1 In many ways and in various ways of old, God having spoken to the fathers in the prophets;
2 in these last days He spoke to us in the Son, whom He appointed heir of all things; through whom He indeed made the ages;
3 who being the shining splendor of His glory, and the express image of His essence, and bearing up all things by the Word of His power, having made purification of our sins through Himself, He sat down on the right of the Majesty on high, Psa 110:1
4 having become so much better than the angels, as much as He has inherited a name more excellent beyond them.
5 For to which of the angels did He ever say, "You are My Son; today I have begotten You"? And again, "I will be a Father to Him, and He shall be a Son to Me." Psalm 2:7
6 And again, when He brought the Firstbegotten into the world, He said, "And let all the angels of God worship Him."
7 And as to the angels, He said, "Who makes His angels spirits, and His servants a flame of fire;"? LXX-Psa. 103:4; MTPsa 104:4
8 but as to the Son, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom;
9 You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; because of this God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows." Psa 45:6, 7
10 And, "You, Lord, at the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are works of Your hands.
11 They will vanish away, but You will continue; and all things will become old, like a garment,
12 and You shall fold them up like a covering, and they shall be changed. But You are the same, and Your years shall not fail." LXX-Psa. 101:26-28; MT-Psa. 102:25-27
13 But to which of the angels did He ever say, "Sit at My right hand until I place Your hostile ones as a footstool of Your feet"? LXX-Psa. 109:1; MT-Psa. 110:1
14 Are they not all ministering spirits for service, being sent out because of the ones being about to inherit salvation?
1 Because of this it is needful for us more abundantly to take heed to the things having been heard that we should not slip away at any time.
2 For if the word spoken by angels was confirmed, and every transgression and disobedience received a just repayment;
3 how shall we escape while neglecting so great a salvation? Which having received a beginning to be spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by the ones having heard.
4 God bearing witness with them, both by miraculous signs and wonders, and by various works of power, even by distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to His will.
5 For He did not put the world, the one coming, under angels, about which we speak,
6 but one fully testified somewhere, saying, "What is man, that You are mindful of him; or the son of man, that You look upon him?"
7 You made him a little less than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor;" and, "You made him rule over the works of Your hands."
8 You subjected all things under his feet." Psa 8:4-6 For in order to subject all things under him, He left nothing not subjected to him. But now we do not yet see all things having been subjected to him;
9 but the One for a little time, we do see Jesus, having been made less than the angels because of the suffering of death now, having been crowned with honor and glory so as by the grace of God He might taste of death for every son.
10 For it was fitting for Him, because of whom are all things, and through whom are all things, bringing many sons into glory, to make complete Him as the Author of their salvation through sufferings.
11 For both the One sanctifying and the ones being sanctified are all of One; for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brothers,
12 saying, "I will announce Your name to My brothers; I will hymn to You in the midst of the Assembly." Psa 22:22
13 And again, "I will be trusting on Him." Isa 8:17 And again, "Behold, I and the children whom God gave to Me." Isa 8:18
14 Therefore since the children have partaken of flesh and blood, in like manner He Himself also shared the same things, that through death He might do away with the one having the power of death, this is, the devil;
15 and might set these free, as many as by fear of death were subject to slavery through all the time to live.
16 For indeed He does not take hold of angels, "but He takes hold of" "the Seed of Abraham". Isa 41:8, 9
17 For which reason He is obligated in all things to become like His brothers, that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the things respecting God, in order to propitiate for the sins of His people. For in what He has suffered, being tried, He is able to help those being tried.
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1 For which reason, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, fully consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,
2 "being faithful" to Him having made Him, as also "Moses" was "in all his house". Num 12:7
3 For He was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as the one having prepared it has more honor than the house.
4 For every house is built by someone; but the One who prepared all things is God.
5 And "Moses" truly "was faithful in all his house" as a servant for a testimony of all the things being spoken; Num 12:7
6 but Christ as Son over His house, whose house we are, if truly we hold fast the boldness and rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.
7 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, if you hear His voice,
8 do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation by rebelliousness, in the day of temptation in the wilderness,
9 there where your fathers tested Me, examining Me, and saw My works forty years.
