Hebrews
Chapter 1
1:1At sundry times and in diverse manners Theos spoke in the old time to our fathers by the Prophets:in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son,
1:2Whom he has made heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds,
1:3Who being the brightness of the glory, and the engraved form of his person, and bearing up all things by his mighty word, has by himself cleansed our sins, and sits at the right hand of the Majesty in the highest places,
1:4And is made so much more excellent than the Angels, inasmuch as he has obtained a more excellent Name then they.
1:5For to which of the Angels said he at any time, You are my Son, this day begot I you? And again, I will be his Father,and he shall be my Son?
1:6And again, when he brings in his firstborn Son into the world, he says,And let all the Angels of Theos worship him.
1:7And of the Angels he says, He makes the spirits his messengers,and his ministers a flame of fire.
1:8But to the Son he says, O Theos, your throne is forever and ever:the scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of righteousness.
1:9You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. Therefore Theos, even your Theos, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
1:10And, You, Kyrios, in the beginning have established the earth,and the heavens are the works of your hands.
1:11They shall perish,but you do remain:and they all shall grow old as does a garment.
1:12And as a vesture shall you fold them up,and they shall be changed:but you are the same,and your years shall not fail.
1:13To which also of the Angels said he at any time, Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool?
1:14Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister,for their sakes which shall be heirs of salvation?
Chapter 2
2:1Therefore we ought diligently to give heed to the things which we have heard,lest at any time we run out.
2:2For if the word spoken by Angels was steadfast,and every transgression,and disobedience received a just recompense of reward,
2:3How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation, which at the first began to be preached by the Kyrios,and afterward was confirmed to us by them that heard him,
2:4Theos bearing witness thereto, both with signs and wonders,and with diverse miracles,and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?
2:5For he has not put in subjection to the Angels the world to come, of what we speak.
2:6But one in a certain place witnessed, saying, What is man,that you should be mindful of him? Or the son of man,that you would consider him?
2:7You made him a little inferior to the Angels:you crowned him with glory and honor,and have set him above the works of your hands.
2:8You have subjected all things under his feet. And in that he subjected all things under him, he left nothing that should not be subject to him. But we do not yet see all things subject to him,
2:9But we see Jesus crowned with glory and honor, which was made little inferior to the Angels, through the suffering of death, that by God's grace he might taste death for all men.
2:10For it became him,for whom are all these things,and by whom are all these things, seeing that he brought many children to glory,that he should consecrate the Prince of their salvation through afflictions.
2:11For he that sanctifies,and they who are sanctified, are all of one:therefore he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
2:12Saying, I will declare your Name to my brethren:in the midst of the Church will I sing praises to you.
2:13And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold, here am I,and the children who Theos has given me.
2:14Inasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part with them,that he might destroy through death, him that had the power of death,that is Diabolos,
2:15And that he might deliver all them, which for fear of death were all their life time subject to bondage.
2:16For he in no sort took on him the Angels nature,but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
2:17Therefore in all things it was necessary for him to be made like to his brethren,that he might be merciful,and a faithful high Priest in things concerning Theos,that he might make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
2:18For in that he suffered,and was tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.
Chapter 3
3:1Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly vocation, consider the Apostle and high Priest of our profession Christos Jesus:
3:2Who was faithful to him that has appointed him, even as Moses was in all his house.
3:3For this man is counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house, has more honor then the house.
3:4For every house is built of some man,and he that has built all things, is Theos.
3:5Now Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant,for a witness of the things which should be spoken after.
3:6But Christos is as the Son, over his own house, whose house we are, if we hold fast that confidence and that rejoicing of that hope to the end.
3:7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you shall hear his voice,
3:8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of the temptation in the wilderness,
3:9Where your fathers tempted me, proved me,and saw my works forty years long.
3:10Therefore I was grieved with that generation,and said, They err ever in their heart,neither have they known my ways.
3:11Therefore I swore in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest.
3:12Take heed, brethren,lest at any time there be in any of you an evil heart,and unfaithful, to depart away from the living Theos.
