Part Three: The Superiority of the Christian's Walk of Faith (10:19-13:25)
Heb 10:19
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,Heb 10:20
By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;Heb 10:21
And having an high priest over the house of God;Heb 10:22
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.Heb 10:23
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)Heb 10:24
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:Heb 10:25
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.Heb 10:26
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,Heb 10:27
But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.Heb 10:28
He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:Heb 10:29
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?Heb 10:30
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.Heb 10:31
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.Heb 10:32
But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;Heb 10:33
Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.Heb 10:34
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.Heb 10:35
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.Heb 10:36
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.Heb 10:37
For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.Heb 10:38
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.Heb 10:39
But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.Heb 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Heb 11:2
For by it the elders obtained a good report.Heb 11:3
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.Heb 11:4
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.Heb 11:5
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.Heb 11:6
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.Heb 11:7
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.Heb 11:8
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.Heb 11:9
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:Heb 11:10
For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.Heb 11:11
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.Heb 11:12
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.Heb 11:13
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.Heb 11:14
For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.Heb 11:15
And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.Heb 11:16
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.Heb 11:17
By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,Heb 11:18
Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:Heb 11:19
Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.Heb 11:20
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.Heb 11:21
By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.Heb 11:22
By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.Heb 11:23
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.Heb 11:24
By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;Heb 11:25
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;Heb 11:26
Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.Heb 11:27
By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.Heb 11:28
Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.Heb 11:29
By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.Heb 11:30
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.Heb 11:31
By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.Heb 11:32
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:Heb 11:33
Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,Heb 11:34
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.Heb 11:35
Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:Heb 11:36
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:Heb 11:37
They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;Heb 11:38
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.Heb 11:39
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:Heb 11:40
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.Heb 12:1
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,Heb 12:2
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.Heb 12:3
For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.Heb 12:4
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.Heb 12:5
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:Heb 12:6
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.Heb 12:7
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?Heb 12:8
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.Heb 12:9
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?Heb 12:10
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.Heb 12:11
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.Heb 12:12
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;Heb 12:13
And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.Heb 12:14
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:Heb 12:15
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;Heb 12:16
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.Heb 12:17
For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.Heb 12:18
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,Heb 12:19
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:Heb 12:20
(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:Heb 12:21
And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)Heb 12:22
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,Heb 12:23
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,Heb 12:24
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.Heb 12:25
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:Heb 12:26
Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.Heb 12:27
And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.Heb 12:28
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:Heb 12:29
For our God is a consuming fire.Heb 13:1
Let brotherly love continue.Heb 13:2
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.Heb 13:3
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.Heb 13:4
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.Heb 13:5
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.Heb 13:6
So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.Heb 13:7
Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.Heb 13:8
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.Heb 13:9
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.Heb 13:10
We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.Heb 13:11
For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.Heb 13:12
Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.Heb 13:13
Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.Heb 13:14
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.Heb 13:15
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.Heb 13:16
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.Heb 13:17
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.Heb 13:18
Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.Heb 13:19
But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.Heb 13:20
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,Heb 13:21
Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.Heb 13:22
And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.Heb 13:23
Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.Heb 13:24
Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.Heb 13:25
Grace be with you all. Amen. <Written to the Hebrews from Italy, by Timothy.>