The Letter to the Messianic Jews (Hebrews)
1:1God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets
at many times and in various ways, 1:2has 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. 1:3His 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 by himself made purification for
our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
1:4having become so much better than the angels, as he has inherited a
more excellent name than they have. 1:5For 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?"
1:6Again, when he brings in the firstborn into the world he says, "Let
all the angels of G-d worship him." 1:7Of the angels he
says,
"Who makes his angels winds,
And his servants a flame of fire."
1:8but of the Son he says,
"Your throne, O G-d, is forever and ever;
The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.
1:9You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity;
Therefore G-d, your G-d, has anointed you with the oil of gladness
above your fellows."
1:10And,
"You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the
earth.
The heavens are the works of your hands.
1:11They will perish, but you continue.
They all will grow old like a garment does.
1:12As a mantle you will roll them up,
And they will be changed;
But you are the same.
Your years will not fail."
1:13But of which of the angels has he said at any time,
"Sit at my right hand,
Until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?"
1:14Aren't they all ministering spirits, sent out to do service for the
sake of those who will inherit salvation?
2:1Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were
heard, lest perhaps we drift away. 2:2For if the word
spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and
disobedience received a just recompense;
2:3how
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;
2:4God also bearing witness with them, both by signs and wonders, and
by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his
own will? 2:5For he didn't subject the world to come, of which we speak, to
angels. 2:6But one has somewhere testified, saying,
"What is man, that you think of him?
Or the son of man, that you care for him?
2:7You made him a little lower than the angels;
You crowned him with glory and honor.
2:8You 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 don't see all things subjected to him,
yet. 2:9But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels,
Yeshua, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that
by the grace of G-d he should taste of death for everyone.
2:10For 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. 2:11For both he who
sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he
is not ashamed to call them brothers, 2:12saying,
"I will declare your name to my brothers.
In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise."
2:13Again, "I will put my trust in him." Again, "Behold, here am I and
the children whom G-d has given me." 2:14Since 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,
2:15and
might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime
subject to bondage.
2:16For most assuredly, not to angels
does he give help, but he gives help to the seed of Avraham.
2:17Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his
brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful kohen
gadol in things pertaining to G-d, to make atonement for the sins of the
people. 2:18For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to
help those who are tempted.
3:1Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider
the Apostle and Kohen Gadol of our confession, Yeshua;
3:2who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moshe in all
his house. 3:3For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moshe, inasmuch as
he who built the house has more honor than the house.
3:4For
every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is G-d.
3:5Moshe indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a
testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,
3:6but Messiah 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.
3:7Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says,
"Today if you will hear his voice,
3:8Don't harden your hearts, as in the provocation,
Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
3:9Where your fathers tested me by proving me,
And saw my works for forty years.
3:10Therefore I was displeased with that generation,
And said, 'They always err in their heart,
But they didn't know my ways;'
3:11As I swore in my wrath,
'They will not enter into my rest.'"
3:12Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil
heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living G-d;
3:13but 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.
3:14For we have become partakers of Messiah, if we hold fast the
beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
3:15while
it is said,
"Today if you will hear his voice,
Don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."
3:16For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn't all those who came
out of Egypt by Moshe? 3:17With whom was he
displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in
the wilderness?
3:18To whom did he swear that they wouldn't
enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
3:19We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
4:1Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps a promise being left of entering
into his rest, anyone of you should seem to have come short of it.
4:2For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also
did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with
faith by those who heard. 4:3For 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. 4:4For he has said this
somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his
works;" 4:5and in this place again, "They will not enter into my rest."
4:6Seeing 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, 4:7he 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,
Don't harden your hearts."
4:8For if Yehoshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken
afterward of another day. 4:9There remains
therefore a Shabbat rest for the people of G-d.
4:10For
he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as
G-d did from his.
4:11Let us therefore give diligence to
enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of
disobedience.
4:12For the word of G-d 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.
4:13There 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.
4:14Having then a great kohen gadol, who has passed
through the heavens, Yeshua, the Son of G-d, let us hold tightly to our
confession. 4:15For we don't have a kohen gadol who can't be
touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all
points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
4:16Let
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.
5:1For every kohen gadol, being taken from among men,
is appointed for men in things pertaining to G-d, that he may offer both
gifts and sacrifices for sins. 5:2The
kohen gadol can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray,
because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.
5:3Because
of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for
himself. 5:4Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by G-d, just
like Aharon was.
5:5So also Messiah didn't glorify himself to
be made a kohen gadol, but it was he who said to him,
"You are my Son.
Today I have become your father."
5:6As he says also in another place,
"You are a kohen forever,
After the order of Malki-Tzedek."
5:7He, 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 G-dly fear,
5:8though
he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.
