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1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in time
 past to the fathers by the prophets,
1:2 Hath in these last days spoken to us by [his] Son, whom he
 hath 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 made purification of 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 hath by
 inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
1:5 For to which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my
 Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him
 a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
1:6 And again, when he bringeth in the first-begotten into the
 world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
1:7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits,
 and his ministers a flame of fire.
1:8 But to the Son, [he saith], Thy throne, O God, [is] for ever
 and ever: a scepter of righteousness [is] the scepter of thy
 kingdom.
1:9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore
 God, [even] thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of
 gladness above thy fellows.
1:10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation
 of the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands.
1:11 They shall perish; but thou remainest: and they all shall
 become old as doth a garment;
1:12 And as a vesture wilt thou fold them up, and they shall be
 changed; but thou art the same, and thy 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 thy enemies thy footstool?
1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to
 minister for them who shall inherit 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
 to us by them that heard [him];
2:4 God also bearing [them] testimony, both with signs and
 wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy
 Spirit, according to his own will?
2:5 For to the angels he hath not put in subjection the world to
 come, concerning which we speak.
2:6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man,
 that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou
 visitest him?
2:7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou
 crownedst him with glory and honor, and didst set him over the
 works of thy hands:
2:8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For
 in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing
 [that is] not made subject to him. But now we see not yet all
 things subjected to 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 to glory, to make the
 Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
2:11 For both he that sanctifieth, and they who are sanctified,
 [are] all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call
 them brethren,
2:12 Saying, I will declare thy name to my brethren, in the
 midst of the church will I sing praise to thee.
2:13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold,
 I, and the children which God hath given me.
2:14 Since then 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 life-time subject to bondage.
2:16 For verily he took not on [him the nature of] angels; but
 he took on [him] the seed of Abraham.
2:17 Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like
 [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.
2:18 For in that he himself hath suffered, being tempted, he is
 able to succor them that are tempted.
3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren, 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 hath built the house, hath more honor than
 the house.
3:4 For every house is built by some [man]; but he that built
 all things [is] God.
3:5 And Moses verily [was] faithful in all his house, as a
 servant, for a testimony of those things which were
 [afterwards] to be spoken.
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 to the end.
3:7 Wherefore (as the Holy Spirit saith, To-day if ye 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 Wherefore 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, brethren, 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 To-day;
 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 to the end;
3:15 While it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden
 not your hearts, as in the provocation.
3:16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: yet, 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 did he swear 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 to us was the gospel preached, as well as to them: but
 the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed
 with faith in them that heard [it].
4:3 For 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.
4:4 For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh [day] on this
 wise, And God rested 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 remaineth that some must enter into it,
 and they to whom it was first preached entered not because of
 unbelief:
4:7 (Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To-day,
 after so long a time; as it is said, To-day, if ye will hear
 his voice, harden not your hearts.
4:8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then he would not
 afterward have spoken of another day.
4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
4:10 For he that hath entered into his rest, he also hath 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] living, 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 to the eyes of him
 with whom we have to do.
4:14 Seeing then that we have a great High Priest, that hath
 passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast
 [our] profession.
4:15 For we have not a high priest who cannot be touched with
 the feeling of our infirmities; but who was in all points
 tempted as [we are], [yet] without sin.
4:16 Let us therefore come boldly to 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 of this he ought, as for the people, so also
 for himself, to offer for sins.
5:4 And no man taketh this honor to himself, but he that is
 called by God, as [was] Aaron:
5:5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made a high
 priest; but he that said to him, Thou art my Son, to-day have I
 begotten thee.
5:6 As he saith also in another [place], Thou [art] a priest for
 ever 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 to him that was
 able to save him from death, and was heard, in that he feared;
5:8 Though he was a Son, yet he learned obedience by the things
 which he suffered;
5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal
 salvation to all them that obey him;
5:10 Called by 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 ye are dull of hearing.
5:12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need
 of one to teach you again which [are] the first principles of
 the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk,
 and not of strong food.
5:13 For every one that useth milk, [is] unskillful in the word
 of righteousness: for he is a babe.
5:14 But strong food belongeth to them that are of full age,
 [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised
 to discern both good and evil.