10 Therefore, I was very angry with that generation and said, They always go astray in heart; and they did not know My ways;
11 so I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest." LXX-Psalm 94:7-11; MT-Psalm 95:7-11
12 Watch, brothers, lest perhaps there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief to depart from the living God.
13 But exhort yourselves each day, as long as it is being called today, that not any of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if truly we hold the beginning of the assurance firm to the end;
15 as in the saying, "Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation by rebelliousness," Psa 95:7,8 MT
16 For having heard, some provoked Him, but not all the ones coming out of Egypt through Moses.
17 But with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with the ones sinning, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom did "He swear" "they would not enter into His rest," except to the ones having disobeyed? LXX-Psa. 94:11; MT-Psa. 95:11
19 And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
1 Therefore, let us fear lest perhaps a promise having been left to enter into His rest, that any of you may seem to have come short.
2 For, indeed, we are having the gospel preached to us, even as they also; but the Word did not profit those hearing it, not having been mixed with faith in the ones having heard it.
3 For we, the ones having believed, enter into the rest, even as He said, "As I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter into My rest," though the works had come into being from the foundation of the world. LXX-Psa. 94:11; MT-Psa. 95:11
4 For He has spoken somewhere about the seventh day this way, "And God rested from all His works in the seventh day." Gen 2:2
5 And in this again, "They shall not enter into My rest." MT-Psalm 95:11
6 Therefore, since it remains for some to enter into it, and the ones who formerly had the gospel preached did not enter in on account of disobedience,
7 He again marks out a certain day, saying in David, Today (after so long a time, according as He has said), "Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts." MT-Psalm 95:7, 8
8 For if Joshua brought them rest, He was not speaking about another day after these things.
9 So, then, there remains a sabbath rest to the people of God.
10 For he entering into His rest, he himself also rested from his works, as God had rested from His own. LXX-Psa. 95:11; Gen 2:2
11 Therefore, let us exert ourselves to enter into that rest, that not anyone fall in the same example of disobedience.
12 For the Word of God is living, and working effectively, and sharper than every two-mouthed sword, and piercing as far as the division of both soul and spirit, of both joints and marrows, and able to judge of the thoughts and intentions of the heart;
13 and there is no creature unrevealed before Him; but all things are naked and having been laid open to His eyes, with whom is our account.
14 Therefore having a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the confession.
15 For we do not have a high priest not being able to sympathize with our infirmities, but One having been tried according in all things according to our likeness, apart from sin.
16 Therefore, let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and we may find grace for timely help.
1 For every high priest being taken from men is appointed on behalf of men in the things as regards to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;
2 being able to feel gently for the ones not knowing and being led astray, since he also is circled about with weakness.
3 And because of this he ought to offer for sins as concerning the people, so also concerning himself.
4 And no one takes the honor to himself, but the one being called by God, even as Aaron also.
5 So also the Christ has not glorified Himself to become a high priest, but He speaking to Him, "You are My Son; today I have begotten You." Psa 2:7
6 As He also says in another place, "You are a priest unto the age according to the order of Melchizedek," Psa 110:4
7 who in the days of His flesh was offering both petitions and entreaties to the One being able to save Him from death, with strong crying and tears, and being heard from His godly fear;
8 though being a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered,
9 and having been made complete, He came to be the responsible Author of eternal salvation to all the ones obeying Him,
10 having been called out by God to being a High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
11 Concerning whom we have much discourse, and hard to interpret, or to speak, since you have come to be sluggish in the hearings.
12 For indeed because of the time being due to be teachers, yet you need for the one to teach you again what are the rudiments of the beginning of the words of God, and you have become ones having need of milk, and not of solid food;
13 for every one partaking of milk is without experience in the Word of righteousness, for he is an infant.
14 But solid food is for mature ones, of the ones of whom the faculties having been exercised through habit, for judgment of both good and bad.
1 Therefore, having left the word of the beginning of Christ, let us be borne on to maturity, not laying down again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
2 of baptisms, of doctrine, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of dead ones, and of eternal judgment.
