The Letter To The Hebrews
 
   1:1 God, who at various times and in different manners spoke in time
   past unto the fathers by the prophets,
 
   1:2 Has in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he has
   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 has by
   inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
 
   1:5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son,
   this day have I begotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father,
   and he shall be to me a Son?
 
   1:6 And again, when he brings in the firstbegotten into the world, he
   says, And let all the angels of God worship him.
 
   1:7 And of the angels he says, Who makes his angels spirits, and his
   ministers a flame of fire.
 
   1:8 But unto the Son he says, Your throne, O God, is forever and ever:
   a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom.
 
   1:9 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God,
   even your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your
   fellows.
 
   1:10 And, You, Lord, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the
   earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands:
 
   1:11 They shall perish; but you remain; and they all shall wax old as
   does a garment;
 
   1:12 And as a vesture shall you fold them up, and they shall be
   changed: but you are the same, and your years shall not fail.
 
   1:13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right
   hand, until I make your enemies your footstool?
 
   1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for
   them who shall be heirs of salvation?
 
   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 steadfast, 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 different miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his
   own will?
 
   2:5 For unto the angels has 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
   you are mindful of him? or the son of man that you visit him?
 
   2:7 You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with
   glory and honor, and did set him over the works of your hands:
 
   2:8 You have 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 honor; 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 sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all
   of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
 
   2:12 Saying, I will declare your name unto my brothers, in the midst
   of the church will I sing praise unto you.
 
   2:13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and
   the children which God has given me.
 
   2:14 Since 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 truthfully he took not on him the nature of angels; but he
   took on him the seed of Abraham.
 
   2:17 Therefore in all things it was proper for him to be made like
   unto his brothers, 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 has suffered being tempted, he is able to
   help them that are tempted.
 
   3:1 Therefore, holy brothers, 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 has builded the house has more honor 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 truthfully 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 Therefore (as the Holy Ghost says, Today if you 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 Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do
   always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
 
   3:11 So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) 3:12
   Take heed, brothers, 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 Today; 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 steadfast unto the end;
 
   3:15 While it is said, Today if you 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 carcasses fell in the wilderness?
 
   3:18 And to whom swore 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.
 
   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 spoke 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 remains that some must enter in it, and they
   to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
 
   4:7 Again, he limits a certain day, saying in David, Today, after so
   long a time; as it is said, Today if you 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 remains therefore a rest to the people of God.
 
   4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his
   own works, as God did from his.
 
   4:11 Let us labor 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
   two edged 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 a high priest which cannot be touched with the
   feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted just 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.
 
   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 takes this honor unto himself, but he that is called of
   God, as was Aaron.
 
   5:5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made a high priest; but
   he that said unto him, You are my Son, today have I begotten you.
 
   5:6 As he says also in another place, You are a priest forever 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 a high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
 
   5:11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered,
   seeing you are dull of hearing.
 
   5:12 For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need
   that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles
   of God; and have become such as have need of milk, and not of strong
   food.
 
   5:13 For every one that uses milk is unskillfully in the word of
   righteousness: for he is a babe.
 
   5:14 But strong food belongs to them that are of full age, even those
   who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good
   and evil.
 
   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 drinks in the rain that comes often upon it,
   and brings forth herbs suitable for them by whom it is dressed,
   receives blessing from God:
 
   6:8 But that which bears thorns and briers is rejected, and is close
   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 labor of love,
   which you have showed toward his name, in that you 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 you 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 swore by himself,
 
   6:14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will
   multiply you.
 
   6:15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
 
   6:16 For men truthfully 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
   steadfast, and which enters into that within the veil;
 
   6:20 Where the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made a high
   priest forever after the order of Melchisedec.
 
   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;
   abides 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 truthfully 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 brothers, 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 receives them,
   of whom it is witnessed that he lives.
 
   7:9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receives tithes, paid 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 pertains 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 spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
 
   7:15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of
   Melchisedec there arises 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 testifies, You are a priest forever after the order of
   Melchisedec.
 
   7:18 For there is truthfully a disannulling of the commandment going
   before for the weakness and unprofitableness of it.
 
