Translation in British English
1:1 In times long past, God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets in many and varied ways.
1:2 In these latter days, He has spoken to us through His Son, whom He appointed as the heir of all things, and through whom He also created the cosmos.
1:3 This Son, radiating the glory of God and bearing the very stamp of His nature, sustaining all things by His powerful word, cleansed us from our sins and sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in the heavens.
1:4 Thus, He became far superior to the angels, as the name He has inherited is more excellent than theirs.
1:5 For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son; today I have fathered you”? Or again, “I will be a Father to him, and he shall be a Son to me”?
1:6 And again, when He introduces the firstborn into the world, He says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.”1:7 Regarding the angels, He says, “He makes His angels winds, and His servants flames of fire.”
1:8 But of the Son, He says, “Your throne, O God, endures for ever and ever; a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of your kingdom.
1:9 You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore, God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joy above your companions.”
1:10 And, “You, Lord, laid the foundations of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands;
1:11 They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment,
1:12 Like a cloak you will roll them up, and they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will never end.”
1:13 To which of the angels has He ever said, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?
1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?
2:1 Therefore, we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.
2:2 For if the message declared by angels was binding, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution,
2:3 How shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first declared by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard,
2:4 While God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will.
2:5 For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.
2:6 But someone has testified somewhere, “What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you care for him?
2:7 You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor,
2:8 Putting everything in subjection under his feet.” Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.
2:9 But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
2:10 For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.
2:11 For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
2:12 Saying, “I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.”
2:13 And again, “I will put my trust in him.” And again, “Behold, I and the children God has given me.”
2:14 Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
2:15 And deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
2:16 For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham.
2:17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
2:18 For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
3:1 Therefore, holy brothers, who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,
3:2 Who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house.
3:3 For this Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.
3:4 For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
3:5 Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later,
3:6 But Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice,
3:8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,
3:9 Where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years.
3:10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’
3:11 As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.'”
3:12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
3:13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
3:14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
3:15 As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
3:16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses?
3:17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
3:18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
3:19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
4:1 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.
4:2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.
4:3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,'” although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4:4 For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.”
4:5 And again in this passage he said, “They shall not enter my rest.”
4:6 Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,
4:7 Again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
4:8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on.
4:9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,
4:10 For whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.
4:11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.
4:12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
4:13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
4:14 Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
4:15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
4:16 Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
5:1 For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
5:2 He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness.
5:3 Because of this he is obligated to offer sacrifice for his own sins just as he does for those of the people.
5:4 And no one takes this honor for himself, but only when called by God, just as Aaron was.
5:5 So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”;
5:6 As he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”
5:7 In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.
5:8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.
5:9 And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
5:10 Being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
5:11 About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
5:12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,
5:13 For everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.
5:14 But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.
6:1 Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
6:2 And of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
6:3 And this we will do if God permits.
6:4 For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit,
6:5 And have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,
6:6 And then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.
6:7 For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.
6:8 But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.
6:9 Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things—things that belong to salvation.
6:10 For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.
6:11 And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end,
6:12 So that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
6:13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,
6:14 Saying, “Surely I will bless you and multiply you.”
6:15 And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.
6:16 For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.
6:17 So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath,
6:18 So that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.
6:19 We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain,
6:20 Where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
7:1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
7:2 To Abraham also gave a tenth part of all; first styled by interpretation Sovereign of righteousness, and thereafter also Sovereign of Salem, meaning, Sovereign of peace;
7:3 Lacking father, lacking mother, lacking lineage, having neither commencement of days, nor cessation of life; but fashioned akin to the Son of God; remains a priest perpetually.
7:4 Ponder then the stature of this individual, to whom even the patriarch Abraham apportioned a tenth of the spoils.
7:5 Indeed, those belonging to the lineage of Levi, who assume the role of priesthood, are commanded to collect tithes from the people as per the law, that is, from their kinsmen, even though they descend from Abraham:
7:6 Yet he, not counted among their lineage, received tithes from Abraham, and bestowed a blessing upon him who possessed the promises.
7:7 And beyond any dispute, the lesser is blessed by the greater.
7:8 And here, mortals who perish receive tithes; but there, one receives them, of whom it is attested that he lives.
7:9 And so to speak, Levi also, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham.
