God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in times past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2hath 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,
3who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
4being made so much better than the angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
5For unto which of the angels said God 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"?
6And again, when He bringeth in the First-Begotten into the world, He saith, "And let all the angels of God worship Him."
7And of the angels He saith, "Who maketh His angels spirits and His ministers a flame of fire."
8But unto the Son He saith, "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Thy Kingdom.
9Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, even Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows."
10And, "Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of Thine hands.
11They shall perish, but Thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment.
12And as a vesture shalt Thou fold them up, and they shall be changed. But Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail."
13But to which of the angels said He at any time, "Sit on My right hand until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool"?
14Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation?
Hebrews 2 - 21st Century King James Version
Therefore we ought to give even more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
2For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward,
3how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed unto us by those who heard Him,
4God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders and with divers miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to His own will?
5For it was not unto angels that He put in subjection the world to come, of which we speak.
6But one at a certain place testified, saying, "What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that Thou visitest him?
7Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; Thou crowned him with glory and honor and set him over the works of Thy hands.
8Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet." For in putting all in subjection under him, He left nothing that is not put under him. But now as yet we see not all things put under him.
9But 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.
10For 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.
11For both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of One, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12saying, "I will declare Thy name unto My brethren; in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto Thee."
13And again, "I will put My trust in Him." And again, "Behold I and the children whom God hath given Me."
14Forasmuch 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 --
15and deliver those who all their lifetime were subject to bondage through fear of death.
16For verily He took not on Himself the nature of angels, but He took on Him the seed of Abraham.
17Therefore in all things it behooved 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.
18For in that He Himself hath suffered, being tempted, He is able to succor those who are tempted.
Hebrews 3 - 21st Century King James Version
Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,
2who was faithful to Him that appointed Him, as also Moses was faithful in all His house.
3For this Man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who hath built the house hath more honor than the house.
4For every house is built by some man, but He that built all things is God.
5And Moses verily was faithful in all His house as a servant, as a testimony of those things which were to be spoken thereafter;
6but Christ was faithful as a Son over His own house, whose house are we if we hold fast the confidence and rejoicing of the hope, firm unto the end.
7Therefore as the Holy Ghost saith: "Today if ye will hear His voice,
8harden not your hearts as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness,
9when your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.
10Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, `They do always err in their heart, and they have not known My ways.'
11So I swore in My wrath, `They shall not enter into My rest.'"
12Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
13But exhort one another daily, while it is still called "today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14For we are made partakers of Christ if we hold the confidence we had in the beginning steadfast unto the end,
15while it is said, "Today if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation."
16For some, when they had heard, did provoke, however not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
18And to whom did He swear that they should not enter into His rest, but to those who believed not?
19So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Hebrews 4 - 21st Century King James Version
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left to us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2For 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 those who heard it.
3For we who 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.
4For He spoke in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works."
5And again in this place: "If they shall enter into My rest"--.
6Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter in because of unbelief,
7again He designates 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."
8For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterwards have spoken of another day.
9There remaineth therefore a rest for the people of God.
10For he that has entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His.
11Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall according to the same example of unbelief.
12For the Word of God is living 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.
13Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight, but all things are naked and open unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.
14Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed into the Heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our profession.
15For we do not have a High Priest who cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
16Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 5 - 21st Century King James Version
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;
2who can have compassion on the ignorant and on those who are outside of the Way, since he himself is also encompassed by infirmity.
3And by reason hereof, he ought, both for the people and also for himself, to make offering for sins.
4And no man taketh this honor unto himself, except he that is called by God, as was Aaron.
5So also Christ glorified not Himself to be made a high priest, but He that said unto Him, "Thou art My Son; today have I begotten Thee."
6And He saith also in another place, "Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek."
7Christ, 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,
8though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered.
9And being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation unto all those who obey Him,
10being called by God as a high priest after the order of Melchizedek,
11of whom we have many things to say, which are hard to utter seeing ye are dull of hearing.
12For at the time when ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God, and have become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
13For every one that useth milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.
14But strong meat belongeth to those who are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Hebrews 6 - 21st Century King James Version
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,
2of the doctrine of baptisms and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead and of eternal judgment.
3And this we will do, if God permit.
4For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5and have tasted the good Word of God and the powers of the world to come,
6if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance, seeing that they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh and put Him to open shame.
7For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for those by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God.
8But that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected and is nigh unto being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
9But, beloved, though we thus speak, we are persuaded that there are better things for you, things that accompany salvation.
