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| Book 58 - New
Testament Book of Hebrews - King James Version |
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HEBREWS
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| 001:001
| God, who at sundry
times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by
the prophets,
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| 001:002
| Hath in these last
days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all
things, by whom also he made the worlds;
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| 001:003
| 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 purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty
on high:
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| 001:004
| Being made so much
better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more
excellent name than they.
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| 001:005
| For unto 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?
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| 001:006
| And again, when he
bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let
all the angels of God worship him.
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| 001:007
| And of the angels he
saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of
fire.
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| 001:008
| But unto the Son he
saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of
righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
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| 001:009
| Thou hast loved
righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God,
hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
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| 001:010
| And, Thou, Lord, in
the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the
heavens are the works of thine hands:
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| 001:011
| They shall perish;
but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
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| 001:012
| And as a vesture
shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art
the same, and thy years shall not fail.
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| 001:013
| But to which of the
angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make
thine enemies thy footstool?
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| 001:014
| Are they not all
ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be
heirs of salvation?
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| CHAPTER
2
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| 002:001
| 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.
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| 002:002
| For if the word
spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and
disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
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| 002:003
| How shall we escape,
if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be
spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard
him;
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| 002:004
| God also bearing
them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers
miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
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| 002:005
| For unto the angels
hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
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| 002:006
| 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?
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| 002:007
| Thou madest him a
little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and
honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
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| 002:008
| 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 put under him.
But now we see not yet all things put under him.
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| 002:009
| But we see Jesus,
who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of
death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God
should taste death for every man.
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| 002:010
| For it became him,
for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing
many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation
perfect through sufferings.
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| 002:011
| 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,
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| 002:012
| Saying, I will
declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will
I sing praise unto thee.
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| 002:013
| And again, I will
put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which
God hath given me.
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| 002:014
| Forasmuch then as
the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself
likewise took part of the same; that through death he might
destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
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| 002:015
| And deliver them who
through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
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| 002:016
| For verily he took
not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of
Abraham.
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| 002:017
| Wherefore in all
things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he
might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining
to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
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| 002:018
| For in that he
himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them
that are tempted.
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| CHAPTER
3
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| 003:001
| Wherefore, holy
brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle
and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
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| 003:002
| Who was faithful to
him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his
house.
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| 003:003
| For this man was
counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath
builded the house hath more honour than the house.
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| 003:004
| For every house is
builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
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| 003:005
| And Moses verily was
faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those
things which were to be spoken after;
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| 003:006
| 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 unto the end.
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| 003:007
| Wherefore (as the
Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
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| 003:008
| Harden not your
hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the
wilderness:
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| 003:009
| When your fathers
tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
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| 003:010
| Wherefore I was
grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their
heart; and they have not known my ways.
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| So I sware in my
wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
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| 003:012
| Take heed, brethren,
lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in
departing from the living God.
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| 003:013
| But exhort one
another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be
hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
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| 003:014
| For we are made
partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence
stedfast unto the end;
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| 003:015
| While it is said, To
day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the
provocation.
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| 003:016
| For some, when they
had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by
Moses.
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| But with whom was he
grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose
carcases fell in the wilderness?
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| And to whom sware he
that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that
believed not?
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| So we see that they
could not enter in because of unbelief.
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| CHAPTER
4
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| 004:001
| 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.
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| 004:002
| For unto us was the
gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did
not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
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| 004:003
| For we which 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.
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| 004:004
| For he spake in a
certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest
the seventh day from all his works.
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| 004:005
| And in this place
again, If they shall enter into my rest.
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| 004:006
| Seeing therefore it
remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was
first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
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| 004:007
| 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.
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| 004:008
| For if Jesus had
given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of
another day.
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| 004:009
| There remaineth
therefore a rest to the people of God.
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| 004:010
| For he that is
entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as
God did from his.
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| 004:011
| Let us labour
therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the
same example of unbelief.
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| 004:012
| For the word of God
is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword,
piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of
the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and
intents of the heart.
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| 004:013
| Neither is there any
creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are
naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
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| 004:014
| Seeing then that we
have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus
the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
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| 004:015
| For we have not an
high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our
infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet
without sin.
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| 004:016
| Let us therefore
come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy,
and find grace to help in time of need.
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| CHAPTER
5
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| 005:001
| 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:
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| 005:002
| 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.
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| 005:003
| And by reason hereof
he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for
sins.
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| 005:004
| And no man taketh
this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was
Aaron.
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| 005:005
| So also Christ
glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said
unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.
