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                        HEBREWS 1
 1:1  God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in
time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
 1:2  Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom
he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the
worlds;
 1:3  Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express
image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of
his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on
the right hand of the Majesty on high;
 1:4  Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by
inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
 1:5  For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou
art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be
to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
 1:6  And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the
world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
 1:7  And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels
spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
 1:8  But unto the Son [he saith], Thy throne, O God, [is] for
ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness [is] the sceptre of
thy kingdom.
 1:9  Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity;
therefore God, [even] thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil
of gladness above thy fellows.
 1:10  And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the
foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine
hands:
 1:11  They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all
shall wax old as doth a garment;
 1:12  And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall
be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not
fail.
 1:13  But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on
my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?
 1:14  Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to
minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

                        HEBREWS 2
 2:1  Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the
things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let
[them] slip.
 2:2  For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every
transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of
reward;
 2:3  How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation;
which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was
confirmed unto us by them that heard [him];
 2:4  God also bearing [them] witness, both with signs and
wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost,
according to his own will?
 2:5  For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the
world to come, whereof we speak.
 2:6  But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is
man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou
visitest him?
 2:7  Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou
crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the
works of thy hands:
 2:8  Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet.
For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing
[that is] not put under him. But now we see not yet all things
put under him.
 2:9  But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the
angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and
honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for
every man.
 2:10  For it became him, for whom [are] all things, and by
whom [are] all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to
make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
 2:11  For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified
[are] all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call
them brethren,
 2:12  Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the
midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.
 2:13  And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold
I and the children which God hath given me.
 2:14  Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh
and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that
through death he might destroy him that had the power of death,
that is, the devil;
 2:15  And deliver them who through fear of death were all
their lifetime subject to bondage.
 2:16  For verily he took not on [him the nature of] angels;
but he took on [him] the seed of Abraham.
 2:17  Wherefore in all things it 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.
 2:18  For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he
is able to succour them that are tempted.

                        HEBREWS 3
 3:1  Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly
calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our
profession, Christ Jesus;
 3:2  Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses
[was faithful] in all his house.
 3:3  For this [man] was counted worthy of more glory than
Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more
honour than the house.
 3:4  For every house is builded by some [man]; but he that
built all things [is] God.
 3:5  And Moses verily [was] faithful in all his house, as a
servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be
spoken after;
 3:6  But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are
we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the
hope firm unto the end.
 3:7  Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will
hear his voice,
 3:8  Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day
of temptation in the wilderness:
 3:9  When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works
forty years.
 3:10  Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said,
They do alway err in [their] heart; and they have not known my
ways.
 3:11  So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my
rest.)
 3:12  Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil
heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
 3:13  But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day;
lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
 3:14  For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the
beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
 3:15  While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice,
harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
 3:16  For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not
all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
 3:17  But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not
with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the
wilderness?
 3:18  And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his
rest, but to them that believed not?
 3:19  So we see that they could not enter in because of
unbelief.

                        HEBREWS 4
 4:1  Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left [us] of
entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of
it.
 4:2  For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto
them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being
mixed with faith in them that heard [it].
 4:3  For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he
said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my
rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of
the world.
 4:4  For he spake in a certain place of the seventh [day] on
this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
 4:5  And in this [place] again, If they shall enter into my
rest.
 4:6  Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter
therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in
because of unbelief:
 4:7  Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To
day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will
hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
 4:8  For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not
afterward have spoken of another day.
 4:9  There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
 4:10  For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath
ceased from his own works, as God [did] from his.
 4:11  Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest
any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
 4:12  For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and
sharper than any 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.
 4:13  Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in
his sight: but all things [are] naked and opened unto the eyes
of him with whom we have to do.
 4:14  Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is
passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast
[our] profession.
 4:15  For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched
with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points
tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin.
 4:16  Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace,
that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of
need.

                        HEBREWS 5
 5:1  For every high priest taken from among men is ordained
for men in things [pertaining] to God, that he may offer both
gifts and sacrifices for sins:
 5:2  Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that
are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with
infirmity.
 5:3  And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also
for himself, to offer for sins.
 5:4  And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that
is called of God, as [was] Aaron.
 5:5  So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high
priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have
I begotten thee.
 5:6  As he saith also in another [place], Thou [art] a priest
for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
 5:7  Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up
prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him
that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he
feared;
 5:8  Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the
things which he suffered;
 5:9  And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal
salvation unto all them that obey him;
 5:10  Called of God an high priest after the order of
Melchisedec.
 5:11  Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be
uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
 5:12  For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have
need that one teach you again which [be] the first principles
of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of
milk, and not of strong meat.
 5:13  For every one that useth milk [is] unskilful in the word
of righteousness: for he is a babe.
 5:14  But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age,
[even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised
to discern both good and evil.

