/1-1- GOD
WHO AT SUNDRY TIMES AND IN DIVERS MANNERS SPAKE IN TIME PAST UNTO THE FATHERS BY THE PROPHETS
/1-2- 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
/1-3- 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
/1-4- BEING MADE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ANGELS
AS HE HATH BY INHERITANCE OBTAINED A MORE EXCELLENT NAME THAN THEY.
/1-5- 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?
/1-6- AND AGAIN
WHEN HE BRINGETH IN THE FIRSTBEGOTTEN INTO THE WORLD
HE SAITH
AND LET ALL THE ANGELS OF GOD WORSHIP HIM.
/1-7- AND OF THE ANGELS HE SAITH
WHO MAKETH HIS ANGELS SPIRITS
AND HIS MINISTERS A FLAME OF FIRE.
/1-8- 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.
/1-9- THOU HAST LOVED RIGHTEOUSNESS
AND HATED INIQUITY THEREFORE GOD
EVEN THY GOD
HATH ANOINTED THEE WITH THE OIL OF GLADNESS ABOVE THY FELLOWS.
/1-10- AND
THOU
LORD
IN THE BEGINNING HAST LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORKS OF THINE HANDS-
/1-11- THEY SHALL PERISH BUT THOU REMAINEST AND THEY ALL SHALL WAX OLD AS DOTH A GARMENT
/1-12- 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.
/1-13- BUT TO WHICH OF THE ANGELS SAID HE AT ANY TIME
SIT ON MY RIGHT HAND
UNTIL I MAKE THINE ENEMIES THY FOOTSTOOL?
/1-14- ARE THEY NOT ALL MINISTERING SPIRITS
SENT FORTH TO MINISTER FOR THEM WHO SHALL BE HEIRS OF SALVATION?
/2-1- 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.
/2-2- FOR IF THE WORD SPOKEN BY ANGELS WAS STEDFAST
AND EVERY TRANSGRESSION AND DISOBEDIENCE RECEIVED A JUST RECOMPENCE OF REWARD
/2-3- 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
/2-4- 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?
/2-5- FOR UNTO THE ANGELS HATH HE NOT PUT IN SUBJECTION THE WORLD TO COME
WHEREOF WE SPEAK.
/2-6- 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?
/2-7- 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-
/2-8- 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.
/2-9- 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.
/2-10- 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.
/2-11- 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
/2-12- SAYING
I WILL DECLARE THY NAME UNTO MY BRETHREN
IN THE MIDST OF THE CHURCH WILL I SING PRAISE UNTO THEE.
/2-13- AND AGAIN
I WILL PUT MY TRUST IN HIM. AND AGAIN
BEHOLD I AND THE CHILDREN WHICH GOD HATH GIVEN ME.
/2-14- 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
/2-15- AND DELIVER THEM WHO THROUGH FEAR OF DEATH WERE ALL THEIR LIFETIME SUBJECT TO BONDAGE.
/2-16- FOR VERILY HE TOOK NOT ON HIM THE NATURE OF ANGELS BUT HE TOOK ON HIM THE SEED OF ABRAHAM.
/2-17- 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.
/2-18- FOR IN THAT HE HIMSELF HATH SUFFERED BEING TEMPTED
HE IS ABLE TO SUCCOUR THEM THAT ARE TEMPTED.
/3-1- WHEREFORE
HOLY BRETHREN
PARTAKERS OF THE HEAVENLY CALLING
CONSIDER THE APOSTLE AND HIGH PRIEST OF OUR PROFESSION
CHRIST JESUS
/3-2- WHO WAS FAITHFUL TO HIM THAT APPOINTED HIM
AS ALSO MOSES WAS FAITHFUL IN ALL HIS HOUSE.
/3-3- 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.
/3-4- FOR EVERY HOUSE IS BUILDED BY SOME MAN BUT HE THAT BUILT ALL THINGS IS GOD.
/3-5- AND MOSES VERILY WAS FAITHFUL IN ALL HIS HOUSE
AS A SERVANT
FOR A TESTIMONY OF THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE TO BE SPOKEN AFTER
/3-6- 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.
/3-7- WHEREFORE (AS THE HOLY GHOST SAITH
TO DAY IF YE WILL HEAR HIS VOICE
/3-8- HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS
AS IN THE PROVOCATION
IN THE DAY OF TEMPTATION IN THE WILDERNESS-
/3-9- WHEN YOUR FATHERS TEMPTED ME
PROVED ME
AND SAW MY WORKS FORTY YEARS.
/3-10- WHEREFORE I WAS GRIEVED WITH THAT GENERATION
AND SAID
THEY DO ALWAY ERR IN THEIR HEART AND THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN MY WAYS.
/3-11- SO I SWARE IN MY WRATH
THEY SHALL NOT ENTER INTO MY REST.)
