}
\par }{\PP \VS{6}As
he
says
also
in
another
place,
\par }{\Q “You
are
a
priest
forever,
\par }{\QB after
the
order
of
Melchizedek.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 5:6 }
Psalm 110:4}
\par }{\PP \VS{7}He,
in
the
days
of
his
flesh, having
offered
up
prayers
and petitions
with
strong
crying
and
tears
to
him
who
was
able
to
save
him
from
death,
and having
been
heard
for
his godly fear,
\VS{8}though
he
was
a
Son,
yet
learned
obedience
by
the
things
which
he
suffered.
\VS{9}Having
been
made
perfect,
he
became
to
all
of
those
who
obey
him
the author
of
eternal
salvation,
\VS{10}named
by
God
a
high
priest
after
the
order
of
Melchizedek.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}About
him
we
have
many
words
to
say,
and
hard
to interpret, seeing
you
have
become
dull
of
hearing.
\VS{12}For
although
by
this
time
you
should
be
teachers,
you
again
need
to
have
someone
teach
you
the rudiments
of
the
first
principles
of
the revelations
of
God.
You
have
come
to
need
milk,
and
not
solid
food.
\VS{13}For
everyone
who lives
on
milk
is
not experienced
in
the
word
of
righteousness,
for
he
is
a baby.
\VS{14}But
solid
food
is
for
those
who
are
full grown,
who
by
reason
of
use
have
their
senses exercised
to
discern
good
and
evil.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Therefore
leaving
the
teaching
of
the
first principles
of
Christ, let’s
press
on
to perfection—not
laying
again
a
foundation
of
repentance
from
dead
works,
of
faith
toward
God,
\VS{2}of
the
teaching
of baptisms,
of
laying
on
of
hands,
of
resurrection
of
the
dead,
and
of
eternal
judgment.
\VS{3}This
will
we
do,
if
God
permits.
\VS{4}For concerning
those
who
were
once
enlightened
and
tasted
of
the
heavenly
gift,
and
were
made
partakers
of
the
Holy
Spirit,
\VS{5}and
tasted
the
good
word
of
God
and
the
powers
of
the
age
to
come,
\VS{6}and
then fell
away,
it
is impossible
to
renew
them
again
to
repentance; seeing
they
crucify
the
Son
of
God
for
themselves
again,
and
put
him
to
open
shame.
\VS{7}For
the
land
which
has
drunk
the
rain
that
comes
often
on
it
and produces
a crop
suitable
for
them
for
whose
sake
it
is
also
tilled,
receives
blessing
from
God;
\VS{8}but
if
it bears
thorns
and
thistles,
it
is rejected
and
near being
cursed,
whose
end
is
to
be
burned.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}But,
beloved,
we
are
persuaded
of
better
things
for
you,
and
things
that
accompany
salvation,
even
though
we
speak
like
this.
\VS{10}For
God
is
not
unrighteous,
so
as
to
forget
your
work
and
the
labor
of
love
which
you showed
toward
his
name,
in
that
you
served
the
saints,
and still
do
serve
them.
\VS{11}We
desire
that
each
one
of
you
may
show
the
same
diligence
to
the fullness
of
hope
even
to
the
end,
\VS{12}that
you
won’t
be
sluggish,
but
imitators
of
those
who
through
faith
and
perseverance
inherited
the
promises.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}For
when
God
made
a
promise
to
Abraham,
since
he
could
swear
by
no
one
greater,
he
swore
by
himself,
\VS{14}saying, “Surely
blessing
I
will
bless
you,
and
multiplying
I
will
multiply
you.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 6:14 }
Genesis 22:17}
\VS{15}Thus, having
patiently endured,
he
obtained
the
promise.
\VS{16}For
men
indeed
swear
by
a
greater
one,
and
in
every
dispute
of
theirs
the
oath
is final
for
confirmation.
\VS{17}In
this
way
God, being determined
to
show more abundantly
to
the
heirs
of
the
promise
the immutability
of
his
counsel,
interposed
with
an
oath,
\VS{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
take
hold
of
the
hope
set
before
us.
\VS{19}This hope
we
have
as
an
anchor
of
the
soul,
a hope
both
sure
and
steadfast
and
entering
into
that
which
is
within
the
veil,
\VS{20}where
as
a
forerunner
Jesus
entered
for
us, having
become
a
high
priest
forever
after
the
order
of
Melchizedek.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{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,
\VS{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
means “king
of
peace”,
\VS{3}without
father,
without
mother,
without
genealogy,
having
neither
beginning
of
days
nor
end
of
life,
but
made
like
the
Son
of
God),
remains
a
priest
continually.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}Now consider
how
great
this
man
was,
to
whom
even
Abraham
the
patriarch
gave
a
tenth
out
of
the best plunder.
