35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting
deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
36 And others had trial of cruelmockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and
imprisonment:
37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they
wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and inmountains, and in
dens and caves of the earth.
39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made
perfect.
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about 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,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of ourfaith; 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.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be
wearied and faint in your minds.
4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And 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 of him:
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the
father chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not
sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them
reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they verily for a few days chastened usafter their own pleasure; but he for ourprofit,
that wemight be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless
afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised
thereby.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
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.
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness
springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there beany fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his
birthright.
17 For ye know how 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.
18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor
unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voicethey that heard intreated
that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the
21 And so terrible was the sight, thatMoses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly
Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God
the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh
better things than that ofAbel.
25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that
spake on earth, much more shall notwe escape, if we turn away from him that speakethfrom
heaven:
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.
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.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we
may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God isa consuming fire.
1 Let brotherly love continue.
2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; andthem which suffer adversity, as
being yourselves also in the body.
4 Marriage ishonourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God
will judge.
5 Let yourconversation bewithout covetousness; and becontent with such things as ye have:
for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord ismy helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto
me.
7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God:
whose faith follow, considering the end of theirconversation.
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it isa good thing that the heart be
established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied
therein.
10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
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.
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered
without the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of
ourlips giving thanks to his name.
16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
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.
18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
19 But I beseech youthe rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
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,
21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is
wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom beglory for ever and ever. Amen.
22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto
you in few words.
23 Know ye that ourbrother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will
see you.
24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.
25 Grace bewith you all. Amen. <<Written to the Hebrews from Italy, by Timothy.>>