                        HEBREWS 6
 6:1  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,
 6:2  Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands,
and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
 6:3  And this will we do, if God permit.
 6:4  For [it is] impossible for those who were once
enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were
made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
 6:5  And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of
the world to come,
 6:6  If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto
repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God
afresh, and put [him] to an open shame.
 6:7  For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft
upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is
dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
 6:8  But that which beareth thorns and briers [is] rejected,
and [is] nigh unto cursing; whose end [is] to be burned.
 6:9  But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and
things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
 6:10  For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work and
labour of love, which ye have showed toward his name, in that
ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
 6:11  And we desire that every one of you do show the same
diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
 6:12  That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who
through faith and patience inherit the promises.
 6:13  For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could
swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
 6:14  Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and
multiplying I will multiply thee.
 6:15  And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the
promise.
 6:16  For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for
confirmation [is] to them an end of all strife.
 6:17  Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the
heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed
[it] by an oath:
 6:18  That by two immutable things, in which [it was]
impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation,
who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before
us:
 6:19  Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure
and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
 6:20  Whither the forerunner is for us entered, [even] Jesus,
made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

                        HEBREWS 7
 7:1  For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most
high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the
kings, and blessed him;
 7:2  To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first
being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that
also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
 7:3  Without father, without mother, without descent, having
neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto
the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
 7:4  Now consider how great this man [was], unto whom even the
patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
 7:5  And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive
the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes
of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren,
though they come out of the loins of Abraham:
 7:6  But he whose descent is not counted from them received
tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.
 7:7  And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the
better.
 7:8  And here men that die receive tithes; but there he
[receiveth them], of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.
 7:9  And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes,
payed tithes in Abraham.
 7:10  For he was yet in the loins of his father, when
Melchisedec met him.
 7:11  If therefore perfection were by the Levitical
priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what
further need [was there] that another priest should rise after
the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of
Aaron?
 7:12  For the priesthood being changed, there is made of
necessity a change also of the law.
 7:13  For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to
another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
 7:14  For [it is] evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of
which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.
 7:15  And it is yet far more evident: for that after the
similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,
 7:16  Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment,
but after the power of an endless life.
 7:17  For he testifieth, Thou [art] a priest for ever after
the order of Melchisedec.
 7:18  For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment
going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
 7:19  For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of
a better hope [did]; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
 7:20  And inasmuch as not without an oath [he was made
priest]:
 7:21  (For those priests were made without an oath; but this
with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will
not repent, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of
Melchisedec:)
 7:22  By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better
testament.
 7:23  And they truly were many priests, because they were not
suffered to continue by reason of death:
 7:24  But this [man], because he continueth ever, hath an
unchangeable priesthood.
 7:25  Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost
that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make
intercession for them.
 7:26  For such an high priest became us, [who is] holy,
harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher
than the heavens;
 7:27  Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer
up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the
people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
 7:28  For the law maketh men high priests which have
infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law,
[maketh] the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.

                        HEBREWS 8
 8:1  Now of the things which we have spoken [this is] the sum:
We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of
the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
 8:2  A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle,
which the Lord pitched, and not man.
 8:3  For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and
sacrifices: wherefore [it is] of necessity that this man have
somewhat also to offer.
 8:4  For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest,
seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the
law:
 8:5  Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things,
as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the
tabernacle: for, See, saith he, [that] thou make all things
according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount.
 8:6  But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by
how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which
was established upon better promises.
 8:7  For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then
should no place have been sought for the second.
 8:8  For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days
come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the
house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
 8:9  Not according to the covenant that I made with their
fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them
out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my
covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
 8:10  For this [is] the covenant that I will make with the
house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my
laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I
will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
 8:11  And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and
every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall
know me, from the least to the greatest.
 8:12  For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and
their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
 8:13  In that he saith, A new [covenant], he hath made the
first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old [is] ready to
vanish away.

