1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,
2 Has in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself cleansed away our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
5 For to which of the angels did he say at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
6 And again, when he brings in the first begotten into the world, he says, And let all the angels of God worship him.
7 And of the angels he says, Who makes his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
8 But to the Son he says, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom.
9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hast anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thy hands:
11 They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall grow old as does a garment;
12 And as a robe shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
13 But to which of the angels did he say at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?
14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation?
1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
2 For if the word spoken by angels was firmly established, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard him;
4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?
5 For to the angels he has not put in subjection the world to come, of which we speak.
6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that you are mindful of him? Or the son of man, that you visit him?
7 You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor, and set him over the works of your hands:
8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him.
9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every person.
10 For it was fitting for him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
11 For both he that sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all of one nature: for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12 Saying, I will declare your name to my brethren; in the midst of the church will I sing praise to you.
13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children whom God has given me.
14 Since then the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil;
15 And deliver those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
16 For truly he did not take on himself the nature of angels; but he took on him the nature of the descendents of Abraham.
17 Therefore in all things it was necessary for him to be made like his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
18 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.
1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
2 Who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
3 For this man was esteemed worthy of more glory than Moses, just as he who has built the house has more honor than the house.
4 For every house is built by someone; but he that built all things is God.
5 And Moses truly was faithful in all his house, as a servant, as a testimony of those things which were to be spoken afterwards;
6 But Christ was faithful as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.
7 Therefore (as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you will hear his voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10 Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
11 So I swore in my anger, They shall not enter into my rest.)
12 Be careful, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
13 But encourage one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast until the end;
15 While it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: however not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, but to those who believed not?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2 For to us was the gospel preached, as well as to them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.
3 For we who have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my anger, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day in this way, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
6 Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter in because of unbelief:
7 Again, he appoints a certain day, saying in David, Today, after so long a time; as it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then he would not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remains therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that has entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of unbelief.
12 For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing apart of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 Neither is there any creature that is not clearly visible in his sight: but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
15 For we have not a high priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our weaknesses; but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things having to do with God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:
2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on those who have gone astray; because he himself also is subject to weakness.
3 And because of this he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
4 And no one takes this honor to himself, except he that is called by God, as was Aaron.
5 So also Christ did not glorify himself to be made a high priest; but he who said to him, Thou art my Son, today have I begotten thee.
6 As he says also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek;
7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to him that was able to save him from death, and was heard out of his fear;
8 Though he was a Son, yet he learned obedience by the things which he suffered;
9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation to all those who obey him;
10 Called by God a high priest after the order of Melchisedek;
11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be explained, seeing you are dull of hearing.
12 For when by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again what are the first principles of the things spoken by God; and have become such as have need of milk, and not of strong food.
13 For every one that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
14 But strong food belongs to those who are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
3 And this will we do, if God permits.
4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
7 For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes oft upon it, and brings forth herbs suitable for them by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God:
8 But that which bears thorns and briers is rejected, and is near to cursing; whose end is to be burned.
9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which you have shown toward his name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
11 And we desire that every one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end:
12 That you be not slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,
14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.
15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
16 For men truly swear by one who is greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
17 In the same way God, desiring more abundantly to show to the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters into that within the veil;
20 Where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, made a high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek.
1 For this Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like the Son of God; remains a priest continually.
4 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
5 And truly those who are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is, from their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:
6 But he whose descent is not traced from them received tithes from Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises.
7 And without all contradiction the lesser is blessed by the better.
8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.
9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receives tithes, paid tithes in Abraham.
10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedek met him.
11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
13 For he of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, of which no one served at the altar.
14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah; of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
15 And it is yet far more evident: for after the likeness of Melchisedek there arises another priest,
16 Who comes into being, not according to the law of a carnal commandment, but according to the power of an endless life.
17 For he testifies, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek.
18 For there is truly a cancellation of the commandment that came before because of its weakness and unprofitableness.
19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by which we draw near to God.
20 And considering that not without an oath was he made a priest:
21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said to him, The Lord swore and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek:)
22 By so much was Jesus made a guarantee of a better covenant.
23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not permitted to continue because of death:
24 But this man, because he continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.
25 Therefore he is able also to save to the greatest extent those who come to God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.
26 For such a high priest was suited to us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
27 Who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
28 For the law makes men high priests who have weaknesses; but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such a high priest, who is seated on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: therefore it is necessary that this man have something also to offer.
4 For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished by God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, says he, that you make all things according to the pattern shown to you in the mount.