/3-12- TAKE HEED
BRETHREN
LEST THERE BE IN ANY OF YOU AN EVIL HEART OF UNBELIEF
IN DEPARTING FROM THE LIVING GOD.
/3-13- BUT EXHORT ONE ANOTHER DAILY
WHILE IT IS CALLED TO DAY LEST ANY OF YOU BE HARDENED THROUGH THE DECEITFULNESS OF SIN.
/3-14- FOR WE ARE MADE PARTAKERS OF CHRIST
IF WE HOLD THE BEGINNING OF OUR CONFIDENCE STEDFAST UNTO THE END
/3-15- WHILE IT IS SAID
TO DAY IF YE WILL HEAR HIS VOICE
HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS
AS IN THE PROVOCATION.
/3-16- FOR SOME
WHEN THEY HAD HEARD
DID PROVOKE- HOWBEIT NOT ALL THAT CAME OUT OF EGYPT BY MOSES.
/3-17- BUT WITH WHOM WAS HE GRIEVED FORTY YEARS? WAS IT NOT WITH THEM THAT HAD SINNED
WHOSE CARCASES FELL IN THE WILDERNESS?
/3-18- AND TO WHOM SWARE HE THAT THEY SHOULD NOT ENTER INTO HIS REST
BUT TO THEM THAT BELIEVED NOT?
/3-19- SO WE SEE THAT THEY COULD NOT ENTER IN BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF.
/4-1- 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.
/4-2- 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.
/4-3- 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.
/4-4- 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.
/4-5- AND IN THIS PLACE AGAIN
IF THEY SHALL ENTER INTO MY REST.
/4-6- SEEING THEREFORE IT REMAINETH THAT SOME MUST ENTER THEREIN
AND THEY TO WHOM IT WAS FIRST PREACHED ENTERED NOT IN BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF-
/4-7- 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.
/4-8- FOR IF JESUS HAD GIVEN THEM REST
THEN WOULD HE NOT AFTERWARD HAVE SPOKEN OF ANOTHER DAY.
/4-9- THERE REMAINETH THEREFORE A REST TO THE PEOPLE OF GOD.
/4-10- FOR HE THAT IS ENTERED INTO HIS REST
HE ALSO HATH CEASED FROM HIS OWN WORKS
AS GOD DID FROM HIS.
/4-11- LET US LABOUR THEREFORE TO ENTER INTO THAT REST
LEST ANY MAN FALL AFTER THE SAME EXAMPLE OF UNBELIEF.
/4-12- 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.
/4-13- 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.
/4-14- 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.
/4-15- 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.
/4-16- LET US THEREFORE COME BOLDLY UNTO THE THRONE OF GRACE
THAT WE MAY OBTAIN MERCY
AND FIND GRACE TO HELP IN TIME OF NEED.
/5-1- 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-
/5-2- 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.
/5-3- AND BY REASON HEREOF HE OUGHT
AS FOR THE PEOPLE
SO ALSO FOR HIMSELF
TO OFFER FOR SINS.
/5-4- AND NO MAN TAKETH THIS HONOUR UNTO HIMSELF
BUT HE THAT IS CALLED OF GOD
AS WAS AARON.
/5-5- 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.
/5-6- AS HE SAITH ALSO IN ANOTHER PLACE
THOU ART A PRIEST FOR EVER AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHISEDEC.
/5-7- 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
/5-8- THOUGH HE WERE A SON
YET LEARNED HE OBEDIENCE BY THE THINGS WHICH HE SUFFERED
/5-9- AND BEING MADE PERFECT
HE BECAME THE AUTHOR OF ETERNAL SALVATION UNTO ALL THEM THAT OBEY HIM
/5-10- CALLED OF GOD AN HIGH PRIEST AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHISEDEC.
/5-11- OF WHOM WE HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY
AND HARD TO BE UTTERED
SEEING YE ARE DULL OF HEARING.
/5-12- 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.
/5-13- FOR EVERY ONE THAT USETH MILK IS UNSKILFUL IN THE WORD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS- FOR HE IS A BABE.
/5-14- 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.
/6-1- 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
/6-2- OF THE DOCTRINE OF BAPTISMS
AND OF LAYING ON OF HANDS
AND OF RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD
AND OF ETERNAL JUDGMENT.
/6-3- AND THIS WILL WE DO
IF GOD PERMIT.
/6-4- 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
/6-5- AND HAVE TASTED THE GOOD WORD OF GOD
AND THE POWERS OF THE WORLD TO COME
/6-6- 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.
/6-7- 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-
/6-8- BUT THAT WHICH BEARETH THORNS AND BRIERS IS REJECTED
AND IS NIGH UNTO CURSING WHOSE END IS TO BE BURNED.