3:13But exhort one another daily, while it is called today,lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
3:14For we are made partakers of Christos, if we keep sure to the end that beginning, with what we are upheld,
3:15So long as it is said, Today if you hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
3:16For some when they heard, provoked him to anger:however, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
3:17But with whom was he displeased forty years? Was he not displeased with them that sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
3:18And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest,but to them that obeyed not?
3:19So we see that they could not enter in, because of unbelief.
Chapter 4
4:1Let us fear therefore,lest at any time by forsaking the promise of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to be deprived.
4:2For to us was the Gospel preached as also to them:but the word that they heard, profited not them, because it was not mixed with faith in those that heard it.
4:3For we which have believed, do enter into rest, as he said to the other, 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.
4:4For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise,And Theos did rest the seventh day from all his works.
4:5And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
4:6Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter thereinto, and they to whom it was first preached, entered not in it for unbeliefs sake:
4:7Again he appointed in David a certain day, by Today, after so long a time, saying, as it is said, This day, if you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
4:8For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not after this have spoke of another day.
4:9There remains therefore a rest to the people of Theos.
4:10For he that is entered into his rest, has also ceased from his own works, as Theos did from his.
4:11Let us study therefore to enter into that rest,lest any man fall after the same example of disobedience.
4:12For the word of Theos is lively,and mighty in operation,and sharper than any two edged sword,and enters through, even to the dividing asunder of the psyche and the spirit,and of the joints,and the marrow,and is a discerner of the thoughts,and the intents of the heart.
4:13Neither is there any creature, which is not manifest in his sight:but all things are naked and open to his eyes, with whom we have to do.
4:14Seeing then that we have a great high Priest, who is entered into heaven, even Jesus the Son of Theos, let us hold fast our profession.
4:15For we have not a high Priest, who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities,but was in all things tempted in like sort, yet without sin.
4:16Let us therefore go boldly to the throne of grace,that we may receive eleos,and find grace to help in time of need.
Chapter 5
5:1For every high Priest is taken from among men,and is ordained for men, in things pertaining to Theos,that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins,
5:2Which is able sufficiently to have compassion on them that are ignorant,and that are out of the way, because that he also is compassed with infirmity,
5:3And for the same sake he is bound to offer for sins, as well for his own part, as for the peoples.
5:4And no man takes this honor to himself,but he that is called of Theos, as was Aaron.
5:5So likewise Christos took not to himself this honor, to be made the high Priest,but he that said to him, You are my Son, this day begot I you, gave it him.
5:6As he also in another place speaks, You are a Priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.
5:7Who in the days of his flesh did offer up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears to him,that was able to save him from death,and was also heard in that which he feared.
5:8And though he were the Son, yet learned he obedience, by the things which he suffered.
5:9And being consecrate, was made the author of eternal salvation to all them that obey him:
5:10And is called of Theos a high Priest after the order of Melchizedek.
5:11Of whom we have many things to say, which are hard to be uttered, because you are dull of hearing.
5:12For when as concerning the time you ought to be teachers, yet have you need again that we teach you what are the first principles of the word of Theos:and are become such as have need of milk,and not of strong meat.
5:13For every one that uses milk, is inexpert in the word of righteousness:for he is a babe.
5:14But strong meat belongs to them that are of age, which through long custom have their senses exercised, to discern both good and evil.
Chapter 6
6:1Therefore, leaving the doctrine of the beginning of Christos, let us be led forward to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works,and of faith toward Theos,
6:2Of the doctrine of baptisms,and laying on of hands,and of the resurrection from the dead,and of eternal judgment.
6:3And this will we do if Theos permit.
6:4For it is impossible that they who were once lightened,and have tasted of the heavenly gift,and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
6:5And have tasted of the good word of Theos,and of the powers of the world to come,
6:6If they fall away, should be renewed again by repentance:seeing they crucify again to themselves the Son of Theos,and make a mock of him.
6:7For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes oft upon it,and brings forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receives blessing of Theos.
6:8But that which bears thorns and briers, is reproved,and is near to cursing, whose end is to be burned.
