THE Entire Epistle to the Hebrews;
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The Epistle to the Hebrews
Ch. 1 Heb.
1:1 God, who at sundry times,
and in divers manners,
spake in time past,
unto the fathers by the prophets,
1:2 hath, in these last days,
spoken unto us by his Son,
whom he hath appointed heir
of all things, by whom also
he made the worlds.
1:3 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 purged our sins,
sat down on the right hand of the
Majesty, on high.
1:4 Being made so much better than
the angels, as he hath by inheritance,
obtained a more excellent name than they.
1:5 For unto which of the
angels said he 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?
1:6 And again,
when he bringeth in the
first begotten into the world,
he saith,
And let all the angels of God,
worship him.
1:7 And of the angels he saith,
who maketh his angels spirits,
and his ministers a flame of fire.
1:8 But unto the Son he saith,
Thy throne, O God,
is for ever and ever.
A sceptre of righteousness,
is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
1:9 Thou hast loved righteousness,
and hated iniquity.
Therefore God, even thy God,
hath anointed thee with the oil of
gladness above thy fellows.
1:10 And Thou, Lord, in the
beginning,
hast laid the foundation of the
earth;
and the heavens are the works of
thine hands.
1:11 They shall perish; but thou
remainest;
and they all shall wax old,
as doth a garment;
1:12 And as a vesture
shalt thou fold them up,
and they shall be changed.
But thou art the same, and thy
years shall not fail.
1:13 But to which of the angels
said he at any time,
sit on my right hand until I
make thine enemies thy
footstool?
1:14 Are they not all
ministering spirits,
sent forth to minister for them who
shall be heirs of salvation?
Ch. 2 Heb.
2:1 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.
2:2 For if the word spoken by
angels was steadfast,
and every transgression and
disobedience received a just
recompence of reward;
2:3 how shall we escape,
if we neglect so great salvation;
which at the first,
began to be spoken by the Lord,
and was confirmed unto us by them
that heard him;
2:4 God also bearing them witness;
both with signs and wonders,
and with divers miracles,
and gifts of the Holy Ghost,
according to his own will?
2:5 For unto the angels, hath he not
put in subjection the world to
come, whereof we speak.
2:6 But one, in a certain place,
testified, saying,
what is man, that thou art
mindful of him?
Or the son of man, that thou
visitest him?
2:7 Thou madest him a
little lower than the angels;
thou crownedst him with
glory and honor, and didst
set him over the works of thy hands.
2:8 Thou hast 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 see not yet all things
put under him.
2:9 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 man.
2:10 For it became him,
for whom are all things,
and by whom are all things,
in bringing many sons unto glory,
to make the captain of their salvation,
perfect through sufferings.
2:11 For both he that sanctifieth,
and they who are sanctified,
are all of one.
For which cause he is not ashamed to
call them brethren
2:12 saying,
I will declare thy name,
unto my brethren,
in the midst of the church will I
sing praise unto thee.
2:13 And again,
I will put my trust in him.
And again, behold,
I and the children which God hath
given me.
2:14 Forasmuch then,
as the children are partakers 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;
2:15 and deliver them,
who through fear of death,
were all their lifetime, subject to
bondage.
2:16 For verily, he took not on him the
nature of angels;
but he took on him the
seed of Abraham.
2:17 Wherefore, in all things,
it behooved him to be made like
unto 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.
2:18 For in that he himself hath
suffered, being tempted,
he is able to succor them that
are tempted.
Ch. 3 Heb.
3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren,
partakers of the heavenly calling,
consider the Apostle, and
High Priest of our profession,
Christ Jesus;
3:2 who was faithful to him that
appointed him,
as also Moses was faithful,
in all his house.
3:3 For this man was counted worthy of
more glory than Moses,
inasmuch as he,
who hath builded the house,
hath more honor than the house.
3:4 For every house is builded by
some man; but he that built
all things, is God.
3:5 And Moses, verily was faithful,
in all his house, as a servant,
for a testimony of those things which
were to be spoken after.
3:6 But Christ,
as a son over his own house;
whose house are we,
if we hold fast the confidence,
and the rejoicing of the hope,
firm, unto the end.
