1 God, having spoken many times and in many ways in the past to the fathers by the prophets,
2 in these last days has spoken to us by the Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he also made the universe;
3 who, being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having purged our sins by himself, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
4 made so much superior to the angels, as he inherited a more excellent name than them.
5 For to which of the angels did God ever say, You are my Son, this day I have begotten you, and again, I will be his Father, and he will be my Son?
6 And again, when he introduces the Firstborn into the world, he says: Let all the angels of God worship him.
7 Surely of the angels he says: He who makes the angels his spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
8 But of the Son he says: Your throne, O God, forever and ever; Scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.
9 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness, so God, your God, anointed you with the oil of joy more than your companions.
10 And: You, O Lord, in the beginning founded the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
11 They will perish, but you remain; And they will all grow old like a garment,
12 And you will wrap them like a garment, and they will be changed; But you are the same, And your years will not end.
13 For to which of the angels did God ever say, Sit at my right hand, Until I make your enemies your footstool?
14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent to serve those who will be heirs of salvation?
1 Therefore we must pay more attention to the things we have heard, lest we slip away.
2 For if the word spoken through the angels was firm, and every transgression and disobedience received a just retribution,
3 how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? Which, having been first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,
4 God testifying together with them, with signs and wonders and various miracles and distributions of the Holy Spirit according to his will.
5 For he did not subject the world to come, about which we are speaking, to the angels;
6 But someone testified in a certain place, saying, What is man that you remember him, or the son of man that you visit him?
7 You made him a little lower than the angels, You crowned him with glory and honor, And you put him over the works of your hands;
8 You put everything under his feet. For inasmuch as he put all things under him, he left nothing that was not subject to him; but we do not yet see that all things are subject to him.
9 But we see him who was made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, crowned with glory and honor, because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for all.
10 For it became him, for whom all things exist, and through whom all things consist, that, having brought many sons to glory, he should perfect the author of their salvation through afflictions.
11 For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all one; Therefore he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
12 saying: I will announce your name to my brothers, I will praise you in the midst of the congregation.
13 And again: I will trust in him. And again: Behold, I and the children that God gave me.
14 Therefore, since the children partook of flesh and blood, he also partook of the same, to destroy through death him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
15 and to deliver all who Due to the fear of death they were subject to servitude throughout their lives.
16 For he certainly did not help the angels, but he helped the descendants of Abraham.
17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in all things, to become a merciful and faithful high priest in matters related to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
18 For inasmuch as he himself suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.
1 Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
2 who is faithful to him who established him, just as Moses was faithful to all the house of God.
3 For this man is considered worthy of so much greater glory than Moses, as he who made it has greater honor than the house.
4 For every house is built by someone; but the one who made all things is God.
5 And Moses was truly faithful throughout the house of God, as a servant, as a testimony of what was going to be said;
6 but Christ as a son over his house, which house we are, if we hold firm to the end confidence and glory in hope.
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: If you hear his voice today,
8 Do not harden your hearts, As in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tempted me; They tested me, and saw my works for forty years.
10 Because of this I was displeased with that generation, And I said, They always wander in their hearts, And they have not known My ways.
11 Therefore I swore in my anger: They shall not enter my rest.
12 See to it, brothers, that there is not in any of you an evil heart of unbelief to depart from the living God;
13 but exhort one another daily, while it is said, Today; so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we have become partakers of Christ, provided we hold firm to the end our confidence from the beginning,
15 meanwhile it is said: If you hear his voice today, Do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation.
16 Who were those who, having heard, provoked him? Were not all those who left Egypt by the hand of Moses?
17 And with whom was he displeased for forty years? Was he not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, except those who disobeyed?
19 And we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.
1 Let us fear, then, lest while the promise of entering into his rest still remains, any of you may seem to have missed it.
2 For the good news has been announced to us as well as to them; But it did not profit them to hear the word, because it was not accompanied by faith in those who heard it.
3 But we who have believed enter into rest, just as he said: Therefore I swore in my anger, They shall not enter into my rest; although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For in a certain place he said thus of the seventh day: And God rested from all his works on the seventh day.
5 And here again: They will not enter my rest.
6 Therefore, since some remain to enter it, and those to whom the good news was first announced did not enter because of disobedience,
7 again determines a day: Today, saying after so long a time, through David, as it was said: If you hear his voice today, Do not harden your hearts.
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not speak after another day.
9 Therefore there remains a rest for the people of God.
10 For he who has entered into his rest has also rested from his works, as God has rested from his.
11 Let us therefore seek to enter into that rest, so that no one falls into such an example of disobedience.
12 For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword; and penetrates to the division of soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and discerns the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
13 And there is no created thing that is not manifest in his presence; but all things are naked and open to the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our profession.