6:9But beloved, we have persuaded ourselves better things of you,and such as accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
6:10For Theos is not unrighteous,that he should forget your work,and labor of love, which you showed toward his Name, in that you have ministered to the Saints,and yet minister.
6:11And we desire that every one of you show the same diligence, to the full assurance of hope to the end,
6:12That you be not slothful,but followers of them, which through faith and patience, inherit the promises.
6:13For when Theos made the promise to Abraham, because he had no greater to swear by, he swore by himself,
6:14Saying, Surely I will abundantly bless you and multiply you marvelously.
6:15And so after that he had waited patiently, he enjoyed the promise.
6:16For men verily swear by him that is greater than themselves,and an oath for confirmation is among them an end of all strife.
6:17So Theos, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of promise the stableness of his counsel, bound himself by an oath,
6:18That by two immutable things, in which it is impossible that Theos should lie, we might have strong consolation, which have our refuge to lay hold upon that hope that is set before us,
6:19Which hope we have, as an anchor of the psyche, both sure and steadfast,and it enters into that which is within the veil,
6:20Where the forerunner is for us entered in, even Jesus that is made a high Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
Chapter 7
7:1For this Melchizedek was King of Salem, the Priest of the most high Theos, who met Abraham, as he returned from the slaughter of the Kings,and blessed him:
7:2To whom also Abraham gave the tithe of all things:who first is by interpretation King of righteousness:after that, he is also King of Salem,that is, King of peace,
7:3Without father, without mother, without kindred,and has neither beginning of his days,neither end of life:but is likened to the Son of Theos,and continues a Priest forever.
7:4Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the Patriarch Abraham gave the tithe of the spoils.
7:5For verily they who are the children of Levi, which receive the office of the Priesthood, have a commandment to take, according to the Law, tithes of the people (that is, of their brethren) though they came out of the loins of Abraham.
7:6But he whose kindred is not counted among them, received tithes of Abraham,and blessed him that had the promises.
7:7And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the greater.
7:8And here men that die, receive tithes:but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed,that he lives.
7:9And to say as the thing is, Levi also which receives tithes, paid tithes in Abraham.
7:10For he was yet in the loins of his father Abraham, when Melchizedek met him.
7:11If therefore perfection had been by the Priesthood of the Levitical (for under it the Law was established to the people) what needed it furthermore,that another Priest should rise after the order of Melchizedek,and not to be called after the order of Aaron?
7:12For if the Priesthood be changed, then of necessity must there be a change of the Law.
7:13For he of whom these things are spoken, pertains to another tribe, of which no man served at the altar.
7:14For it is evident,that our Kyrios sprung out of Judah, concerning the which tribe Moses spoke nothing, touching the Priesthood.
7:15And it is yet a more evident thing, because that after the similitude of Melchizedek, there is risen up another Priest,
7:16Which is not made Priest after the Law of the carnal commandment,but after the power of the endless life.
7:17For he testifies thus, You are a Priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.
7:18For the commandment that went before, is annulling, because of the weakness of it, and unprofitableness.
7:19For the Law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope made perfect, by which we draw near to Theos.
7:20And for as much as it is not without an oath (for these are made Priests without an oath:
7:21But this is made with an oath by him that said to him, The Kyrios has sworn,and will not repent, You are a Priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek)
7:22By so much is Jesus made a surety of a better Covenant.
7:23And among them many were made Priests, because they were not suffered to endure, by the reason of death.
7:24But this man, because he endures ever, has a Priesthood, which cannot pass from one to another.
7:25Therefore, he is able also perfectly to save them that come to Theos by him, seeing he ever lives, to make intercession for them.
7:26For such a high Priest it became us to have, which is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners,and made higher than the heavens:
7:27Which needs not daily as those high Priests to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins,and then for the peoples:for that did he once, when he offered up himself.
7:28For the Law makes men high Priests, which have infirmity:but the word of the oath that was since the Law, makes the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
Chapter 8
8:1Now of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum,that we have such a high Priest,that sits at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heavens,
8:2And is a minister of the Sanctuary,and of that true Tabernacle which the Kyrios pitched,and not man.