\VS{5}They
indeed
of
the
sons
of
Levi
who
receive
the
priest’s
office
have
a
commandment
to
take tithes
from
the
people
according
to
the
law,
that
is,
of
their
brothers,
though
these
have
come
out
of
the body
of
Abraham,
\VS{6}but
he
whose
genealogy
is
not counted
from
them
has accepted
tithes
from
Abraham,
and
has
blessed
him
who
has
the
promises.
\VS{7}But
without
any
dispute
the
lesser
is
blessed
by
the
greater.
\VS{8}Here
people
who
die
receive
tithes,
but
there
one
receives
tithes
of whom
it
is
testified
that
he
lives.
\VS{9}We
can
say
that
through
Abraham
even
Levi,
who
receives
tithes,
has
paid
tithes,
\VS{10}for
he
was
yet
in
the body
of
his
father
when
Melchizedek
met
him.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Now
if
perfection
was
through
the
Levitical
priesthood (for
under
it
the
people
have
received
the
law),
what
further
need
was
there
for
another
priest
to
arise
after
the
order
of
Melchizedek,
and
not
be
called
after
the
order
of
Aaron?
\VS{12}For
the
priesthood
being changed,
there
is
of
necessity
a
change
made
also
in
the
law.
\VS{13}For
he
of
whom
these
things
are
said
belongs
to
another
tribe,
from
which
no
one
has
officiated
at
the
altar.
\VS{14}For
it
is
evident
that
our
Lord
has sprung
out
of
Judah,
about
which
tribe
Moses
spoke
nothing
concerning priesthood.
\VS{15}This
is
yet
more abundantly evident,
if
after
the
likeness
of
Melchizedek
there
arises
another
priest,
\VS{16}who
has
been
made,
not
after
the
law
of
a fleshly
commandment,
but
after
the
power
of
an endless
life;
\VS{17}for
it
is
testified,
\par }{\Q “You
are
a
priest
forever,
\par }{\QB according
to
the
order
of
Melchizedek.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 7:17 }
Psalm 110:4}
\par }{\PP \VS{18}For
there
is
an annulling
of
a foregoing
commandment
because
of
its
weakness
and
uselessness
\VS{19}(for
the
law
made
nothing
perfect),
and
a bringing
in
of
a
better
hope,
through
which
we
draw
near
to
God.
\VS{20}Inasmuch
as
he
was
not
made
priest
without
the
taking
of
an
oath
\VS{21}(for
they
indeed
have
been
made
priests
without
an
oath),
but
he
with
an
oath
by
him
that
says
of
him,
\par }{\Q “The
Lord
swore
and
will
not
change
his
mind,
\par }{\QB ‘You
are
a
priest
forever,
\par }{\QB according
to
the
order
of Melchizedek.’ ”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 7:21 }
Psalm 110:4}
\par }{\PP \VS{22}By
so
much,
Jesus
has
become
the
guarantee
of
a
better
covenant.
\par }{\PP \VS{23}Many,
indeed,
have
been
made
priests,
because
they
are
hindered
from
continuing
by
death.
\VS{24}But
he,
because
he
lives
forever,
has
his
priesthood unchangeable.
\VS{25}Therefore
he
is
also
able
to
save
to
the uttermost
those
who
draw
near
to
God
through
him, seeing
that
he
lives
forever
to
make
intercession
for
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{26}For
such
a
high
priest
was
fitting
for us:
holy, guiltless,
undefiled,
separated
from
sinners,
and
made higher
than
the
heavens;
\VS{27}who
doesn’t
need,
like
those
high
priests,
to
offer
up
sacrifices
daily,
first
for
his
own
sins,
and
then
for
the
sins
of
the
people.
For
he
did
this
once
for
all,
when
he
offered
up
himself.
\VS{28}For
the
law
appoints
men
as
high
priests
who
have
weakness,
but
the
word
of
the
oath,
which came
after
the
law,
appoints
a
Son
forever
who
has
been
perfected.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
in
the
things
which
we
are
saying,
the
main
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,
\VS{2}a servant
of
the
sanctuary
and
of
the
true
tabernacle
which
the
Lord
pitched,
not
man.
\VS{3}For
every
high
priest
is
appointed
to
offer
both
gifts
and
sacrifices.
Therefore
it
is
necessary
that
this
high
priest
also
have
something
to
offer.
\VS{4}For
if
he
were
on
earth,
he
would
not
be
a
priest
at
all, seeing
there
are
priests
who
offer
the
gifts
according
to
the
law,
\VS{5}who
serve
a
copy
and
shadow
of
the
heavenly
things,
even
as
Moses
was
warned
by
God
when
he
was
about
to
make
the
tabernacle,
for
he
said, “See,
you
shall
make
everything
according
to
the
pattern
that
was
shown
to
you
on
the
mountain.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 8:5 }
Exodus 25:40}
\VS{6}But
now
he
has
obtained
a
more
excellent
ministry,
by
as
much
as
he
is
also
the
mediator
of
a
better
covenant,
which
on
better
promises
has
been given
as
law.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}For
if
that
first covenant
had
been
faultless,
then
no
place
would
have
been
sought
for
a
second.
