Hebrews
Verses from the book of Hebrews
Hebrews 1:1
God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
Read commentary →Hebrews 1:5
For to which of the angels did he say at any time, "You are my Son. Today have I become your father?" and again, "I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?"
Read commentary →Hebrews 1:7
Of the angels he says, "Who makes his angels winds, and his servants a flame of fire."
Read commentary →Hebrews 1:8
But of the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.
Read commentary →Hebrews 1:9
You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows."
Read commentary →Hebrews 1:10
And, "You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands.
Read commentary →Hebrews 1:13
But which of the angels has he told at any time, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?"
Read commentary →Hebrews 2:2
For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;
Read commentary →Hebrews 2:3
how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation-which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;
Read commentary →Hebrews 2:6
But one has somewhere testified, saying, "What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?
Read commentary →Hebrews 2:7
You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor.
Read commentary →Hebrews 2:8
[You have put all things in subjection under his feet.]" For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we do not see all things subjected to him, yet.
Read commentary →Hebrews 2:9
But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
Read commentary →Hebrews 2:10
For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Read commentary →Hebrews 2:11
For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
Read commentary →Hebrews 2:13
Again, "I will put my trust in him." Again, "Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me."
Read commentary →Hebrews 2:14
Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
Read commentary →Hebrews 2:15
and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Read commentary →Hebrews 2:16
For, truly, he did not come to help the angels, but to help the seed of Abraham.
Read commentary →Hebrews 2:17
Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
Read commentary →Hebrews 2:18
For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.
Read commentary →Hebrews 3:1
Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;
Read commentary →Hebrews 3:2
who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.
Read commentary →Hebrews 3:3
For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who built the house has more honor than the house.
Read commentary →Hebrews 3:4
For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.
Read commentary →Hebrews 3:5
Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,
Read commentary →Hebrews 3:7
Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice,
Read commentary →Hebrews 3:10
Therefore I was displeased with this generation, and said, 'They always err in their heart, but they did not know my ways;'
Read commentary →Hebrews 3:13
but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Read commentary →Hebrews 3:14
For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
Read commentary →Hebrews 3:16
For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, did not all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?
Read commentary →Hebrews 3:17
With whom was he displeased forty years? Was not it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Read commentary →Hebrews 4:1
Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
Read commentary →Hebrews 4:2
For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard did not profit them, because they were not united by faith with those who heard.
Read commentary →Hebrews 4:3
For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Read commentary →Hebrews 4:4
For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works;"
Read commentary →Hebrews 4:6
Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,
Read commentary →Hebrews 4:7
he again defines a certain day, "Today," saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."
Read commentary →Hebrews 4:8
For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.
Read commentary →Hebrews 4:10
For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.
Read commentary →Hebrews 4:11
Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
Read commentary →Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Read commentary →Hebrews 4:13
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Read commentary →Hebrews 4:14
Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.
Read commentary →Hebrews 4:15
For we do not have a high priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
Read commentary →Hebrews 4:16
Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.
Read commentary →Hebrews 5:1
For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.
Read commentary →Hebrews 5:3
Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself.
Read commentary →Hebrews 5:4
Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.
Read commentary →Hebrews 5:5
So also Christ did not glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, "You are my Son. Today I have become your father."
Read commentary →Hebrews 5:6
As he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek."
Read commentary →Hebrews 5:7
He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
Read commentary →Hebrews 5:9
Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
Read commentary →Hebrews 5:11
About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
Read commentary →Hebrews 5:12
For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
Read commentary →Hebrews 5:13
For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.
Read commentary →Hebrews 5:14
But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
Read commentary →Hebrews 6:1
Therefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection-not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,
Read commentary →Hebrews 6:4
For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
Read commentary →Hebrews 6:7
For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;
Read commentary →Hebrews 6:9
But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.
Read commentary →Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
Read commentary →Hebrews 6:11
We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
Read commentary →Hebrews 6:13
For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself,
Read commentary →Hebrews 6:16
For men swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.
Read commentary →Hebrews 6:17
In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:1
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:4
Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best spoils.
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:5
They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest's office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the Law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham,
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:8
Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:9
We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes,
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:11
Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:13
For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:14
For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priests.
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:15
This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:17
for it is testified, "You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek."
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:18
For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:19
(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:23
Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death.
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:25
Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:26
For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:27
who does not need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:28
For the Law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the Law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.
Read commentary →Hebrews 8:1
Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
Read commentary →Hebrews 8:3
For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.
Read commentary →Hebrews 8:4
Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the Law;
Read commentary →Hebrews 8:6
But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as Law.
Read commentary →Hebrews 8:7
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
Read commentary →Hebrews 8:8
For finding fault with them, he said, "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
Read commentary →Hebrews 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, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Read commentary →Hebrews 8:12
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins no more."
Read commentary →Hebrews 8:13
In that he says, "A New Covenant," he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:1
Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:2
For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lampstand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:3
After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:6
Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:7
but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:11
But Christ having come as a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:13
For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:16
For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:17
For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:18
Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:19
For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of the calves, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:21
Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in like manner with the blood.
