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1 Scroll 44 Epistle to the Hebrews.
In many parts and in many ways God having spoken in past time to the fathers by the prophets,

2 in these Last Days He spoke to us by His Son,
whom He has appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the Ages[Worlds];

3 who being the brightness of the glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power,
He having by Himself made purification of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

4 having become so much better than the Angels, as He has inherited a more excellent Name than they.

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For to which of the Angels said He at any time,
Thou are My Son, this day have I begotten Thee? Psa 2:7
And again, I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son? 2Sa 7:14

6 And again, when He brings in the First-born into the World,
He says, And let all the Angels of GOD worship Him. Psa 97:7

7 And of the Angels He says,
Who making His Angels spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire. Psa 104:4

8 But to the Son, He says,
Thy throne, GOD, is forever and ever:
a Sceptre of Righteousness is the sceptre of Thy Kingdom. Psa 45:6

9 Thou loved righteousness, and hated lawlessness;
therefore GOD Thy God, has anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows. Psa 45:7

10 And, Thou, LORD, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the Earth, and the Heavens are the works of Thy hands. Psa 102:25

11 They shall perish; but Thou remain: and they all shall become old as does a garment; Psa 102:26

12 and as a vesture will Thou fold them up, and they shall be changed; but Thou are the same, and Thy years shall not fail. Psa 102:26-27

13 But to which of the Angels He has said at any time, Sit upon My right hand,
until I make Thy enemies Thy stool of Thy feet? Psa 110:1

14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them being about to inherit Salvation?

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Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest we should let them slip.

2 For if the word spoken by Angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;

3 how shall we escape, if having neglected so great Salvation;
which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by them that heard Him;

4 God also bearing them testimony, both with signs and wonders, and with diverse miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?

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For to the Angels He has not put in subjection the World to come, concerning which we speak.

6 But one in a certain place testified, saying,
What is man, that Thou are mindful of Him?
Or the Son of Man, that Thou visit Him? Psa 8:4

7 Thou made Him a little lower than the Angels;
Thou crowned Him with glory and honour, Psa 8:5
and did set Him over the works of Thy hands: Psa 8:6

8 Thou 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 made subject to Him.
But now we see not yet all things subjected to Him. Psa 8:6

9 But we see Jesus, who having been made a little lower than the Angels for the suffering of death,
crowned with glory and honour; that He by the grace of God; for all might taste death.

10 For it became 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 through sufferings perfect.

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For both He who sanctifying, and they who being sanctified, are all of one: for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren,

12 saying, I will declare Thy Name to My brethren, in the middle of the Congregation will I sing praise to Thee. Psa 22:22

13 And again, I will be trusting in Him. 2Sa 22:3
And again, Behold, I, and the children which GOD gave Me. Isa 8:18

14 Since then the children has partaken of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same;
that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

15 and might deliver those, who, through fear of death, were all their life-time subject to bondage.

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For truly He takes not hold of Angels, but of the seed of Abraham He takes hold.

17 Whence in all things it behoved Him to be made like to the brethren;
that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God,
to make reconciliation[atonement] for the sins of the people.

18 For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to help them that are tempted.

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1 Hence, Holy brethren, partakers of the Heavenly calling,
consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

2 who being faithful to Him that appointed Him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. Num 12:7

3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses,
inasmuch as He who having built the house, has more honour than the house.

4 For every house is built by some man; but He who having built all things is God.

5 And Moses truly was faithful in all his house,
as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were going to be spoken.

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But Christ as a son over His own house: whose house are we,
if indeed we hold fast the confidence, and the rejoicing of the hope may hold firm to the end.

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Therefore as the Holy Spirit says,
Today, if ye will hear His voice, Psa 95:7

8 harden not your hearts,
as in the provocation[Meribah],
as in the day of temptation[Massah] in the wilderness: Psa 95:8

9 where your fathers tempted Me, proved Me,
and saw My works forty years. Psa 95:9-10

10 Therefore I was grieved with that generation,
and said, They do always go astray in their heart;
and they have not known My ways. Psa 95:10

11 So I swore in My wrath, if they shall enter into My rest. Psa 95:11

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Take heed, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart,
of unbelief, in departing from the Living God.

13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called today;
lest any of you may be hardened through the deceitfulness of the sin.

14 For we have become partakers of Christ,
if indeed we hold the beginning of our confidence may hold firm to the end.

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While it is said,
Today, if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts,
as in the provocation[Meribah]. Psa 95:7-8

16 For some who having heard provoked, but not all those who having come out of Egypt by Moses.

17 But with whom was He grieved forty years?
Was it not with them that having sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

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And to whom did He swear that they should not enter into His rest, Psa 95:11
except to them that believed not?