\VS{8}For
finding
fault
with
them,
he
said,
\par }{\Q “Behold,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 8:8 }
“Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.}
the
days
are
coming”,
says
the
Lord,
\par }{\QB “that
I
will make
a
new
covenant
with
the
house
of
Israel
and
with
the
house
of
Judah;
\par }{\Q \VS{9}not
according
to
the
covenant
that
I
made
with
their
fathers
\par }{\QB in
the
day
that
I
took
them
by
the
hand
to
lead
them
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt;
\par }{\Q for
they
didn’t
continue
in
my
covenant,
\par }{\QB and
I disregarded
them,”
says
the
Lord.
\par }{\Q \VS{10}“For
this
is
the
covenant
that
I
will
make
with
the
house
of
Israel
\par }{\QB after
those
days,”
says
the
Lord:
\par }{\Q “I
will
put
my
laws
into
their
mind;
\par }{\QB I
will
also
write
them
on
their
heart.
\par }{\Q I
will
be
their
God,
\par }{\QB and
they
will
be
my
people.
\par }{\Q \VS{11}They
will
not
teach
every
man
his
fellow
citizen\FTNT{†}{{\FR 8:11 }
TR reads “neighbor” instead of “fellow citizen”}
\par }{\QB and
every
man
his
brother,
saying, ‘Know
the
Lord,’
\par }{\QB for
all
will
know
me,
\par }{\QB from
their
least
to
their
greatest.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}For
I
will
be
merciful
to
their
unrighteousness.
\par }{\QB I
will
remember
their
sins
and lawless deeds
no
more.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 8:12 }
Jeremiah 31:31-34}
\par }{\PP \VS{13}In
that
he
says, “A
new covenant”,
he
has
made
the
first
obsolete.
But
that
which
is
becoming
obsolete
and grows aged
is
near
to vanishing away.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
indeed
even
the
first\FTNT{*}{{\FR 9:1 }
TR adds “tabernacle”} covenant
had
ordinances
of
divine
service
and
an
earthly
sanctuary.
\VS{2}For
a
tabernacle
was
prepared.
In
the
first part
were
the lamp stand,
the
table,
and
the show
bread,
which
is
called
the
Holy
Place.
\VS{3}After
the
second
veil
was
the
tabernacle
which
is
called
the
Holy
of
Holies,
\VS{4}having
a
golden
altar
of
incense
and
the
ark
of
the
covenant overlaid
on
all
sides
with
gold,
in
which
was
a
golden pot
holding
the
manna,
Aaron’s
rod
that
budded,
and
the
tablets
of
the
covenant;
\VS{5}and
above
it
cherubim
of
glory
overshadowing
the
mercy
seat,
of
which
things
we
can’t
speak
now
in
detail.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}Now
these
things having been
thus
prepared,
the
priests
go
in
continually
into
the
first
tabernacle, accomplishing
the services,
\VS{7}but
into
the
second
the
high
priest
alone,
once
in
the
year,
not
without
blood,
which
he
offers
for
himself
and
for
the errors
of
the
people.
\VS{8}The
Holy
Spirit
is
indicating
this,
that
the
way into
the
Holy
Place wasn’t
yet
revealed
while
the
first
tabernacle
was
still
standing.
\VS{9}This
is
a symbol
of
the
present
age,
where
gifts
and
sacrifices
are
offered
that
are
incapable, concerning
the
conscience,
of making
the
worshiper
perfect,
\VS{10}being
only (with
foods
and drinks
and
various
washings)
fleshly
ordinances,
imposed
until
a
time
of reformation.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}But
Christ having
come
as
a
high
priest
of
the
coming
good
things,
through
the
greater
and
more
perfect
tabernacle,
not
made
with
hands,
that
is
to
say,
not
of
this
creation,
\VS{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.
\VS{13}For
if
the
blood
of
goats
and
bulls,
and
the
ashes
of
a
heifer
sprinkling
those
who
have
been
defiled,
sanctify
to
the cleanness
of
the
flesh,
\VS{14}how
much
more
will
the
blood
of
Christ,
who
through
the
eternal
Spirit
offered
himself without defect
to
God,
cleanse
your
conscience
from
dead
works
to
serve
the
living
God?
\VS{15}For
this
reason
he
is
the
mediator
of
a
new
covenant,
since
a
death
has
occurred
for
the
redemption
of
the
transgressions
that
were
under
the
first
covenant,
that
those
who
have
been
called
may
receive
the
promise
of
the
eternal
inheritance.
\VS{16}For
where
a last will
and testament
is,
there
must
of
necessity be
the
death
of
him
who
made
it.
\VS{17}For
a
will
is
in
force where there
has
been
death,
for
it
is
never
in
force
while
he
who
made
it
lives.
\VS{18}Therefore
even
the
first covenant
has
not been dedicated
without
blood.