3:7 Wherefore, (as the Holy Ghost saith,
today if ye will hear his voice,
3:8 harden not your hearts, as in the
provocation, in the day of temptation
in the wilderness;
3:9 when your fathers tempted me,
proved me, and
saw my works forty years.
3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that
generation and said,
they do alway err in their heart;
and they have not known my ways.
3:11 So I sware in my wrath,
they shall not enter into my rest.)
3:12 Take heed brethren,
lest there be in any of you,
an evil heart of unbelief,
in departing from the living God.
3:13 But exhort one another daily,
while it is called today;
lest any of you be hardened,
through the deceitfulness of sin.
3:14 For we are made partakers of
Christ, if we hold the beginning of
our confidence steadfast,
unto the end;
3:15 while it is said,
today, if ye will hear his voice,
harden not your hearts,
as in the provocation.
3:16 For some, when they had heard,
did provoke;
howbeit, not all, that came out
of Egypt, by Moses.
3:17 But with whom was he grieved
forty years?
Was it not with them that
had sinned, whose carcasses
fell in the wilderness?
3:18 And to whom sware he that
they should not enter into his rest,
but to them that believed not?
3:19 So, we see,
that they could not enter in,
because of unbelief.
Ch. 4 Heb.
4:1 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.
4:2 For unto us was the
gospel preached,
as well as unto them.
But the word preached did not
profit them,
not being mixed with faith,
in them that heard it.
4:3 For we which have believed,
do enter into rest as he said,
as I have sworn in my wrath,
if they shall enter into my rest;
although the works were
finished from the foundation
of the world.
4:4 For he spake,
in a certain place
of the seventh day on
this wise,
and God did rest,
the seventh day,
from all his works.
4:5 And in this place, again,
if they shall enter into my rest.
4:6 Seeing therefore, it remaineth,
that some must enter therein, and
they to whom it was first preached,
entered not in, because of unbelief.
4:7 Again, he limiteth a certain day,
saying in David,
today, after so long a time;
as it is said, today,
if ye will hear his voice,
harden not your hearts.
4:8 For if *Joshua* (Jesus) had
given them rest,
then would he not afterward,
have spoken of another day.
4:9 There remaineth therefore,
a rest, to the people of God.
4:10 For he that is entered into his
rest,
he also hath ceased from his
own works,
as God did from his.
4:11 Let us labor, therefore, to
enter into that rest,
lest any man fall,
after the same example,
of unbelief.
4:12 For the word of God is quick and
powerful,
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.
4:13 Neither is there any creature that
is not manifest in his sight.
But all things are naked, and
opened unto the eyes of him,
with whom we have to do.
4:14 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.
4:15 For we have not an high priest which
cannot be touched with the
feeling of our infirmities;
but was, in all points tempted,
like as we are, yet, without sin.
4:16 Let us therefore, come boldly
unto the throne of grace,
that we may obtain mercy, and
find grace, to help, in time of need.
4:8*Joshua*; who led Israel into the
promised land; not Jesus Christ
Ch. 5 Heb.
5:1 For every high priest,
taken from among men,
is ordained for men
in things pertaining to God,
that he may offer both gifts and
sacrifices for sins.
5:2 Who can have compassion on the
ignorant,
and on them that are out
of the way;
for that he himself also,
is compassed with infirmity.
5:3 And by reason hereof, he ought,
as for the people, so also for
himself, to offer for sins.
5:4 And no man taketh
this honor unto himself,
but he that is called of God,
as was Aaron.
5:5 So also Christ glorified not himself
to be made an high priest;
but he that said unto him,
Thou art my Son, today have I
begotten thee.
5:6 As he saith also in another place,
Thou art a priest for ever,
after the order of Melchisedec.
5:7 Who, in the days of his flesh,
when he had offered up prayers
and supplications, with strong
crying and tears,
unto him that was able to save
him from death, and was
heard, in that he feared;
5:8 though, he were a Son,
yet learned he obedience,
by the things which he suffered;
5:9 And, being made perfect,
he became the author of eternal
salvation, unto all them that
obey him;
5:10 Called of God an high priest,
after the order of Melchisedec;
5:11 of whom,
we have many things to say, and
hard to be uttered, seeing ye are
dull of hearing.
