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Chapter 1
HEB 1:1
God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in
the prophets in many portions and in many ways,
HEB 1:2 in these last days has spoken to
us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all
things, through whom also He made the world.
HEB 1:3 And He is the radiance of His
glory and the exact representation of His
nature, and upholds all things by the word of
His power. When He had made purification of
sins, He sat down at the right hand of the
Majesty on high;
HEB 1:4 having become as much better than
the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent
name than they.
HEB 1:5 For to which of the angels did He
ever say, "Thou art My Son, Today I have
begotten Thee"? And again, "I will be a Father
to Him And He shall be a Son to Me"?
HEB 1:6 And when He again brings the
first-born into the world, He says, "And let all
the angels of God worship Him."
HEB 1:7 And of the angels He says, "Who
makes His angels winds, And His ministers a
flame of fire."
HEB 1:8 But of the Son He says, "Thy
throne, O God, is forever and ever, And the
righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom.
HEB 1:9 "Thou hast loved righteousness
and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Thy God,
hath anointed Thee With the oil of gladness
above Thy companions."
HEB 1:10 And, "Thou, Lord, in the
beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth,
And the heavens are the works of Thy hands;
HEB 1:11 They will perish, but Thou
remainest; And they all will become old as a
garment,
HEB 1:12 And as a mantle Thou wilt roll
them up; As a garment they will also be changed.
But Thou art the same, And Thy years will not
come to an end."
HEB 1:13 But to which of the angels has
He ever said, "Sit at My right hand, Until I
make Thine enemies A footstool for Thy feet"?
HEB 1:14 Are they not all ministering
spirits, sent out to render service for the sake
of those who will inherit salvation?
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Chapter 2
HEB 2:1
For this reason we must pay much closer
attention to what we have heard, lest we drift
away from it.
HEB 2:2 For if the word spoken through
angels proved unalterable, and every
transgression and disobedience received a just
recompense,
HEB 2:3 how shall we escape if we neglect
so great a salvation? After it was at the first
spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us
by those who heard,
HEB 2:4 God also bearing witness with
them, both by signs and wonders and by various
miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit
according to His own will.
HEB 2:5 For He did not subject to angels
the world to come, concerning which we are
speaking.
HEB 2:6 But one has testified somewhere,
saying, "What is man, that Thou rememberest him?
Or the son of man, that Thou art concerned about
him?
HEB 2:7 "Thou hast made him for a little
while lower than the angels; Thou hast crowned
him with glory and honor, And hast appointed him
over the works of Thy hands;
HEB 2:8 Thou hast put all things in
subjection under his feet."For in subjecting all
things to him, He left nothing that is not
subject to him. But now we do not yet see all
things subjected to him.
HEB 2:9 But we do see Him who has been
made for a little while lower than the angels,
namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death
crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace
of God He might taste death for everyone.
HEB 2:10 For it was fitting for Him, for
whom are all things, and through whom are all
things, in bringing many sons to glory, to
perfect the author of their salvation through
sufferings.
HEB 2:11 For both He who sanctifies and
those who are sanctified are all from one
Father; for which reason He is not ashamed to
call them brethren,
HEB 2:12 saying, "I will proclaim Thy
name to My brethren, In the midst of the
congregation I will sing Thy praise."
HEB 2:13 And again, "I will put My trust
in Him." And again, "Behold, I and the children
whom God has given Me."
HEB 2:14 Since then the children share in
flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also
partook of the same, that through death He might
render powerless him who had the power of death,
that is, the devil;
HEB 2:15 and might deliver those who
through fear of death were subject to slavery
all their lives.
HEB 2:16 For assuredly He does not give
help to angels, but He gives help to the
descendant of Abraham.
HEB 2:17 Therefore, He had to be made
like His brethren in all things, that He might
become a merciful and faithful high priest in
things pertaining to God, to make propitiation
for the sins of the people.
HEB 2:18 For since He Himself was tempted
in that which He has suffered, He is able to
come to the aid of those who are tempted.
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Chapter 3
HEB 3:1
Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a
heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle
and High Priest of our confession.
HEB 3:2 He was faithful to Him who
appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His
house.
HEB 3:3 For He has been counted worthy of
more glory than Moses, by just so much as the
builder of the house has more honor than the
house.
HEB 3:4 For every house is built by
someone, but the builder of all things is God.
