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BOOK 58

 BOOK OF HEBREWS

CHAPTER 1
1 God, who at sundry times
and in divers manners spake in time
past unto the fathers by the
prophets,
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;
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;
4 Being made so much better than
the angels, as he hath by inheritance
obtained a more excellent name than
they.
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?
6 And again, when he bringeth in
the firstbegotten into the world, he
saith, And let all the angels of God
worship him.
7 And of the angels he saith,
Who maketh his angels spirits, and
his ministers a flame of fire.
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.
9 Thou hast loved righteousness,
and hated iniquity; therefore God,
even thy God, hath anointed thee with
the oil of gladness above thy
fellows.
10 And, Thou, Lord, in the
beginning hast laid the foundation of
the earth; and the heavens are the
works of thine hands:
11 They shall perish; but thou
remainest; and they all shall wax old
as doth a garment;
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.
13 But to which of the angels
said he at any time, Sit on my right
hand, until I make thine enemies thy
footstool?
14 Are they not all ministering
spirits, sent forth to minister for
them who shall be heirs of salvation?

CHAPTER 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 For if the word spoken by
angels was stedfast, and every
transgression and disobedience
received a just recompence of reward;
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;
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?
5 For unto the angels hath he
not put in subjection the world to
come, whereof we speak.
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?
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:
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.
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.
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.
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,
12 Saying, I will declare thy
name unto my brethren, in the midst
of the church will I sing praise unto
thee.
13 And again, I will put my
trust in him. And again, Behold I and
the children which God hath given me.
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;
15 And deliver them who through
fear of death were all their lifetime
subject to bondage.
16 For verily he took not on him
the nature of angels; but he took on
him the seed of Abraham.
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.
18 For in that he himself hath
suffered being tempted, he is able to
succour them that are tempted.

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

CHAPTER 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.
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.
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 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.
5 And in this place again, If
they shall enter into my rest.
6 Seeing therefore it remaineth
that some must enter therein, and
they to whom it was first preached
entered not in because of unbelief:
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.
8 For if Jesus had given them
rest, then would he not afterward
have spoken of another day.
9 There remaineth therefore a
rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into
his rest, he also hath ceased from
his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labour therefore to
enter into that rest, lest any man
fall after the same example of
unbelief.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

CHAPTER 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:
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.
3 And by reason hereof he ought,
as for the people, so also for
himself, to offer for sins.
4 And no man taketh this honour
unto himself, but he that is called
of God, as was Aaron.
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.
6 As he saith also in another
place, Thou art a priest for ever
after the order of Melchisedec.
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;
8 Though he were a Son, yet
learned he obedience by the things
which he suffered;
9 And being made perfect, he
became the author of eternal
salvation unto all them that obey
him;
10 Called of God an high priest
after the order of Melchisedec.
11 Of whom we have many things
to say, and hard to be uttered,
seeing ye are dull of hearing.
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.
13 For every one that useth milk
is unskilful in the word of
righteousness: for he is a babe.
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.

CHAPTER 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,
2 Of the doctrine of baptisms,
and of laying on of hands, and of
resurrection of the dead, and of
eternal judgment.
3 And this will we do, if God
permit.
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,
5 And have tasted the good word
of God, and the powers of the world
to come,
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.
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:
8 But that which beareth thorns
and briers is rejected, and is nigh
unto cursing; whose end is to be
burned.
9 But, beloved, we are persuaded
better things of you, and things that
accompany salvation, though we thus
speak.
10 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.
11 And we desire that every one
of you do shew the same diligence to
the full assurance of hope unto the
end:
12 That ye be not slothful, but
followers of them who through faith
and patience inherit the promises.
13 For when God made promise to
Abraham, because he could swear by no
greater, he sware by himself,
14 Saying, Surely blessing I
will bless thee, and multiplying I
will multiply thee.
15 And so, after he had
patiently endured, he obtained the
promise.
16 For men verily swear by the
greater: and an oath for confirmation
is to them an end of all strife.
17 Wherein God, willing more
abundantly to shew unto the heirs of
promise the immutability of his
counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
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:
19 Which hope we have as an
anchor of the soul, both sure and
stedfast, and which entereth into
that within the vail;
20 Whither the forerunner is for
us entered, even Jesus, made an high
priest for ever after the order of
Melchisedec.