5:12 For when for the time ye
ought to be teachers,
ye have need that
one teach you again,
which be the first principles of the
oracles of God;
and are become such, as have
need of milk,
and not of strong meat.
5:13 For every one that useth milk,
is unskilful in the word of
righteousness.
For he is a babe.
5:14 But strong meat belongeth to
them that are of full age,
even those,
who by reason of use,
have their senses exercised,
to discern both good, and evil.
Ch. 6 Heb.
6:1 Therefore, (leaving the) *moving on
from the discussion* of the
principles* of the doctrine of Christ,
let us go on unto perfection;
not laying again the foundation of
repentance from dead works,
and of faith toward God,
6:2 of the doctrine of baptisms, and of
laying on of hands, and of
resurrection of the dead, and of
eternal judgment.
6:3 And this will we do, if God permit.
6:4 For it is impossible for those,
who were once enlightened,
and have tasted of the heavenly gift,
and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
6:5 and have tasted the good word of God,
and the powers of the world to come,
6:6 if they shall fall away,
to renew them again unto repentance;
seeing they crucify to themselves
the Son of God afresh, and put him to an
open shame.
6:7 For the earth,
which drinketh in the rain that
cometh oft upon it,
and bringeth forth herbs meet for
them by whom it is dressed,
receiveth blessing from God.
6:8 But that which beareth thorns and
briers is rejected, and is nigh unto
cursing; whose end is to be burned.
6:9 But, beloved,
we are persuaded better things of you,
and things that accompany salvation,
though we thus speak.
6:10 For God is not unrighteous to
forget your work, and labor of love,
which ye have shewed toward his name,
in that ye have ministered to the
saints, and do minister.
6:11 And we desire that every one of
you do shew the same diligence to
the full assurance of hope,
unto the end.
6:12 That ye be not slothful, but
followers of them, who,
through faith and patience,
inherit the promises.
6:13 For when God made promise to
Abraham,
because he could swear by no
greater,
he sware by himself,
6:14 saying,
surely blessing, I will bless thee,
and multiplying, I will multiply thee.
6:15 And so, after he had patiently
endured, he obtained the promise.
6:16 For men verily swear by the greater.
And an oath for confirmation,
is to them, an end of all strife.
6:17 Wherein God,
willing more abundantly to
shew unto the heirs of promise,
the *immutability of his counsel,
confirmed it by an oath.
6:18 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.
6:19 Which hope we have as an
anchor of the soul, both sure, and
steadfast, and which entereth into
that within the veil;
6:20 Whither the forerunner is for us
entered,
even Jesus,
made an high priest, for ever,
after the order of Melchisedec.
6:1 * moving on from the discussion*....
6:17* immutability = unmovableness,
not changeable
6:18* immutable = fixed, permanent,
can't be moved
Ch. 7 Heb.
7:1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem,
priest of the most high God,
who met Abraham
returning from the slaughter of the
kings, and blessed him;
7:2 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.
7:3 Without father, without
mother, without descent,
having neither beginning of days
nor end of life;
but made, like, unto the
Son of God;
abideth a priest, continually.
7:4 Now consider how great this man was,
unto whom even the patriarch
Abraham, gave the tenth of the spoils.
7:5 And verily, they that are of the
sons of Levi, who receive the
office of the priesthood,
have a commandment,
to take tithes of the people
according to the law,
that is, of their brethren,
though they come out of the
loins of Abraham.
7:6 But he, whose descent is not
counted from them,
received tithes of Abraham,
and blessed him that had the
promises.
7:7 And without all contradiction,
the less is blessed of the better.
7:8 And here, men that die receive tithes;
but there he receiveth them,
of whom it is witnessed,
that he liveth.
7:9 And as I may so say, Levi also,
who receiveth tithes, payed tithes
in Abraham.
7:10 For he was yet in the
loins of his father when
Melchisedec met him.
7:11 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 rise after
the order of Melchisedec,
and not be called after the order of
Aaron?