HEB 3:5 Now Moses was faithful in all His
house as a servant, for a testimony of those
things which were to be spoken later;
HEB 3:6 but Christ was faithful as a Son
over His house whose house we are, if we hold
fast our confidence and the boast of our hope
firm until the end.
HEB 3:7 Therefore, just as the Holy
Spirit says, "Today if you hear His voice,
HEB 3:8 Do not harden your hearts as when
they provoked Me, As in the day of trial in the
wilderness,
HEB 3:9 Where your fathers tried Me by
testing Me, And saw My works for forty years.
HEB 3:10 "Therefore I was angry with this
generation, And said, 'They always go astray in
their heart; And they did not know My ways';
HEB 3:11 As I swore in My wrath,' They
shall not enter My rest.' "
HEB 3:12 Take care, brethren, lest there
should be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving
heart, in falling away from the living God.
HEB 3:13 But encourage one another day
after day, as long as it is still called
"Today," lest any one of you be hardened by the
deceitfulness of sin.
HEB 3:14 For we have become partakers of
Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our
assurance firm until the end;
HEB 3:15 while it is said, "Today if you
hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts, as
when they provoked Me."
HEB 3:16 For who provoked Him when they
had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came
out of Egypt led by Moses?
HEB 3:17 And with whom was He angry for
forty years? Was it not with those who sinned,
whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
HEB 3:18 And to whom did He swear that
they should not enter His rest, but to those who
were disobedient?
HEB 3:19 And so we see that they were not
able to enter because of unbelief.
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Chapter 4
HEB 4:1
Therefore, let us fear lest, while a promise
remains of entering His rest, any one of you
should seem to have come short of it.
HEB 4:2 For indeed we have had good news
preached to us, just as they also; but the word
they heard did not profit them, because it was
not united by faith in those who heard.
HEB 4:3 For we who have believed enter
that rest, just as He has said, "As I swore in
My wrath, They shall not enter My rest,"
although His works were finished from the
foundation of the world.
HEB 4:4 For He has thus said somewhere
concerning the seventh day, "And God rested on
the seventh day from all His works";
HEB 4:5 and again in this passage, "They
shall not enter My rest."
HEB 4:6 Since therefore it remains for
some to enter it, and those who formerly had
good news preached to them failed to enter
because of disobedience,
HEB 4:7 He again fixes a certain day,
"Today," saying through David after so long a
time just as has been said before, "Today if you
hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts."
HEB 4:8 For if Joshua had given them
rest, He would not have spoken of another day
after that.
HEB 4:9 There remains therefore a Sabbath
rest for the people of God.
HEB 4:10 For the one who has entered His
rest has himself also rested from his works, as
God did from His.
HEB 4:11 Let us therefore be diligent to
enter that rest, lest anyone fall through
following the same example of disobedience.
HEB 4:12 For the word of God is living
and active and sharper than any two-edged sword,
and piercing as far as the division of soul and
spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to
judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
HEB 4:13 And there is no creature hidden
from His sight, but all things are open and laid
bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.
HEB 4:14 Since then we have a great high
priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus
the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
HEB 4:15 For we do not have a high priest
who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but
One who has been tempted in all things as we
are, yet without sin.
HEB 4:16 Let us therefore draw near with
confidence to the throne of grace, that we may
receive mercy and may find grace to help in time
of need.
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Chapter 5
HEB 5:1
For every high priest taken from among men is
appointed on behalf of men in things pertaining
to God, in order to offer both gifts and
sacrifices for sins;
HEB 5:2 he can deal gently with the
ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is
beset with weakness;
HEB 5:3 and because of it he is obligated
to offer sacrifices for sins, as for the people,
so also for himself.
HEB 5:4 And no one takes the honor to
himself, but receives it when he is called by
God, even as Aaron was.
HEB 5:5 So also Christ did not glorify
Himself so as to become a high priest, but He
who said to Him, "Thou art My Son, Today I have
begotten Thee";
HEB 5:6 just as He says also in another
passage, "Thou art a priest forever According to
the order of Melchizedek."
HEB 5:7 In the days of His flesh, He
offered up both prayers and supplications with
loud crying and tears to the One able to save
Him from death, and He was heard because of His
piety.
HEB 5:8 Although He was a Son, He learned
obedience from the things which He suffered.
