< Hebrews 13 >
1 Let brotherly love continue.
Let brotherly love continue.
2 Do not forget hospitality for strangers. For through this, some have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.
Be not forgetful of hospitality; for thereby some have entertained angels, not knowing it.
3 Remember prisoners, as if you were bound with them. Remember those who are mistreated, as if you also were them in the body.
Remember those that are in bonds, as if bound with them: and those that suffer evil as being yourselves also in the body.
4 Let marriage be respected by everyone. Let the marriage bed be pure, for God will judge the sexually immoral people and adulterers.
Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed is not defiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
5 Let your conduct be free from the love of money. Be content with the things you have, for God himself has said, “I will never leave you, nor will I forsake you.”
Let your conversation be free from covetousness, and be contented with what ye have: for He hath said, I will not leave thee; I will never, never forsake thee.
6 Let us be content so that we may have courage to say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can a man do to me?”
So that we may say with courage, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
7 Consider your leaders, those who spoke God's word to you, and consider the result of their conduct. Imitate their faith.
Remember your guides, who spake the word of God to you; whose faith imitate, considering the happy end of their conversation.
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. (aiōn )
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to day, and for ever: (aiōn )
9 Do not be carried away by various strange teachings. For it is good that the heart should be strengthened by grace, not by foods that do not help those who walk by them.
be not then carried about by various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the heart be established by grace, and not in meats, in which those that have been most exact, have not profited by them.
10 We have an altar from which those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat.
We have an altar, of which those who perform service in the tabernacle have no right to eat.
11 For the blood of the animals killed for sins is brought by the high priest into the holy place, while their bodies are burned outside the camp.
As the bodies of those animals, whose blood being offered for sin is brought into the holy place by the high-priest, are not eaten, but are burnt without the camp.
12 So Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.
Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people by his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13 Let us therefore go to him outside the camp, bearing his shame.
Let us then go out unto Him without the camp, bearing his reproach: for we have here no continuing city,
14 For we do not have any permanent city here. Instead, we are looking for one that is to come.
but are seeking that which is to come.
15 Through him, then, let us always offer up sacrifices of praise to God, praise that is the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
16 Let us not forget doing good and helping one another, for it is with such sacrifices that God is very pleased.
But to do good and to communicate forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
17 Obey and submit to your leaders, for they keep watch over your souls, as those who will give account. Obey so that your leaders will do this with joy, and not with groaning, which would be useless to you.
Be ruled by those that are your guides, and submit to them: for they watch for your souls; (as those that must give an account) that they may do it with joy and not with uneasiness: for this were unprofitable for you.
18 Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a clean conscience and that we desire to live rightly in all things.
Pray for us; for we are confident that we have a good conscience, desiring in all things to behave well.
19 I encourage you even more to do this, so that I will be returned to you sooner.
And I the more earnestly intreat you to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
20 Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus, by the blood of the eternal covenant, (aiōnios )
Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the everlasting covenant, (aiōnios )
21 equip you with everything good to do his will, working in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever. Amen. (aiōn )
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 for ever and ever. Amen. (aiōn )
22 Now I encourage you, brothers, to bear with the word of encouragement that I have briefly written to you.
I beseech you, brethren, bear with this word of exhortation: as I have written to you in brief.
23 Know that our brother Timothy has been set free, with whom I will see you if he comes soon.
Know that our brother Timothy is set at liberty, with whom (if he come soon) I will see you.
24 Greet all your leaders and all the believers. Those from Italy greet you.
Salute all that preside over you, yea and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.
25 May grace be with you all.
Grace be with you all. Amen.