\VS{19}For
when
every
commandment
had
been
spoken
by
Moses
to
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,
\VS{20}saying, “This
is
the
blood
of
the
covenant
which
God
has
commanded
you.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 9:20 }
Exodus 24:8}
\par }{\PP \VS{21}He
sprinkled
the
tabernacle
and
all
the
vessels
of
the
ministry
in
the
same
way
with
the
blood.
\VS{22}According
to
the
law,
nearly
everything
is
cleansed
with
blood,
and
apart
from
shedding
of
blood
there
is
no remission.
\par }{\PP \VS{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.
\VS{24}For
Christ
hasn’t
entered
into
holy places
made
with
hands,
which
are representations
of
the
true,
but
into
heaven
itself,
now
to
appear
in
the
presence
of
God
for
us;
\VS{25}nor yet
that
he
should
offer
himself
often,
as
the
high
priest
enters
into
the
holy
place
year
by
year
with
blood
not
his
own,
\VS{26}or else
he
must
have
suffered
often
since
the
foundation
of
the
world.
But
now
once
at
the
end
of
the
ages,
he
has
been
revealed
to
put
away
sin
by
the
sacrifice
of
himself.
\VS{27}Inasmuch
as
it
is
appointed
for
men
to
die
once,
and
after
this,
judgment,
\VS{28}so
Christ
also, having
been
offered
once
to
bear
the
sins
of
many,
will
appear
a
second
time,
not
to deal
with
sin,
but
to save
those
who
are
eagerly
waiting
for
him.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}For
the
law,
having
a
shadow
of
the
good
to
come,
not
the
very
image
of
the
things,
can
never
with
the
same
sacrifices
year
by
year,
which
they
offer
continually,
make
perfect
those
who
draw
near.
\VS{2}Or else wouldn’t
they
have
ceased
to
be
offered,
because
the
worshipers,
having
been
once
cleansed,
would
have
had
no
more
consciousness
of
sins?
\VS{3}But
in
those sacrifices
there
is
a yearly
reminder
of
sins.
\VS{4}For
it
is
impossible that
the
blood
of
bulls
and
goats
should
take
away
sins.
\VS{5}Therefore
when
he
comes
into
the
world,
he
says,
\par }{\Q “You
didn’t
desire
sacrifice
and
offering,
\par }{\QB but
you
prepared
a
body
for
me.
\par }{\Q \VS{6}You
had
no
pleasure
in
whole
burnt
offerings
and sacrifices
for
sin.
\par }{\QB \VS{7}Then
I
said, ‘Behold,
I
have
come (in
the
scroll
of
the
book
it
is
written
of
me)
\par }{\QB to
do
your
will, O
God.’ ”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 10:7 }
Psalm 40:6-8}
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Previously
saying, “Sacrifices
and
offerings
and
whole
burnt
offerings
and
sacrifices
for
sin
you
didn’t
desire,
neither
had
pleasure
in
them” (those
which
are
offered
according
to
the
law),
\VS{9}then
he
has
said, “Behold,
I
have
come
to
do
your
will.”
He
takes
away
the
first,
that
he
may
establish
the
second,
\VS{10}by
which
will
we
have
been
sanctified
through
the
offering
of
the
body
of
Jesus
Christ
once
for
all.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Every
priest
indeed
stands
day
by
day
serving
and
offering
often
the
same
sacrifices,
which
can
never
take
away
sins,
\VS{12}but
he,
when
he
had
offered
one
sacrifice
for
sins
forever,
sat
down
on
the
right
hand
of
God,
\VS{13}from
that time
waiting
until
his
enemies
are
made
the
footstool
of
his
feet.
\VS{14}For
by
one
offering he
has
perfected
forever
those
who
are being
sanctified.
\VS{15}The
Holy
Spirit
also
testifies
to
us,
for
after
saying,
\par }{\Q \VS{16}“This
is
the
covenant
that
I
will
make
with
them
\par }{\QB after
those
days,”
says
the
Lord,
\par }{\Q “I
will
put
my
laws
on
their
heart,
\par }{\QB I
will
also
write
them
on
their
mind;”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 10:16 }
Jeremiah 31:33}
\par }{\PP then
he
says,
\par }{\Q \VS{17}“I
will
remember
their
sins
and
their iniquities
no
more.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 10:17 }
Jeremiah 31:34}
\par }{\PP \VS{18}Now
where remission
of
these
is,
there
is
no
more
offering
for
sin.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}Having
therefore,
brothers,
boldness
to
enter
into
the
holy
place
by
the
blood
of
Jesus,
\VS{20}by
the
way
which
he dedicated
for us,
a
new
and
living
way,
through
the
veil,
that
is
to
say,
his
flesh,
\VS{21}and having
a
great
priest
over
God’s
house,
\VS{22}let’s
draw
near
with
a
true
heart
in fullness
of
faith, having
our
hearts
sprinkled
from
an
evil
conscience
and having
our
body
washed
with
pure water,
\VS{23}let’s
hold
fast
the
confession
of
our
hope
without
wavering;
for
he
who
promised
is
faithful.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}Let’s
consider
how
to provoke
one
another
to
love
and
good
works,
\VS{25}not
forsaking
our
own
assembling
together,
as
the
custom
of
some
is,
but
exhorting
one
another,
and
so
much
the
more
as
you
see
the
Day
approaching.