/6-9- BUT
BELOVED
WE ARE PERSUADED BETTER THINGS OF YOU
AND THINGS THAT ACCOMPANY SALVATION
THOUGH WE THUS SPEAK.
/6-10- 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.
/6-11- AND WE DESIRE THAT EVERY ONE OF YOU DO SHEW THE SAME DILIGENCE TO THE FULL ASSURANCE OF HOPE UNTO THE END-
/6-12- THAT YE BE NOT SLOTHFUL
BUT FOLLOWERS OF THEM WHO THROUGH FAITH AND PATIENCE INHERIT THE PROMISES.
/6-13- FOR WHEN GOD MADE PROMISE TO ABRAHAM
BECAUSE HE COULD SWEAR BY NO GREATER
HE SWARE BY HIMSELF
/6-14- SAYING
SURELY BLESSING I WILL BLESS THEE
AND MULTIPLYING I WILL MULTIPLY THEE.
/6-15- AND SO
AFTER HE HAD PATIENTLY ENDURED
HE OBTAINED THE PROMISE.
/6-16- FOR MEN VERILY SWEAR BY THE GREATER- AND AN OATH FOR CONFIRMATION IS TO THEM AN END OF ALL STRIFE.
/6-17- WHEREIN GOD
WILLING MORE ABUNDANTLY TO SHEW UNTO THE HEIRS OF PROMISE THE IMMUTABILITY OF HIS COUNSEL
CONFIRMED IT BY AN OATH-
/6-18- 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-
/6-19- WHICH HOPE WE HAVE AS AN ANCHOR OF THE SOUL
BOTH SURE AND STEDFAST
AND WHICH ENTERETH INTO THAT WITHIN THE VEIL
/6-20- WHITHER THE FORERUNNER IS FOR US ENTERED
EVEN JESUS
MADE AN HIGH PRIEST FOR EVER AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHISEDEC.
/7-1- 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
/7-2- 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
/7-3- 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.
/7-4- NOW CONSIDER HOW GREAT THIS MAN WAS
UNTO WHOM EVEN THE PATRIARCH ABRAHAM GAVE THE TENTH OF THE SPOILS.
/7-5- 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-
/7-6- BUT HE WHOSE DESCENT IS NOT COUNTED FROM THEM RECEIVED TITHES OF ABRAHAM
AND BLESSED HIM THAT HAD THE PROMISES.
/7-7- AND WITHOUT ALL CONTRADICTION THE LESS IS BLESSED OF THE BETTER.
/7-8- AND HERE MEN THAT DIE RECEIVE TITHES BUT THERE HE RECEIVETH THEM
OF WHOM IT IS WITNESSED THAT HE LIVETH.
/7-9- AND AS I MAY SO SAY
LEVI ALSO
WHO RECEIVETH TITHES
PAYED TITHES IN ABRAHAM.
/7-10- FOR HE WAS YET IN THE LOINS OF HIS FATHER
WHEN MELCHISEDEC MET HIM.
/7-11- 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?
/7-12- FOR THE PRIESTHOOD BEING CHANGED
THERE IS MADE OF NECESSITY A CHANGE ALSO OF THE LAW.
/7-13- FOR HE OF WHOM THESE THINGS ARE SPOKEN PERTAINETH TO ANOTHER TRIBE
OF WHICH NO MAN GAVE ATTENDANCE AT THE ALTAR.
/7-14- FOR IT IS EVIDENT THAT OUR LORD SPRANG OUT OF JUDA OF WHICH TRIBE MOSES SPAKE NOTHING CONCERNING PRIESTHOOD.
/7-15- AND IT IS YET FAR MORE EVIDENT- FOR THAT AFTER THE SIMILITUDE OF MELCHISEDEC THERE ARISETH ANOTHER PRIEST
/7-16- WHO IS MADE
NOT AFTER THE LAW OF A CARNAL COMMANDMENT
BUT AFTER THE POWER OF AN ENDLESS LIFE.
/7-17- FOR HE TESTIFIETH
THOU ART A PRIEST FOR EVER AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHISEDEC.
/7-18- FOR THERE IS VERILY A DISANNULLING OF THE COMMANDMENT GOING BEFORE FOR THE WEAKNESS AND UNPROFITABLENESS THEREOF.
/7-19- FOR THE LAW MADE NOTHING PERFECT
BUT THE BRINGING IN OF A BETTER HOPE DID BY THE WHICH WE DRAW NIGH UNTO GOD.
/7-20- AND INASMUCH AS NOT WITHOUT AN OATH HE WAS MADE PRIEST-
/7-21- (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-)
/7-22- BY SO MUCH WAS JESUS MADE A SURETY OF A BETTER TESTAMENT.