3 And this we will do, if indeed God permits.
4 For it is impossible for the ones once having been enlightened, and having tasted of the heavenly gift, and becoming sharers of the Holy Spirit,
5 and tasting the good Word of God, and the works of power of a coming age,
6 and having fallen away, it is impossible for them again to renew to repentance, crucifying again for themselves the Son of God, and holding Him up to public shame.
7 (For the earth drinking in the rain often coming upon it, and producing vegetation suitable for those for whom it is also cultivated, receives blessing from God;
8 "but bearing thorns and thistles," it is deemed unfit and near a curse, of which the end is for burning.) Gen 3:17, 18
9 But, beloved ones, even if we indeed speak so, we have been persuaded better things concerning you, even holding fast to salvation.
10 For God is not unjust, to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed to His name, serving to the saints, and now are serving.
11 But we desire each of you to show the same diligence, to the full assurance of the hope to the end;
12 that you not become dull, but imitators of the ones who through faith and long-suffering are inheriting the promises.
13 For God having made promise to Abraham, since He had no greater to swear by, "He swore by Himself,"
14 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you." Gen 22:16, 17
15 And so, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
16 For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them the end of all speaking against it.
17 In which God purposing to more fully declare to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, He interposed by an oath,
18 that through two unchangeable things, in which it was not possible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, the ones having fled to lay hold on the hope being set before us,
19 which we have as an anchor of the soul, both certain and sure, and entering into the inner side of the veil, Lev 16:12
20 where Jesus entered as forerunner for us, having become a High Priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.
1 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 having blessed him";
2 to whom also Abraham "divided a tenth from all" (first being interpreted, king of righteousness; and then also king of Salem, which is, king of peace, Gen 14:17-20
3 without father, without mother, without descent, nor beginning of days, nor having end of life, but having been made like the Son of God, he remains a priest in perpetual continuity).
4 Now behold how great this one was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils;
5 and indeed the ones of the sons of Levi receiving the priesthood have a command to tithe the people according to Law, (that is, from their brothers, though coming forth out of Abraham's loins),
6 but he not tracing his descent from them has tithed Abraham, and the one having the promises, this one blessed.
7 But without contradiction, the lesser is blessed by the better.
8 And here dying men indeed receive tithes, but there it being witnessed that he lives;
9 and as a word to say, through Abraham Levi also, the one receiving tithes, has paid tithes.
10 For he was yet in his father's loins when Melchizedek met him.
11 Therefore, indeed, if perfection was through the Levitical priestly office (for the people had been given Law under it), why yet was there need for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek and not to be called according to the order of Aaron?)
12 For the priestly office having been changed, of necessity a change of law also occurs.
13 For the One of whom these things are said has partaken of another tribe, from which no one has given devotion at the altar.
14 For it is openly evident that our Lord has risen out of Judah, as to which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
15 And it is still more abundantly clear that if another priest arises according to the likeness of Melchizedek,
16 who has not become so according to a law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an indissoluble life,
17 for He testified, "You are a priest unto the age according to the order of Melchizedek." Psa 110:4
18 For, indeed, an annulment of the preceding command comes about because of its being a weak one and an unprofitable one.
19 For the Law perfected nothing, but a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
20 And by how much it was not without oath-taking;
21 for the ones trulywithout oath-taking are become priests, but He with oathtaking, through the One saying to Him, The Lord swore, and will not care to change, "You are a priest unto the age according to the order of Melchizedek"; Psalm 110:4
22 by so much Jesus has become Surety of a better covenant.
23 And, indeed, the many are become priests, because of being prevented to continue by death;
24 but He, because of Him remaining unto the age, has a non-transmissable priesthood.
25 And from this He is able to save to the end completely the ones coming near to God through Him who is always living to intercede on their behalf.
26 For such a High Priest was fitting for us: holy, guileless, undefiled, and having been separated from sinners, and having become higher than the heavens;
27 who has no need, as do the high priests, to offer sacrifices according to a day, firstly for His own sins, then for the ones of the people, for this He did once for all, having offered up Himself.
28 For the Law makes men high priests who have infirmity, but the word of the oath-taking after the Law appoints the Son having been perfected unto the age.