   7:19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better
   hope did; by the which we draw close 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 swore and will not repent, You are a
   priest forever 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 permitted
   to continue by reason of death:
 
   7:24 But this man, because he continues ever, has an unchangeable
   priesthood.
 
   7:25 Therefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come
   unto God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.
 
   7:26 For such a high priest became us, who is holy, harmless,
   undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than 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 makes men high priests which have infirmity; but the
   word of the oath, which was since the law, makes the Son, who is
   consecrated for evermore.
 
   8:1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have
   such a 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:
   therefore 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, says he, that you make all things according to the pattern showed
   to you in the mount.
 
   8:6 But now has 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 says, Behold, the days come, says
   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, says the Lord.
 
   8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of
   Israel after those days, says 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 neighbor, 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 decays and grows old is ready to vanish away.
 
   9:1 Then truthfully the first covenant had also ordinances of divine
   service, and a worldly sanctuary.
 
   9:2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, in which 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, in which 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 mercy seat; 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 foods and drinks, and different washings, and
   carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
 
   9:11 But Christ being come a 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, sanctifies 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 lives.
 
   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 has 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
   enters 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 has 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.
 
   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 worshipers 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 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and
   offering you would not, but a body have you prepared me:
 
   10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no
   pleasure.
 
   10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written
   of me,) to do your will, O God.
 
   10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings
   and offering for sin you would not, neither had pleasure in it; which
   are offered by the law;
 
   10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do your will, O God. He takes 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 stands 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
   forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
 
   10:13 From now on expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
 
   10:14 For by one offering he has perfected forever 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, says 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, brothers, boldness to enter into the holiest
   by the blood of Jesus,
 
   10:20 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us,
   through the veil, that is to say, 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 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
   you see the day approaching.
 
   10:26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of
   the truth, there remains 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 looked down upon Moses' law died without mercy under two
   or three witnesses:
 
   10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought
   worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the
   blood of the covenant, with which he was sanctified, an unholy thing,
   and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
 
   10:30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will
   recompense, says 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 you
   were illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions;
 
   10:33 Partly, while you were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and
   afflictions; and partly, while you became companions of them that were
   so used.
 
   10:34 For you had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the
   plundering of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in
   heaven a better and an enduring substance.
 
   10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great
   recompense of reward.
 
   10:36 For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the
   will of God, you 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.
 
   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 speaks.
 
   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
   comes 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 to where 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 has 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 where
   they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
 
   11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly:
   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 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 your 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, grown 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, yes,
   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 deserted
   places, 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.
 
   12:1 Therefore seeing we also are surrounded by so great a cloud of
   witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does 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 you be wearied and faint in your minds.
 
   12:4 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
 
   12:5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as
   unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the Lord, nor
   faint when you are rebuked of him:
 
   12:6 For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom
   he receives.
 
   12:7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for
   what son is he whom the father chastens not?
 
   12:8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers,
   then are you bastards, and not sons.
 
   12:9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us,
   and we gave them respect: shall we not much rather be in subjection
   unto the Father of spirits, and live?
 
   12:10 For they truthfully 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 seems to be joyous, but
   grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of
   righteousness unto those who are exercised thereby.
 
   12:12 Therefore 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 food sold his birthright.
 
   12:17 For you know that afterward, when he would have inherited the
   blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though
   he sought it anxiously with tears.
 
   12:18 For you 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 you 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 speaks better things that that of Abel.
 
   12:25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not
   who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if
   we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:
 
   12:26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised,
   saying, yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
 
   12:27 And this word, yet once more, signifies 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 Therefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us
   have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with respect and godly
   fear:
 
   12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.
 
   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 honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but
   whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
 
   13:5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; and be content with
   such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor
   forsake you.
 
   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 those who have the rule over you, who have spoken unto
   you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their
   conduct.
 
   13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
 
   13:9 Be not carried about with different and strange doctrines. For it
   is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with
   foods, which have not profited them that have been occupied in it.
 
   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 outside the camp.
 
   13:12 Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his
   own blood, suffered outside the gate.
 
   13:13 Let us go forth therefore unto him outside 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 well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to
   whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
 
   13:22 And I beseech you, brothers, suffer the word of exhortation: for
   I have written a letter unto you in few words.
 
   13:23 Know you 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.