8:3For every high Priest is ordained to offer both gifts and sacrifices:therefore it was of necessity,that this man should have somewhat also to offer.
8:4For he were not a Priest, if he were on the earth, seeing there are Priests that according to the Law offer gifts,
8:5Who serve to the pattern and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was warned by God, when he was about to finish the Tabernacle. See, said he,that you make all things according to the pattern, showed to you in the mount.
8:6But now our high Priest has obtained a more excellent office, inasmuch as he is the Mediator of a better Covenant, which is established upon better promises.
8:7For if that first Testament had been unblameable, no place should have been sought for the second.
8:8For in rebuking them he says, Behold, the days will come, says the Kyrios, when I shall make with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah a new Covenant:
8:9Not like the Covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt: for they continued not in my Covenant, and I regarded them not, says the Kyrios.
8:10For this is the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, After those days, says the Kyrios, I will put my Laws in their mind, and in their heart I will write them, and I will be their Theos, and they shall be my people,
8:11And they shall not teach every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, Know the Kyrios:for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.
8:12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness,and I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.
8:13In that he says a new Testament, he has abrogated the old:now that which has grown old and aged, is ready to vanish away.
Chapter 9
9:1Then the first Testament had also ordinances of religion,and a worldly Sanctuary.
9:2For the first Tabernacle was made, in which was the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread, which Tabernacle is called the Holy places.
9:3And after the second veil was the Tabernacle, which is called the Holiest of all,
9:4Which had the golden censer, and the Ark of the Covenant overlaid round about with gold, in which the golden pot, which had Manna, was, and Aaron's rod that had budded, and the tables of the Covenant.
9:5And over the Ark were the glorious Cherubim, shadowing the mercy seat:of which things we will not now speak particularly.
9:6Now when these things were thus ordained, the Priests went always into the first Tabernacle,and accomplished the service.
9:7But into the second went the high Priest alone, once every year, not without blood which he offered for himself,and for the ignorance of the people.
9:8By which the Holy Spirit signified this, that the way into the Holiest of all was not yet opened, while as yet the first tabernacle was standing,
9:9Which was a figure for that present time, in which were offered gifts and sacrifices that could not make holy, concerning the conscience, him that did the service,
9:10Which only stood in meats and drinks,and various washings,and fleshly ordinances, which were imposed, until the time of reformation.
9:11But Christos being come a high Priest of good things to come, by a greater and a more perfect Tabernacle, not made with hands,that is, not of this building,
9:12Neither by the blood of goats and calves:but by his own blood entered he in once to the holy place,and obtained eternal redemption for us.
9:13For if the blood of bulls and of goats,and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling them that are unclean, sanctifies as touching the purifying of the flesh,
9:14How much more shall the blood of Christos who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to Theos, cleanse your conscience from dead works, to serve the living Theos?
9:15And for this cause is he the Mediator of the new Covenant, that through death which was for the redemption of the transgressions that were in the former Covenant, they who were called, might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
9:16For where a Testament is, there must be the death of him that made the Testament.
9:17For the Testament is confirmed when men are dead:for it is yet of no force as long as he that made it, is alive.
9:18Therefore neither was the first ordained without blood.
9:19For when Moses had spoken every precept to the people, according to the Law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water and purple wool and hyssop,and sprinkled both the book,and all the people,
9:20Saying, This is the blood of the Covenant, which Theos has commanded to you.
9:21Moreover, he sprinkled likewise the Tabernacle with blood also,and all the ministering vessels.
9:22And almost all things are by the Law cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood is no remission.
9:23It was than necessary,that the similitudes of heavenly things should be purified with such things:but the heavenly things themselves are purified with better sacrifices then are these.
9:24For Christos is not entered into the holy places that are made with hands, which are similitudes of the true Sanctuary:but is entered into very heaven, to appear now in the sight of Theos for us,
9:25Not that he should offer himself often, as the high Priest entered into the Holy place every year with other blood,
9:26(For then must he have often suffer since the foundation of the world) but now in the end of the world has he been made manifest, once to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
9:27And as it is appointed to men that they shall once die,and after that comes the judgment:
9:28So Christos was once offered to take away the sins of many,and to them that look for him, shall he appear the second time without sin to salvation.