HEB 5:9 And having been made perfect, He
became to all those who obey Him the source of
eternal salvation,
HEB 5:10 being designated by God as a
high priest according to the order of
Melchizedek.
HEB 5:11 Concerning him we have much to
say, and it is hard to explain, since you have
become dull of hearing.
HEB 5:12 For though by this time you
ought to be teachers, you have need again for
someone to teach you the elementary principles
of the oracles of God, and you have come to need
milk and not solid food.
HEB 5:13 For everyone who partakes only
of milk is not accustomed to the word of
righteousness, for he is a babe.
HEB 5:14 But solid food is for the
mature, who because of practice have their
senses trained to discern good and evil.
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Chapter 6
HEB 6:1
Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about
the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not
laying again a foundation of repentance from
dead works and of faith toward God,
HEB 6:2 of instruction about washings,
and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of
the dead, and eternal judgment.
HEB 6:3 And this we shall do, if God
permits.
HEB 6:4 For in the case of those who have
once been enlightened and have tasted of the
heavenly gift and have been made partakers of
the Holy Spirit,
HEB 6:5 and have tasted the good word of
God and the powers of the age to come,
HEB 6:6 and then have fallen away, it is
impossible to renew them again to repentance,
since they again crucify to themselves the Son
of God, and put Him to open shame.
HEB 6:7 For ground that drinks the rain
which often falls upon it and brings forth
vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is
also tilled, receives a blessing from God;
HEB 6:8 but if it yields thorns and
thistles, it is worthless and close to being
cursed, and it ends up being burned.
HEB 6:9 But, beloved, we are convinced of
better things concerning you, and things that
accompany salvation, though we are speaking in
this way.
HEB 6:10 For God is not unjust so as to
forget your work and the love which you have
shown toward His name, in having ministered and
in still ministering to the saints.
HEB 6:11 And we desire that each one of
you show the same diligence so as to realize the
full assurance of hope until the end,
HEB 6:12 that you may not be sluggish,
but imitators of those who through faith and
patience inherit the promises.
HEB 6:13 For when God made the promise to
Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater,
He swore by Himself,
HEB 6:14 saying, "I will surely bless
you, and I will surely multiply you."
HEB 6:15 And thus, having patiently
waited, he obtained the promise.
HEB 6:16 For men swear by one greater
than themselves, and with them an oath given as
confirmation is an end of every dispute.
HEB 6:17 In the same way God, desiring
even more to show to the heirs of the promise
the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed
with an oath,
HEB 6:18 in order that by two
unchangeable things, in which it is impossible
for God to lie, we may have strong
encouragement, we who have fled for refuge in
laying hold of the hope set before us.
HEB 6:19 This hope we have as an anchor
of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and
one which enters within the veil,
HEB 6:20 where Jesus has entered as a
forerunner for us, having become a high priest
forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
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Chapter 7
HEB 7:1
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of
the Most High God, who met Abraham as he was
returning from the slaughter of the kings and
blessed him,
HEB 7:2 to whom also Abraham apportioned
a tenth part of all the spoils, was first of
all, by the translation of his name, king of
righteousness, and then also king of Salem,
which is king of peace.
HEB 7:3 Without father, without mother,
without genealogy, having neither beginning of
days nor end of life, but made like the Son of
God, he abides a priest perpetually.
HEB 7:4 Now observe how great this man
was to whom Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth
of the choicest spoils.
HEB 7:5 And those indeed of the sons of
Levi who receive the priest's office have
commandment in the Law to collect a tenth from
the people, that is, from their brethren,
although these are descended from Abraham.
HEB 7:6 But the one whose genealogy is
not traced from them collected a tenth from
Abraham, and blessed the one who had the
promises.
HEB 7:7 But without any dispute the
lesser is blessed by the greater.
HEB 7:8 And in this case mortal men
receive tithes, but in that case one receives
them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives on.
HEB 7:9 And, so to speak, through Abraham
even Levi, who received tithes, paid tithes,
HEB 7:10 for he was still in the loins of
his father when Melchizedek met him.
HEB 7:11 Now if perfection was through
the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it
the people received the Law), what further need
was there for another priest to arise according
to the order of Melchizedek, and not be
designated according to the order of Aaron?
HEB 7:12 For when the priesthood is
changed, of necessity there takes place a change
of law also.