\par }{\PP \VS{26}For if
we
sin
willfully
after
we
have
received
the
knowledge
of
the
truth, there
remains
no
more
a
sacrifice
for
sins,
\VS{27}but
a
certain
fearful
expectation
of
judgment,
and
a fierceness
of
fire
which
will devour
the
adversaries.
\VS{28}A
man
who disregards Moses’
law
dies
without
compassion
on
the word
of
two
or
three
witnesses.
\VS{29}How
much
worse
punishment
do
you
think
he
will
be judged
worthy
of
who
has trodden
under
foot
the
Son
of
God,
and
has
counted
the
blood
of
the
covenant
with
which
he
was
sanctified
an
unholy
thing,
and
has
insulted
the
Spirit
of
grace?
\VS{30}For
we
know
him
who
said, “Vengeance belongs
to
me.
I
will
repay,”
says
the
Lord.\XREF{✡}{{\XO 10:30 }
Deuteronomy 32:35}
Again, “The
Lord
will
judge
his
people.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 10:30 }
Deuteronomy 32:36; Psalm 135:14}
\VS{31}It
is
a
fearful
thing
to
fall
into
the
hands
of
the
living
God.
\par }{\PP \VS{32}But
remember
the
former
days,
in
which,
after
you
were
enlightened,
you
endured
a
great struggle
with
sufferings:
\VS{33}partly,
being exposed
to
both
reproaches
and oppressions,
and
partly,
becoming
partakers
with
those
who
were
treated
so.
\VS{34}For
you
both
had compassion
on
me
in
my chains
and
joyfully
accepted
the plundering
of
your
possessions,
knowing
that
you
have
for
yourselves
a
better
possession
and
an
enduring
one
in
the heavens.
\VS{35}Therefore
don’t
throw
away
your
boldness,
which
has
a
great
reward.
\VS{36}For
you
need
endurance
so
that,
having
done
the
will
of
God,
you
may
receive
the
promise.
\par }{\Q \VS{37}“In
a
very
little
while,
\par }{\QB he
who
comes
will
come
and
will
not wait.
\par }{\Q \VS{38}But
the
righteous
one
will
live
by
faith.
\par }{\QB If
he
shrinks
back,
my
soul
has
no
pleasure
in
him.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 10:38 }
Habakkuk 2:3-4}
\par }{\PP \VS{39}But
we
are
not
of
those
who
shrink
back
to
destruction,
but
of
those
who
have
faith
to
the saving
of
the
soul.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
faith
is
assurance
of
things
hoped
for,
proof
of
things
not
seen.
\VS{2}For
by
this,
the
elders
obtained
approval.
\VS{3}By
faith
we
understand
that
the universe
has
been framed
by
the
word
of
God,
so
that
what
is
seen
has
not
been
made
out
of
things
which
are
visible.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}By
faith
Abel
offered
to
God
a
more excellent
sacrifice
than
Cain,
through
which
he
had
testimony
given
to
him
that
he
was
righteous,
God
testifying
with respect
to
his
gifts;
and
through
it
he,
being
dead,
still
speaks.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}By
faith
Enoch
was
taken away,
so
that
he wouldn’t
see
death,
and
he
was
not
found,
because
God translated
him.
For
he
has
had
testimony
given
to
him
that
before
his translation
he
had
been
well
pleasing
to
God.
\VS{6}Without
faith
it
is
impossible
to
be
well
pleasing
to
him,
for
he
who
comes
to
God
must
believe
that
he exists,
and
that
he
is
a
rewarder
of
those
who seek
him.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}By
faith
Noah,
being
warned
about
things
not
yet
seen, moved
with godly fear,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 11:7 }
or, reverence}
prepared
a ship
for
the saving
of
his
house,
through
which
he
condemned
the
world
and
became
heir
of
the
righteousness
which
is
according
to
faith.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}By
faith
Abraham,
when
he
was
called,
obeyed
to
go
out
to
the
place
which
he
was
to
receive
for
an
inheritance.
He
went
out,
not
knowing
where
he
went.
\VS{9}By
faith
he
lived
as
an
alien
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.
\VS{10}For
he
was
looking
for
the
city
which
has
foundations,
whose
builder
and maker
is
God.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}By
faith
even
Sarah
herself
received
power
to conceive,
and
she bore
a child
when
she
was past
age,
since
she
counted
him
faithful
who
had
promised.