7:12 For the priesthood being
changed,
there is made of necessity,
a change also, of the law.
7:13 For he of whom these things are
spoken,
pertaineth to another tribe,
of which no man gave attendance
at the altar.
7:14 For it is evident, that our Lord
sprang out of Juda; of which tribe,
Moses spake nothing concerning
priesthood.
7:15 And it is yet far more evident.
For, that after the similitude of
Melchisedec,
there ariseth another priest,
7:16 Who is made,
not after the law of a carnal commandment,
but after the power of an endless life.
7:17 For he testifieth,
Thou art a priest for ever,
after the order of Melchisedec.
7:18 For there is, verily,
a disannulling of the commandment
going before,
for the weakness, and un-profitableness,
thereof.
7:19 For the law made nothing perfect,
but the bringing in of a better
hope did;
by the which, we draw nigh,
unto God.
7:20 And, inasmuch,
as not without an oath,
he was made priest.
7:21 (For those priests were made,
without an oath; but this,
with an oath, by him that
said unto him,
The Lord sware, and will not repent,
Thou art a priest for ever,
after the order of Melchisedec.)
7:22 By so much, was Jesus made a
surety of a better testament.
7:23 And they truly were many priests,
because they were not suffered to
continue, by reason of death.
7:24 But this man,
because he continueth ever,
hath an unchangeable priesthood.
7:25 Wherefore, he is able, also,
to save them to the uttermost,
that come unto God by him,
seeing he ever liveth,
to make intercession for them.
7:26 For such an high priest
became us,
who is holy, harmless, undefiled,
separate from sinners,
and made higher than the heavens;
7:27 Who needeth 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.
7:28 For the law maketh men,
high priests which have infirmity.
But the word of the oath,
which was since the law,
maketh the Son,
who is consecrated,
for evermore.
Ch. 8 Heb.
8:1 Now of the things which we
have spoken,
this is the sum.
We have such an high priest,
who is set on the right hand of the
throne of the Majesty,
in the heavens;
8:2 A minister of the sanctuary,
and of the true tabernacle,
which the Lord pitched,
and not man.
8:3 For every high priest is
ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices.
Wherefore, it is of necessity
that this man have
somewhat also to offer.
8:4 For if he were on earth,
he should not be a priest,
seeing that there are priests that
offer gifts, according to the law;
8:5 who serve unto the example,
and shadow of heavenly things,
as Moses was admonished of God,
when he was about to make the
tabernacle.
For, see, saith he,
that thou make all things according to the
pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
8:6 But now hath he obtained a more
excellent ministry,
by how much also he is the
mediator of a better covenant,
which was established upon
better promises.
8:7 For if that first covenant had been
faultless, then should no place
have been sought for the second.
8:8 For finding fault with them
he saith,
Behold, the days come
saith the Lord,
when I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel,
and with the house of Judah.
8:9 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, saith
the Lord.
8:10 For this is the covenant that I will
make with the house of Israel,
after those days, saith 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.
8:11 And, they shall not teach every
man his neighbor,
and every man his brother saying,
know the Lord.
For all shall know me,
from the least to the greatest.
8:12 For I will be merciful to their
unrighteousness, and their sins,
and their iniquities will I remember
no more.
8:13 In that he saith, a new covenant,
he hath made the first old.
Now that which decayeth and waxeth old,
is ready to vanish away.
Ch. 9 Heb.
9:1 Then verily the first covenant,
had also ordinances of
divine service,
and a worldly sanctuary.
9:2 For there was a
tabernacle made; the first,
wherein was the candlestick,
and the table, and the shewbread;
which is called the sanctuary.
9:3 And after the second veil,
the tabernacle
which is called the Holiest of all.
9:4 Which had the golden censer,
and the ark of the covenant,
overlaid round about with gold,
wherein was the golden pot that
had manna,
and Aaron's rod that budded,
and the tables of the covenant.
9:5 And over it, the cherubims of
glory, shadowing the mercy seat;
of which we cannot now speak
particularly.
9:6 Now when these things were thus
ordained, the priests went always,
into the first tabernacle,
accomplishing the service of God.
9:7 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.