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:22
According to the Law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:23
It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:24
For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:27
Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
Read commentary →Hebrews 1:2
has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
Read commentary →Hebrews 1:3
His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made, through himself, purification for sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Read commentary →Hebrews 1:4
having become so much better than the angels, as he has inherited a more excellent name than they have.
Read commentary →Hebrews 1:6
Again, when he brings in the firstborn into the world he says, "Let all the angels of God worship him."
Read commentary →Hebrews 1:11
They will perish, but you continue. They all will grow old like a garment does.
Read commentary →Hebrews 1:12
As a mantle, you will roll them up, and like a garment they will be changed. But you remain the same, and your years will have no end."
Read commentary →Hebrews 1:14
Are not they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
Read commentary →Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, so that we will not drift away.
Read commentary →Hebrews 2:4
God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?
Read commentary →Hebrews 2:5
For he did not subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels.
Read commentary →Hebrews 2:12
saying, "I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise."
Read commentary →Hebrews 3:6
but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
Read commentary →Hebrews 3:8
do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
Read commentary →Hebrews 3:9
where your fathers tested me and challenged me, and saw my works for forty years.
Read commentary →Hebrews 3:12
Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
Read commentary →Hebrews 3:15
while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."
Read commentary →Hebrews 3:18
To whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
Read commentary →Hebrews 5:2
The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.
Read commentary →Hebrews 5:8
though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.
Read commentary →Hebrews 6:2
of the teaching of washings, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
Read commentary →Hebrews 6:6
and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.
Read commentary →Hebrews 6:8
but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
Read commentary →Hebrews 6:12
that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.
Read commentary →Hebrews 6:14
saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you."
Read commentary →Hebrews 6:18
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
Read commentary →Hebrews 6:19
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
Read commentary →Hebrews 6:20
where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:2
to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace;
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:3
without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:6
but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:12
For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law.
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:16
who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:
Read commentary →Hebrews 7:21
(for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, "The Lord swore and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever.'"
Read commentary →Hebrews 8:2
a servant of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord set up, and not man.
Read commentary →Hebrews 8:5
who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, "See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain."
Read commentary →Hebrews 8:9
not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them," says the Lord.
Read commentary →Hebrews 8:11
They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:4
having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:5
and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we cannot speak now in detail.
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:8
The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place was not yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:9
which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect;
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:10
being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:12
nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:14
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:15
For this reason he is the mediator of a New Covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:20
saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you."
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:25
nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:26
or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Read commentary →Hebrews 9:28
so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:1
For the Law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:2
Or else would not they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:4
For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:5
Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but you prepared a body for me;
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:7
Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.'"
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:8
Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you did not desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the Law),
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:9
then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:10
by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:11
Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:12
but this one, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:13
from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:14
For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:16
"This is the covenant that I will make with them: 'After those days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;'" then he says,
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:19
Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:20
by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:22
let us draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:23
let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:25
not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:26
For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:27
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:28
A man who disregards the Law of Moses dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:29
How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, 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 insulted the Spirit of grace?
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:30
For we know him who said, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay." Again, "The Lord will judge his people."
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:32
But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:33
partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:34
For you both had compassion on them that were in chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one.
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:35
Therefore do not throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:36
For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:38
But my righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."
Read commentary →Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:3
By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:4
By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:5
By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he would not see death, and he was not found, because God took him away. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:6
Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:7
By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:8
By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:9
By faith, he lived as a foreigner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:10
For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:11
By faith he received power to procreate when he was past age, and Sarah herself was barren. He regarded him faithful who had promised.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:12
Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:14
For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:15
If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:16
But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:17
By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:19
concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:20
By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:21
By faith, Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:22
By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave instructions concerning his bones.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:23
By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:24
By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:26
accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:27
By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:28
By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:29
By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:30
By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:31
By faith, Rahab the prostitute, did not perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:32
What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets;
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:33
who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:34
quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:35
Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:36
Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:38
(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:39
These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, did not receive the promise,
Read commentary →Hebrews 11:40
God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:1
Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:2
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:3
For consider him who has endured such hostility from sinners against himself, that you do not grow weary, fainting in your souls.
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:5
and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, do not take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:6
For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:7
It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:8
But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:10
For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:11
All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:13
and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:14
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:15
looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:16
lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his own birthright for one meal.
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:17
For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:18
For you have not come to something that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and darkness, gloom, and storm,
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:19
the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:20
for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned;"
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:21
and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:22
But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:23
to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:24
to Jesus, the mediator of a New Covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:25
See that you do not refuse him who speaks. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:26
whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:27
This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
Read commentary →Hebrews 12:28
So since we are receiving a Kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks, through which we may offer service pleasing to God, with reverence and awe,
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:2
Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:3
Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:5
Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will never leave you or forsake you."
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:6
So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:7
Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:9
Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:10
We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:11
For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp.
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:12
Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:13
Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:14
For we do not have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:15
Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:16
But do not forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:18
Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:19
I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:20
Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:21
make you complete in every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever. Amen.
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:22
But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:23
Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.
Read commentary →Hebrews 13:24
Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy send you greetings.
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