5:9Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the
author of eternal salvation, 5:10named by G-d a
kohen gadol after the order of Malki-Tzedek.
5:11About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing
you have become dull of hearing. 5:12For 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 G-d. You have
come to need milk, and not solid food.
5:13For
everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness,
for he is a baby.
5:14But solid food is for those who are
full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good
and evil.
6:1Therefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Messiah,
let us press on to perfection--not laying again a foundation of repentance
from dead works, of faith toward G-d, 6:2of the teaching of
baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal
judgment. 6:3This will we do, if G-d permits.
6:4For
concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift,
and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
6:5and
tasted the good word of G-d, and the powers of the age to come,
6:6and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to
repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of G-d for themselves again, and put
him to open shame.
6:7For 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 G-d;
6:8but
if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose
end is to be burned.
6:9But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things
that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.
6:10For G-d is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor
of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the holy ones,
and still do serve them. 6:11We desire that each
one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the
end, 6:12that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith
and patience inherited the promises. 6:13For when G-d made a
promise to Avraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by
himself, 6:14saying, "Most surely I will bless you, and I will surely multiply
you." 6:15Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
6:16For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of
theirs the oath is final for confirmation.
6:17In
this way G-d, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the
promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
6:18that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for G-d to
lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take
hold of the hope set before us. 6:19This hope we have as
an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that
which is within the veil; 6:20where as a
forerunner Yeshua entered for us, having become a kohen gadol
forever after the order of Malki-Tzedek.
7:1For this Malki-Tzedek, king of Shalem, kohen of
El `Elyon, who met Avraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and
blessed him, 7:2to whom also Avraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by
interpretation, king of righteousness, and then also king of Shalem, which is
king of shalom;
7:3without father, without mother, without
genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like
the Son of G-d), remains a kohen continually.
7:4Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Avraham, the
patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best spoils.
7:5They
indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the kohen's office
have a mitzvah to take tithes of the people according to
the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the loins
of Avraham, 7:6but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has taken tithes of
Avraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.
7:7But
without any dispute the less is blessed by the better.
7:8Here
people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is
testified that he lives. 7:9So to say, through
Avraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes,
7:10for he was yet in the loins of his father when Malki-Tzedek met him.
7:11Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for
under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for
another kohen to arise after the order of Malki-Tzedek,
and not be called after the order of Aharon?
7:12For
the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the
law. 7:13For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from
which no one has officiated at the altar.
7:14For
it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Yehudah, about which tribe
Moshe spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
7:15This
is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Malki-Tzedek there
arises another kohen,
7:16who
has been made, not after the law of a fleshly mitzvah, but
after the power of an endless life: 7:17for it is testified,
"You are a kohen forever,
According to the order of Malki-Tzedek."
7:18For there is an annulling of a foregoing mitzvah
because of its weakness and uselessness
7:19(for
the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope,
through which we draw near to G-d. 7:20Inasmuch as he was
not made kohen without the taking of an oath
7:21(for they indeed have been made kohanim 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 kohen forever,
According to the order of Malki-Tzedek'".
7:22By so much has Yeshua become the collateral of a better covenant.
7:23Many, indeed, have been made kohanim, because
they are hindered from continuing by death.
7:24But
he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable.
7:25Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw
near to G-d through him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.
7:26For such a kohen gadol was fitting for us: holy,
guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the
heavens; 7:27who doesn't need, like those kohenim gedolim, to
daily offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of
the people. For this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.
7:28For the law appoints men as kohenim gedolim who
have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a
Son forever who has been perfected.
8:1Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We
have such a kohen gadol, who sat down on the right hand of
the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
8:2a
minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord
pitched, not man.
8:3For every kohen gadol
is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary
that this kohen gadol also have something to offer.
8:4For if he were on earth, he would not be a kohen
at all, seeing there are kohanim who offer the gifts
according to the law;
8:5who serve a copy and shadow of the
heavenly things, even as Moshe was warned by G-d 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."
8:6But
now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the
mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
8:7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would
have been sought for a second. 8:8For finding fault
with them, he said,
"Behold, the days come," says the Lord,
"That I will make a new covenant with the house of Yisra'el and with
the house of Yehudah;
8:9Not 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 didn't continue in my covenant,
And I disregarded them," says the Lord.
8:10"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of
Yisra'el.
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 to them a G-d,
And they will be to me a people.
8:11They will not teach every man his fellow citizen,
Every man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,'
For all will know me,
From the least of them to the greatest of them.
8:12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness.
I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more."
8:13In 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.
9:1Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service,
and an earthly sanctuary. 9:2For there was a
tabernacle prepared. In the first part were the menorah, the table, and the
show bread; which is called the Holy Place.