7:10 For he was still within the loins of his forefather, when Melchisedec encountered him.
7:11 If therefore perfection were attainable through the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people were given the law,) what necessity would there have been for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchisedec, and not be named according to the order of Aaron?
7:12 For with the alteration of the priesthood, there must of necessity be a change in the law as well.
7:13 For he concerning whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no man has officiated at the altar.
7:14 For it is clear that our Lord emerged from Judah; a tribe about which Moses said nothing concerning priesthood.
7:15 And it is even more evident: for in the likeness of Melchisedec there arises another priest,
7:16 Who is made, not by a law of fleshly commandment, but by the power of an indestructible life.
7:17 For he testifies, “Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchisedec.”
7:18 For indeed, there is a nullification of the preceding commandment due to its weakness and unprofitableness.
7:19 For the law perfected nothing, but the introduction of a superior hope did; through which we draw near unto God.
7:20 And as much as he was not made priest without an oath:
7:21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this one with an oath by him that said unto him, “The Lord swore and will not repent, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchisedec:”)
7:22 By so much more, Jesus became the guarantor of a better covenant.
7:23 And they indeed were many priests, because they were prevented by death from continuing:
7:24 But this man, because he continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.
7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save to the uttermost those who come unto God by him, seeing he ever lives to intercede for them.
7:26 For such a high priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens;
7:27 Who needs 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 appoints as high priests men who have weakness; but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son, who is consecrated forevermore.
8:1 Now concerning the things which we have spoken, this is the core: We have such a high priest, who is seated at 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 erected, and not man.
8:3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: hence it is necessary that this man have something to offer as well.
8:4 For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, seeing there are priests who 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 construct the tabernacle: for, “See,” saith he, “that thou make all things according to the model shown to thee in the mount.”
8:6 But now he has 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 a second.
8:8 For finding fault with them, he says, “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will establish 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 forefathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them, saith the Lord.
8:10 For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their minds, and inscribe them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they shall be my 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 says, “A new covenant,” he has made the first old. Now that which is decaying and ageing is ready to vanish away.
9:1 Then indeed, the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
9:2 For a tabernacle was prepared; the first part, in which was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is termed the sanctuary.
9:3 And behind the second curtain was the tabernacle called the Holiest of all;
9:4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid all around with gold, wherein was the golden jar holding manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;
9:5 And above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat; of which we cannot now speak in detail.
9:6 Now when these things were thus arranged, the priests always entered into the first tabernacle, performing the rituals of God.
9:7 But only once a year, the high priest alone entered the second chamber, not without offering blood for his own sins and the people’s transgressions.
9:8 The Holy Spirit thus indicating that the path to the holiest place was not yet disclosed while the first tabernacle was still in use.
9:9 This tabernacle was a symbol for the current time, wherein both gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not make the worshipper’s conscience wholly clear.
9:10 These were based merely on food, drink, various washings, and earthly regulations, imposed until the time of reformation.
9:11 But Christ arrived as the high priest of future blessings, through a more grand and perfect tabernacle not crafted by hands, that is, not of this creation.
9:12 He entered the holy sanctuary once and for all by His own blood, securing eternal redemption for us, not with the blood of goats and calves.
9:13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,
9:14 How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, cleanse our conscience from dead deeds to serve the living God?
9:15 Therefore, He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, through death, for the redemption of transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
9:16 For where there is a testament, the death of the one who made it must necessarily be established.
9:17 For a testament is valid only upon death; it is not in force while the one who made it is alive.
9:18 Hence, even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood.
9:19 For after every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people,
9:20 Saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded for you.”
9:21 In the same way, he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels used in the ministry.
9:22 Almost all things are, according to the law, cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness.
9:23 Therefore, it was necessary for the patterns of things in the heavens to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
9:24 For Christ did not enter holy places made with hands, mere copies of the true ones, but into heaven itself, now to appear before God on our behalf.
9:25 Nor did He enter to offer Himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy place every year with blood not his own.
9:26 Otherwise, He would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to remove sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
9:27 And just as it is appointed for humans to die once, and after this comes judgment,
9:28 So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who eagerly await Him.
10:1 For the law, possessing a shadow of the good things to come, and not the actual form of those realities, can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
10:2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshippers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins?
10:3 But in these sacrifices, there is a reminder of sins year after year.
