| 001:001
| God,
who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers
by the prophets, |
| 001:002 | 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; |
| 001:003 | 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: |
| 001:004 | Being
made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more
excellent name than they. |
| 001:005 | 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? |
| 001:006 | And
again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And
let all the angels of God worship him. |
| 001:007 | And
of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a
flame of fire. |
| 001:008 | 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. |
| 001:009 | Thou
hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God,
hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. |
| 001:010 | And,
Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the
heavens are the works of thine hands: |
| 001:011 | They
shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
|
| 001:012 | 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. |
| 001:013 | But
to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make
thine enemies thy footstool? |
| 001:014 | Are
they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall
be heirs of salvation? |
|
| 002:001
| 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. | | 002:002 | For
if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience
received a just recompence of reward; |
| 002:003 | 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;
|
| 002:004 | 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? |
| 002:005 | For
unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we
speak. |
| 002:006 | 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? |
| 002:007 | Thou
madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and
honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: |
| 002:008 | 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. |
| 002:009 | But
we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering
of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should
taste death for every man. |
| 002:010 | 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. |
| 002:011 | 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, |
| 002:012 | Saying,
I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I
sing praise unto thee. |
| 002:013 | And
again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which
God hath given me. |
| 002:014 | 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; |
| 002:015 | And
deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
|
| 002:016 | For
verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed
of Abraham. |
| 002:017 | Wherefore
in all things it behoved 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. |
| 002:018 | For
in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them
that are tempted. |
|
| 003:001
| Wherefore,
holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and
High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; | | 003:002 | Who
was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his
house. |
| 003:003 | For
this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath
builded the house hath more honour than the house. |
| 003:004 | For
every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. |
| 003:005 | And
Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of
those things which were to be spoken after; |
| 003:006 | 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. |
| 003:007 | Wherefore
(as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, |
| 003:008 | Harden
not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
|
| 003:009 | When
your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. |
| 003:010 | Wherefore
I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart;
and they have not known my ways. |
| 003:011 | So
I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) |
| 003:012 | Take
heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing
from the living God. |
| 003:013 | But
exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened
through the deceitfulness of sin. |
| 003:014 | For
we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence
stedfast unto the end; |
| 003:015 | While
it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in
the provocation. |
| 003:016 | For
some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt
by Moses. |
| 003:017 | But
with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned,
whose carcases fell in the wilderness? |
| 003:018 | And
to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that
believed not? |
| 003:019 | So
we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. |
|
| 004:001
| 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. | | 004:002 | 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. |
| 004:003 | 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. |
| 004:004 | 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. |
| 004:005 | And
in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. |
| 004:006 | Seeing
therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was
first preached entered not in because of unbelief: |
| 004:007 | Again,
he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as
it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. |
| 004:008 | For
if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another
day. |
| 004:009 | There
remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. |
| 004:010 | For
he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as
God did from his. |
| 004:011 | Let
us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same
example of unbelief. |
| 004:012 | For
the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged 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. |
| 004:013 | 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. |
| 004:014 | 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. |
| 004:015 | 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.
|
| 004:016 | Let
us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy,
and find grace to help in time of need. |
|
| 005:001
| 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: | | 005:002 | 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. |
| 005:003 | And
by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer
for sins. |
| 005:004 | And
no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was
Aaron. |
| 005:005 | So
also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said
unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. |
| 005:006 | As
he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order
of Melchisedec. |
| 005:007 | 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; |
| 005:008 | Though
he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; |
| 005:009 | And
being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them
that obey him; |
| 005:010 | Called
of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec. |
| 005:011 | Of
whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull
of hearing. |
| 005:012 | 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. |
| 005:013 | For
every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he
is a babe. |
| 005:014 | 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. |
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| 006:001
| Therefore
leaving 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, | | 006:002 | Of
the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of
the dead, and of eternal judgment. |
| 006:003 | And
this will we do, if God permit. |
| 006:004 | 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, |
| 006:005 | And
have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, |
| 006:006 | 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. |
| 006:007 | 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:
|
| 006:008 | But
that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing;
whose end is to be burned. |
| 006:009 | But,
beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation,
though we thus speak. |
| 006:010 | For
God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have
shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
|
| 006:011 | And
we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance
of hope unto the end: |
| 006:012 | That
ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit
the promises. |
| 006:013 | For
when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he
sware by himself, |
| 006:014 | Saying,
Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. |
| 006:015 | And
so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. |
| 006:016 | For
men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an
end of all strife. |
| 006:017 | Wherein
God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability
of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: |
| 006:018 | 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: |
| 006:019 | Which
hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth
into that within the veil; |
| 006:020 | Whither
the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever
after the order of Melchisedec. |
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| 007:001
| 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; | | 007:002 | 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;
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| 007:003 | 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.