                        HEBREWS 9
 9:1  Then verily the first [covenant] had also ordinances of
divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
 9:2  For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein [was]
the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is
called the sanctuary.
 9:3  And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called
the Holiest of all;
 9:4  Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant
overlaid round about with gold, wherein [was] the golden pot
that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of
the covenant;
 9:5  And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the
mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
 9:6  Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests
went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the
service [of God].
 9:7  But into the second [went] the high priest alone once
every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself,
and [for] the errors of the people:
 9:8  The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the
holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first
tabernacle was yet standing:
 9:9  Which [was] a figure for the time then present, in which
were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him
that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
 9:10  [Which stood] only in meats and drinks, and divers
washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed [on them] until the
time of reformation.
 9:11  But Christ being come an high priest of good things to
come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with
hands, that is to say, not of this building;
 9:12  Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own
blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained
eternal redemption [for us].
 9:13  For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of
an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying
of the flesh:
 9:14  How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the
eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your
conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
 9:15  And for this cause he is the mediator of the new
testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the
transgressions [that were] under the first testament, they
which are called might receive the promise of eternal
inheritance.
 9:16  For where a testament [is], there must also of necessity
be the death of the testator.
 9:17  For a testament [is] of force after men are dead:
otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator
liveth.
 9:18  Whereupon neither the first [testament] was dedicated
without blood.
 9:19  For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the
people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of
goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled
both the book, and all the people,
 9:20  Saying, This [is] the blood of the testament which God
hath enjoined unto you.
 9:21  Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle,
and all the vessels of the ministry.
 9:22  And almost all things are by the law purged with blood;
and without shedding of blood is no remission.
 9:23  [It was] therefore necessary that the patterns of things
in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly
things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
 9:24  For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with
hands, [which are] the figures of the true; but into heaven
itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
 9:25  Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high
priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of
others;
 9:26  For then must he often have suffered since the
foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world
hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
 9:27  And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after
this the judgment:
 9:28  So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and
unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time
without sin unto salvation.

                        HEBREWS 10
 10:1  For the law having a shadow of good things to come,
[and] not the very image of the things, can never with those
sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the
comers thereunto perfect.
 10:2  For then would they not have ceased to be offered?
because that the worshippers once purged should have had no
more conscience of sins.
 10:3  But in those [sacrifices there is] a remembrance again
[made] of sins every year.
 10:4  For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of
goats should take away sins.
 10:5  Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith,
Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou
prepared me:
 10:6  In burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hast
had no pleasure.
 10:7  Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is
written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
 10:8  Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt
offerings and [offering] for sin thou wouldest not, neither
hadst pleasure [therein]; which are offered by the law;
 10:9  Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He
taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
 10:10  By the which will we are sanctified through the
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all].
 10:11  And every priest standeth daily ministering and
offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take
away sins:
 10:12  But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for
sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
 10:13  From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his
footstool.
 10:14  For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them
that are sanctified.
 10:15  [Whereof] the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for
after that he had said before,
 10:16  This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after
those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their
hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
 10:17  And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
 10:18  Now where remission of these [is, there is] no more
offering for sin.
 10:19  Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the
holiest by the blood of Jesus,
 10:20  By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for
us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
 10:21  And [having] an high priest over the house of God;
 10:22  Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of
faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and
our bodies washed with pure water.
 10:23  Let us hold fast the profession of [our] faith without
wavering; (for he [is] faithful that promised;)
 10:24  And let us consider one another to provoke unto love
and to good works:
 10:25  Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as
the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so
much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
 10:26  For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the
knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for
sins,
 10:27  But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery
indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
 10:28  He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under
two or three witnesses:
 10:29  Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be
thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and
hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was
sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the
Spirit of grace?
 10:30  For we know him that hath said, Vengeance [belongeth]
unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord
shall judge his people.
 10:31  [It is] a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the
living God.
 10:32  But call to remembrance the former days, in which,
after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of
afflictions;
 10:33  Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by
reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became
companions of them that were so used.
 10:34  For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took
joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that
ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
 10:35  Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath
great recompense of reward.
 10:36  For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done
the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
 10:37  For yet a little while, and he that shall come will
come, and will not tarry.
 10:38  Now the just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw
back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
 10:39  But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition;
but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