10:4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
10:5 Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me;
10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin, You have taken no pleasure.
10:7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of Me) to do Your will, O God.’”
10:8 Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the law),
10:9 Then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He takes away the first to establish the second.
10:10 By this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
10:11 And every priest stands daily ministering and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
10:12 But this Man, after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God,
10:13 Waiting from that time onward until His enemies are made a footstool for His feet.
10:14 For by one offering, He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
10:15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First, He says:
10:16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds,”
10:17 Then He adds, “Their sins and lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
10:18 Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
10:19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,
10:20 By a new and living way He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh,
10:21 And having a 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 cleansed from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
10:23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works,
10:25 Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
10:26 For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
10:27 But a fearful expectation of judgment and a fiery fury which will consume the adversaries.
10:28 Anyone who rejected Moses’ law died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
10:29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?
10:30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge His people.”
10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
10:32 But recall the former days in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings,
10:33 Partly by being made a spectacle through reproaches and tribulations, and partly by becoming companions of those who were so treated.
10:34 For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven.
10:35 Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
10:36 For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
10:37 “For yet a little while, and He who is coming will come and will not delay.
10:38 But My righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.”
10:39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
11:2 For by it the elders received a good report.
11:3 Through faith, we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.
11:4 By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God bearing witness to his gifts; and through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.
11:5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death; and he was not found because God had taken him. Now before he was taken, he was commended as having pleased God.
11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who seek Him.
11:7 By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
11:8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
11:9 By faith he lived in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
11:10 For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.
11:11 By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered Him faithful who had promised.
11:12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
11:14 For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.
11:15 If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.
11:16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared for them a city.
11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,
11:18 Of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”
11:19 He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
11:20 By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau.
11:21 By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff.
11:22 By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave instructions concerning his bones.
11:23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.
11:24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
11:25 Choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.
11:26 He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.
11:27 By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.
11:28 By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.
11:29 By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned.
11:30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.
11:31 By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had received the spies in peace.
11:32 And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets—
11:33 Who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
11:34 Quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
11:35 Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life.
11:36 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
11:37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated—
11:38 Of whom the world was not worthy—wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
11:39 And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised,
11:40 Since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
12:2 Gaze upon Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who, for the joy set before him, endured the cross, scorning its shame, and now sits at the right hand of God’s throne.
12:3 Reflect on him who bore such opposition from sinners, so that you may not grow weary or lose heart.
12:4 In your struggle against sin, you have not yet had to resist to the point of shedding your blood.
12:5 And you have forgotten the encouragement that addresses you as children: “My child, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, nor lose heart when rebuked by him;
12:6 For the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he chastises every child he accepts.”
12:7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what child is not disciplined by their father?
12:8 If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are illegitimate children and not true children.
12:9 Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!
12:10 Our human fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness.
12:11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
12:12 Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees;
12:13 Make level paths for your feet,” so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.
12:14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
12:15 See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God; that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many;
12:16 Ensure that there is no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.
12:17 You know that afterwards, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He could find no chance to repent, though he sought the blessing with tears.
12:18 You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm;
12:19 To a trumpet blast or to such a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them,
12:20 Because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.”
12:21 The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”
12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,
12:23 To the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
12:24 To Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
12:25 See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven?
12:26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”
12:27 The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.
12:28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe,
12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.
13:1 Continue to show brotherly love.
13:2 Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.
13:3 Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.
13:4 Marriage should be honoured by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
13:5 Keep your life free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
13:6 So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?”
13:7 Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.
13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
13:9 Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace, not by ceremonial foods, which are of no benefit to those who observe them.
13:10 We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat.
13:11 The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp.
13:12 And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood.
13:13 Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore.
13:14 For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
13:15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name.
13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
13:17 Obey your leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men who must give an account. Obey them so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no advantage to you.
13:18 Pray for us; we are sure that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honourably in every way.
13:19 I particularly urge you to pray so that I may be restored to you soon.
13:20 Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
13:21 Equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
13:22 Brothers and sisters, I urge you to bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.
13:23 Know that our brother Timothy has been released. If he arrives soon, I will come with him to see you.
13:24 Greet all your leaders and all the Lord’s people. Those from Italy send you their greetings.
13:25 Grace be with you all. Amen.
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