6 But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, and to the same extent also is he the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
8 For finding fault with them, he says, Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in my covenant, and I did not regard 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; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11 And they shall not teach everyone his neighbor, and everyone his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
13 In saying, A new covenant, he has made the first old. Now that which decays and grows old is ready to vanish away.
1 Then truly the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.
2 For there was an apartment made; the first, in which was the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called the Holy Place.
3 And behind the second veil, the apartment which is called the Holiest of all;
4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, in which was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
5 And over it the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat; of which we cannot now speak in detail.
6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first apartment, accomplishing the service of God.
7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
8 The Holy Spirit signifying this, that the way into the sanctuary was not yet made known, while the first tabernacle was yet standing:
9 Which was a representation of the present time, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him who did the service perfect with respect to the conscience;
10 Which were only concerned with foods and drinks, and various washings, and fleshly ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
11 But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15 And for this reason he is the mediator of the new covenant, that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, those who are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
17 For a testament is in force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator lives.
18 Therefore neither was the first covenant dedicated without blood.
19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
20 Saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded for you.
21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry.
22 And almost all things are by the law cleansed with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24 For Christ has not entered into the sanctuary made with hands, which is a representation of the true one; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the sanctuary every year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the completion of the age has he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this comes the judgment:
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and to those who look for him shall he appear the second time without sin for salvation.
1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make those who draw near perfect.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers once cleansed would have had no more consciousness of sins.
3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder again made of sins every year.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body have you prepared for me:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do your will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin you did not desire, neither had pleasure in them; which are offered according to the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do your will, O God. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By this will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time.
11 And every priest stands daily ministering and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13 From then on waiting till his enemies should be made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he has perfected for ever those who are sanctified.
15 Of this the Holy Spirit also is a witness to us: for after he had said before,
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, the Lord says, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21 And having a high priest over the house of God;
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to provoke to love and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.
26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much severer punishment, do you suppose, shall he be thought worthy who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has considered the blood of the covenant, with which he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has despised the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him who has said, Vengeance belongs to me, I will repay, says the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle of afflictions;
33 Partly, while you were made a gazing stock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, while you became companions of those who were so treated.
34 For you had compassion on me in my bonds, and accepted joyfully the plundering of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better and an enduring possession.
35 Do not cast away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense of reward.
36 For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not delay.
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if anyone draws back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of those who draw back to destruction; but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
4 By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaks.
5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death, and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.
7 By faith Noah, being warned by God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should later receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing where he went.
9 By faith he dwelt for a time in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
10 For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11 Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive offspring, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
12 Therefore sprang there even from one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14 For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall your descendents be named:
19 Concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from which also he received him in a figure.
20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshiped, leaning upon the top of his staff.
22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
24 By faith Moses, when he had come to maturity, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he looked to the recompense of the reward.
27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, so that he who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.
29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians attempting to do were drowned.
30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were encircled seven days.
31 By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace.
32 And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:
33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
35 Women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection:
36 And others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
37 They were stoned, they were sawn apart, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered around in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, did not receive the promise:
40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
1 Therefore seeing that we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him who endured such opposition of sinners against himself, so that you do not become wearied and faint in your minds.
4 You have not yet resisted until bloodshed, striving against sin.
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to children, My son, do not despise the discipline of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by him:
6 For whom the Lord loves he disciplines, and scourges every son whom he receives.
7 If you endure discipline, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father does not discipline?
8 But if you are without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we showed them respect: shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they truly for a few days disciplined us according to their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no discipline for the present seems to be joyful, but painful: nevertheless afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it.
12 Therefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
14 Pursue peace with all men, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest anyone falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up troubles you, and thereby many are defiled;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
17 For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.
18 For you have not come to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor to blackness, and darkness, and storm,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice those who heard pleaded that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I greatly fear and tremble:)
22 But you have come to mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, who are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.
25 See that you do not refuse him that speaks. For if they did not escape who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Therefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us hold fast to grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
1 Let brotherly love continue.
2 Do not be forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
3 Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them; and those who suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
4 Marriage is honorable for all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you,
6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.
7 Remember those who have the rule over you, who have spoken to you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the outcome of their conduct.
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.
9 Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing for the heart to be established with grace, not with foods, which have not benefited those who have been occupied with them.
10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.
11 For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.
12 Therefore Jesus also, so that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered outside the gate.
13 Let us go out therefore to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.
14 For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
16 But to do good and to share do not forget: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
17 Obey those who have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
18 Pray for us: for we trust that we have a good conscience, in all things desiring to live honestly.
19 But I plead with you even more to do this, so that I may be restored to you the sooner.
20 Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
22 And I plead with you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter to you in few words.
23 Know that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.
24 Greet all those who have the rule over you, and all the saints. Those of Italy greet you.
25 Grace be with you all. Amen.