15 For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who was tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin.
16 Let us therefore draw near boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
1 For every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in regard to God, to present offerings and sacrifices for sins;
2 to be patient with those who are ignorant and misguided, since he too is surrounded by weakness;
3 and because of it he must offer for sins, both for himself and also for the people.
4 And no one takes this honor to himself, except he who is called of God, as Aaron was.
5 So neither did Christ glorify himself by becoming a high priest, but he who said to him: You are my Son, today I have begotten you.
6 As it also says in another place: You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.
7 And Christ, in the days of his flesh, offering prayers and supplications with great crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, was heard because of his awe.
8 And although he was a Son, through what he suffered he learned obedience;
9 And having been perfected, he became the author of eternal salvation for all who obey him;
10 and he was declared by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
11 About this we have much to say, and it is difficult to explain, because you have become slow to hear.
12 Because you should already be teachers, after so much time, you need to be taught again what are the first rudiments of the words of God; and you have become such that you need milk, and not solid food.
13 And everyone who partakes of the milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness, because he is a child;
14 But solid food is for those who have reached maturity, for those whose senses are exercised through use to discern good and evil.
1 Therefore, leaving now the rudiments of the doctrine of Christ, we press forward to perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith in God,
2 of the doctrine of baptisms, of the laying on of hands, of the resurrection of the dead and of eternal judgment.
3 And this we will do, if God truly allows it.
4 For it is impossible for those who once were enlightened and tasted the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
5 and also tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,
6 and fell away, to be renewed again. to repentance, crucifying again for themselves the Son of God and exposing him to reproach.
7 For the land that drinks the rain that often falls on it, and produces grass beneficial to those for whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God;
8 But the one that produces thorns and thistles is condemned, is close to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.
9 But as for you, beloved, we are persuaded of better things, and that they belong to salvation, although we speak thus.
10 For God is not unjust to forget your work and the work of love that you have shown towards his name, having served the saints and still serving them.
11 But we desire that each of you show the same diligence to the end, for full assurance of hope,
12 so that you may not become slothful, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
13 For when God made the promise to Abraham, not being able to swear by anyone greater, he swore by himself,
14 saying, “I will surely bless you abundantly and multiply you greatly.”
15 And having waited patiently, he obtained the promise.
16 For men certainly swear by one greater than themselves, and for them the end of all controversy is the oath for confirmation.
17 Therefore, God wanting to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, he interposed an oath;
18 so that through two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have come to take hold of the hope placed before us may have very strong consolation.
19 Which we have as a sure and firm anchor of the soul, and which penetrates even within the veil,
20 where Jesus entered for us as a forerunner, becoming a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who came out to meet Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings, and blessed him,
2 to whom Abraham also gave tithes of everything; whose name means first King of justice, and also King of Salem, that is, King of peace;
3 without father, without mother, without genealogy; that he has neither beginning of days nor end of life, but being made like the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.
4 Consider then how great this man was, to whom even Abraham the patriarch gave tithes of the spoils.
5 Indeed, those who receive the priesthood from among the sons of Levi have a commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is, from their brothers, even though they too have come from the loins of Abraham.
6 But he whose genealogy is not counted among them took tithes from Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises.
7 And without any discussion, the younger is blessed by the older.
8 And here certainly mortal men receive tithes; but there, one of whom it is testified that he lives.
9 And so to speak, in Abraham Levi also paid the tithe, who receives the tithes;
10 for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek came out to meet him.
11 If, then, perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what need would there still be for another priest to arise, according to the order of Melchizedek, and not to be called according to the order of Aaron?
12 Because the priesthood has been changed, there must also be a change in the law;
13 and the one of whom this is said is from another tribe, from which no one served at the altar.
14 For it is evident that our Lord came from the tribe of Judah, of which Moses spoke nothing concerning the priesthood.
15 And this is even more evident, if a different priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,
16 not established according to the law of the commandment regarding offspring, but according to the power of an indestructible life.
17 For it is testified of him: You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.
18 Therefore the previous commandment is abrogated because of its weakness and ineffectiveness
19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and because of the introduction of a better hope, by which we draw near to God.
20 And this was not done without an oath;
21 because the others were made priests without an oath; but this one, with the oath of which he said to him: The Lord has sworn, and will not repent: You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.
22 Therefore, Jesus is made surety of a better covenant.
23 And the other priests became many, because through death they could not continue;
24 but this one, because he remains forever, has an unchangeable priesthood;
25 Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, always living to intercede for them.