1 Now the main point over the things being said: We have such a High Priest, who sat down on the right of the throne of the Majesty in Heaven, Psa 110:1
2 Minister of the Holy of Holies, and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, and not man.
3 For every high priest is set in place to offer both gifts and sacrifices; from which it is necessary for this One also to have something which He may offer.
4 For if indeed He were on earth, He would not even be a priest, there being priests, the ones offering gifts according to the Law,
5 who serve the pattern of and shadow of heavenly things, even as Moses was divinely warned, being about to complete the tabernacle: For "See," He says, "that you make all things according to the pattern, the one being shown to you in the mountain." Ex 25:40
6 But now He has gotten a more excellent ministry, also by so much as He is a Mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
7 For if that first covenant was faultless, place would not have been sought for a second.
8 For finding fault, He said to them, "Behold, days come, says the Lord, and I will bequeath on the house of Israel and on the house of Judah a new covenant,
9 not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day of My taking hold of their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I cared not for them, says the Lord.
10 Because this is the covenant which I will bequeath to the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and I will write them on their hearts, and I will be for God to them, and they shall be for a people to Me.
11 And they shall no more teach each one their fellow-citizen, and each one his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know Me, from the llttle one of them to the great one of them.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and I will not at all remember their sins and their lawlessnesses." LXX-Jer. 38:31-34; MT-Jer. 31:31-34
13 In the saying, New, He has made the first old. And the thing being made old and growing aged is near disappearance.
1 Truly, then, the first covenant also had ordinances of service, and the earthly holy place.
2 For the tabernacle was prepared, the first, in which was both the lampstand and the table, and the setting out of the loaves, which is called holy.
3 But behind the second veil is a tabernacle, being called Holy of Holies,
4 having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant covered around on all sides with gold, in which was the golden pot having the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;
5 and above it the cherubs of glory overshadowing the mercy seat (about which is not enough time now to speak according to a piece).
6 And these things having been prepared thus, the priests go into the first tabernacle through all, completely fulfilling the services.
7 But into the second the high priest goes alone once in the year, not without blood, which he offers on behalf of himself and the sins of ignorance of the people;
8 the Holy Spirit signifying by this that the way of the Holies has not yet been made manifest, the first tabernacle still having been standing;
9 which was a parable for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, but as regards conscience, not being able to perfect the one serving,
10 but only on foods and drinks, and various washings, and fleshly ordinances, until the time of reformation being imposed.
11 But Christ having appeared as a High Priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by hands, that is, not of this creation,
12 nor through the blood of goats and of calves, but through His own blood, He entered once for all into the Holy of Holies, having procured everlasting redemption.
13 For if the blood of bulls and goats, and ashes of a heifer, sprinkling those having been defiled, sanctifies to the purity of the flesh,
14 by how much more the blood of Christ (who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God), will purify your conscience from dead works, to serve the living God!
15 And because of this He is Mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having occurred for redemption of transgressions under the first covenant, the ones being called might receive the promise of the everlasting inheritance.
16 For where a testament is, the death of the one testating must be offered.
17 For a testament is firm over dead ones, since it never has force when the one testating lives.
18 From which neither the first covenant was dedicated without blood.
19 For when every command had been spoken according to Law by Moses to all the people, having taken the blood of the calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop itself, and he sprinkled both the scroll and all the people,
20 saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God enjoined to you." Ex 24:8
21 And he likewise sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the service vessels with the blood.
22 And almost all things are purified by blood according to the Law; and apart from shedding of blood not any remission occurs.
23 Therefore it was needful for the figures of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves by better sacrifices than these.
24 For Christ did not enter into the Holy of Holies made by hands, antitypes of the true things, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf,
25 not that He should often offer Himself, even as the high priest enters into the Holy of Holies, according to a year with blood of others;
26 since it was necessary for Him to suffer often from the foundation of the world. But now once, at the completion of the ages, He has been revealed for putting away of sin through the sacrifice of Himself.