\VS{12}Therefore
as many
as
the
stars
of
the
sky
in
multitude,
and
as
innumerable
as
the
sand
which
is
by
the
sea shore,
were
fathered
by
one
man,
and
him
as good
as
dead.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}These
all
died
in
faith,
not having
received
the
promises,
but having
seen\FTNT{†}{{\FR 11:13 }
TR adds “and being convinced of”}
them
and embraced
them
from afar,
and having
confessed
that
they
were
strangers
and pilgrims
on
the
earth.
\VS{14}For
those
who
say
such
things
make
it
clear
that
they
are
seeking
a
country
of
their
own.
\VS{15}If
indeed
they
had
been
thinking
of
that country
from
which
they went
out,
they
would
have
had enough
time
to
return.
\VS{16}But
now
they
desire
a
better country,
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.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}By
faith,
Abraham, being
tested,
offered
up
Isaac. Yes,
he
who
had gladly
received
the
promises
was
offering
up
his
only born\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 11:17 }
The phrase “only born” is from the Greek word “μονογενη”, which is sometimes translated “only begotten” or “one and only”.} son,
\VS{18}to
whom
it
was
said, “Your offspring
will
be accounted
as
from
Isaac,”
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 11:18 }
Genesis 21:12}
\VS{19}concluding
that
God
is
able
to
raise
up
even
from
the
dead. Figuratively speaking,
he
also did
receive
him
back
from
the
dead.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}By
faith
Isaac
blessed
Jacob
and
Esau,
even
concerning
things
to
come.
\par }{\PP \VS{21}By
faith
Jacob,
when
he
was
dying,
blessed
each
of
the
sons
of
Joseph,
and
worshiped, leaning
on
the
top
of
his
staff.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}By
faith
Joseph,
when
his end
was near,
made
mention
of
the
departure
of
the children
of
Israel,
and
gave instructions
concerning
his
bones.
\par }{\PP \VS{23}By
faith
Moses,
when
he
was
born,
was
hidden
for
three
months
by
his
parents,
because
they
saw
that
he
was
a
beautiful
child;
and
they
were
not
afraid
of
the
king’s commandment.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}By
faith
Moses,
when
he
had grown up,
refused
to
be
called
the
son
of
Pharaoh’s
daughter,
\VS{25}choosing
rather
to share ill treatment
with
God’s
people
than
to
enjoy
the
pleasures
of
sin
for
a time,
\VS{26}considering
the
reproach
of
Christ
greater
riches
than
the
treasures
of
Egypt;
for he looked
to
the
reward.
\VS{27}By
faith
he
left
Egypt,
not
fearing
the
wrath
of
the
king;
for
he
endured,
as
seeing
him
who
is
invisible.
\VS{28}By
faith
he
kept
the
Passover
and
the
sprinkling
of
the
blood,
that
the destroyer
of
the
firstborn
should
not
touch
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{29}By
faith
they
passed
through
the
Red
Sea
as on
dry
land.
When
the
Egyptians
tried
to
do
so,
they
were
swallowed
up.
\par }{\PP \VS{30}By
faith
the
walls
of
Jericho
fell
down
after
they
had been
encircled
for
seven
days.
\par }{\PP \VS{31}By
faith
Rahab
the
prostitute
didn’t
perish
with
those
who
were
disobedient, having
received
the
spies
in
peace.
\par }{\PP \VS{32}What
more
shall
I
say?
For
the
time
would fail
me
if
I
told
of
Gideon,
Barak,
Samson,
Jephthah,
David,
Samuel,
and
the
prophets—
\VS{33}who
through
faith subdued
kingdoms,
worked out
righteousness,
obtained
promises,
stopped
the
mouths
of
lions,\XREF{✡}{{\XO 11:33 }
Daniel 6:22-23}
\VS{34}quenched
the
power
of
fire,\XREF{✡}{{\XO 11:34 }
Daniel 3:1-30}
escaped
the
edge
of
the
sword,\XREF{✡}{{\XO 11:34 }
1 Kings 19:1-3; 2 Kings 6:31–7:20}
from
weakness
were
made
strong, grew
mighty
in
war,
and caused
foreign
armies
to
flee.
\VS{35}Women
received
their
dead
by
resurrection.\XREF{✡}{{\XO 11:35 }
1 Kings 17:17-23; 2 Kings 4:32-37}
Others
were
tortured,
not
accepting
their deliverance,
that
they might
obtain
a
better
resurrection.
\VS{36}Others
were
tried
by
mocking
and
scourging,
yes,
moreover
by
bonds
and
imprisonment.
\VS{37}They were
stoned.\XREF{✡}{{\XO 11:37 }
2 Chronicles 24:20-21}
They were
sawn apart.
They were
tempted.
They were slain
with
the
sword.\XREF{✡}{{\XO 11:37 }
Jeremiah 26:20-23; 1 Kings 19:10}
They
went
around
in sheep skins
and
in goat skins; being
destitute,
afflicted,
ill-treated—
\VS{38}of
whom
the
world
was
not
worthy—wandering
in
deserts,
mountains,
caves,
and
the
holes
of
the
earth.