26 For such a high priest was suitable for us: holy, innocent, blameless, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
27 that he has no need every day, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices first for his own sins, and then for those of the people; for he did this once for all, offering himself.
28 For the law makes weak men high priests; but the word of the oath, after the law, to the Son, made perfect forever.
1 Now the main point of what we have been saying is that we have such a high priest, who sat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,
2 minister of the sanctuary, and of that true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, and not the man.
3 For every high priest is appointed to present offerings and sacrifices; Therefore it is necessary that it also have something to offer.
4 Therefore, if he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there are still priests who present offerings according to the law;
5 which serve that which is a form and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was warned when he was about to erect the tabernacle, saying, See, make all things according to the pattern which was shown to you on the mountain.
6 But now his ministry is so much better, because he is the mediator of a better covenant, established on better promises.
7 For if the first had been without defect, certainly no place would have been found for the second.
8 For rebuking them he says, Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah;
9 Not like the covenant I made with their fathers on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; Because they did not remain in my covenant, and I turned away from them, says the Lord.
10 Therefore, this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds, And I will write them on their hearts; And I will be their God, and they will be my people;
11 And no man shall teach his neighbor, Nor any his brother, saying, Know the Lord; For all will know me, From the least to the greatest of them.
12 For I will be favorable to his iniquities, And I will remember his sins and his iniquities no more.
13 By saying: New covenant, he has considered the first old; and what is considered old and ages, is close to disappearing.
1 Now even the first covenant had ordinances of worship and an earthly sanctuary.
2 For the tabernacle was arranged like this: in the first part, called the Holy Place, were the lampstand, the table, and the shewbread.
3 Behind the second veil was the part of the tabernacle called the Most Holy Place,
4 which had a golden censer and the ark of the covenant covered with gold all around, in which was a golden urn containing the manna, the rod of Aaron who budded, and the tables of the covenant;
5 and above it the cherubim of glory that covered the mercy seat; of which things cannot now be spoken in detail.
6 And with these things arranged, the priests continually enter the first part of the tabernacle to perform the duties of the cult;
7 But in the second part, only the high priest once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of ignorance of the people;
8 The Holy Spirit giving this to understand that the way to the Most Holy Place had not yet been revealed, while the first part of the tabernacle was standing.
9 Which is a symbol for the present time, according to which offerings and sacrifices are presented that cannot make the one who practices that worship perfect in conscience,
10 since it consists only of food and drinks, of various ablutions, and ordinances regarding the flesh, imposed until the time of reforming things.
11 But Christ being present, the high priest of the good things to come, by the larger and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,
12 and not by the blood of goats or calves, but by his own blood, entered once for all into the Holy of Holies, having obtained eternal redemption.
13 For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on the unclean, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,
14 how much more the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself himself without spot to God, will he cleanse your consciences from dead works so that you may serve the living God?
15 Therefore, therefore, he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that by intervening death for the remission of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, those who are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
16 Because where there is a will, it is necessary that the death of the testator intervene.
17 Because a testament is confirmed by death; since it is not valid as long as the testator lives.
18Hence not even the first covenant was instituted without blood.
19 For when Moses had proclaimed all the commandments of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the same book and also on all the people,
20 saying : This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you.
21 And besides this, he also sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with the blood.
22 And almost everything is purified, according to the law, with blood; and without shedding of blood there is no remission.
23 It was therefore necessary that the figures of heavenly things should be purified in this way; but the heavenly things themselves, with better sacrifices than these.
24 For Christ did not enter the sanctuary made with hands, a type of the true one, but into heaven itself to now appear before God for us;
25 and not to offer himself many times, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with other people’s blood.
26 Otherwise it would have been necessary for him to suffer many times since the beginning of the world; but now, at the end of the ages, he appeared once for all by the sacrifice of himself to put away sin.
27 And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that the judgment,
28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, without relation to sin, to save those who wait for him.
1 For the law, having the shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered each year, make perfect those who draw near.
2 Otherwise they would cease to offer themselves, because those who pay this cult, once cleansed, would no longer have a consciousness of sin.
3 But in these sacrifices each year sins are remembered;
4 because the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins.
5 Therefore, entering into the world, he says: Sacrifice and offering you did not want; But you prepared my body.
6 Holocausts and atonements for sin did not please you.
7 Then I said, Behold, I come, O God, to do thy will, As it is written of me in the scroll of the book.
8 Saying first, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased (which things are offered according to the law),
9 and then saying, Behold, I come, O God, to do your will; remove the former, to establish the latter.
10 By that will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And certainly every priest is ministering day after day and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;
12 but Christ, having once for all offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down at the right hand of God,
13 from then on waiting until his enemies were made his footstool;
14 for with a single offering he made those who were sanctified perfect forever.