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| 005:006
| As he saith also in
another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of
Melchisedec.
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| 005:007
| Who in the days of
his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with
strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from
death, and was heard in that he feared;
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| 005:008
| Though he were a
Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
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| 005:009
| And being made
perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them
that obey him;
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| 005:010
| Called of God an
high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
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| 005:011
| Of whom we have many
things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of
hearing.
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| 005:012
| For when for the
time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you
again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are
become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
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| 005:013
| For every one that
useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a
babe.
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| 005:014
| But strong meat
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.
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| CHAPTER
6
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| 006:001
| Therefore leaving
the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto
perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from
dead works, and of faith toward God,
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| 006:002
| Of the doctrine of
baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the
dead, and of eternal judgment.
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| 006:003
| And this will we do,
if God permit.
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| 006:004
| For it is impossible
for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the
heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
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| 006:005
| And have tasted the
good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
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| 006:006
| If they shall fall
away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to
themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
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| 006:007
| For the earth which
drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth
herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from
God:
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| 006:008
| But that which
beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing;
whose end is to be burned.
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| 006:009
| But, beloved, we are
persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany
salvation, though we thus speak.
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| 006:010
| For God is not
unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have
shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints,
and do minister.
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| 006:011
| And we desire that
every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance
of hope unto the end:
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| 006:012
| That ye be not
slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience
inherit the promises.
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| 006:013
| For when God made
promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware
by himself,
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| 006:014
| Saying, Surely
blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
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| 006:015
| And so, after he had
patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
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| 006:016
| For men verily swear
by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of
all strife.
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| 006:017
| Wherein God, willing
more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability
of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
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| 006:018
| 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:
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| 006:019
| Which hope we have
as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which
entereth into that within the veil;
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| 006:020
| Whither the
forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for
ever after the order of Melchisedec.
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| CHAPTER
7
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| 007:001
| 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;
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| 007:002
| 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;
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| Without father,
without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days,
nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a
priest continually.
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| 007:004
| Now consider how
great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the
tenth of the spoils.
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| 007:005
| And verily they that
are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood,
have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the
law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins
of Abraham:
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| But he whose descent
is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed
him that had the promises.
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| 007:007
| And without all
contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
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| 007:008
| And here men that
die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is
witnessed that he liveth.
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| 007:009
| And as I may so say,
Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.
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| 007:010
| For he was yet in
the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
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| 007:011
| 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?
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| 007:012
| For the priesthood
being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the
law.
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| 007:013
| For he of whom these
things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man
gave attendance at the altar.
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| 007:014
| For it is evident
that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake
nothing concerning priesthood.
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| 007:015
| And it is yet far
more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there
ariseth another priest,
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| Who is made, not
after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an
endless life.
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| 007:017
| For he testifieth,
Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
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| 007:018
| For there is verily
a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness
and unprofitableness thereof.
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| 007:019
| For the law made
nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the
which we draw nigh unto God.
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| 007:020
| And inasmuch as not
without an oath he was made priest:
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| 007:021
| (For those priests
were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said
unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest
for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
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| 007:022
| By so much was Jesus
made a surety of a better testament.
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| 007:023
| And they truly were
many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason
of death:
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| 007:024
| But this man,
because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
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| 007:025
| Wherefore he is able
also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him,
seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
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| 007:026
| For such an high
priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from
sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
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| 007:027
| 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.
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| 007:028
| For the law maketh
men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath,
which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for
evermore.
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| CHAPTER
8
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| 008:001
| Now of the things
which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest,
who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the
heavens;
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| 008:002
| A minister of the
sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and
not man.
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| 008:003
| For every high
priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is
of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
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| 008:004
| For if he were on
earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests
that offer gifts according to the law:
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| 008:005
| Who serve unto the
example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of
God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he,
that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee
in the mount.
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| 008:006
| 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.
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| 008:007
| For if that first
covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought
for the second.
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| 008:008
| 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:
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| 008:009
| 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.
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| 008:010
| 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:
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| 008:011
| And they shall not
teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying,
Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the
greatest.
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| 008:012
| For I will be
merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their
iniquities will I remember no more.
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| 008:013
| In that he saith, A
new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth
and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
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| CHAPTER
9
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| 009:001
| Then verily the
first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a
worldly sanctuary.
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| 009:002
| For there was a
tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the
table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
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| 009:003
| And after the second
veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
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| 009:004
| Which had the golden
censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with
gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod
that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
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| 009:005
| And over it the
cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now
speak particularly.