\par }{\PP \VS{39}These
all,
having
been
commended
for
their
faith,
didn’t
receive
the
promise,
\VS{40}God having
provided
some
better thing
concerning
us,
so
that
apart
from
us
they
should
not
be
made
perfect.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Therefore let’s
also, seeing
we
are surrounded
by
so
great
a
cloud
of
witnesses,
lay
aside
every
weight
and
the
sin
which
so
easily
entangles us,
and let’s
run
with
perseverance
the
race
that
is
set
before us,
\VS{2}looking
to
Jesus,
the
author
and
perfecter
of
faith,
who
for
the
joy
that
was
set
before
him
endured
the
cross,
despising
its
shame,
and
has
sat
down
at
the
right
hand
of
the
throne
of
God.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}For
consider
him
who has
endured
such contradiction
of
sinners
against
himself,
that
you
don’t
grow
weary, fainting
in
your
souls.
\VS{4}You
have
not
yet
resisted
to
blood,
striving
against
sin.
\VS{5}You
have
forgotten
the
exhortation
which reasons
with
you
as
with children,
\par }{\Q “My
son,
don’t take lightly
the chastening
of
the
Lord,
\par }{\QB nor
faint
when
you
are
reproved
by
him;
\par }{\QB \VS{6}for
whom
the
Lord
loves,
he
disciplines,
\par }{\QB and
chastises
every
son
whom
he
receives.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 12:6 }
Proverbs 3:11-12}
\par }{\PP \VS{7}It
is
for
discipline
that
you
endure.
God
deals
with
you
as
with children,
for
what
son
is
there
whom
his
father
doesn’t
discipline?
\VS{8}But
if
you
are
without
discipline,
of
which
all
have
been
made
partakers,
then
you
are
illegitimate,
and
not
children.
\VS{9}Furthermore,
we
had
the
fathers
of
our
flesh
to chasten us,
and
we paid them
respect.
Shall
we
not
much
rather
be
in
subjection
to
the
Father
of
spirits
and
live?
\VS{10}For
they
indeed
for
a
few
days
disciplined
us
as
seemed
good
to
them,
but
he
for
our profit,
that
we
may be partakers
of
his
holiness.
\VS{11}All chastening
seems
for
the
present
to
be
not joyous
but grievous;
yet
afterward
it
yields
the
peaceful
fruit
of
righteousness
to
those
who
have
been
trained
by
it.
\VS{12}Therefore lift up
the
hands
that hang down
and
the
feeble
knees,
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 12:12 }
Isaiah 35:3}
\VS{13}and
make
straight
paths
for
your
feet,\XREF{✡}{{\XO 12:13 }
Proverbs 4:26}
so
what
is
lame
may
not
be dislocated,
but
rather
be
healed.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Follow
after
peace
with
all
men,
and
the
sanctification
without
which
no
man
will
see
the
Lord,
\VS{15}looking carefully
lest
there
be
any
man
who falls
short
of
the
grace
of
God,
lest
any
root
of
bitterness
springing
up
trouble
you
and
many
be
defiled
by
it,
\VS{16}lest
there
be
any sexually
immoral
person
or
profane
person,
like
Esau,
who
sold
his
birthright
for
one
meal.
\VS{17}For
you
know
that
even
when
he
afterward
desired
to
inherit
the
blessing,
he
was
rejected,
for
he
found
no
place
for
a change
of
mind
though
he sought
it diligently
with
tears.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}For
you
have
not
come
to
a mountain that
might
be
touched
and that
burned
with
fire,
and
to blackness,
darkness, storm,
\VS{19}the
sound
of
a
trumpet,
and
the
voice
of
words;
which
those
who
heard
it
begged
that
not
one
more
word
should
be
spoken
to
them,
\VS{20}for
they could
not stand
that
which
was commanded, “If
even an animal
touches
the
mountain,
it shall
be
stoned”.\FTNT{*}{{\FR 12:20 }
TR adds “or shot with an arrow”}\XREF{✡}{{\XO 12:20 }
Exodus 19:12-13}
\VS{21}So
fearful
was
the appearance
that
Moses
said, “I
am
terrified
and
trembling.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 12:21 }
Deuteronomy 9:19}
\par }{\PP \VS{22}But
you
have
come
to
Mount
Zion
and
to
the
city
of
the
living
God,
the
heavenly
Jerusalem,
and
to innumerable multitudes
of
angels,
\VS{23}to
the festal gathering
and
assembly
of
the
firstborn
who
are
enrolled
in
heaven,
to
God
the
Judge
of
all,
to
the
spirits
of
just
men
made
perfect,
\VS{24}to
Jesus,
the
mediator
of
a
new
covenant,\XREF{✡}{{\XO 12:24 }
Jeremiah 31:31}
and
to
the
blood
of sprinkling
that
speaks
better
than
that
of
Abel.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}See
that
you
don’t
refuse
him
who
speaks.