|
| 007:004 | Now
consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave
the tenth of the spoils. |
| 007:005 | 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: |
| 007:006 | But
he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed
him that had the promises. |
| 007:007 | And
without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better. |
| 007:008 | And
here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is
witnessed that he liveth. |
| 007:009 | And
as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.
|
| 007:010 | For
he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him. |
| 007:011 | 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?
|
| 007:012 | For
the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the
law. |
| 007:013 | For
he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no
man gave attendance at the altar. |
| 007:014 | For
it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake
nothing concerning priesthood. |
| 007:015 | And
it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there
ariseth another priest, |
| 007:016 | Who
is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of
an endless life. |
| 007:017 | For
he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. |
| 007:018 | For
there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness
and unprofitableness thereof. |
| 007:019 | For
the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by
the which we draw nigh unto God. |
| 007:020 | And
inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: |
| 007:021 | (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:) |
| 007:022 | By
so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. |
| 007:023 | And
they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by
reason of death: |
| 007:024 | But
this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. |
| 007:025 | 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. |
| 007:026 | For
such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from
sinners, and made higher than the heavens; |
| 007:027 | 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. |
| 007:028 | 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. |
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| 008:001
| 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; | | 008:002 | A
minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched,
and not man. |
| 008:003 | For
every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is
of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. |
| 008:004 | For
if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests
that offer gifts according to the law: |
| 008:005 | 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. |
| 008:006 | 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.
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| 008:007 | For
if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought
for the second. |
| 008:008 | 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:
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| 008:009 | 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. |
| 008:010 | 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:
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| 008:011 | 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. |
| 008:012 | For
I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities
will I remember no more. |
| 008:013 | 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. |
|
| 009:001
| Then
verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly
sanctuary. | | 009:002 | For
there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the
table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary. |
| 009:003 | And
after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; |
| 009:004 | 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; |
| 009:005 | And
over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot
now speak particularly. |
| 009:006 | Now
when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first
tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. |
| 009:007 | 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: |
| 009:008 | 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: |
| 009:009 | 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; |
| 009:010 | Which
stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances,
imposed on them until the time of reformation. |
| 009:011 | 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;
|
| 009:012 | 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. |
| 009:013 | 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: |
| 009:014 | 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? |
| 009:015 | 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. |
| 009:016 | For
where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
|
| 009:017 | For
a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength
at all while the testator liveth. |
| 009:018 | Whereupon
neither the first testament was dedicated without blood. |
| 009:019 | 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, |
| 009:020 | Saying,
This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. |
| 009:021 | Moreover
he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
|
| 009:022 | And
almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of
blood is no remission. |
| 009:023 | 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. |
| 009:024 | 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: |
| 009:025 | Nor
yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the
holy place every year with blood of others; |
| 009:026 | 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. |
| 009:027 | And
as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: |
| 009:028 | 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. |
|
| 010:001
| 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. | | 010:002 | For
then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers
once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. |
| 010:003 | But
in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. |
| 010:004 | For
it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
|
| 010:005 | Wherefore
when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest
not, but a body hast thou prepared me: |
| 010:006 | In
burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. |
| 010:007 | Then
said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy
will, O God. |
| 010:008 | 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; |
| 010:009 | Then
said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he
may establish the second. |
| 010:010 | By
the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus
Christ once for all. |
| 010:011 | And
every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices,
which can never take away sins: |
| 010:012 | But
this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on
the right hand of God; |
| 010:013 | From
henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. |
| 010:014 | For
by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. |
| 010:015 | Whereof
the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
|
| 010:016 | 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;
|
| 010:017 | And
their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. |
| 010:018 | Now
where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. |
| 010:019 | Having
therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
|
| 010:020 | By
a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that
is to say, his flesh; |
| 010:021 | And
having an high priest over the house of God; |
| 010:022 | 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. |
| 010:023 | Let
us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful
that promised;) |
| 010:024 | And
let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: |
| 010:025 | 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.