Chapter 10
10:1For the Law having the shadow of good things to come,and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices, which they offer year by year continually, sanctify them that come thereto.
10:2For would they not then have ceased to have been offered, because that the offered once purged, should have had no more conscience of sins?
10:3But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again of sins every year.
10:4For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
10:5Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you would not:but a body have you ordained me.
10:6In burnt offerings,and sin offerings you have had no pleasure.
10:7Then I said, Lo, I come (In the beginning of the book it is written of me) that I should do your will, O Theos.
10:8Above, when he said, Sacrifice and offering, and burnt offerings, and sin offerings you would not have, neither had pleasure in it (which are offered by the Law)
10:9Then said he, Lo, I come to do your will, O Theos, he takes away the first,that he may establish the second.
10:10By the which will we are sanctified, even by the offering of the body of Jesus Christos once made.
10:11And every Priest stands daily ministering,and oftentimes offers one manner of offering, which can never take away sins:
10:12But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, sits forever at the right hand of Theos,
10:13And from now on waits, until his enemies be made his footstool.
10:14For with one offering has he consecrated forever them that are sanctified.
10:15For the Holy Spirit also bears us testimony: for after that he had said before,
10:16This is the Covenant that I will make to them after those days, says the Kyrios, I will put my Laws in their heart, and in their minds I will write them.
10:17And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
10:18Now where remission of these things is, there is no more offering for sin.
10:19Seeing therefore, brethren,that by the blood of Jesus we may be bold to enter into the Holy place,
10:20By the new and living way, which he has prepared for us, through the veil,that is, his flesh:
10:21And seeing we have a high Priest, who is over the house of Theos,
10:22Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts being sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water,
10:23And washed in our bodies with pure water, let us keep the profession of our hope, without wavering, (for he is faithful that promised)
10:24And let us consider one another, to provoke to love,and to good works,
10:25Not forsaking the fellowship that we have among ourselves, as the manner of some is:but let us exhort one another,and that so much the more, because you see that the day draws near.
10:26For if we sin willingly after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
10:27But a fearful looking for of judgment,and violent fire, which shall devour the adversaries.
10:28He that despises Moses Law, dies without compassions under two, or three witnesses:
10:29Of how much sorer punishment suppose you shall he be worthy, which treads under foot the Son of Theos, and counts the blood of the Covenant as an unholy thing, with which he was sanctified, and does despite the Spirit of grace?
10:30For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs to me:I will recompense, says the Kyrios. And again, The Kyrios shall judge his people.
10:31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living Theos.
10:32Now call to remembrance the days that are passed, in the which, after you had received light, you endured a great fight in afflictions,
10:33Partly while you were made a gazing stock both by reproaches and afflictions,and partly while you became companions of them which were so tossed to and fro.
10:34For both you sorrowed with me for my bonds,and suffered with joy the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves how that you have in heaven a better,and an enduring substance.
10:35Cast not away therefore your confidence which has great recompense of reward.
10:36For you have need of patience,that after you have done the will of Theos, you might receive the promise.
10:37For yet a very little while,and he that shall come, will come,and will not delay.
10:38Now the just shall live by faith:but if any withdraw himself, my psyche shall have no pleasure in him.
10:39But we are not they who withdraw ourselves to perdition,but follow faith to the conservation of the psyche.
Chapter 11
11:1Now faith is the ground of things, which are hoped for,and the evidence of things which are not seen.
11:2For by it our elders were testified of.
11:3Through faith we understand that the world was ordained by the word of Theos, so that the things which we see, are not made of things which did appear.
11:4By faith Abel offered to Theos a greater sacrifice than Cain, by the which he obtained witness that he was righteous, Theos testifying of his gifts:by the which faith also he being dead, yet speaks.
11:5By faith was Enoch translated, that he should not see death: neither was he found: for Theos had translated him: for before he was translated, he was testified of, that he had pleased Theos.