HEB 7:13 For the one concerning whom
these things are spoken belongs to another
tribe, from which no one has officiated at the
altar.
HEB 7:14 For it is evident that our Lord
was descended from Judah, a tribe with reference
to which Moses spoke nothing concerning priests.
HEB 7:15 And this is clearer still, if
another priest arises according to the likeness
of Melchizedek,
HEB 7:16 who has become such not on the
basis of a law of physical requirement, but
according to the power of an indestructible
life.
HEB 7:17 For it is witnessed of Him,
"Thou art a priest forever According to the
order of Melchizedek."
HEB 7:18 For, on the one hand, there is a
setting aside of a former commandment because of
its weakness and uselessness
HEB 7:19 (for the Law made nothing
perfect), and on the other hand there is a
bringing in of a better hope, through which we
draw near to God.
HEB 7:20 And inasmuch as it was not
without an oath
HEB 7:21 (for they indeed became priests
without an oath, but He with an oath through the
One who said to Him, "The Lord has sworn And
will not change His mind, 'Thou art a priest
forever'");
HEB 7:22 so much the more also Jesus has
become the guarantee of a better covenant.
HEB 7:23 And the former priests, on the
one hand, existed in greater numbers, because
they were prevented by death from continuing,
HEB 7:24 but He, on the other hand,
because He abides forever, holds His priesthood
permanently.
HEB 7:25 Hence, also, He is able to save
forever those who draw near to God through Him,
since He always lives to make intercession for
them.
HEB 7:26 For it was fitting that we
should have such a high priest, holy, innocent,
undefiled, separated from sinners and exalted
above the heavens;
HEB 7:27 who does not need daily, like
those high priests, to offer up sacrifices,
first for His own sins, and then for the sins of
the people, because this He did once for all
when He offered up Himself.
HEB 7:28 For the Law appoints men as high
priests who are weak, but the word of the oath,
which came after the Law, appoints a Son, made
perfect forever.
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Chapter 8
HEB 8:1
Now the main point in what has been said is
this: we have such a high priest, who has taken
His seat at the right hand of the throne of the
Majesty in the heavens,
HEB 8:2 a minister in the sanctuary, and
in the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched,
not man.
HEB 8:3 For every high priest is
appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices;
hence it is necessary that this high priest also
have something to offer.
HEB 8:4 Now if He were on earth, He would
not be a priest at all, since there are those
who offer the gifts according to the Law;
HEB 8:5 who serve a copy and shadow of
the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned by
God when he was about to erect the tabernacle;
for, "See," He says, "that you make all things
according to the pattern which was shown you on
the mountain."
HEB 8:6 But now He has obtained a more
excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the
mediator of a better covenant, which has been
enacted on better promises.
HEB 8:7 For if that first covenant had
been faultless, there would have been no
occasion sought for a second.
HEB 8:8 For finding fault with them, He
says, "Behold, days are coming, says the Lord,
When I will effect a new covenant With the house
of Israel and with the house of Judah;
HEB 8:9 Not like the covenant which I
made with their fathers On the day when I took
them by the hand To lead them out of the land of
Egypt; For they did not continue in My covenant,
And I did not care for them, says the Lord.
HEB 8:10 "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 minds, And I will write them upon their
hearts. And I will be their God, And they shall
be My people.
HEB 8:11 "And they shall not teach
everyone his fellow citizen, And everyone his
brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' For all shall
know Me, From the least to the greatest of them.
HEB 8:12 "For I will be merciful to their
iniquities, And I will remember their sins no
more."
HEB 8:13 When He said, "A new covenant,"
He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is
becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to
disappear.
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Chapter 9
HEB 9:1
Now even the first covenant had regulations of
divine worship and the earthly sanctuary.
HEB 9:2 For there was a tabernacle
prepared, the outer one, in which were the
lampstand and the table and the sacred bread;
this is called the holy place.
HEB 9:3 And behind the second veil, there
was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of
Holies,
HEB 9:4 having a golden altar of incense
and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides
with gold, in which was a golden jar holding the
manna, and Aaron's rod which budded, and the
tables of the covenant.
HEB 9:5 And above it were the cherubim of
glory overshadowing the mercy seat; but of these
things we cannot now speak in detail.