|
| 010:026 | For
if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth,
there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, |
| 010:027 | But
a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall
devour the adversaries. |
| 010:028 | He
that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: |
| 010:029 | 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? |
| 010:030 | 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. |
| 010:031 | It
is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. |
| 010:032 | But
call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye
endured a great fight of afflictions; |
| 010:033 | Partly,
whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly,
whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. |
| 010:034 | 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. |
| 010:035 | Cast
not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
|
| 010:036 | For
ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might
receive the promise. |
| 010:037 | For
yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. |
| 010:038 | Now
the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have
no pleasure in him. |
| 010:039 | But
we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to
the saving of the soul. |
|
| 011:001
| Now
faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
| | 011:002 | For
by it the elders obtained a good report. |
| 011:003 | 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. |
| 011:004 | 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. |
| 011:005 | 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. |
| 011:006 | 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. |
| 011:007 | 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. |
| 011:008 | 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. |
| 011:009 | 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:
|
| 011:010 | For
he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
|
| 011:011 | 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.
|
| 011:012 | 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.
|
| 011:013 | 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. |
| 011:014 | For
they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. |
| 011:015 | And
truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out,
they might have had opportunity to have returned. |
| 011:016 | 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. |
| 011:017 | By
faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received
the promises offered up his only begotten son, |
| 011:018 | Of
whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: |
| 011:019 | Accounting
that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he
received him in a figure. |
| 011:020 | By
faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. |
| 011:021 | By
faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped,
leaning upon the top of his staff. |
| 011:022 | By
faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of
Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. |
| 011:023 | 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.
|
| 011:024 | By
faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's
daughter; |
| 011:025 | Choosing
rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures
of sin for a season; |
| 011:026 | Esteeming
the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had
respect unto the recompence of the reward. |
| 011:027 | By
faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured,
as seeing him who is invisible. |
| 011:028 | Through
faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed
the firstborn should touch them. |
| 011:029 | By
faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying
to do were drowned. |
| 011:030 | By
faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven
days. |
| 011:031 | By
faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had
received the spies with peace. |
| 011:032 | 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: |
| 011:033 | Who
through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped
the mouths of lions. |
| 011:034 | 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.
|
| 011:035 | Women
received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting
deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: |
| 011:036 | And
others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and
imprisonment: |
| 011:037 | 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; |
| 011:038 | (Of
whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains,
and in dens and caves of the earth. |
| 011:039 | And
these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
|
| 011:040 | God
having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be
made perfect. |
|
| 012:001
| 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, | | 012:002 | 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. |
| 012:003 | For
consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest
ye be wearied and faint in your minds. |
| 012:004 | Ye
have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. |
| 012:005 | 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: |
| 012:006 | For
whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
|
| 012:007 | If
ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he
whom the father chasteneth not? |
| 012:008 | But
if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards,
and not sons. |
| 012:009 | 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?
|
| 012:010 | 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. |
| 012:011 | 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. |
| 012:012 | Wherefore
lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; |
| 012:013 | And
make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of
the way; but let it rather be healed. |
| 012:014 | Follow
peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
|
| 012:015 | 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; |
| 012:016 | Lest
there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of
meat sold his birthright. |
| 012:017 | 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. |
| 012:018 | For
ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with
fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, |
| 012:019 | 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: |
| 012:020 | (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: |
| 012:021 | And
so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
|
| 012:022 | 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, |
| 012:023 | 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, |
| 012:024 | And
to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling,
that speaketh better things that that of Abel. |
| 012:025 | 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: |
| 012:026 | Whose
voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more
I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. |
| 012:027 | 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. |
| 012:028 | Wherefore
we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we
may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: |
| 012:029 | For
our God is a consuming fire. |
|
| 013:001
| Let
brotherly love continue. | | 013:002 | Be
not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels
unawares. |
| 013:003 | Remember
them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity,
as being yourselves also in the body. |
| 013:004 | Marriage
is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers
God will judge. |
| 013:005 | 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. |
| 013:006 | So
that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man
shall do unto me. |
| 013:007 | 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. |
| 013:008 | Jesus
Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. |
| 013:009 | 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. |
| 013:010 | We
have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
|
| 013:011 | For
the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the
high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. |
| 013:012 | Wherefore
Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered
without the gate. |
| 013:013 | Let
us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. |
| 013:014 | For
here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. |
| 013:015 | 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. |
| 013:016 | But
to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well
pleased. |
| 013:017 | 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. |
| 013:018 | Pray
for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live
honestly. |
| 013:019 | But
I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
|
| 013:020 | 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, |
| 013:021 | Make
you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is
wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever
and ever. Amen. |
| 013:022 | And
I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written
a letter unto you in few words. |
| 013:023 | Know
ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly,
I will see you. |
| 013:024 | Salute
all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute
you. |
| 013:025 | Grace
be with you all. Amen. |