9:8 The Holy Ghost this signifying,
that the way into the holiest of all,
was not yet made manifest,
while as the first tabernacle was yet
standing;
9:9 which was a figure for the
time then present.
In which were offered both gifts,
and sacrifices, that could not
make him that did the service perfect,
as pertaining to the conscience;
9:10 which stood only in
meats and drinks,
and divers washings,
and carnal ordinances,
imposed on them until the
time of reformation.
9:11 But Christ, being come an
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;
9:12 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.
9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of
goats,
and the ashes of an heifer
sprinkling the unclean,
sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh;
9:14 how much more shall the
blood of Christ,
Who through the eternal Spirit,
offered himself without spot,
to God,
purge your conscience from
dead works, to serve the living God?
9:15 And for this cause,
he is the mediator of the
new testament,
that by means of death,
for the redemption of the
transgressions that were under
the first testament,
they which are called
might receive the promise
of eternal inheritance.
9:16 For where a testament is,
there must also of necessity,
be the death of the testator.
9:17 For a testament is of force,
after men are dead.
Otherwise, it is of no strength at all
while the testator liveth.
9:18 Whereupon neither the first
testament was dedicated
without blood.
9:19 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,
9:20 saying,
this is the blood of the testament which
God hath enjoined unto you.
9:21 Moreover,
he sprinkled with blood
both the tabernacle,
and all the
vessels of the ministry.
9:22 And almost all things, are,
by the law, purged with blood;
and without shedding of blood,
is no remission.
9:23 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.
9:24 For Christ is not entered into
the holy places made with hands,
which are the figures of the true;
but into heaven itself,
now to appear in the presence of
God for us.
9:25 Nor yet that he should
offer himself often, as the
high priest entereth into the
holy place every year,
with blood of others.
9:26 For then must he often have
suffered since the
foundation of the world.
But now once,
in the end of the world
hath he appeared,
to put away sin,
by the sacrifice of himself.
9:27 And as it is appointed unto men
once to die,
but after this the judgment;
9:28 so, Christ was once offered,
to bear the sins of many;
and unto them that look for him,
shall he appear the second time,
without sin, unto salvation.
Ch. 10 Heb.
10:1 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 the comers thereunto, perfect.
10:2 For then, would they not have
ceased to be offered?
Because, that the worshippers,
once purged,
should have had no more
conscience of sins.
10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a
remembrance again made of sins
every year.
10:4 For it is not possible that the
blood of bulls and of goats should
take away sins.
10:5 Wherefore,
when he cometh into the world,
he saith,
sacrifice and offering thou
wouldest not,
but a body hast thou prepared me.
10:6 In burnt offerings and
sacrifices for sin,
thou hast had no
pleasure.
10:7 Then said I,
Lo, I come,
(in the volume of the book,
it is written of me,)
to do thy will, O God.
10:8 Above when he said,
sacrifice and offering,
and burnt offerings,
and offering for sin,
thou wouldest not,
neither hadst pleasure therein;
which are offered by the law;
10:9 Then said he, Lo,
I come to do thy will O God.
He taketh away the first,
that he may establish the second.
10:10 By the which will,
we are sanctified, through the
offering of the body of
Jesus Christ, once, for all.
10:11 And every priest standeth,
daily ministering,
and offering oftentimes,
the same sacrifices,
which can never take away sins.
10:12 But this man, after he had
offered one sacrifice for sins,
for ever,
sat down on the right hand of God;
10:13 from henceforth expecting,
till his enemies be made his footstool.
10:14 For by one offering,
he hath perfected for ever,
them that are *sanctified.
10:15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also,
is a witness to us.
For after that he had said before,
10:16 this is the covenant that I will
make with them after those days,
saith the Lord,
I will put my laws into their
hearts, and
in their minds will I write them.
10:17 And their sins and
iniquities will I remember no more.
10:18 Now where remission of these is,
there is no more offering for sin.
10:19 Having therefore brethren,
boldness to enter into the holiest,
by the blood of Jesus,
10:20 by a new and living way,
which he hath consecrated for us,
through the veil, that is to say,
his flesh.
10:21 And having an high priest over the
house of God;
10:22 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.