11:6But without faith it is impossible to please him:for he that comes to Theos, must believe that God is,and that he is a rewarder of them that seek him.
11:7By faith Noah being warned of God of the things which were as yet not seen, moved with reverence, prepared the Ark to the saving of his household, through the which Ark he condemned the world,and was made heir of the righteousness, which is by faith.
11:8By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed God, to go out into a place, which he should afterward receive for inheritance,and he went out, not knowing where he went.
11:9By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange country, as one that dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob heirs with him of the same promise.
11:10For he looked for a city having a foundation, whose builder and maker is Theos.
11:11Through faith Sara also received strength to conceive seed,and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful which had promised.
11:12And therefore sprang there of one, even of one who was dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude,and as the land of the sea shore which is innumerable.
11:13All these died in faith,and received not the promises,but saw them afar off,and believed them,and received them thankfully,and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
11:14For they that say such things, declare plainly,that they seek a country.
11:15And if they had been mindful of that country, from where they came out, they had leisure to have returned.
11:16But now they desire a better,that is a heavenly:therefore Theos is not ashamed of them to be called their Theos:for he has prepared for them a city.
11:17By faith Abraham offered up Isaac, when he was tried,and he that had received the promises, offered his only begotten son.
11:18(To whom it was said, In Isaac shall your seed be called.)
11:19For he considered that Theos was able to raise him up even from the dead:from where he received him also after a sort.
11:20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, concerning things to come.
11:21By faith Jacob when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph,and leaning on the end of his staff, worshiped God.
11:22By faith Joseph when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel,and gave command concerning his bones.
11:23By faith Moses when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child,neither feared they the kings commandment.
11:24By faith Moses when he was come to age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
11:25And chose rather to suffer adversity with the people of Theos, than to enjoy the pleasures of sins for a season,
11:26Esteeming the rebuke of Christos greater riches than the treasures of Egypt:for he had respect to the recompense of the reward.
11:27By faith he forsook Egypt,and feared not the fierceness of the king:for he endured, as he that saw him which is invisible.
11:28Through faith he ordained the Passover and the effusion of blood,lest he that destroyed the firstborn, should touch them.
11:29By faith they passed through the red sea as by dry land, which when the Egyptians attempted to do, they were swallowed up.
11:30By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were compassed about seven days.
11:31By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them which obeyed not, when she had received the spies peaceably.
11:32And what shall I more say? For the time would be too short for me to tell of Gideon, of Barak,and of Samson,and of Jephthah, also of David,and Samuel,and of the Prophets:
11:33Which through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained the promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
11:34Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, of weak were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the valiant.
11:35The women received their dead raised to life:other also were racked,and would not be delivered,that they might receive a better resurrection.
11:36And others have been tried by mockings and scourgings, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
11:37They were stoned, they were hewn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword, they wandered up and down in sheepskins,and in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted,and tormented:
11:38Whom the world was not worthy of:they wandered in wildernesses and mountains,and dens,and caves of the earth.
11:39And these all through faith were testified of, and received not the promise,
11:40Theos providing a better thing for us,that they without us should not be made perfect.
Chapter 12
12:1Therefore, let us also, seeing that we are compassed with so great a cloud of witnesses, cast away everything that presses down,and the sin that hangs so fast on:let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
12:2Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross,and despised the shame,and is set at the right hand of the throne of Theos.
12:3Consider therefore him that endured such speaking against of sinners,lest you should be wearied and faint in your psyches.
12:4You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
12:5And you have forgotten the consolation, which speaks to you as to children, My son, despise not the chastening of the Kyrios,neither faint when you are rebuked of him.
12:6For whom the Kyrios loves, he chastens:and he scourges every son that he receives:
12:7If you endure chastening, Theos offers himself to you as to sons:for what son is it whom the father chastens not?
12:8If therefore you be without correction, of what all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
12:9Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: should we not much rather be in subjection to the father of spirits, that we might live?
12:10For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure:but he chastens us for our profit,that we might be partakers of his holiness.