6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ,
 let us go on to perfection; not laying again the foundation of
 repentance from dead works, and of faith towards God,
6:2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and
 of the 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 have been once
 enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have been
 made partakers of the Holy Spirit.
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 to repentance;
 seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and
 put [him] to an open shame.
6:7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh often
 upon it, and bringeth forth herbs fit for them by whom it is
 dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
6:8 But that which beareth thorns and briers [is] rejected, and
 [is] nigh to 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 ye have shown towards his name, in that ye have
 ministered to the saints, and do minister.
6:11 And we desire every one of you to show the same diligence
 to the full assurance of hope to the end:
6:12 That ye 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 thee, and multiplying
 I will multiply thee.
6:15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the
 promise.
6:16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for
 confirmation [is] to them an end of all contradiction.
6:17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show to 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 entereth into that within the vail;
6:20 Whither the forerunner hath for us entered, [even] Jesus,
 made a high priest for ever 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 to
 the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
7:4 Now consider how great this man [was], to whom even the
 patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
7:5 And verily they that 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 from the loins of Abraham:
7:6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received
 tithes from Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.
7:7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed by the
 better.
7:8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he
 [receiveth them], of whom it is testified that he liveth.
7:9 And as I may say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed
 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 pertaineth to
 another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
7:14 For [it is] evident that our Lord sprang from Judah; 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 ariseth 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 testifieth, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the
 order of Melchisedec.
7:18 For there is verily a disannulling of the preceding
 commandment on account of its weakness and unprofitableness.
7:19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the introduction of a
 better hope [did]; by which we draw nigh to 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 to him, The Lord swore, and will not
 repent, Thou [art] a priest for ever 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
 suffered to continue by reason of death:
7:24 But this [man], because he continueth ever, hath an
 unchangeable priesthood.
7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost
 that come to God by him, seeing he ever liveth 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 needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up
 sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's:
 for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
7:28 For the law maketh men high priests who have infirmity; but
 the word of the oath, which was after the law, [maketh] 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: wherefore [it is] of necessity that this man should
 have somewhat also to offer.
8:4 For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, seeing
 there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
8:5 Who serve to the example 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 in the mount.
8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how
 much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was
 established upon better promises.
8:7 For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then would
 no place have been sought for the second.
8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days
 come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the
 house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
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, saith the Lord.
8:10 For this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house
 of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws
 into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be
 to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
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 saith, A new [covenant], he hath made the first
 old. Now that which decayeth and groweth old [is] ready to
 vanish away.
9:1 Then verily 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 show-bread; which is
 called the sanctuary.
9:3 And after the second vail, the tabernacle which is called
 the Holiest of all;
9:4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant
 overlaid around 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 cherubim 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 Spirit this signifying, that the way into the
 holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while 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 meats and drinks, and divers
 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 a
 heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctify 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, cleanse
 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 who
 are called may 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 liveth.
9:18 Hence even the first [testament] was not 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 hath
 enjoined to you.
9:21 Moreover, he sprinkled likewise with blood both the
 tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
9:22 And almost all things are by the law cleansed 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 hath 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 entereth 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 hath he
 appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
9:27 And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this
 the judgment:
9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and to
 them that look for him he will appear the second time without
 sin to 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 to [them] perfect.
10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because
 that the worshipers once cleansed, would 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 Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith,
 Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou
 prepared me:
10:6 In burnt-offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hast had
 no pleasure.
10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is
 written concerning me,) to do thy will, O God.
10:8 Above, when he said, Sacrifice and offering and
 burnt-offerings and [offering] for sin thou wouldst not,
 neither hadst pleasure [in them]; which are offered by the law;
10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh
 away the first, that he may establish the second.
10:10 By which will we are sanctified through the offering of
 the body of Jesus Christ once [for all].
10:11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering
 often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins,
 for ever sat down on the right hand of God;
10:13 From henceforth waiting till his enemies are made his
 footstool.
10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that
 are sanctified.
10:15 [Of this] the Holy Spirit 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, saith 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, brethren, boldness to enter into the
 holiest by the blood of Jesus,
10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us,
 through the vail, 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 excite to love and to
 good works:
10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves, as the manner
 of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the
 more, as ye see the day approaching.