For
if
they
didn’t
escape
when
they
refused
him
who
warned
on
the
earth, how
much
more
will
we
not
escape
who
turn
away
from
him
who warns
from
heaven,
\VS{26}whose
voice
shook
the
earth
then,
but
now
he
has
promised,
saying, “Yet
once
more
I
will
shake
not
only
the
earth,
but
also
the
heavens.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 12:26 }
Haggai 2:6}
\VS{27}This phrase, “Yet
once
more” signifies
the
removing
of
those
things
that
are
shaken,
as
of
things
that
have
been
made,
that
those
things
which
are
not
shaken
may
remain.
\VS{28}Therefore, receiving
a
Kingdom
that can’t
be
shaken, let’s
have
grace,
through
which
we
serve
God acceptably,
with
reverence
and awe,
\VS{29}for
our
God
is
a
consuming
fire.\XREF{✡}{{\XO 12:29 }
Deuteronomy 4:24}

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Let
brotherly
love
continue.
\VS{2}Don’t
forget
to show
hospitality
to
strangers,
for
in doing
so,
some
have
entertained
angels
without
knowing
it.
\VS{3}Remember
those
who
are
in bonds,
as bound
with
them,
and
those
who
are
ill-treated,
since
you
are
also
in
the
body.
\VS{4}Let
marriage
be held
in
honor
among
all,
and
let
the
bed
be
undefiled;
but
God
will
judge
the sexually
immoral
and
adulterers.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Be
free
from
the
love
of
money,
content
with such
things
as
you
have,
for
he
has
said, “I
will
in
no
way
leave
you,
neither
will
I
in
any
way
forsake
you.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 13:5 }
Deuteronomy 31:6}
\VS{6}So
that
with
good
courage
we
say,
\par }{\Q “The
Lord
is
my
helper.
I
will
not
fear.
\par }{\QB What
can
man
do
to
me?”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 13:6 }
Psalm 118:6-7}
\par }{\PP \VS{7}Remember
your
leaders, men
who
spoke
to
you
the
word
of
God,
and
considering
the results
of
their
conduct,
imitate
their
faith.
\VS{8}Jesus
Christ
is
the
same
yesterday,
today,
and
forever.
\VS{9}Don’t
be
carried
away
by
various
and
strange
teachings,
for
it
is
good
that
the
heart
be
established
by
grace,
not
by
foods,
through
which
those
who
were
so
occupied
were
not
benefited.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}We
have
an
altar
from
which
those
who
serve
the holy
tabernacle
have
no
right
to
eat.
\VS{11}For
the
bodies
of
those
animals,
whose
blood
is
brought
into
the
holy
place
by
the
high
priest
as
an offering
for
sin,
are
burned
outside
of
the camp.\XREF{✡}{{\XO 13:11 }
Leviticus 16:27}
\VS{12}Therefore
Jesus
also,
that
he
might
sanctify
the
people
through
his
own
blood,
suffered
outside
of
the
gate.
\VS{13}Let’s
therefore
go
out
to
him
outside
of
the camp,
bearing
his
reproach.
\VS{14}For
we
don’t
have
here
an
enduring
city,
but
we
seek
that
which
is
to
come.
\VS{15}Through
him,
then, let’s
offer
up
a
sacrifice
of
praise
to
God
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 13:15 }
Psalm 50:23}
continually,
that
is,
the
fruit
of
lips
which proclaim allegiance
to
his
name.
\VS{16}But
don’t
forget
to
be
doing
good
and
sharing,
for
with
such
sacrifices
God
is
well
pleased.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Obey
your
leaders
and
submit
to
them,
for
they
watch
on
behalf
of
your
souls,
as
those
who
will
give
account,
that
they
may
do
this
with
joy
and
not
with groaning,
for
that
would
be
unprofitable
for
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}Pray
for
us,
for
we
are
persuaded
that
we
have
a
good
conscience,
desiring
to
live
honorably
in
all
things.
\VS{19}I strongly
urge
you
to
do
this,
that
I
may
be
restored
to
you sooner.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}Now
may
the
God
of
peace,
who
brought again
from
the
dead
the
great
shepherd
of
the
sheep
with
the
blood
of
an
eternal
covenant,
our
Lord
Jesus,
\VS{21}make
you
complete
in
every
good work
to
do
his
will,
working
in
you
that
which
is
well
pleasing
in
his
sight,
through
Jesus
Christ,
to
whom
be
the
glory
forever
and
ever.
Amen.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}But
I
exhort
you,
brothers,
endure
the
word
of
exhortation,
for
I
have
written
to
you
in few
words.
\VS{23}Know
that
our
brother
Timothy
has been
freed,
with
whom,
if
he
comes shortly,
I
will
see
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}Greet
all
of
your
leaders
and
all
the
saints.
The Italians
greet
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}Grace
be
with
you
all. Amen.
\par }