27 And as much as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this, Judgment;
28 so Christ having been once offered "to bear the sins of many," Christ shall appear a second time without sin to the ones eagerly awaiting Him unto salvation. Isa 53:12
1 For the Law having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, appearing according to a year with the same sacrifices, which they offer to the carrying through, they never are able to perfect the ones drawing near.
2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the ones serving did not still have consciousness of sins, having once been cleansed.
3 But in these there is a remembrance of sins according to a year,
4 for it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5 Therefore, coming into the world, He says, "Sacrifice and offering You did not will, but You prepared a body for Me.
6 You were not well-pleased in burnt offerings and sacrifices concerning sins."
7 "Then I said, Behold, I have come, in the roll of the Book it was written concerning Me, to do Your will, O God." LXXPsa 39:7 -9; MT-Psa. 40:6 -8
8 Above, saying that sacrifice and offering, and burnt offerings and sacrifices concerning sin," You willed not, nor were Youwell-pleased (which are offered according to the Law),
9 then He has said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first in order that He may establish the second;
10 by which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body, of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And indeed every priest stands according to a day ministering, and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
12 But He, offering but one sacrifice for sins, to the carrying through of all "sat down at the right hand" of God,
13 from then on expecting "until the hostile ones of Him are placed as a footstool" of His feet. Psa 110:1
14 For by one offering He has perfected the carrying through of the ones being sanctified.
15 And the Holy Spirit witnesses to us also. For after having said before,
16 "This is the covenant which I will covenant to them after those days, says the Lord: Giving My Laws on their hearts, and I will write them on their minds";
17 "and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will not remember no longer, not ever." MT-Jer. 31:33, 34
18 But where remission of these is, there is no longer offering concerning sins.
19 Therefore, brothers, having confidence for the entering of the Holy of Holies by the blood of Jesus,
20 which He consecrated for us, a new and living way through the veil; that is, His flesh;
21 and having a Great Priest over the house of God,
22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts having been sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our body having been washed in pure water;
23 let us hold fast the confession of the hope unyielding, for the One having promised is faithful.
24 And let us consider one another, unto incitement of love and of good works,
25 not forsaking the assembling together of ourselves, as is the custom of some, but exhorting, and by so much more as you see the Day drawing near.
26 For if we are willfully sinning after receiving the full knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice concerning sins,
27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and "zealous fire being about to consume the adversaries." Isa 26:11
28 If anyone did not regard the Law of Moses, without compassions on "the word of two or three witnesses" dies. Deut 17:6
29 How much worse punishment do you think will be thought worthy to receive, the one having trampled the Son of God, and having counted common the blood of the covenant in which he was sanctified, and having insulted 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 will judge His people." Deut 32:35, 36
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But call to mind the former days in which having been enlightened you endured much struggle of sufferings.
33 Indeed, this, being exposed both to reproaches and to afflictions; and this, having come to be sharer of the ones so living;
34 for indeed you suffered together in my bonds; and you accepted the plunder of your possessions with joy, knowing yourselves to have a better and abiding possession in Heaven.
35 Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has great reward.
36 For you have need of enduring patience, that having done the will of God you may obtain the promise.
37 For, yet a little as long as the One coming will come, "and will not delay." Hab 2:3
38 "But the just shall live by faith;" "and if he draws back," "My soul is not well-pleased in him." Hab 2:4; Zeph 1:6; Mal 1:10
39 But we are not of a drawing back to destruction, but of faith, to the preservation of the soul.
1 Now faith is the essence of things being hoped, the evidence of things not being seen.
2 For by this the elders obtained witness.
3 By faith we understand the ages to have been framed by a Word of God, so that the things being visible should not come into being out of things being seen.
4 By faith Abel offered a greater sacrifice to God than Cain, by which he obtained witness to be righteous, God testifying over his gifts; and through it, having died, he yet speaks.
5 By faith "Enoch" was translated so as not to see death, and "was not found, because God translated him." For before his translation, he had obtained witness to have been well-pleasing to God. Gen 5:24
6 But without faith it is impossible to be pleasing to God. For it is necessary for the one drawing near to God to believe that He is, and that He becomes a rewarder to the ones seeking Him out.
7 By faith, Noah having been divinely warned by God about the things not yet being seen, being moved with fear, he prepared an ark for the salvation of his house; through which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness according to faith.