                        HEBREWS 11
 11:1  Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen.
 11:2  For by it the elders obtained a good report.
 11:3  Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed
by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made
of things which do appear.
 11:4  By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent
sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was
righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead
yet speaketh.
 11:5  By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see
death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for
before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased
God.
 11:6  But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]:
for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that]
he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
 11:7  By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as
yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his
house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of
the righteousness which is by faith.
 11:8  By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a
place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed;
and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
 11:9  By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as [in] a
strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob,
the heirs with him of the same promise:
 11:10  For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose
builder and maker [is] God.
 11:11  Through faith also Sara herself received strength to
conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past
age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
 11:12  Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as
dead, [so many] as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as
the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
 11:13  These all died in faith, not having received the
promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of
[them], and embraced [them], and confessed that they were
strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
 11:14  For they that say such things declare plainly that they
seek a country.
 11:15  And truly, if they had been mindful of that [country]
from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to
have returned.
 11:16  But now they desire a better [country], that is, an
heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God:
for he hath prepared for them a city.
 11:17  By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac:
and he that had received the promises offered up his only
begotten [son].
 11:18  Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be
called:
 11:19  Accounting that God [was] able to raise [him] up, even
from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
 11:20  By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things
to come.
 11:21  By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the
sons of Joseph; and worshipped, [leaning] upon the top of his
staff.
 11:22  By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the
departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment
concerning his bones.
 11:23  By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months
of his parents, because they saw [he was] a proper child; and
they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
 11:24  By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to
be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
 11:25  Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of
God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
 11:26  Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than
the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense
of the reward.
 11:27  By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the
king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
 11:28  Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling
of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch
them.
 11:29  By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry
[land]: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
 11:30  By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they
were compassed about seven days.
 11:31  By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that
believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
 11:32  And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me
to tell of Gedeon, and [of] Barak, and [of] Samson, and [of]
Jephthae; [of] David also, and Samuel, and [of] the prophets:
 11:33  Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought
righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
 11:34  Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the
sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in
fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
 11:35  Women received their dead raised to life again: and
others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they
might obtain a better resurrection:
 11:36  And others had trial of [cruel] mockings and
scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
 11:37  They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted,
were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins
and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
 11:38  (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in
deserts, and [in] mountains, and [in] dens and caves of the
earth.
 11:39  And these all, having obtained a good report through
faith, received not the promise:
 11:40  God having provided some better thing for us, that they
without us should not be made perfect.

                        HEBREWS 12
 12:1  Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so
great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and
the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with
patience the race that is set before us,
 12:2  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our]
faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the
cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand
of the throne of God.
 12:3  For consider him that endured such contradiction of
sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your
minds.
 12:4  Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against
sin.
 12:5  And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh
unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the
chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
 12:6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth
every son whom he receiveth.
 12:7  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with
sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
 12:8  But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are
partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
 12:9  Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which
corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much
rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
 12:10  For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after
their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be
partakers of his holiness.
 12:11  Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous,
but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable
fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
 12:12  Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the
feeble knees;
 12:13  And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which
is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
 12:14  Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without
which no man shall see the Lord:
 12:15  Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of
God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you],
and thereby many be defiled;
 12:16  Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as
Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
 12:17  For ye know how that afterward, when he would have
inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place
of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
 12:18  For ye are not come unto the mount that might be
touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and
darkness, and tempest,
 12:19  And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words;
which [voice] they that heard entreated that the word should
not be spoken to them any more:
 12:20  (For they could not endure that which was commanded,
And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be
stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
 12:21  And so terrible was the sight, [that] Moses said, I
exceedingly fear and quake:)
 12:22  But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of
the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable
company of angels,
 12:23  To the general assembly and church of the firstborn,
which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and
to the spirits of just men made perfect,
 12:24  And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to
the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than [that
of] Abel.
 12:25  See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they
escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more
[shall not] we [escape], if we turn away from him that
[speaketh] from heaven:
 12:26  Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath
promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but
also heaven.
 12:27  And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing
of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made,
that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
 12:28  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved,
let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with
reverence and godly fear:
 12:29  For our God [is] a consuming fire.

                        HEBREWS 13
 13:1  Let brotherly love continue.
 13:2  Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby
some have entertained angels unawares.
 13:3  Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them;
[and] them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in
the body.
 13:4  Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled:
but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
 13:5  [Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and
be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I
will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
 13:6  So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and
I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
 13:7  Remember them which have the rule over you, who have
spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow,
considering the end of [their] conversation.
 13:8  Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for
ever.
 13:9  Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines.
For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with
grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have
been occupied therein.
 13:10  We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat
which serve the tabernacle.
 13:11  For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought
into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned
without the camp.
 13:12  Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people
with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
 13:13  Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp,
bearing his reproach.
 13:14  For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to
come.
 13:15  By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise
to God continually, that is, the fruit of [our] lips giving
thanks to his name.
 13:16  But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with
such sacrifices God is well pleased.
 13:17  Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit
yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must
give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief:
for that [is] unprofitable for you.
 13:18  Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in
all things willing to live honestly.
 13:19  But I beseech [you] the rather to do this, that I may
be restored to you the sooner.
 13:20  Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead
our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the
blood of the everlasting covenant,
 13:21  Make you perfect in every good work to do his will,
working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through
Jesus Christ; to whom [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen.
 13:22  And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of
exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
 13:23  Know ye that [our] brother Timothy is set at liberty;
with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.
 13:24  Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all
the saints. They of Italy salute you.
 13:25  Grace [be] with you all. Amen.