HEB 9:6 Now when these things have been
thus prepared, the priests are continually
entering the outer tabernacle, performing the
divine worship,
HEB 9:7 but into the second only the high
priest enters, once a year, not without taking
blood, which he offers for himself and for the
sins of the people committed in ignorance.
HEB 9:8 The Holy Spirit is signifying
this, that the way into the holy place has not
yet been disclosed, while the outer tabernacle
is still standing,
HEB 9:9 which is a symbol for the present
time. Accordingly both gifts and sacrifices are
offered which cannot make the worshiper perfect
in conscience,
HEB 9:10 since they relate only to food
and drink and various washings, regulations for
the body imposed until a time of reformation.
HEB 9:11 But when Christ appeared as a
high priest of the good things to come, He
entered through the greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say,
not of this creation;
HEB 9:12 and not through the blood of
goats and calves, but through His own blood, He
entered the holy place once for all, having
obtained eternal redemption.
HEB 9:13 For if the blood of goats and
bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those
who have been defiled, sanctify for the
cleansing of the flesh,
HEB 9:14 how much more will the blood of
Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered
Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your
conscience from dead works to serve the living
God?
HEB 9:15 And for this reason He is the
mediator of a new covenant, in order that since
a death has taken place for the redemption of
the transgressions that were committed under the
first covenant, those who have been called may
receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
HEB 9:16 For where a covenant is, there
must of necessity be the death of the one who
made it.
HEB 9:17 For a covenant is valid only
when men are dead, for it is never in force
while the one who made it lives.
HEB 9:18 Therefore even the first
covenant was not inaugurated without blood.
HEB 9:19 For when every commandment had
been spoken by Moses to all the people according
to the Law, he took the blood of the calves and
the goats, with water and scarlet wool and
hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and
all the people,
HEB 9:20 saying, "This is the blood of
the covenant which God commanded you."
HEB 9:21 And in the same way he sprinkled
both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the
ministry with the blood.
HEB 9:22 And according to the Law, one
may almost say, all things are cleansed with
blood, and without shedding of blood there is no
forgiveness.
HEB 9:23 Therefore it was necessary for
the copies of the things in the heavens to be
cleansed with these, but the heavenly things
themselves with better sacrifices than these.
HEB 9:24 For Christ did not enter a holy
place made with hands, a mere copy of the true
one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in
the presence of God for us;
HEB 9:25 nor was it that He should offer
Himself often, as the high priest enters the
holy place year by year with blood not his own.
HEB 9:26 Otherwise, He would have needed
to suffer often since the foundation of the
world; but now once at the consummation of the
ages He has been manifested to put away sin by
the sacrifice of Himself.
HEB 9:27 And inasmuch as it is appointed
for men to die once and after this comes
judgment,
HEB 9:28 so Christ also, having been
offered once to bear the sins of many, shall
appear a second time for salvation without
reference to sin, to those who eagerly await
Him.
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Chapter 10
HEB 10:1
For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the
good things to come and not the very form of
things, can never by the same sacrifices year by
year, which they offer continually, make perfect
those who draw near.
HEB 10:2 Otherwise, would they not have
ceased to be offered, because the worshipers,
having once been cleansed, would no longer have
had consciousness of sins?
HEB 10:3 But in those sacrifices there is
a reminder of sins year by year.
HEB 10:4 For it is impossible for the
blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
HEB 10:5 Therefore, when He comes into
the world, He says, "Sacrifice and offering Thou
hast not desired, But a body Thou hast prepared
for Me;
HEB 10:6 In whole burnt offerings and
sacrifices for sin Thou hast taken no pleasure.
HEB 10:7 "Then I said, 'Behold, I have
come (In the roll of the book it is written of
Me) To do Thy will, O God.'"
HEB 10:8 After saying above, "Sacrifices
and offerings and whole burnt offerings and
sacrifices for sin Thou hast not desired, nor
hast Thou taken pleasure in them" (which are
offered according to the Law),
HEB 10:9 then He said, "Behold, I have
come to do Thy will." He takes away the first in
order to establish the second.
HEB 10:10 By this will we have been
sanctified through the offering of the body of
Jesus Christ once for all.
HEB 10:11 And every priest stands daily
ministering and offering time after time the
same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;
HEB 10:12 but He, having offered one
sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the
right hand of God,
HEB 10:13 waiting from that time onward
until His enemies be made a footstool for His
feet.