10For God is not unrighteous so as to forget your work and labor of love, which ye have shown toward His name, in that ye have ministeredto the saints, and do minister.
11And we desire that every one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end,
12that ye be not slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
13For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He swore by Himself,
14saying, "Surely in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thee."
15And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
16For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath of confirmation is to them an end to all strife.
17Thereby God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath,
18that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we, who have fled for refuge, might have strong consolation to lay hold upon the hope set before us.
19This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil,
20where the Forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, who is made a high priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7 - 21st Century King James Version
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham, who was returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him.
2To him also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, Melchizedek first being by interpretation "king of righteousness," and after that also king of Salem, which means "king of peace."
3Without father, without mother and without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like unto the Son of God, he abideth a priest continually.
4Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils.
5And verily, those who are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law -- that is, from their brethren -- though they come out of the loins of Abraham.
6But Melchizedek, whose descent is not counted from them, received tithes from Abraham and blessed him that had the promises.
7And beyond all contradiction, the lesser is blessed by the greater.
8And here men who die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.
9And, as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, paid tithes through Abraham,
10for he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met Abraham.
11If therefore perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be called according to the order of Aaron?
12For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
13For He of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
14For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
15And this is yet far more evident when there ariseth another priest according to the similitude of Melchizedek,
16who is made not according to the law of a carnal commandment, but according to the power of an endless life.
17For He testifieth: "Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek."
18For there is verily an annulling of the former commandment because of the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
19For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did, by which we draw nigh unto God.
20And inasmuch as it was not without an oath that He was made priest
21(for those priests were made without an oath, but He with an oath by Him who said unto Him: "The Lord swore and will not repent, `Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.'"),
22by so much more was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
23And those priests truly were many, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death;
24but this Man, because He continueth forever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
25Therefore He is able also to save to the uttermost those who come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.
26For such a High Priest who is befitting for us, holy, undisposed to harm, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens,
27who needeth not, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice daily first for His own sins and then for the people's; for this He did once when He offered up Himself.
28For the law maketh men high priests who have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which came since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
Hebrews 8 - 21st Century King James Version
Now of the things of 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,
2a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched and not man.
3For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices; therefore it is of necessity that this Man have something also to offer.
4For if He were on earth, He should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests who offer gifts according to the law,
5and who serve unto the copy and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished by God when he was about to make the tabernacle. For,"See," saith He, "that thou make all things according to the pattern shown to thee on the mount."
6But 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.
7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
8For 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--
9not 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.
10For 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 minds and write them in their hearts, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people.
11And 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.
12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more."
13In that He saith "a new covenant," He hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Hebrews 9 - 21st Century King James Version
Then verily, the first covenant also had ordinances of divine service and a worldly sanctuary.
2For there was a tabernacle made, the first, wherein was the candlestick and the table and the showbread, which is called the sanctuary.
3And after the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of All,
4which 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 tablets of the covenant;
5and over it were the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercy seat, of which we cannot now speak particularly.
6Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service to God.
7But 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,
8the Holy Ghost by this signifying that the way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest so long as the first tabernacle was yet standing.
9It was a figure for the time then present in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, which could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience,
10since it concerned only meats and drinks and divers washings and carnal ordinances imposed on them until the time of reformation.
11But Christ, having 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),
12neither 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.
13For if sprinkling the unclean with the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh,
14how 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?
15And for this cause He is the Mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were covered under the first testament, those who are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
16For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
17For a testament is of force after men are dead, otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
18And so not even the first testament was dedicated without blood.
19For 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,
20saying, "This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you."
21Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry.
22And by the law almost all things are purged with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.
23It was therefore necessary that the copies of things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24For Christ has not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.
25Nor yet should He offer Himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place with blood of others every year;
26for then would He have had to suffer often 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.
27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the Judgment,
28so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto those who look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin, unto salvation.
Hebrews 10 - 21st Century King James Version
For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come and not the very image of those things, can never, with those sacrifices which they offered continually year by year, make those who come unto it perfect.
2For then would not sacrifices have ceased to be offered? For worshipers once purged should have had no more consciousness of sins.
3But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year,
4for it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
5Therefore when He cometh into the world, He saith, "Sacrifice and offering Thou wouldest not have, but a body hast Thou prepared for Me.
6In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin Thou hast had no pleasure.
7Then said I, `Lo, I come (in the volume of the Book it is written of Me) to do Thy will, O God.'"