9:3After
the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,
9:4having 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,
Aharon's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
9:5and above it Keruvim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which
things we can't now speak in detail. 9:6Now these things
having been thus prepared, the kohanim go in continually
into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,
9:7but
into the second the kohen gadol alone, once in the year,
not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the
people. 9:8The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place
wasn't yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;
9:9which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are
offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the
worshipper perfect;
9:10being only (with meats and drinks
and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of
reformation.
9:11But Messiah having come as a kohen gadol of the
coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made
with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
9:12nor
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.
9:13For 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: 9:14how much more will the blood of Messiah, who through the eternal
Spirit offered himself without blemish to G-d, cleanse your conscience from
dead works to serve the living G-d? 9:15For 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. 9:16For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be
the death of him who made it. 9:17For a will is in
force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made
it lives. 9:18Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without
blood. 9:19For when every mitzvah had been spoken by Moshe
to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and
the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the
book itself and all the people, 9:20saying, "This is the
blood of the covenant which G-d has commanded you."
9:21Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the
ministry in like manner with the blood.
9:22According
to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding
of blood there is no remission. 9:23It 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. 9:24For Messiah 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 G-d for us; 9:25nor yet that he
should offer himself often, as the kohen gadol enters into
the holy place year by year with blood not his own,
9:26or
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.
9:27Inasmuch as it is appointed for men
to die once, and after this, judgment,
9:28so
Messiah also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, will appear
a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for
salvation.
10:1For 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.
10:2Or
else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having
been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?
10:3But in those sacrifices there is yearly reminder of sins.
10:4For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take
away sins. 10:5Therefore when he comes into the world, he says,
"Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire,
But a body did you prepare for me;
10:6In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you had no pleasure.
10:7Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (In the scroll of the book it is
written of me)
To do your will, G-d.'"
10:8Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt
offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in
them" (those which are offered according to the law),
10:9then
he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first,
that he may establish the second, 10:10by which will we
have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Yeshua the Messiah
once for all.
10:11Every kohen indeed
stands day by day ministering and often offering the same sacrifices, which
can never take away sins, 10:12but he, when he had
offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of G-d;
10:13from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of
his feet. 10:14For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being
sanctified.
10:15The Holy Spirit also testifies to us,
for after saying,
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,
10:17"I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more."
10:18Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
10:19Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by
the blood of Yeshua,
10:20by the way which he dedicated for
us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
10:21and having a great kohen over the house of G-d,
10:22let's 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,
10:23let us hold fast the confession of our
hope unyieldingly. For he who promised is faithful.
10:24Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
10:25not forsaking our own assembling together [literally, synagogue],
as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as
you see the Day approaching. 10:26For if we sin
willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no
more a sacrifice for sins, 10:27but a certain
fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour
the adversaries.
10:28A man who disregards Moshe's law
dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
10:29How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy
of, who has trodden under foot the Son of G-d, and has counted the blood of
the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted
the Spirit of grace?
10:30For we know him who said,
"Vengeance belongs to me," says the Lord, "I will repay." Again, "The Lord
will judge his people." 10:31It is a fearful
thing to fall into the hands of the living G-d.
10:32But
remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a
great struggle with sufferings; 10:33partly, being
exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers
with those who were treated so. 10:34For you both had
compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your
possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an
enduring one in the heavens. 10:35Therefore don't
throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
10:36For
you need endurance so that, having done the will of G-d, you may receive the
promise.
10:37"In a very little while,
He who comes will come, and will not wait.
10:38But the righteous will live by faith.
If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."
10:39But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those
who have faith to the saving of the soul.
11:1Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not
seen. 11:2For by this, the elders obtained testimony.
11:3By
faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of G-d, so
that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.
11:4By faith, Hevel offered to G-d a more excellent sacrifice than Kayin,
through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, G-d
bearing witness with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead,
still speaks.
11:5By faith, Chanokh was taken away, so that
he wouldn't see death, and he was not found, because G-d translated him. For
he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been
well pleasing to G-d.
11:6Without faith it is impossible to be
well pleasing to him, for he who comes to G-d must believe that he exists,
and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
11:7By
faith, Noach, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with G-dly fear,
prepared a teivah for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the
world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
11:8By faith, Avraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place
which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he
went. 11:9By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land
not his own, dwelling in tents, with Yitzchak and Ya`akov, the heirs with him
of the same promise.
11:10For he looked for the city which
has the foundations, whose builder and maker is G-d.
11:11By
faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child
when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.
11:12Therefore 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. 11:13These 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. 11:14For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking
after a country of their own. 11:15If indeed they had
been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had
enough time to return. 11:16But now they desire
a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore G-d is not ashamed of
them, to be called their G-d, for he has prepared a city for them.