HEB 10:14 For by one offering He has
perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
HEB 10:15 And the Holy Spirit also bears
witness to us; for after saying,
HEB 10:16 "This is the covenant that I
will make with them After those days, says the
Lord: I will put My laws upon their heart, And
upon their mind I will write them," He then
says,
HEB 10:17 "And their sins and their
lawless deeds I will remember no more."
HEB 10:18 Now where there is forgiveness
of these things, there is no longer any offering
for sin.
HEB 10:19 Since therefore, brethren, we
have confidence to enter the holy place by the
blood of Jesus,
HEB 10:20 by a new and living way which
He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is,
His flesh,
HEB 10:21 and since we have a great
priest over the house of God,
HEB 10:22 let us draw near with a sincere
heart in full assurance of faith, having our
hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience
and our bodies washed with pure water.
HEB 10:23 Let us hold fast the confession
of our hope without wavering, for He who
promised is faithful;
HEB 10:24 and let us consider how to
stimulate one another to love and good deeds,
HEB 10:25 not forsaking our own
assembling together, as is the habit of some,
but encouraging one another; and all the more,
as you see the day drawing near.
HEB 10:26 For if we go on sinning
willfully after receiving the knowledge of the
truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for
sins,
HEB 10:27 but a certain terrifying
expectation of judgment, and the fury of a fire
which will consume the adversaries.
HEB 10:28 Anyone who has set aside the
Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony
of two or three witnesses.
HEB 10:29 How much severer punishment do
you think he will deserve who has trampled under
foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean
the blood of the covenant by which he was
sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of
grace?
HEB 10:30 For we know Him who said,
"Vengeance is Mine, I will repay." And again,
"The Lord will judge His people."
HEB 10:31 It is a terrifying thing to
fall into the hands of the living God.
HEB 10:32 But remember the former days,
when, after being enlightened, you endured a
great conflict of sufferings,
HEB 10:33 partly, by being made a public
spectacle through reproaches and tribulations,
and partly by becoming sharers with those who
were so treated.
HEB 10:34 For you showed sympathy to the
prisoners, and accepted joyfully the seizure of
your property, knowing that you have for
yourselves a better possession and an abiding
one.
HEB 10:35 Therefore, do not throw away
your confidence, which has a great reward.
HEB 10:36 For you have need of endurance,
so that when you have done the will of God, you
may receive what was promised.
HEB 10:37 For yet in a very little while,
He who is coming will come, and will not delay.
HEB 10:38 But My righteous one shall live
by faith; And if he shrinks back, My soul has no
pleasure in him.
HEB 10:39 But we are not of those who
shrink back to destruction, but of those who
have faith to the preserving of the soul.
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Chapter 11
HEB 11:1
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for,
the conviction of things not seen.
HEB 11:2 For by it the men of old gained
approval.
HEB 11:3 By faith we understand that the
worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that
what is seen was not made out of things which
are visible.
HEB 11:4 By faith Abel offered to God a
better sacrifice than Cain, through which he
obtained the testimony that he was righteous,
God testifying about his gifts, and through
faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.
HEB 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken up so
that he should not see death; and he was not
found because God took him up; for he obtained
the witness that before his being taken up he
was pleasing to God.
HEB 11:6 And without faith it is
impossible to please Him, for he who comes to
God must believe that He is, and that He is a
rewarder of those who seek Him.
HEB 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned by
God about things not yet seen, in reverence
prepared an ark for the salvation of his
household, by which he condemned the world, and
became an heir of the righteousness which is
according to faith.
HEB 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was
called, obeyed by going out to a place which he
was to receive for an inheritance; and he went
out, not knowing where he was going.
HEB 11:9 By faith he lived as an alien in
the land of promise, as in a foreign land,
dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow
heirs of the same promise;
HEB 11:10 for he was looking for the city
which has foundations, whose architect and
builder is God.
HEB 11:11 By faith even Sarah herself
received ability to conceive, even beyond the
proper time of life, since she considered Him
faithful who had promised;
HEB 11:12 therefore, also, there was born
of one man, and him as good as dead at that, as
many descendants as the stars of heaven in
number, and innumerable as the sand which is by
the seashore.
HEB 11:13 All these died in faith,
without receiving the promises, but having seen
them and having welcomed them from a distance,
and having confessed that they were strangers
and exiles on the earth.