15 And the Holy Spirit witnesses the same thing to us; for after having said:
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them After those days, the Lord says: I will put my laws in their hearts, And I will write them in their minds,
17 He adds: And I will remember their sins no more and transgressions.
18 For where there is remission of these, there is no more offering for sin.
19 Therefore, brothers, having freedom to enter the Holy of Holies through the blood of Jesus Christ,
20 by the new and living way which he opened for us through the veil, that is, through his flesh,
21 and having a great priest over the house of God,
22 let us approach with a sincere heart, in full certainty of faith, our hearts being purified from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold firm, without wavering, the profession of our hope, for he who promised is faithful.
24 And let us consider one another to encourage each other to love and good works;
25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the custom of some, but exhorting one another; and all the more so as you see that day approaching.
26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and of burning fire that will devour our adversaries.
28 He who violates the law of Moses, on the testimony of two or three witnesses, dies irretrievably.
29 How much greater punishment do you think he will deserve who tramples on the Son of God, and considers the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified unclean, and insults the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him who said: Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord. And again: The Lord will judge his people.
31 It is a horrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God!
32 But remember the days gone by, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great battle of sufferings;
33 On the one hand, indeed, with reproaches and tribulations you were made a spectacle; and on the other hand, you became companions of those who were in a similar situation.
34 For you also had compassion on the prisoners, and you suffered the plundering of your property with joy, knowing that you have in yourselves a better and lasting inheritance in heaven.
35 Therefore do not lose your confidence, for it has great reward;
36 because patience is necessary for you, so that, having done the will of God, you may obtain the promise.
37 For yet a little while, and he who is to come will come, and will not tarry.
38 But the righteous will live by faith; And if he draws back, he will not please my soul.
39 But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who have faith to the preservation of the soul.
1 Faith, then, is the certainty of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
2 Because through it the ancients obtained a good report.
3 By faith we understand that the universe was formed by the word of God, so that what is seen was made of what was not seen.
4 By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained testimony that he was righteous, God bearing witness of his offerings; and dead, he still speaks for her.
5 By faith Enoch was translated from seeing death, and he was not found, because God translated him; and before he was translated, he had testimony that he pleased God.
6 But without faith it is impossible to please God; for he who draws near to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
7 By faith Noah, when he was warned by God about things not yet seen, with fear prepared the ark in which his house would be saved; and by that faith he condemned the world, and was made heir of the righteousness that comes through faith.
8 By faith Abraham, being called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he left without knowing where he was going.
9 By faith he dwelt as a stranger in the promised land as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise;
10 for he looked forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
11 By faith also Sarah herself, being barren, received strength to conceive; and she gave birth even beyond the time of her age, because she believed that he who had promised was faithful.
12 Therefore also, from one, and that one almost dead, came forth like the stars of heaven in multitude, and like the innumerable sand that is on the seashore.
13 All these died according to faith, not having received what was promised, but looking at it from afar, believing it, and greeting it, and confessing that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14 For those who say this clearly imply that they are seeking a homeland;
15 For if they had been thinking about the one from which they came, they certainly had time to return.
16 But they longed for a better, that is, a heavenly one; therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he has prepared a city for them.
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered Isaac; and he who had received the promises offered his only begotten,
18 having been told, In Isaac your descendants will be called;
19thinking that God is able to raise even from the dead, from where, in a figurative sense, he also received him again.
20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
21 By faith Jacob, when he died, blessed each of Joseph’s sons, and worshiped, leaning on the end of his staff.
22 By faith Joseph, when he died, mentioned the departure of the children of Israel, and gave commandment concerning their bones.
23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden by his parents for three months, because they saw him as a beautiful child, and they did not fear the king’s decree.
24 By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
25 choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the temporary pleasures of sin,
26 counting the reproach of Christ as greater riches than the treasures of the Egyptians; because she had her sights set on the award.
27 By faith she left Egypt, not fearing the king’s wrath; because she stood as if seeing the Invisible One.
28 By faith he celebrated the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that he who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.
29 By faith they crossed the Red Sea as through dry land; and trying to do the same, the Egyptians were drowned.
30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell after surrounding them for seven days.
31 By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with the disobedient, having received the spies in peace.
32 And what else do I say? Because I would lack time telling about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, as well as Samuel and the prophets;
33 who by faith conquered kingdoms, did justice, obtained promises, stopped lions’ mouths,
34 quenched raging fires, avoided the edge of the sword, drew strength from weakness, became strong in battles, put foreign armies to flight.
35 Women received their dead through resurrection; but others were tormented, not accepting the ransom, in order to obtain a better resurrection.