10:23 Let us hold fast the
profession of our faith,
without wavering;
(for he is faithful that promised)
10:24 And let us consider one another,
to provoke unto love, and to good
works;
10:25 not forsaking the assembling of
ourselves together, as the manner
of some is;
but exhorting one another.
And so much the more, as ye see the
day approaching.
10:26 For if we sin willfully,
after that we have received the
knowledge of the truth,
there remaineth no more sacrifice
for sins,
10:27 but a certain fearful looking for
of judgment,
and fiery
indignation which shall devour
the adversaries.
10:28 He that despised Moses' law,
died without mercy
under two or three witnesses.
10:29 Of how much sorer punishment,
suppose ye, shall he be thought
worthy,
who hath trodden under foot
the Son of God,
and hath counted the
blood of the covenant,
wherewith he was sanctified,
an unholy thing, and
hath done despite,
unto the Spirit of grace?
10:30 For we know him that hath said,
vengeance belongeth unto me,
I will recompense saith the Lord.
And again,
The Lord shall judge his people.
10:31 It is a fearful thing to
fall into the hands of the living God.
10:32 But call to remembrance the
former days,
in which after ye were
illuminated,
ye endured a great
fight of afflictions;
10:33 Partly, whilst ye were made a
gazing stock, both by reproaches and
afflictions;
and partly,
whilst ye became companions of
them that were so used.
10:34 For ye had compassion of
me in my bonds, and took joyfully the
spoiling of your goods,
knowing, in yourselves, that ye have
in heaven, a better, and an
enduring substance.
10:35 Cast not away therefore,
your confidence, which hath great
recompence of reward.
10:36 For ye have need of patience,
that after ye have done the will of
God, ye might receive the promise.
10:37 For yet a little while,
and he that shall come will come,
and will not tarry.
10:38 Now the just shall live by faith.
But if any man draw back, my soul
shall have no pleasure in him.
10:39 But we are not of them who
draw back, unto perdition;
but of them that believe,
to the saving of the soul.
10:14*sanctified = to make holy, purify,
set apart
Ch. 11 Heb.
11:1 Now faith is the substance of
things hoped for,
the evidence of things
not seen.
11:2 For by it the elders obtained a
good report.
11:3 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.
11:4 By faith,
Abel offered unto 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 speaketh.
11:5 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.
11:6 But without faith it is
impossible to please him.
For he that cometh to God must
believe that he is,
and that he, is a rewarder of them
that diligently seek him.
11:7 By faith, Noah, being warned of
God of things, not seen as yet,
moved with fear,
prepared an ark to the saving of
his house;
by the which he condemned the world,
and became heir of the righteousness
which is by faith.
11:8 By faith, Abraham, when he was
called to go out into a place,
which he should after receive for an
inheritance, obeyed;
and he went out, not
knowing whither he went.
11:9 By faith he sojourned 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.
11:10 For he looked for a city which
hath foundations, whose builder
and maker, is God.
11:11 Through faith also,
Sara herself received strength to
conceive seed,
and was delivered of a child,
when she was past age, because she
judged him faithful, who had promised.
11:12 Therefore sprang there
even of 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.
11:13 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.
11:14 For they that say such things
declare plainly that they seek a
country.
11:15 And truly, if they had been
mindful of that country from whence
they came out,
they might have had opportunity,
to have returned.
11:16 But now they desire a
better country, that is, an heavenly.
Wherefore, God is not ashamed to
be called their God.
For he hath prepared
for them a city.
11:17 By faith, Abraham,
when he was tried,
offered up Isaac.
And he that had received the
promises,
offered up his only begotten son,
11:18 of whom it was said,
that in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
11:19 Accounting that God was
able to raise him up,
even from the dead;
from whence also he received him,
in a figure.
11:20 By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and
Esau, concerning things to come.
11:21 By faith, Jacob when he was a
dying, blessed both the sons of
Joseph; and worshipped,
leaning upon the top of his staff.
11:22 By faith, Joseph when he died,
made mention of the departing of the
children of Israel;
and gave commandment concerning
his bones.