10:26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the
 knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for
 sins,
10:27 But a certain fearful apprehension of judgment and fiery
 indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
10:28 He that despised Moses' law, died without mercy under two
 or three witnesses:
10:29 Of how much more severe punishment, suppose ye, shall he
 be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God,
 and hath counted the blood of the covenant, by which he was
 sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite to the
 Spirit of grace?
10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance [belongeth] to
 me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. 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 call to remembrance the former days, in which, after
 ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
10:33 Partly, while ye were made a gazing-stock both by
 reproaches and afflictions; and partly, while ye became
 companions of them that were so used.
10:34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully
 the seizing of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have
 in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great
 recompense of reward.
10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the
 will of God, ye may receive the promise.
10:37 For yet a little while, and he that is coming will come,
 and will not tarry.
10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if [any man] shall
 draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
10:39 But we are not of them who draw back to 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 appeared.
11:4 By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice
 than Cain, by which he obtained testimony that he was
 righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead
 yet speaketh.
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 cometh 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 by God of things not seen as
 yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his
 house; by 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 remove into a place
 which he should afterwards receive for an inheritance, obeyed;
 and he went out not knowing whither he was going.
11:9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as [in] a
 foreign 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 hath foundations, whose
 builder and maker [is] God.
11:11 Through faith also Sarah 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 there sprang even from 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
 whence they came, they might have had opportunity to return.
11:16 But now they desire a better [country], that is, a
 heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God;
 for he hath 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 thy seed be
 called:
11:19 Accounting that God [was] able to raise [him] 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 dying, blessed both the sons
 of Joseph; and worshiped, [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 by
 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 had 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 of Egypt: for he had respect to 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 first-born should touch them.
11:29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry [land]:
 which the Egyptians essaying to do were drowned.
11:30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had
 been encompassed seven days.
11:31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that
 believed not, as she had received the spies with peace.
11:32 And what shall I say more? for the time would fail me to
 tell of Gideon, and [of] Barak, and [of] Samson, and [of]
 Jephthah, [of] David also, and Samuel, and [of] the prophets:
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, became 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,
 and, 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 sheep-skins,
 and goat-skins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
11:38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in
 deserts, 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 Wherefore, seeing we also are encompassed with so great a
 cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin
 which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience
 the race that is set before us,
12:2 Looking to 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 ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
12:4 Ye have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
12:5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh to you
 as to children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the
 Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked by him:
12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every
 son whom he receiveth.
12:7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons:
 for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
12:8 But if ye are without chastisement, of which all are
 partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons.
12:9 Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected
 [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be
 in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
12:10 For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their
 own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be
 partakers of his holiness.
12:11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous,
 but grievous: nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable
 fruit of righteousness to them who are exercised by it.
12:12 Wherefore 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 by
 it many be defiled;
12:16 Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as
 Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birth-right.
12:17 For ye know that afterward, when he would have inherited
 the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of
 repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
12:18 For ye are not come to the mount that might be touched,
 and that burned with fire, nor to blackness, and to 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 tremble:)
12:22 But ye are come to mount Sion, and to 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 first-born, who
 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 speaketh better things than [that of]
 Abel.
12:25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. 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
 [speaketh] from heaven:
12:26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath
 promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but
 also heaven.
12:27 And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of
 those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that
 those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved,
 let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably, with
 reverence 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 by this some
 have entertained angels unawares.
13:3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; [and]
 them who suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the
 body.
13:4 Marriage [is] honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but
 lewd persons and adulterers God will judge.
13:5 [Let your] manner of life [be] without covetousness; [and
 be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I
 will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
13:6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I
 will not fear what man shall do to me.
13:7 Remember them who have the rule over you, who have spoken
 to you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end
 of [their] manner of life.
13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.
13:9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines: for
 [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace;
 not with meats, which have not profited them that have been
 occupied in them.
13:10 We have an altar, of which they have no right to eat who
 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
 without the camp.
13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people
 with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13:13 Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing
 his reproach.
13:14 For here we have 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 for ever and ever.
 Amen.
13:22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of
 exhortation: for I have written a letter to you in few words.
13:23 Know ye, 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.