19 And we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

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1 Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into His rest,
any of you may seem to come short of it.

2 For to us was the Gospel preached, as well as to them: but the word which they heard did not profit them,
not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

3 For we which having believed do enter into that rest, as He has said,
so I swore in My wrath, if they shall enter into My rest:
although the works were finished from the foundation of the World. Psa 95:11

4 For He has said in a certain place of the seventh day thus,
And GOD rested on the seventh day from all His works. Gen 2:2

5 And in this place again, if they shall enter into My rest. Psa 95:11

6 Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter into it,
and they to whom it was first preached the Gospel entered not because of unbelief:

7 again, He limits a certain day, today, saying in David,, after so long a time; as it is said,
Today, if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts. Psa 95:7-8

8 For if Joshua gave them rest, then He would not after these have spoken of another day.

9 There remains therefore a Sabbath-rest to the people of GOD.

10 For he who having entered into His rest also rested himself from his works, as God did from His own. Psa 95:11

11 Let us be diligent therefore to enter into that rest, lest anyone may fall after the same example of unbelief.

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For the Word of GOD is living, and effective, and sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

13 There is neither any creature that is not manifest in His sight: but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.

14 Having therefore a Great High Priest, that has passed into the Heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

15 For we have not a High Priest, unable to sympathise with our infirmities;
but who 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 may find grace to help in time of need.

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1 For every High Priest being taken from among men, is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

2 who can have compassion to those who being ignorant, and being astray; for that he himself also is surrounded with infirmity.

3 And by reason of this he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

4 And no man takes the honour to himself, but he who being called by God, as was Aaron:

5 so also the Christ[Messiah] glorified not Himself to be made a High Priest; but He who having spoken to Him,
Thou are My Son, this day have I begotten Thee. Psa 2:7

6 As He says also in another place,
Thou are a Priest forever after the order of Melchisedek. Psa 110:4

7 Who in the days of His flesh, He having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him,
that was able to save Him from death, and was heard, in that He godly feared;

8 although He being a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered;

9 and being made perfect, He became the author of everlasting Salvation to all those that obeying 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 explain, seeing ye have become dull of hearing.

12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need of one to teach you again which are the first principles of the Words of God;
and have become such as having need of milk, and not of strong food.

13 For every one that uses milk, is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

14 But strong food is to them that are matured, even those who by reason of use having their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

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1 Therefore leaving the principles of the Words of the Christ[Messiah], let us go on to perfection;
not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith towards GOD,

2 of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of everlasting judgment.

3 And this will we do, if indeed God permit.

4 For it is impossible for those who have been once enlightened, and having tasted the Heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit.

5 And they having tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the Age[World] to come,

6 and they having fallen away, to renew them again to repentance;
they crucifying to themselves the Son of God afresh, and putting Him to public shame.

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For the Earth which drinks in the rain that coming often upon it, and brings forth herbs fit for them by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God:

8 but that which bears thorns and briers is reprobated, and is near to cursing; whose end is to be burned.

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But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompanying Salvation, though we thus speak.

10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shown towards His Name,
in that ye having served to the Saints, and still serving.

11 And we desire every one of you to show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope to the end.

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That ye may be not dull, but followers of them who through faith and endurance inheriting the promises.

13 For when GOD made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He swore by Himself, Gen 22:16

14 saying, Surely, blessing I will bless Thee, and multiplying I will multiply Thee. Gen 22:17

15 And so, having patiently endured, He obtained the promise.

16 For men truly swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all contradiction.

17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, interposed 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 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 for us entered, Jesus, made a High Priest forever after the order of Melchisedek. Psa 110:4

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For this Melchisedek, King of Salem, Priest of God the Most High,
who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and having blessed him; Gen 14:17-19

2 to whom also Abraham gave tithes of all; first being interpreted King of righteousness,
and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of Peace; Gen 14:20

3 without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life;
but made like to the Son of God; stays a priest continually.

4 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tithe of the spoils.

5 And truly they that 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, although they come from the loins of Abraham:

6 but he whose descent being not counted from them has received tithes from Abraham,
and has blessed him that had the promises.

7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed by the better.

8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receives them, of whom it being testified that he lives.

9 And as I may say, Levi also, who receiving tithes, paid tithes in Abraham.

10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when he met Melchisedek.