36 Others experienced reproaches and scourgings, and more of these prisons and prisons.
37 They were stoned, sawn, put to the test, killed with the edge of the sword; They walked from here to there covered in sheep and goat skins, poor, distressed, mistreated;
38 of whom the world was not worthy; wandering in the deserts, in the mountains, in the caves and in the caverns of the earth.
39 And all these, although they obtained a good report through faith, did not receive what was promised;
40 God providing something better for us, so that they would not be perfected apart from us.
1 Therefore, we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily besieges us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 Consider him who suffered such a contradiction of sinners against himself, so that your spirit may not be weary until you faint.
4 Because you have not yet resisted to blood, fighting against sin;
5 and you have already forgotten the exhortation that is addressed to you as children, saying: My son, do not despise the discipline of the Lord, Nor faint when you are rebuked by him;
6 For the Lord disciplines whom he loves, and scourges everyone whom he accepts as a son.
7 If you endure discipline, God treats you as sons; because what son is he whom the father does not discipline?
8 But if you are left without discipline, of which all have been participants, then you are bastards, and not sons.
9 On the other hand, we had our earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we worshiped them. Why should we not obey the Father of spirits much better, and live?
10 And those, certainly for a few days they disciplined us as they saw fit, but this for what is beneficial to us, so that we may share in his holiness.
11 It is true that no discipline at present seems to be a cause of joy, but rather of sadness; but afterwards it bears the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised in it.
12 Therefore lift up your fallen hands and your paralyzed knees;
13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not go out of the way, but may be healed.
14 Pursue peace with all, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
15 Take heed carefully, lest anyone fail to obtain the grace of God; that some root of bitterness sprouting up may hinder you, and by it many may be defiled;
16 lest there be any fornicator, or profane, like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.
17 For you know that even afterwards, desiring to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, and there was no opportunity for repentance, although he sought it with tears.
18 For you have not come near to the mountain that could be felt, and that was burning with fire, to the darkness, to the darkness, and to the tempest,
19 to the sound of the trumpet, and to the voice that spoke, which those who heard it prayed that no more should be spoken to them,
20 because they could not bear what was ordered: If even a beast touches the mountain, it will be stoned or shot;
21 And what was seen was so terrible that Moses said: I am terrified and trembling;
22 but you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to the company of many thousands of angels,
23 to the congregation of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks better than that of Abel.
25 Take heed that you do not reject him who speaks. For if those who rejected him who warned them on earth did not escape, much less will we, if we reject him who warns from heaven.
26 The voice of which he then shook the earth, but now he has promised, saying: Yet once, and I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.
27 And this phrase: Once again, indicates the removal of things that can be moved, as things made, so that things that cannot be shaken remain.
28 Therefore, since we receive a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have gratitude, and through it let us serve God pleasing to Him with fear and reverence;
29 because our God is a consuming fire.
1 Let brotherly love remain.
2 Do not forget hospitality, for by it some have entertained angels without knowing it.
3 Remember the prisoners, as if you were prisoners with them; and of the mistreated, as you yourselves are also in the body.
4 Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
5 Let your habits be without covetousness, content with what you have now; for he said, I will not forsake you, nor forsake you;
6 so that we can confidently say: The Lord is my helper; I will not fear What man can do to me.
7 Remember your shepherds, who spoke the word of God to you; Consider what has been the result of his conduct, and imitate his faith.
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
9 Do not let yourselves be carried away by diverse and strange doctrines; because it is a good thing to strengthen the heart with grace, not with food, which has never benefited those who have taken care of it.
10 We have an altar, from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.
11 For the bodies of those animals whose blood because of sin is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest are burned outside the camp.
12 Therefore Jesus also, to sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside the gate.
13 Let us therefore go out to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach;
14 for we have no permanent city here, but we seek one to come.
15 Therefore let us always offer to God, through him, a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.
16 And do not forget to do good and to help one another; because God is pleased with such sacrifices.
17 Obey your shepherds, and submit to them; because they watch over your souls, as those who must give an account; so that they do it with joy, and not with complaint, because this is not profitable for you.
18 Pray for us; for we trust that we have a good conscience, desiring to conduct ourselves well in everything.
19 And I beg you more to do so, so that I may be restored to you more quickly.
20 And may the God of peace, who raised from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21 equip you in every good work to do his will, working in you what he it is acceptable in his sight through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
22 I beseech you, brothers, bear with the word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.
23 Know that our brother Timothy is at liberty, with whom, if he comes soon, I will come to see you.
24 Greet all your shepherds, and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you.
25 Grace be with you all. Amen.