8 Being called out by faith, Abraham obeyed to go forth to a place which he was going to receive for an inheritance; and he went out not understanding where he goes.
9 By faith he temporarily resided as a foreigner into a land of promise, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint-heirs of the same promise;
10 for he waited for a city having foundations, of which the builder and maker is God.
11 Also by faith Sarah herself received power for laying down of seed even beyond the time of age, and gave birth; since she deemed the One having promised to be faithful.
12 Therefore, even from one were generated seed, and these of one being as good as dead, even "as the stars of the heaven" in their fullness, and countless as sand by the lip of the sea". Gen 15:5; 22:17
13 These all died by way of faith, not having received the promises, but seeing them from afar, and being persuaded, and having welcomed them and confessed that they are strangers and sojourning ones on the earth.
14 For the ones saying such things make clear that they seek a fatherland.
15 And truly if they were mindful of the place from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to return.
16 But now they stretch forth to a better, that is, a heavenly land. Therefore, God is not ashamed of them, for Him to be called their God; for He prepared a city for them.
17 By faith, being tested, Abraham offered up Isaac; and the one receiving the promises was offering up the only begotten,
18 as to whom it was said, "In Isaac your Seed shall be called" Gen 21:12
19 considering that; God was able to raise even from dead ones; from where indeed he obtained him in a parable.
20 By faith concerning things to come Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.
21 By faith dying Jacob blessed each one of the sons of Joseph, and "worshiped on the top of his staff". LXX- Gen 47:31
22 Dying Joseph by faith made mention of the Exodus of the sons of Israel, and he gave orders about his bones.
23 Having been generated, Moses was by faith hidden by his parents three months, because they saw the child was fair; and they did not fear the king's edict.
24 Having become great, Moses by faith refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
25 having chosen rather to suffer mistreatment with the people of God than to have the temporary enjoyment of sin;
26 having counted the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.
27 By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king; for he endured as seeing the Unseen One.
28 By faith he has made the Passover, and the pouring forth of blood, that the one destroying the first-born might not touch them.
29 By faith they passed through the Red Sea, as through dry land; by which attempt the Egyptians taking, they were swallowed.
30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, having been circled during seven days.
31 By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with the ones having disobeyed, having received the spies with peace.
32 And what more may I say? For the time will fail me telling about Gideon, Barak, and also Samson and Jephthah, and also David and Samuel, and the prophets,
33 who through faith overcame kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouths of the sword, acquired power from weakness, became strong in war, armies of foreigners being made to bow.
35 Women received their dead ones by resurrection; but others were beaten to death, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
36 And others received trial of mockings and of scourgings; yea, more, of bonds and of prison:
37 they were stoned; they were tried; they were sawn in two; they died by murder of sword; they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins, being in need, being afflicted, being tormented;
38 of whom the world was not worthy, wandering in deserts, and mountains, and caves, and the holes of the earth.
39 And having obtained witness through the faith, these all did not obtain the promise,
40 God having foreseen something better concerning us, that they should not be perfected apart from us.
1 So therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, having laid aside every weight and the easily surrounding sin, through patience let us also run the race being set before us,
2 looking to the Author and Finisher of our faith, Jesus, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, "and has sat down at the right hand" of the throne of God."
3 For consider Him who had endured such opposition of sinners against Himself, that you do not grow weary, being faint-hearted in your souls,
4 You did not resist unto blood, wrestling against sin.
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which He speaks with you, as with sons, "My sons, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor faint while being corrected by Him.
6 For whom the Lord loves, He disciplines, and scourges every son whom He receives." Proverbs 3:11, 12
7 If you endure discipline, God is dealing with you as with sons; for who is the son whom a father does not discipline?
8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become sharers, then you are illegitimate children, and not sons.
9 Furthermore, indeed we have had fathers of our flesh as correctors, and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits, and we shall live?
10 For the ones truly disciplined as for a few days according to the thing seeming good to them, but He for our profit, so as for us to partake of His holiness.
11 And all discipline for the present in deed does not seem to be of joy, but of grief; but afterward it gives back peaceable fruit of righteousness to the ones having been exercised through it.