11:23 By faith, Moses,
when he was born, was hid
three months of his parents,
because they saw he was a
proper child;
and they were not afraid
of the king's commandment.
11:24 By faith, Moses,
when he was come to years,
refused to be called the
son of Pharaoh's daughter;
11:25 choosing rather, to suffer
affliction with the people of
God, than
to enjoy the pleasures of
sin for a season;
11:26 esteeming the reproach of
Christ, greater riches than the
treasures in Egypt.
For he had respect unto the
recompence of the reward.
11:27 By faith he forsook Egypt,
not fearing the wrath of the king.
For he endured, as seeing him
who is invisible.
11:28 Through faith he kept the Passover,
and the sprinkling of blood,
lest he that destroyed the
firstborn should touch them.
11:29 By faith they passed through the
Red sea, as by dry land;
which the Egyptians, assaying to do,
were drowned.
11:30 By faith, the walls of Jericho
fell down, after they were compassed
about seven days.
11:31 By faith, the harlot Rahab,
perished not with them that
believed not,
when she had received the
spies with peace.
11:32 And what shall I more say?
For the time would fail me to tell of
Gedeon, and of Barak, and of
Samson, and of Jephthae;
of David also, and Samuel,
and of the prophets.
11:33 Who, through faith, subdued
kingdoms, wrought righteousness,
obtained promises, stopped the
mouths of lions;
11:34 quenched the violence of fire,
escaped the edge of the sword,
out of weakness were made
strong, waxed valiant in fight,
turned to flight the armies of the
aliens.
11:35 Women received their dead,
raised to life again.
And others were
tortured, not accepting deliverance;
that they might obtain a better
resurrection.
11:36 And others had trial of
cruel mockings and scourgings, yea,
moreover, of bonds and imprisonment.
11:37 They were stoned, they were
sawn asunder, were tempted,
were slain with the sword.
They wandered about in
sheepskins and goatskins; being
destitute, afflicted, tormented;
11:38 (Of whom the world was not worthy.)
They wandered in deserts and
in mountains, and in dens and
caves of the earth.
11:39 And these all, having obtained a
good report through faith,
received not the promise.
11:40 God, having provided some
better thing for us, that they,
without us, should not be made
perfect.
Ch. 12 Heb.
12:1 Wherefore, seeing we also,
are compassed about with so
great a cloud of witnesses,
let us lay aside every weight,
and the sin which doth so
easily beset us,
and let us run with patience,
the race that is set before us,
12:2 looking unto 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 set down at the right hand of the
throne of God.
12:3 For consider him that endured such
contradiction of sinners against
himself,
lest ye be wearied, and faint in your
minds.
12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood,
striving against sin.
12:5 And ye have forgotten the
exhortation which speaketh unto
you as unto children,
my son, despise not thou
the chastening of the Lord,
nor faint when thou art
rebuked of him.
12:6 For whom the Lord loveth,
he chasteneth,
and scourgeth every son
whom he receiveth.
12:7 If ye endure chastening,
God dealeth with you as with sons;
for what son is he, whom the father
chasteneth not?
12:8 But if ye be without chastisement,
whereof all are partakers, then
are ye bastards, and not sons.
12:9 Furthermore, we have had
fathers of our flesh,
which corrected us,
and we gave them reverence.
Shall we not much rather be in
subjection unto the Father of spirits,
and live?
12:10 For they verily, for a few days
chastened us after their own
pleasure;
but he, for our profit,
that we might be
partakers of his holiness.
12:11 Now no chastening, for the present
seemeth to be joyous, but grievous.
Nevertheless, afterward, it yieldeth the
peaceable fruit of righteousness
unto them which are exercised thereby.
12:12 Wherefore, lift up the hands which
hang down, and the feeble knees;
12:13 and make straight paths for your feet,
lest that which is lame be
turned out of the way;
but let it rather, be healed.
12:14 Follow peace with all men,
and holiness, without which
no man shall see the Lord.
12:15 Looking diligently, lest any man
fail of the grace of God; lest any
root of bitterness, springing up,
trouble you,
and thereby many be defiled.
12:16 Lest there be any fornicator,
or profane person, as Esau, who,
for one morsel of meat,
sold his birthright.