8Above when He said, "Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings, and offering for sin Thou wouldest not have, neither hadst pleasure therein" (which are offered in accordance with the law),
9then said He, "Lo, I come to do Thy will, O God," He taketh away the first, that He may establish the second.
10By this will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering time and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
12But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down at the right hand of God,
13from henceforth to wait until His enemies be made His footstool.
14For by one offering He hath perfected for ever those who are sanctified.
15Of this the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us; for after 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;
17and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more."
18Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19Having therefore boldness, brethren, to enter into the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20by a new and living Way, which He hath consecrated for us through the veil (that is to say, His flesh),
21and having a High Priest over the house of God,
22let 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.
23Let us hold fast to the profession of our faith without wavering (for He is faithful who promised),
24and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works,
25not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as ye see the Day approaching.
26For if we sin willfully after having received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28He that despised Moses' law died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
29Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath accounted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath despised the Spirit of grace?
30For we know Him that hath said, "Vengeance belongeth unto Me; I will recompense," saith the Lord. And again, "The Lord shall judge His people."
Hebrews 11 - 21st Century King James Version
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2For by it the elders obtained a good report.
3Through 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.
4By 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.
5By 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.
6But 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 those who diligently seek Him.
7By faith Noah, being warned by God of things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
8By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should later receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
9By 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.
10For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.
12Therefore there sprang even from one, and him as good as dead, as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.
13These all died in faith, not having received the promises but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded by them and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14For those who say such things declare plainly that they are seeking a fatherland.
15And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
16But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He hath prepared for them a City.
17By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac; and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
18of whom it was said, "In Isaac shall thy seed be called,"
19accounting that God was able to raise him up even from the dead, from whence he also received him, in a figurative sense.
20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
21By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph and worshiped, leaning upon the top of his staff.
22By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel, and gave commandment concerning his bones.
23By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a handsome child; and they were not afraid of the king's edict.
24By faith Moses, when he had come of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
25choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season,
26esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.
27By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.
28Through faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
29By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, but the Egyptians, in attempting to do so, were drowned.
30By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed about for seven days.
Hebrews 12 - 21st Century King James Version
Therefore, seeing we also are compassed about by 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,
2looking 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.
3For consider Him that endured such contradiction from sinners against Himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
4In striving against sin, ye have not yet resisted unto bloodshed.
5And 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 by Him;
6for whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth."
7If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all arepartakers, then ye are bastards and not sons.
9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not far rather be in subjection unto the Father of Spirits, and live?
10For verily they chastened us for a few days according to their own pleasure, but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness.
11Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto those who are exercised thereby.
12Therefore, lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees,
13and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed.
14Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord,
15looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness spring up to trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17For ye know how afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.
18For ye have not come unto the mount which might be touched and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness and darkness and tempest,
19and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which voice those who heard entreated that the Word should not be spoken to them any more.
20(For they could not endure that which was commanded, that: "if even so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart."
21And so terrible was the sight that Moses said, "I fear exceedingly and quake.")
22But ye have come unto Mount Zion and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, who are written in Heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
25See that ye refuse not Him that speaketh, for if they escaped not who refused Him that spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him that speaketh from Heaven,
26whose voice then shook the earth. But now He hath promised, saying, "Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven."
27And these words, "yet once more," signifieth the removing of those things which can be shaken, such as things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28Therefore, we receiving a Kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear.
29For our God is a consuming fire.
Hebrews 13 - 21st Century King James Version
Let brotherly love continue.
2Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
3Remember those who are in bonds as though you were bound with them, and thse who suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
4Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled; but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
5Let your manner of living be without covetousness, and be content with such things as ye have. For He hath said, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee";
6so that we may boldly say, "The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me."
7Remember those who have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the Word of God. Follow their faith, considering the outcome of their manner of living.
8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.
9Be 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 those who have been occupied therewith.
10We have an altar from which they have no right to eat, who serve the tabernacle.
11For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.
12Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.
13Let us go forth therefore unto Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.
14For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
15By Him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to His name.
16But to do good and to communicate forget not, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
17Obey those who have the rule over you and submit yourselves, for they keep watch over your souls as ones who must give an account, that they may do it with joy and not with grief, for that is unprofitable for you.
18Pray for us, for we trust we have a good conscience in all things, willing to live honestly.
19But I beseech you the more earnestly to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
20Now the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21make 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 for ever and ever. Amen.
22And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation, for I have written this letter unto you with few words.
23Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty, with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.
24Salute all those who have the rule over you, and all the saints. Those from Italy salute you.
25Grace be with you all. Amen.
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