12:11Now no chastising for the present seems to be joyous, but, grievous: but afterward, it brings the quiet fruit of righteousness, to them which are by it exercised.
12:12Therefore lift up your hands which hang down,and your weak knees,
12:13And make straight steps to your feet,lest that which is halting, be turned out of the way,but let it rather be healed.
12:14Follow peace with all men,and holiness, without the which no man shall see Kyrios.
12:15Take heed, that no man fall away from the grace of Theos: let no root of bitterness spring up and trouble you, lest by it many be defiled.
12:16Let there be no fornicator, or profane person as Esau, which for one portion of meat sold his birthright.
12:17For you know how that afterward also when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected:for he found no place to repentance, though he sought that blessing with tears.
12:18For you are not come to the mount that might be touched, nor to burning fire, nor to blackness and darkness,and tempest,
12:19Neither to the sound of a trumpet,and the voice of words, which they that heard it, excused themselves,that the word should not be spoken to them any more,
12:20(For they were not able to abide that which was commanded, yes, though a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
12:21And so terrible was the sight which appeared,that Moses said, I fear and quake.)
12:22But you are come to the mount Zion,and to the city of the living Theos, the celestial Jerusalem,and to the company of innumerable Angels,
12:23And to the assembly and congregation of the firstborn, which are written in heaven,and to Theos the judge of all,and to the spirits of just and perfect men,
12:24And to Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
12:25See that you despise not him that speaks:for if they escaped not which refused him,that spoke on earth:much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from him,that speaks from heaven.
12:26Whose voice then shook the earth and now has declared, saying, Yet once more will I shake, not the earth only,but also heaven.
12:27And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things which are shaken, as of things which are made with hands,that the things which are not shaken, may remain.
12:28Therefore seeing we receive a kingdom, which cannot be shaken, let us have grace by which we may so serve Theos, that we may please him with reverence and fear.
12:29For even our Theos is a consuming fire.
Chapter 13
13:1Let brotherly love continue.
13:2Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for by it some have received Angels into their houses unawares.
13:3Remember them that are in bonds, as though you were bound with them:and them that are in affliction, as if you were also afflicted in the body.
13:4Marriage is honorable among all,and the bed undefiled:but whoremongers and adulterers Theos will judge.
13:5Let your conduct be without covetousness, and be content with those things that you have, for he has said, I will not fail you, neither forsake you:
13:6So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, neither will I fear what man can do to me.
13:7Remember them which have the oversight of you, which have declared to you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering what has been the end of their conduct.
13:8Jesus Christos yesterday, and today, the same also is forever.
13:9Be not carried about with diverse and strange doctrines: for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, and not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied in it.
13:10We have an altar, of which they have no authority to eat, which serve in the tabernacle.
13:11For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the Holy place by the high Priest for sin, are burnt without the camp.
13:12Therefore even Jesus,that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13:13Let us go forth to him therefore out of the camp, bearing his reproach.
13:14For here have we no continuing city:but we seek one to come.
13:15Let us therefore by him offer the sacrifice of praise always to Theos,that is, the fruit of the lips, which confess his Name.
13:16To do good,and to distribute forget not:for with such sacrifices Theos is pleased.
13:17Obey them that have the oversight of you,and submit yourselves:for they watch for your psyches, as they that must give accounts,that they may do it with joy,and not with grief:for that is unprofitable for you.
13:18Pray for us:for we are assured that we have a good conscience in all things, desiring to live honestly.
13:19And I desire you somewhat the more earnestly,that you so do,that I may be restored to you more quickly.
13:20The Theos of peace that brought again from the dead our Kyrios Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting Covenant,
13:21Make you perfect in all good works, to do his will, working in you that which is pleasant in his sight through Jesus Christos, to whom be praise forever and ever, Amen.
13:22I urge you also, brethren, suffer the words of exhortation:for I have written to you in few words.
13:23Know that our brother Timothy is delivered, with whom (if he come shortly) I will see you.
13:24Salute all them that have the oversight of you,and all the Saints. They of Italy salute you.
13:25Grace be with you all, Amen. Written to the Hebrews from Italy,and sent by Timothy.