11 If therefore perfection was by the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people had been legislated);
what further need was there that another priest should rise 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 said has partaken of another tribe, of which no one has given attendance at the Altar.

14 For it is evident that our Lord has sprung from Judah; of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedek there arises another priest,

16 who has become, not after a law of fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life.

17 For He testifies,
Thou are a Priest forever after the order of Melchisedek. Psa 110:4

18 For there is truly a disannulling of the preceding Commandment on account of its weakness and unprofitableness.

19 For the Law made nothing perfect, but the introduction of a better hope did; by which we draw near to God.

20 And inasmuch as not without an oath; for the priests are appointed without the swearing of an oath:

21 (for those indeed are having been made priests without an oath); but He with an oath, by Him that saying to Him,
The LORD has sworn, and will not regret,
Thou are a Priest forever after the order of Melchisedek: Psa 110:4

22 by so much of a better Covenant has become a surety made by Jesus.

23 And indeed there are having been many priests, because they were being hindered to continue by reason of death:

24 but this man, because He continues ever, has an unchangeable priesthood.

25 Hence He is able also to save them completely that come to God by Him, seeing He always living to make intercession for them.

26 For such a High Priest became us, who is Holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the Heavens;

27 who needs not 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 infirmity; but the word of the oath,
which was after the Law, makes the Son, who has been perfected forever.

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Now of the things being spoken: We have such a High Priest,
who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the Heavens;

2 a minister of the Holies, and of the true Tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

3 For every High Priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices:
hence it is necessity that this man to have somewhat which He may offer.

4 For if He were on Earth was He not be a priest, there being the priests that offer according to the Law, the gifts,

5 who serve to the example and shadow of Heavenly things,
as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the Tabernacle:
And see, (says He) Thou should make all according to the pattern shown to Thee in the Mount. Exo 25:40

6 But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also He is the mediator of a better Covenant,
which was legislated upon better promises.

7 For if that First Covenant were faultless, then would no place have been sought for the second Covenant.

8 For finding fault with them, He says,
Behold, the days come, says the LORD,
when I will make a New Covenant with the House of Israel and with the House of Judah: Jer 31:32

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 continued not in My Covenant, and I regarded them not, says the LORD. Jer 31:32

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 GOD, and they shall be to Me a people: Jer 31:33

11 and they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother,
saying, Know the LORD: for all shall know Me, from the least to the greatest of them. Jer 31:34

12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness,
and their sins and their iniquities might I remember no more. Jer 31:34

13 In that He said, A New Covenant, He has made the first old.
Now that which decays and growing old is near to vanish away.

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Then truly the First Covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a Worldly Sanctuary.

2 For there was a Tabernacle made; the first, in which was the lampstand, and the table, and the show-bread; which is called the Sanctuary.

3 And after the second veil, the Tabernacle which being called the Holy of Holies;

4 having a golden censer, and the Ark of the Covenant overlaid around 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 far above it the cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy-seat; is of which we cannot now speak particularly.

6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first Tabernacle, accomplishing the services:

7 but into the second went the High Priest alone once every year, not without blood,
which He offers for Himself, and for the errors of the people:

8 the Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the Holies not yet has been manifested,
while the first Tabernacle was yet standing:

9 which was a figure for the time then present, in which are offered both gifts and sacrifices,
that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

10 Which stood only in foods and drinks, and diverse bathings, 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, not of this creation;

12 neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood;
He entered in once into the Holies, having obtained everlasting redemption for us.

13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:

14 how much more is the blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God,
will cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the Living God?

15 And therefore 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,
they who are called may receive the promise of everlasting inheritance.

16 For where a Covenant[Testament] is, there must also of necessity be the death of the Testator.

17 For a Covenant[Testament] is firm over those dead, since it is never in force when the Testator lives.

18 Whence even the First was not dedicated without blood.

19 For every Commandment having been spoken, according to Law, by Moses, to all the people,
he having taken the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled it both: the Book and all the people,

20 saying, This is the blood of the Covenant which God has enjoined to you. Exo 24:8

21 Moreover, he sprinkled likewise 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 blood-shedding 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 Holies made with hands, which are antitypes of the true;
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 Holies 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 end of the Ages[Worlds] 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 judgment:

28 so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and to them without sin that look for Him He will appear the second time to Salvation.

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For the Law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the same image of the things,
can never with those sacrifices which they offer year by year,
continually make the comers to them perfect.

2 For then would they not have ceased to being offered?
Because of those who worshipping, once having been cleansed, to have no more conscience of sins.