HEB 11:14 For those who say such things
make it clear that they are seeking a country of
their own.
HEB 11:15 And indeed if they had been
thinking of that country from which they went
out, they would have had opportunity to return.
HEB 11:16 But as it is, they desire a
better country, that is a heavenly one.
Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their
God; for He has prepared a city for them.
HEB 11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was
tested, offered up Isaac; and he who had
received the promises was offering up his only
begotten son;
HEB 11:18 it was he to whom it was said,
"In Isaac your descendants shall be called."
HEB 11:19 He considered that God is able
to raise men even from the dead; from which he
also received him back as a type.
HEB 11:20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob
and Esau, even regarding things to come.
HEB 11:21 By faith Jacob, as he was
dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and
worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.
HEB 11:22 By faith Joseph, when he was
dying, made mention of the exodus of the sons of
Israel, and gave orders concerning his bones.
HEB 11:23 By faith Moses, when he was
born, was hidden for three months by his
parents, because they saw he was a beautiful
child; and they were not afraid of the king's
edict.
HEB 11:24 By faith Moses, when he had
grown up, refused to be called the son of
Pharaoh's daughter;
HEB 11:25 choosing rather to endure
ill-treatment with the people of God, than to
enjoy the passing pleasures of sin;
HEB 11:26 considering the reproach of
Christ greater riches than the treasures of
Egypt; for he was looking to the reward.
HEB 11:27 By faith he left Egypt, not
fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured,
as seeing Him who is unseen.
HEB 11:28 By faith he kept the Passover
and the sprinkling of the blood, so that he who
destroyed the first-born might not touch them.
HEB 11:29 By faith they passed through
the Red Sea as though they were passing through
dry land; and the Egyptians, when they attempted
it, were drowned.
HEB 11:30 By faith the walls of Jericho
fell down, after they had been encircled for
seven days.
HEB 11:31 By faith Rahab the harlot did
not perish along with those who were
disobedient, after she had welcomed the spies in
peace.
HEB 11:32 And what more shall I say? For
time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak,
Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the
prophets,
HEB 11:33 who by faith conquered
kingdoms, performed acts of righteousness,
obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions,
HEB 11:34 quenched the power of fire,
escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness
were made strong, became mighty in war, put
foreign armies to flight.
HEB 11:35 Women received back their dead
by resurrection; and others were tortured, not
accepting their release, in order that they
might obtain a better resurrection;
HEB 11:36 and others experienced mockings
and scourgings, yes, also chains and
imprisonment.
HEB 11:37 They were stoned, they were
sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to
death with the sword; they went about in
sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute,
afflicted, ill-treated
HEB 11:38 (men of whom the world was not
worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and
caves and holes in the ground.
HEB 11:39 And all these, having gained
approval through their faith, did not receive
what was promised,
HEB 11:40 because God had provided
something better for us, so that apart from us
they should not be made perfect.
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Chapter 12
HEB 12:1
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of
witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside
every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily
entangles us, and let us run with endurance the
race that is set before us,
HEB 12:2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the
author and perfecter of faith, 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.
HEB 12:3 For consider Him who has endured
such hostility by sinners against Himself, so
that you may not grow weary and lose heart.
HEB 12:4 You have not yet resisted to the
point of shedding blood in your striving against
sin;
HEB 12:5 and you have forgotten the
exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,
"My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of
the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by
Him;
HEB 12:6 For those whom the Lord loves He
disciplines, And He scourges every son whom He
receives."
HEB 12:7 It is for discipline that you
endure; God deals with you as with sons; for
what son is there whom his father does not
discipline?
HEB 12:8 But if you are without
discipline, of which all have become partakers,
then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
HEB 12:9 Furthermore, we had earthly
fathers to discipline us, and we respected them;
shall we not much rather be subject to the
Father of spirits, and live?
HEB 12:10 For they disciplined us for a
short time as seemed best to them, but He
disciplines us for our good, that we may share
His holiness.
HEB 12:11 All discipline for the moment
seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to
those who have been trained by it, afterwards it
yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
HEB 12:12 Therefore, strengthen the hands
that are weak and the knees that are feeble,
HEB 12:13 and make straight paths for
your feet, so that the limb which is lame may
not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.
HEB 12:14 Pursue peace with all men, and
the sanctification without which no one will see
the Lord.