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| 009:006
| Now when these
things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first
tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
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| 009:007
| 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:
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| 009:008
| The Holy Ghost this
signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made
manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
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| 009:009
| 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;
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| 009:010
| Which stood only in
meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances,
imposed on them until the time of reformation.
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| 009:011
| But Christ being
come an 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;
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| 009:012
| 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.
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| 009:013
| For if the blood of
bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the
unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
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| 009:014
| How much more shall
the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered
himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works
to serve the living God?
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| 009:015
| 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 which are called might receive the promise of
eternal inheritance.
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| 009:016
| For where a
testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the
testator.
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| 009:017
| For a testament is
of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all
while the testator liveth.
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| 009:018
| Whereupon neither
the first testament was dedicated without blood.
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| 009:019
| 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,
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| 009:020
| Saying, This is the
blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
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| 009:021
| Moreover he
sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of
the ministry.
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| 009:022
| And almost all
things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of
blood is no remission.
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| 009:023
| 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.
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| 009:024
| For Christ is 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:
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| 009:025
| Nor yet that he
should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the
holy place every year with blood of others;
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| 009:026
| 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.
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| 009:027
| And as it is
appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
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| 009:028
| So Christ was once
offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him
shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
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| CHAPTER
10
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| 010:001
| 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 thereunto perfect.
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| 010:002
| For then would they
not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once
purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
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| 010:003
| But in those
sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
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| 010:004
| For it is not
possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away
sins.
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| 010:005
| Wherefore when he
cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou
wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
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| 010:006
| In burnt offerings
and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
|
| 010:007
| Then said I, Lo, I
come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy
will, O God.
|
| 010:008
| Above when he said,
Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin
thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are
offered by the law;
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| 010:009
| Then said he, Lo, I
come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may
establish the second.
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| 010:010
| By the which will we
are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ
once for all.
|
| 010:011
| And every priest
standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same
sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
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| 010:012
| But this man, after
he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the
right hand of God;
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| 010:013
| From henceforth
expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
|
| 010:014
| For by one offering
he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
|
| 010:015
| Whereof the Holy
Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
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| 010:016
| 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;
|
| 010:017
| And their sins and
iniquities will I remember no more.
|
| 010:018
| Now where remission
of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
|
| 010:019
| Having therefore,
brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of
Jesus,
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| 010:020
| By a new and living
way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is
to say, his flesh;
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| 010:021
| And having an high
priest over the house of God;
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| 010:022
| 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.
|
| 010:023
| Let us hold fast the
profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that
promised;)
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| 010:024
| And let us consider
one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
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| 010:025
| Not forsaking the
assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but
exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day
approaching.
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| 010:026
| For if we sin
wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth,
there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
|
| 010:027
| But a certain
fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall
devour the adversaries.
|
| 010:028
| He that despised
Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
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| 010:029
| Of how much sorer
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, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and
hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
|
| 010:030
| For we know him that
hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith
the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
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| 010:031
| It is a fearful
thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
|
| 010:032
| But call to
remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated,
ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
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| 010:033
| Partly, whilst ye
were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and
partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
|
| 010:034
| For ye had
compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of
your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better
and an enduring substance.
|
| 010:035
| Cast not away
therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
|
| 010:036
| For ye have need of
patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might
receive the promise.
|
| 010:037
| For yet a little
while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
|
| 010:038
| Now the just shall
live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no
pleasure in him.
|
| 010:039
| But we are not of
them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the
saving of the soul.
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|
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| CHAPTER
11
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| 011:001
| Now faith is the
substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
|
| 011:002
| For by it the elders
obtained a good report.
|
| 011:003
| 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 do appear.
|
| 011:004
| By faith Abel
offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he
obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his
gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
|
| 011:005
| 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.
|
| 011:006
| 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.
|
| 011:007
| By faith Noah, being
warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared
an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the
world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
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| 011:008
| By faith Abraham,
when he was called to go out into a place which he should after
receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing
whither he went.
|
| 011:009
| By faith he
sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country,
dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him
of the same promise:
|
| 011:010
| For he looked for a
city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
|
| 011:011
| Through faith also
Sara 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.
|
| 011:012
| Therefore sprang
there even of 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.
|
| 011:013
| 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.
|
| 011:014
| For they that say
such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
|
| 011:015
| And truly, if they
had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they
might have had opportunity to have returned.
|
| 011:016
| But now they desire
a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not
ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a
city.
|
| 011:017
| By faith Abraham,
when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the
promises offered up his only begotten son,
|
| 011:018
| Of whom it was said,
That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
|
| 011:019
| Accounting that God
was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he
received him in a figure.