12:17 For ye know how that afterward,
when he would have inherited the
blessing, he was rejected.
For he found no place of repentance,
though he sought it carefully
with tears.
12:18 For ye are not come unto the
mount that might be touched,
and that burned with fire,
nor unto blackness, and darkness,
and tempest,
12:19 and the sound of a trumpet,
and the voice of words;
which voice,
they that heard, intreated,
that the word should not be
spoken to them any more.
12:20 (For they could not endure that
which was commanded, and if
so much as a beast touch the
mountain, it shall be stoned, or
thrust through with a dart.
12:21 And so terrible was the sight,
that Moses said,
I exceedingly fear
and quake.)
12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion,
and unto the city of the living God,
the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an
innumerable company of angels,
12:23 to the general assembly,
and church of the firstborn,
which are written in heaven,
and to God, the Judge of all,
and to the spirits of just men,
made perfect,
12:24 and to Jesus, the mediator of the
new covenant,
and to the blood of sprinkling,
that speaketh better things,
than that of Abel.
12:25 See that ye refuse not
him that speaketh.
For if they escaped not who refused
him that spake on earth,
much more shall not we escape,
if we turn away from him that
speaketh from heaven.
12:26 Whose voice then shook the earth.
But now he hath promised, saying,
Yet once more,
I shake not the earth only,
but also heaven.
12:27 And this word,
yet once more,
signifieth the removing of those
things that are shaken,
as of things that are made,
that those things which
cannot be shaken, may remain.
12:28 Wherefore we; receiving a kingdom,
which cannot be moved,
let us have grace,
whereby we may serve God acceptably,
with reverence and godly fear.
12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Ch. 13 Heb.
13:1 Let brotherly love continue.
13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers.
For thereby, some have
entertained angels unawares.
13:3 Remember them that are
in bonds, as bound with them;
and them which suffer adversity,
as being yourselves also in the body.
13:4 Marriage is honorable in all,
and the bed undefiled.
But whoremongers and adulterers,
God will judge.
13:5 Let your conversation be without
covetousness;
and be content with
such things as ye have.
For he hath said,
I will never leave thee, nor
forsake thee.
13:6 So that we may boldly say,
The Lord is my helper,
and I will not fear what man shall
do unto me.
13:7 Remember them which have the
rule over you, who have
spoken unto you the
word of God.
Whose faith, follow, considering the
end of their conversation;
13:8 Jesus Christ, the same,
yesterday, and today, and for ever.
13:9 Be not carried about with
divers and strange doctrines.
For it is a good thing that the
heart be established with grace;
not with meats, which
have not profited them that
have been occupied therein.
13:10 We have an altar whereof they
have no right to eat ,
which serve the tabernacle.
13:11 For the bodies of those beasts,
whose blood is brought into the
sanctuary, by the high priest for sin,
are burned without the camp.
13:12 Wherefore Jesus also,
that he might sanctify the
people with his own blood,
suffered without the gate.
13:13 Let us go forth, therefore,
unto him without the camp,
bearing his reproach.
13:14 For here have we no continuing
city, but we seek one, to come.
13:15 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.
13:16 But to do good and to communicate,
forget not.
For with such sacrifices,
God is well pleased.
13:17 Obey them that have the
rule over you, and submit yourselves.
For they watch for your souls,
as they that must give account,
that they may do it with joy,
and not with grief.
For that is unprofitable for you.
13:18 Pray for us.
For we trust we have a good
conscience, in all things,
willing to live honestly.
13:19 But I beseech you the rather,
to do this,
that I may be restored to
you the sooner.
13:20 Now, the God of peace,
that brought again from the dead,
our Lord Jesus,
that great shepherd of the sheep,
through the blood of the everlasting
covenant,
13:21 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.
13:22 And I beseech you, brethren,
suffer the word of exhortation.
For I have written a letter unto
you in few words.
13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy
is set at liberty; with whom,
if he come shortly, I will see you.
13:24 Salute all them that have
the rule over you,
and all the saints.
They of Italy salute you.
13:25 Grace be with you all. Amen.