CHAPTER 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;
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;
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.
4 Now consider how great this
man was, unto whom even the patriarch
Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
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:
6 But he whose descent is not
counted from them received tithes of
Abraham, and blessed him that had the
promises.
7 And without all contradiction
the less is blessed of the better.
8 And here men that die receive
tithes; but there he receiveth them,
of whom it is witnessed that he
liveth.
9 And as I may so say, Levi
also, who receiveth tithes, payed
tithes in Abraham.
10 For he was yet in the loins
of his father, when Melchisedec met
him.
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?
12 For the priesthood being
changed, there is made of necessity a
change also of the law.
13 For he of whom these things
are spoken pertaineth to another
tribe, of which no man gave
attendance at the altar.
14 For it is evident that our
Lord sprang out of Juda; of which
tribe Moses spake nothing concerning
priesthood.
15 And it is yet far more
evident: for that after the
similitude of Melchisedec there
ariseth another priest,
16 Who is made, not after the
law of a carnal commandment, but
after the power of an endless life.
17 For he testifieth, Thou art a
priest for ever after the order of
Melchisedec.
18 For there is verily a
disannulling of the commandment going
before for the weakness and
unprofitableness thereof.
19 For the law made nothing
perfect, but the bringing in of a
better hope did; by the which we draw
nigh unto God.
20 And inasmuch as not without
an oath he was made priest:
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:)
22 By so much was Jesus made a
surety of a better testament.
23 And they truly were many
priests, because they were not
suffered to continue by reason of
death:
24 But this man, because he
continueth ever, hath an unchangeable
priesthood.
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.
26 For such an high priest
became us, who is holy, harmless,
undefiled, separate from sinners, and
made higher than the heavens;
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.
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.

CHAPTER 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;
2 A minister of the sanctuary,
and of the true tabernacle, which the
Lord pitched, and not man.
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.
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:
5 Who serve unto the example and
shadow of heavenly things, as Moses
was admonished of God when he was
about to make the tabernacle: for,
See, saith he, that thou make all
things according to the pattern
shewed to thee in the mount.
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.
7 For if that first covenant had
been faultless, then should no place
have been sought for the second.
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:
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.
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:
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.
12 For I will be merciful to
their unrighteousness, and their sins
and their iniquities will I remember
no more.
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.

CHAPTER 9
1 Then verily the first covenant
had also ordinances of divine
service, and a worldly sanctuary.
2 For there was a tabernacle
made; the first, wherein was the
candlestick, and the table, and the
shewbread; which is called the
sanctuary.
3 And after the second vail, the
tabernacle which is called the
Holiest of all;
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;
5 And over it the cherubims of
glory shadowing the mercyseat; of
which we cannot now speak
particularly.
6 Now when these things were
thus ordained, the priests went
always into the first tabernacle,
accomplishing the service of God.
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:
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 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;
10 Which stood only in meats and
drinks, and divers washings, and
carnal ordinances, imposed on them
until the time of reformation.
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;
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.
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:
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?
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.
16 For where a testament is,
there must also of necessity be the
death of the testator.
17 For a testament is of force
after men are dead: otherwise it is
of no strength at all while the
testator liveth.
18 Whereupon neither the first
testament was dedicated without
blood.
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,
20 Saying, This is the blood of
the testament which God hath enjoined
unto you.
21 Moreover he sprinkled with
blood both the tabernacle, and all
the vessels of the ministry.
22 And almost all things are by
the law purged with blood; and
without shedding of blood is no
remission.
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.
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:
25 Nor yet that he should offer
himself often, as the high priest
entereth into the holy place every
year with blood of others;
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.
27 And as it is appointed unto
men once to die, but after this the
judgment:
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.

CHAPTER 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.
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.
3 But in those sacrifices there
is a remembrance again made of sins
every year.
4 For it is not possible that
the blood of bulls and of goats
should take away sins.
5 Wherefore when he cometh into
the world, he saith, Sacrifice and
offering thou wouldest not, but a
body hast thou prepared me:
6 In burnt offerings and
sacrifices for sin thou hast had no
pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in
the volume of the book it is written
of me,) to do thy will, O God.
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;
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 By the which will we are
sanctified through the offering of
the body of Jesus Christ once for
all.
11 And every priest standeth
daily ministering and offering
oftentimes the same sacrifices, which
can never take away sins:
12 But this man, after he had
offered one sacrifice for sins for
ever, sat down on the right hand of
God;
13 From henceforth expecting
till his enemies be made his
footstool.
14 For by one offering he hath
perfected for ever them that are
sanctified.
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also
is a witness to us: for after that he
had said before,
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;
17 And their sins and iniquities
will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these
is, there is no more offering for
sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren,
boldness to enter into the holiest by
the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way,
which he hath consecrated for us,
through the vail, that is to say, his
flesh;
21 And having an high priest
over the house of God;
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.
23 Let us hold fast the
profession of our faith without
wavering; (for he is faithful that
promised;)
24 And let us consider one
another to provoke unto love and to
good works:
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.
26 For if we sin wilfully after
that we have received the knowledge
of the truth, there remaineth no more
sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking
for of judgment and fiery
indignation, which shall devour the
adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses'law
died without mercy under two or three
witnesses:
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?
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.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall
into the hands of the living God.
32 But call to remembrance the
former days, in which, after ye were
illuminated, ye endured a great fight
of afflictions;
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.
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.
35 Cast not away therefore your
confidence, which hath great
recompence of reward.
36 For ye have need of patience,
that, after ye have done the will of
God, ye might receive the promise.
37 For yet a little while, and
he that shall come will come, and
will not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by
faith: but if any man draw back, my
soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who
draw back unto perdition; but of them
that believe to the saving of the
soul.