|
| 011:020
| By faith Isaac
blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
|
| 011:021
| By faith Jacob, when
he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped,
leaning upon the top of his staff.
|
| 011:022
| By faith Joseph,
when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of
Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
|
| 011:023
| By faith Moses, when
he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw
he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's
commandment.
|
| 011:024
| By faith Moses, when
he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's
daughter;
|
| 011:025
| Choosing rather to
suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the
pleasures of sin for a season;
|
| 011:026
| Esteeming the
reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for
he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
|
| 011:027
| By faith he forsook
Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as
seeing him who is invisible.
|
| 011:028
| Through faith he
kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that
destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
|
| 011:029
| By faith they passed
through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying
to do were drowned.
|
| 011:030
| By faith the walls
of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
|
| 011:031
| By faith the harlot
Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had
received the spies with peace.
|
| 011:032
| And what shall I
more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of
Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel,
and of the prophets:
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| 011:033
| Who through faith
subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises,
stopped the mouths of lions.
|
| 011:034
| Quenched the
violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness
were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the
armies of the aliens.
|
| 011:035
| Women received their
dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting
deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
|
| 011:036
| And others had trial
of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and
imprisonment:
|
| 011:037
| 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;
|
| 011:038
| (Of whom the world
was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and
in dens and caves of the earth.
|
| 011:039
| And these all,
having obtained a good report through faith, received not the
promise:
|
| 011:040
| God having provided
some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made
perfect.
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|
|
| CHAPTER
12
|
| 012:001
| 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,
|
| 012:002
| Looking unto Jesus
the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set
before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down
at the right hand of the throne of God.
|
| 012:003
| For consider him
that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest
ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
|
| 012:004
| Ye have not yet
resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
|
| 012:005
| 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:
|
| 012:006
| For whom the Lord
loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
|
| 012:007
| If ye endure
chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he
whom the father chasteneth not?
|
| 012:008
| But if ye be without
chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and
not sons.
|
| 012:009
| 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?
|
| 012:010
| 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.
|
| 012:011
| 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.
|
| 012:012
| Wherefore lift up
the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
|
| 012:013
| And make straight
paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the
way; but let it rather be healed.
|
| 012:014
| Follow peace with
all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
|
| 012:015
| 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;
|
| 012:016
| Lest there be any
fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat
sold his birthright.
|
| 012:017
| 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.
|
| 012:018
| For ye are not come
unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire,
nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
|
| 012:019
| And the sound of a
trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard
intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
|
| 012:020
| (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:
|
| 012:021
| And so terrible was
the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
|
| 012:022
| 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,
|
| 012:023
| 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,
|
| 012:024
| And to Jesus the
mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that
speaketh better things that that of Abel.
|
| 012:025
| See that ye refuse
not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him
that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn
away from him that speaketh from heaven:
|
| 012:026
| Whose voice then
shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I
shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
|
| 012:027
| 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.
|
| 012:028
| Wherefore we
receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace,
whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
|
| 012:029
| For our God is a
consuming fire.
|
|
|
| CHAPTER
13
|
| 013:001
| Let brotherly love
continue.
|
| 013:002
| Be not forgetful to
entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels
unawares.
|
| 013:003
| Remember them that
are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity,
as being yourselves also in the body.
|
| 013:004
| Marriage is
honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and
adulterers God will judge.
|
| 013:005
| Let your
conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such
things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor
forsake thee.
|
| 013:006
| So that we may
boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man
shall do unto me.
|
| 013:007
| Remember them which
have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God:
whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
|
| 013:008
| Jesus Christ the
same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
|
| 013:009
| 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 therein.
|
| 013:010
| We have an altar,
whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
|
| 013:011
| For the bodies of
those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the
high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
|
| 013:012
| Wherefore Jesus
also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood,
suffered without the gate.
|
| 013:013
| Let us go forth
therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
|
| 013:014
| For here have we no
continuing city, but we seek one to come.
|
| 013:015
| 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.
|
| 013:016
| But to do good and
to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well
pleased.
|
| 013:017
| 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.
|
| 013:018
| Pray for us: for we
trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live
honestly.
|
| 013:019
| But I beseech you
the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
|
| 013:020
| 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,
|
| 013:021
| 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 be glory
for ever and ever. Amen.
|
| 013:022
| And I beseech you,
brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a
letter unto you in few words.
|
| 013:023
| Know ye that our
brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly,
I will see you.
|
| 013:024
| Salute all them that
have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute
you.
|
| 013:025
| Grace be with you
all. Amen.
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