3 But in those sacrifices is a remembrance of sins every year.

4 For it is impossible 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 Thou would not, but a body have Thou prepared Me. Psa 40:6

6 In burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin Thou have had no pleasure. Psa 40:6

7 Then I said, Behold, I come, (in the roll of the Book it has been written concerning Me), to do Thy will, God. Psa 40:7-8

8 Previously, saying, Sacrifice and offering and burnt-offerings and offering for sin,
Thou would not, neither had pleasure in them; which are offered by the Law.

9 Then He has said, Behold, I come, to do Thy will, God. Psa 40:7-8
He takes away the first, that He may establish the second.

10 By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once.

11 And every priest has stood daily ministering and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

12 but this One, after He having offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;

13 henceforth waiting until His enemies should be placed as stool of His feet.

14 For by one offering He has perfected forever them that are being sanctified.

15 Of this the Holy Spirit also is a witness to us: for after that He has said before,

16 this is the Covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD,
I will put My Laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them [reverse]; Jer 31:33

17 and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Jer 31:34

18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

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Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the Holies by the blood of Jesus,

20 by a new and living way, which He has consecrated for us, 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,
having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies having bathed with pure water.

23 Let us hold fast the profession of our hope without wavering; for He is faithful that promised:

24 and let us consider one another to excite to love and to good works:

25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves, as the manner of some is;
but exhorting one another: and so much more, as ye see the day approaching.

26 For if we sinning wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,

27 but a certain fearful apprehension of judgment and fervour of fire, which about to devour the adversaries.

28 Anyone who having rejected the Law of Moses, dies without mercy under two or three witnesses:

29 of how much more severe punishment, suppose ye, shall he be counted worthy,
who having trampled the Son of God,
and has counted the Blood of the Covenant, by which he was sanctified,
an unholy thing, and having insulted the Spirit of grace?

30 For we have known Him that has said,
Vengeance is Mine, I will recompense, says the LORD. Deu 32:35
And again,
The LORD will judge His people. Deu 32:36

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 ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

33 partly, while ye were being a gazing-stock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, while ye became companions of them that being so used.

34 For also with my bonds ye sympathised, and took with joy the seizing of your goods,
knowing that ye to have for yourselves in Heavens a better and an enduring substance.

35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense of reward.

36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

37 For yet a little while,
and He who Coming will Come,
and will not tarry.

38 But the just shall live by faith: Hab 2:4
but if he may draw back,
My soul have no pleasure in him.

39 But we are not of them who draw back to perdition; but faith to preservation of the soul.

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1 Now faith is the substance of things being hoped for, the evidence of things not being seen.

2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.

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By faith we understand that the Ages[Worlds] were framed by the word of GOD, so that things which are seen not have to come of things which being seen.

4 By faith Abel offered to GOD a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he was testified to be righteous, GOD testifying of his gifts: and by it He being dead yet speaks. Gen 4:2-5

5 By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because GOD translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased GOD. Gen 5:24

6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he who coming to GOD must believe that He is, and that He becomes a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.

7 By faith Noah, having been divinely warned of things not being seen as yet, having feared, he prepared an ark to the Salvation of his House; by which he condemned the World, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. Gen 6:5-22

8 By faith Abraham, when he being called to remove into a place which he was about to receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out not knowing where he goes. Gen 12:1-9

9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a foreign country, dwelling in Tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

10 for he looked for a city which having foundations, whose builder and maker is GOD.

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By faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who having promised. Gen 18:1-15

12 Therefore there sprang even from one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the Heaven in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea-shore innumerable. Gen 15:5 Gen 22:17

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 are strangers and pilgrims on the Earth.

14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

15 And if, truly, they were mindful of that country from where they came, they might have had opportunity to return.

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 being tried, has offered up Isaac: and he who having received the promises offered up his only-begotten,

18 of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall Thy seed be called: Gen 21:12

19 accounting that God was able to raise him even from the dead; whence also he received him in a figure.

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By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. Gen 27:1-40

21 By faith Jacob, when he dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshiped, leaning upon the top of his staff. Gen 47:31

22 By faith Joseph, when he dying, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave Commandment concerning his bones. Gen 50:24-26

23 By faith Moses, when he having been born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment. Exo 2:1-8

24 By faith Moses, when he having become great, refused to be called the son of the daughter of Pharaoh; Exo 2:8-15

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choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of GOD, than to have temporary the pleasures of sin;

26 esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he had respect to the recompense of the reward.

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By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing Him who is invisible.