HEB 12:15 See to it that no one comes
short of the grace of God; that no root of
bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by
it many be defiled;
HEB 12:16 that there be no immoral or
godless person like Esau, who sold his own
birthright for a single meal.
HEB 12:17 For you know that even
afterwards, when he desired to inherit the
blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place
for repentance, though he sought for it with
tears.
HEB 12:18 For you have not come to a
mountain that may be touched and to a blazing
fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind,
HEB 12:19 and to the blast of a trumpet
and the sound of words which sound was such that
those who heard begged that no further word
should be spoken to them.
HEB 12:20 For they could not bear the
command, "If even a beast touches the mountain,
it will be stoned."
HEB 12:21 And so terrible was the sight,
that Moses said, "I am full of fear and
trembling."
HEB 12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion
and to the city of the living God, the heavenly
Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,
HEB 12:23 to the general assembly and
church of the first-born who are enrolled in
heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the
spirits of righteous men made perfect,
HEB 12:24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a
new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which
speaks better than the blood of Abel.
HEB 12:25 See to it that you do not
refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not
escape when they refused him who warned them on
earth, much less shall we escape who turn away
from Him who warns from heaven.
HEB 12:26 And His voice shook the earth
then, but now He has promised, saying, "Yet once
more I will shake not only the earth, but also
the heaven."
HEB 12:27 And this expression, "Yet once
more," denotes the removing of those things
which can be shaken, as of created things, in
order that those things which cannot be shaken
may remain.
HEB 12:28 Therefore, since we receive a
kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show
gratitude, by which we may offer to God an
acceptable service with reverence and awe;
HEB 12:29 for our God is a consuming
fire.
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Chapter 13
HEB 13:1
Let love of the brethren continue.
HEB 13:2 Do not neglect to show
hospitality to strangers, for by this some have
entertained angels without knowing it.
HEB 13:3 Remember the prisoners, as
though in prison with them, and those who are
ill-treated, since you yourselves also are in
the body.
HEB 13:4 Let marriage be held in honor
among all, and let the marriage bed be
undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God
will judge.
HEB 13:5 Let your character be free from
the love of money, being content with what you
have; for He Himself has said, "I will never
desert you, nor will I ever forsake you,"
HEB 13:6 so that we confidently say, "The
Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What
shall man do to me?"
HEB 13:7 Remember those who led you, who
spoke the word of God to you; and considering
the result of their conduct, imitate their
faith.
HEB 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same
yesterday and today, yes and forever.
HEB 13:9 Do not be carried away by varied
and strange teachings; for it is good for the
heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods,
through which those who were thus occupied were
not benefited.
HEB 13:10 We have an altar, from which
those who serve the tabernacle have no right to
eat.
HEB 13:11 For the bodies of those animals
whose blood is brought into the holy place by
the high priest as an offering for sin, are
burned outside the camp.
HEB 13:12 Therefore Jesus also, that He
might sanctify the people through His own blood,
suffered outside the gate.
HEB 13:13 Hence, let us go out to Him
outside the camp, bearing His reproach.
HEB 13:14 For here we do not have a
lasting city, but we are seeking the city which
is to come.
HEB 13:15 Through Him then, let us
continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to
God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks
to His name.
HEB 13:16 And do not neglect doing good
and sharing; for with such sacrifices God is
pleased.
HEB 13:17 Obey your leaders, and submit
to them; for they keep watch over your souls, as
those who will give an account. Let them do this
with joy and not with grief, for this would be
unprofitable for you.
HEB 13:18 Pray for us, for we are sure
that we have a good conscience, desiring to
conduct ourselves honorably in all things.
HEB 13:19 And I urge you all the more to
do this, that I may be restored to you the
sooner.
HEB 13:20 Now the God of peace, who
brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of
the sheep through the blood of the eternal
covenant, even Jesus our Lord,
HEB 13:21 equip you in every good thing
to do His will, working in us that which is
pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to
whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
HEB 13:22 But I urge you, brethren, bear
with this word of exhortation, for I have
written to you briefly.
HEB 13:23 Take notice that our brother
Timothy has been released, with whom, if he
comes soon, I shall see you.
HEB 13:24 Greet all of your leaders and
all the saints. Those from Italy greet you.
HEB 13:25 Grace be with you all.
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