CHAPTER 11
1 Now faith is the substance of
things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained
a good report.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
10 For he looked for a city
which hath foundations, whose builder
and maker is God.
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.
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.
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.
14 For they that say such things
declare plainly that they seek a
country.
15 And truly, if they had been
mindful of that country from whence
they came out, they might have had
opportunity to have returned.
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.
17 By faith Abraham, when he was
tried, offered up Isaac: and he that
had received the promises offered up
his only begotten son,
18 Of whom it was said, That in
Isaac shall thy seed be called:
19 Accounting that God was able
to raise him up, even from the dead;
from whence also he received him in a
figure.
20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob
and Esau concerning things to come.
21 By faith Jacob, when he was a
dying, blessed both the sons of
Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon
the top of his staff.
22 By faith Joseph, when he
died, made mention of the departing
of the children of Israel; and gave
commandment concerning his bones.
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.
24 By faith Moses, when he was
come to years, refused to be called
the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
25 Choosing rather to suffer
affliction with the people of God,
than to enjoy the pleasures of sin
for a season;
26 Esteeming the reproach of
Christ greater riches than the
treasures in Egypt: for he had
respect unto the recompence of the
reward.
27 By faith he forsook Egypt,
not fearing the wrath of the king:
for he endured, as seeing him who is
invisible.
28 Through faith he kept the
passover, and the sprinkling of
blood, lest he that destroyed the
firstborn should touch them.
29 By faith they passed through
the Red sea as by dry land: which the
Egyptians assaying to do were
drowned.
30 By faith the walls of Jericho
fell down, after they were compassed
about seven days.
31 By faith the harlot Rahab
perished not with them that believed
not, when she had received the spies
with peace.
32 And what shall I more say?
for the time would fail me to tell of
Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson,
and of Jephthah; of David also, and
Samuel, and of the prophets:
33 Who through faith subdued
kingdoms, wrought righteousness,
obtained promises, stopped the mouths
of lions,
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.
35 Women received their dead
raised to life again: and others were
tortured, not accepting deliverance;
that they might obtain a better
resurrection:
36 And others had trial of cruel
mockings and scourgings, yea,
moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
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;
38 (Of whom the world was not
worthy:) they wandered in deserts,
and in mountains, and in dens and
caves of the earth.
39 And these all, having
obtained a good report through faith,
received not the promise:
40 God having provided some
better thing for us, that they
without us should not be made
perfect.

CHAPTER 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,
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.
3 For consider him that endured
such contradiction of sinners against
himself, lest ye be wearied and faint
in your minds.
4 Ye have not yet resisted unto
blood, striving against sin.
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:
6 For whom the Lord loveth he
chasteneth, and scourgeth every son
whom he receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God
dealeth with you as with sons; for
what son is he whom the father
chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be without
chastisement, whereof all are
partakers, then are ye bastards, and
not sons.
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?
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.
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 Wherefore lift up the hands
which hang down, and the feeble
knees;
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.
14 Follow peace with all men,
and holiness, without which no man
shall see the Lord:
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;
16 Lest there be any fornicator,
or profane person, as Esau, who for
one morsel of meat sold his
birthright.
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.
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,
19 And the sound of a trumpet,
and the voice of words; which voice
they that heard intreated that the
word should not be spoken to them any
more:
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:
21 And so terrible was the
sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly
fear and quake:)
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,
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,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of
the new covenant, and to the blood of
sprinkling, that speaketh better
things than that of Abel.
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:
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.
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.
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:
29 For our God is a consuming
fire.

CHAPTER 13
1 Let brotherly love continue.
2 Be not forgetful to entertain
strangers: for thereby some have
entertained angels unawares.
3 Remember them that are in
bonds, as bound with them; and them
which suffer adversity, as being
yourselves also in the body.
4 Marriage is honourable in all,
and the bed undefiled: but
whoremongers and adulterers God will
judge.
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.
6 So that we may boldly say, The
Lord is my helper, and I will not
fear what man shall do unto me.
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.
8 Jesus Christ the same
yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
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.
10 We have an altar, whereof
they have no right to eat which serve
the tabernacle.
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.
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he
might sanctify the people with his
own blood, suffered without the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore
unto him without the camp, bearing
his reproach.
14 For here have we no
continuing city, but we seek one to
come.
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.
16 But to do good and to
communicate forget not: for with such
sacrifices God is well pleased.
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.
18 Pray for us: for we trust we
have a good conscience, in all things
willing to live honestly.
19 But I beseech you the rather
to do this, that I may be restored to
you the sooner.
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,
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.
22 And I beseech you, brethren,
suffer the word of exhortation: for I
have written a letter unto you in few
words.
23 Know ye that our brother
Timothy is set at liberty; with whom,
if he come shortly, I will see you.
24 Salute all them that have the
rule over you, and all the saints.
They of Italy salute you.
25 Grace be with you all. Amen.