28 By faith he has kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroying the first-borns might touch them. Exo 12:21-28

29 By faith they passed over the Red Sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians having received a trial were drowned. Exo 14:15-23

30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they having been went around seven days. Jos 6:12-16

31 By faith the whore Rahab perished not with them that believed not, as she having received the spies with peace. Jos 2:1-11 Jos 6:17

32
And what may I say more? For the time would fail me to declare about Gideon, both Barak and Samson, and Jephthah, both David and Samuel, and the prophets:

33 who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were strengthened from weakness, became strong in fight, turned to battle the armies of the strangers.

35 Women received their dead by resurrection: and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

36 and others received trial of mockings and scourgings, and even bonds and imprisonment:

37 they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were murdered with the sword: they wandered about in sheep-skins, and goat-skins; being destitute, being afflicted, being tormented;

38 (of whom the World was not worthy): they wandering in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the Earth.

39 And these all, having obtained a good report through the faith, received not the promise:

40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

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1 Therefore, we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us,
let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us,
and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

2 looking to Jesus the Author and Finisher of the faith;
who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross,
despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of GOD.

3 For consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest ye may be wearied and fainting in your souls.

4 Ye have not yet resisted to blood, striving against the sin.

5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to children,
My son, despise not Thou the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when Thou being reproved by Him: Pro 3:11

6 for whom the LORD loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives. Pro 3:12

7 If ye endure chastening, God is treating you as sons: for what son is he whom the father chastens not?

8 But if ye are without chastisement, of which all have become partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons.

9 Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh as instructors, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and shall live?

10 For they truly for a few days chastened us according to what seemed good to them; but He who for our profiting, that we might be partakers of His Holiness.

11 Now all chastening for the present not seems to be joyous, but grievous: yet afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them who are exercised 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 aside; but let it rather be healed.

14 Pursue peace with all, and sanctification, without which no one shall see the Lord:

15 looking diligently, lest any fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up, trouble you, and by it many may be defiled;

16 lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birth-right.

17 For ye know that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, although having sought it with tears.

18 For ye have not come to the Mount that might being touched, and that burned with fire, nor to blackness, and to darkness, and tempest,

19 and a shofar sounded, and the voice of words; which they that having heard, entreated that the word should not be added to them any more;

20 (for they could not endure that which being commanded, even if a beast may touch the Mount, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: Exo 19:12-13

21 and so fearful was the appearing, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and tremble).

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But ye have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the Living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of Angels,

23 to the general assembly and Church of the first-borns, who having been registered in Heavens,
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 ye refuse not Him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused Him that divinely warned on Earth,
much more we, if we turn away from Him that speaks from Heavens:

26 whose voice then shook the Earth: but now He has promised, saying,
Yet once more I shake not the Earth only, but also Heaven. Hag 2:6

27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that being shaken, as of things that are made,
that those things which cannot being shaken may remain.

28 Therefore we receiving a Kingdom which cannot be moved, may we have grace,
by which we may serve GOD acceptably, with reverence and godly fear.

29 For our God is a consuming fire. Deu 4:24

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1 Let brotherly love continue.

2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for by this some have entertained Angels unawares.

3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them who suffering adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

4 Marriage is honourable among all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

5 The manner of life must be without covetousness; being content with the present things: for He has said, I might never leave Thee, nor might forsake Thee.

6 So that we may boldly say,
The LORD is my Helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me. Psa 118:6

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Remember them who have the rule over you, who have spoken to you the Word of GOD:
whose the faith follow, considering the end of their behaviour.

8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.

9 Be not carried about with diverse and strange doctrines: for it is a good thing that the heart to be confirmed with grace;
not with foods, which have not profited them that have been walked in them.

10 We have an Altar, of which they have no right to eat who serve the Tabernacle.

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. Lev 16:27

12 Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.

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Let us go forth 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, confessing to His Name.

16 But forget not goodwill and fellowship: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that shall giving account,
that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

18 Pray for us: for we have trusted that we have a good conscience, in all things willing to behave well.

19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may more quickly be restored to you.

20 But the God of Peace, that bringing up from the dead, the great Shepherd of the sheep, in the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant, our Lord Jesus.

21 May He make you perfect in every good work to do His will, doing in you that which is well-pleasing in His eyes, through Jesus Christ; to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen!

22 Now I beseech you, brethren, endure the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter to you in few words.

23 Know ye, that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he may come shortly, I will see you.

24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the Saints. They of Italy salute you.

25 Grace be with you all. Amen!