11:17By faith, Avraham, being tested, offered up Yitzchak. Yes, he who
had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;
11:18even he to whom it was said, "In Yitzchak will your seed be called;"
11:19accounting that G-d is able to raise up even from the dead.
Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.
11:20By faith, Yitzchak blessed Ya`akov and Esav, even concerning things
to come. 11:21By faith, Ya`akov, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of
Yosef, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.
11:22By faith, Yosef, when his end was near, made mention of the
departure of the children of Yisra'el; and gave instructions concerning his
bones. 11:23By faith, Moshe, 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 mitzvah.
11:24By
faith, Moshe, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Par`oh's
daughter, 11:25choosing rather to share ill treatment with G-d's people, than to
enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;
11:26accounting
the reproach of Messiah greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he
looked to the reward. 11:27By faith, he left
Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who
is invisible.
11:28By faith, he kept the Pesach, and the
sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch
them. 11:29By faith, they passed through the Red sea as on dry land. When the
Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up.
11:30By
faith, the walls of Yericho fell down, after they had been encircled for
seven days.
11:31By faith, Rachav the prostitute, didn't
perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in shalom.
11:32What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of
Gid`on, Barak, Shimshon, Yiftach, David, Shemu'el, and the prophets;
11:33who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness,
obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
11:34quenched
the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made
strong, grew mighty in war, and turned to flight armies of aliens.
11:35Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not
accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
11:36Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds
and imprisonment.
11:37They were stoned. They were sawn
apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in
sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
11:38(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains,
caves, and the holes of the earth. 11:39These all, having
had testimony given to them through their faith, didn't receive the promise,
11:40God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart
from us they should not be made perfect.
12:1Therefore 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,
12:2looking to Yeshua, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the
joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and has sat
down at the right hand of the throne of G-d.
12:3For
consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself,
that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.
12:4You
have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;
12:5and
you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children,
"My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord,
Nor faint when you are reproved by him;
12:6For whom the Lord loves, he chastens,
And scourges every son whom he receives."
12:7It is for discipline that you endure. G-d deals with you as with
children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?
12:8But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made
partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.
12:9Furthermore, 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?
12:10For 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. 12:11All 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.
12:12Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
12:13and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not
be dislocated, but rather be healed. 12:14Follow after shalom
with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
12:15looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace
of G-d; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the
many be defiled;
12:16lest there be any sexually immoral
person, or profane person, as Esav, who sold his birthright for one meal.
12:17For 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. 12:18For you have not
come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to
blackness, darkness, tempest, 12:19the sound of a
shofar, and the voice of words; which those who heard it
begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,
12:20for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an
animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned;"
12:21and
so fearful was the appearance, that Moshe said, "I am terrified and
trembling."
12:22But you have come to Mount Tziyon, and to the city of the living
G-d, the heavenly Yerushalayim, and to innumerable hosts of angels,
12:23to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are
enrolled in heaven, to G-d the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made
perfect, 12:24to Yeshua, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of
sprinkling that speaks better than that of Hevel.
12:25See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't 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,
12:26whose
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."
12:27This 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. 12:28Therefore,
receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we
serve G-d acceptably, with reverence and awe,
12:29for
our G-d is a consuming fire.
13:1Let brotherly love continue. 13:2Don't forget to show
hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels
without knowing it.
13:3Remember those who are in bonds, as
bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the
body. 13:4Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be
undefiled: but G-d will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
13:5Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you
have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way
forsake you."
13:6So that with good courage we say,
"The Lord is my helper. I will not fear.
What can man do to me?"
13:7Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of G-d, and
considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
13:8Yeshua the Messiah is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
13:9Don't be carried away by various and 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.
13:10We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have
no right to eat.
13:11For the bodies of those animals,
whose blood is brought into the holy place by the kohen gadol
as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp.
13:12Therefore Yeshua also, that he might sanctify the people through his
own blood, suffered outside of the gate.
13:13Let
us therefore go forth to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
13:14For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is
to come. 13:15Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to G-d
continually, that is, the fruit of lips which make confession to his name.
13:16But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such
sacrifices G-d is well pleased.
13:17Obey 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.
13:18Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience,
desiring to live honorably in all things.
13:19I
strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.
13:20Now may the G-d of shalom, who brought again from the dead the great
shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Yeshua,
13:21make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you
that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Yeshua the Messiah, to whom
be the glory forever and ever. Amein.
13:22But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation, for I
have written to you in few words. 13:23Know that our
brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see
you. 13:24Greet all of your leaders and all the holy ones. The Italians greet
you. 13:25Grace be with you all. Amein.
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