12 Therefore straighten up the having been weakened hands "and the having been enfeebled knees;"
13 "and make straight tracks for your feet," that the lame one not be turned aside, but rather healed. Isa 35:3; Prov 4:26
14 Eagerly pursue peace and holiness with all, without which no one will see the Lord,
15 watching diligently that not any lack from the grace of God, that "no root of bitterness growing up" may crowd "in on you," and through this many be defiled; Deut 29:18
16 that not any fornicator, or profane one, as Esau, who for one eating gave up his birthright;
17 for you know also that afterwards desiring to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, although seeking it out with tears. Gen 27:36-39
18 For you have not drawn near to the mountain being touched, and having been lit with fire, and to gloom, and darkness, and tempest,
19 and to a sound of trumpet, and to a voice of words, which the ones hearing begged that not a word be added to them;
20 for they could not bear the thing enjoined: "Even" "if a beast" "touches the mountain, it will be stoned, or shot through" with a dart. Ex 19:12, 13
21 And so fearful was the thing appearing, Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling." Deut 9:19
22 But you have drawn near Mount Zion, even the city of the living God, to a heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,
23 and to a festal gathering and an assembly of the first-born ones having been enrolled in Heaven; and to God the Judge of all, and to spirits of just ones who have been perfected;
24 and to Jesus the Mediator of a new covenant, and to blood of sprinkling speaking better things than that of Abel.
25 Watch that you do not refuse the One speaking; for if these refusing the One divinely warning them did not escape on the earth, much rather we, the ones turning away from Heaven;
26 whose voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, "Yet once" "I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens." Hag 2:6
27 Now the words "Yet once" make clear the removal of the things being shaken, as having been made, so that the things not being shaken may remain.
28 Therefore receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us have grace, by which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and godly fear;
29 for also, "Our God is a consuming fire." Deut 4:24
1 Let brotherly love abide.
2 Do not forget hospitality, for by this some unknowingly took in angels as guests.
3 Be mindful of the prisoners, as having been bound with them; of the ones ill-treated, as also being in the body yourselves.
4 Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled; but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
5 Set your way of life without moneyloving, being satisfied with present things; for He has said, "Not I will leave you, not ever! Nor I will not forsake you, not ever!" Deut 31:6
6 So that we may boldly say, "The Lord is my helper, and I will not be afraid. What shall man do to me?" Psa 118:6
7 Remember your leaders who spoke the Word of God to you, considering the issue of their conduct, imitate their faith:
8 Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and today and forever.
9 Do not be carried away by various and strange doctrine; for it is good that the heart be confirmed by grace, not by foods, in which those walking in them were not profited.
10 We have an altar of which the ones serving the tabernacle have no authority to eat.
11 For of the animals whose "blood is brought" by the high priest "into the Holy of Holies" concerning sin, of these the bodies "are burned outside the camp". Lev 16:2, 27
12 Therefore, indeed, in order that He might sanctify the people by His own blood, Jesus suffered outside the gate.
13 Therefore let us go forth to Him outside the camp bearing His reproach.
14 For we do not have here a continuing city, but we seek the city coming.
15 Therefore through Him let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God always, this is, the fruit of the lips, confessing to His name.
16 But do not be forgetful of doing good and sharing, for God is well pleased with such sacrifices.
17 Yield to the ones taking the lead of you, and submit, for they watch for your souls, giving an account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning; for this would be unprofitable to you.
18 Pray about us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, in all things desiring to conduct ourselves well.
19 But I even more urge you to do this that I may sooner be restored to you.
20 Now the God of Peace, the One leading up out of the dead, the great Shepherd of the sheep, in the blood of the everlasting covenant, our Lord Jesus,
21 perfect you in every good work, in order to do His will, doing in you that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
22 And, brothers, I exhort you, bear with the word of exhortation, for I indeed wrote to you by a few words.
23 You know the brother, Timothy, having been freed, with whom if he comes quickly, I will see you.
24 Greet all the ones leading you, also all the saints. The ones from Italy greet you.
25 Grace be with you all. Amen.