/7-23- AND THEY TRULY WERE MANY PRIESTS
BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT SUFFERED TO CONTINUE BY REASON OF DEATH-
/7-24- BUT THIS MAN
BECAUSE HE CONTINUETH EVER
HATH AN UNCHANGEABLE PRIESTHOOD.
/7-25- 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.
/7-26- FOR SUCH AN HIGH PRIEST BECAME US
WHO IS HOLY
HARMLESS
UNDEFILED
SEPARATE FROM SINNERS
AND MADE HIGHER THAN THE HEAVENS
/7-27- 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.
/7-28- 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.
/8-1- 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
/8-2- A MINISTER OF THE SANCTUARY
AND OF THE TRUE TABERNACLE
WHICH THE LORD PITCHED
AND NOT MAN.
/8-3- FOR EVERY HIGH PRIEST IS ORDAINED TO OFFER GIFTS AND SACRIFICES- WHEREFORE IT IS OF NECESSITY THAT THIS MAN HAVE SOMEWHAT ALSO TO OFFER.
/8-4- FOR IF HE WERE ON EARTH
HE SHOULD NOT BE A PRIEST
SEEING THAT THERE ARE PRIESTS THAT OFFER GIFTS ACCORDING TO THE LAW-
/8-5- 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.
/8-6- 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.
/8-7- FOR IF THAT FIRST COVENANT HAD BEEN FAULTLESS
THEN SHOULD NO PLACE HAVE BEEN SOUGHT FOR THE SECOND.
/8-8- 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-
/8-9- 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.
/8-10- 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-
/8-11- 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.
/8-12- FOR I WILL BE MERCIFUL TO THEIR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS
AND THEIR SINS AND THEIR INIQUITIES WILL I REMEMBER NO MORE.
/8-13- 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.
/9-1- THEN VERILY THE FIRST COVENANT HAD ALSO ORDINANCES OF DIVINE SERVICE
AND A WORLDLY SANCTUARY.
/9-2- FOR THERE WAS A TABERNACLE MADE THE FIRST
WHEREIN WAS THE CANDLESTICK
AND THE TABLE
AND THE SHEWBREAD WHICH IS CALLED THE SANCTUARY.
/9-3- AND AFTER THE SECOND VEIL
THE TABERNACLE WHICH IS CALLED THE HOLIEST OF ALL
/9-4- 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
/9-5- AND OVER IT THE CHERUBIMS OF GLORY SHADOWING THE MERCYSEAT OF WHICH WE CANNOT NOW SPEAK PARTICULARLY.
/9-6- NOW WHEN THESE THINGS WERE THUS ORDAINED
THE PRIESTS WENT ALWAYS INTO THE FIRST TABERNACLE
ACCOMPLISHING THE SERVICE OF GOD.
/9-7- 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-
/9-8- 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-
/9-9- 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
/9-10- WHICH STOOD ONLY IN MEATS AND DRINKS
AND DIVERS WASHINGS
AND CARNAL ORDINANCES
IMPOSED ON THEM UNTIL THE TIME OF REFORMATION.
/9-11- 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
/9-12- 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.
/9-13- 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-
/9-14- 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?
/9-15- 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.
/9-16- FOR WHERE A TESTAMENT IS
THERE MUST ALSO OF NECESSITY BE THE DEATH OF THE TESTATOR.
/9-17- FOR A TESTAMENT IS OF FORCE AFTER MEN ARE DEAD- OTHERWISE IT IS OF NO STRENGTH AT ALL WHILE THE TESTATOR LIVETH.
/9-18- WHEREUPON NEITHER THE FIRST TESTAMENT WAS DEDICATED WITHOUT BLOOD.
/9-19- 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
/9-20- SAYING
THIS IS THE BLOOD OF THE TESTAMENT WHICH GOD HATH ENJOINED UNTO YOU.
/9-21- MOREOVER HE SPRINKLED WITH BLOOD BOTH THE TABERNACLE
AND ALL THE VESSELS OF THE MINISTRY.
/9-22- AND ALMOST ALL THINGS ARE BY THE LAW PURGED WITH BLOOD AND WITHOUT SHEDDING OF BLOOD IS NO REMISSION.
/9-23- 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.
/9-24- 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-
/9-25- NOR YET THAT HE SHOULD OFFER HIMSELF OFTEN
AS THE HIGH PRIEST ENTERETH INTO THE HOLY PLACE EVERY YEAR WITH BLOOD OF OTHERS
/9-26- 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.
/9-27- AND AS IT IS APPOINTED UNTO MEN ONCE TO DIE
BUT AFTER THIS THE JUDGMENT-
/9-28- 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.
/10-1- 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.
/10-2- FOR THEN WOULD THEY NOT HAVE CEASED TO BE OFFERED? BECAUSE THAT THE WORSHIPPERS ONCE PURGED SHOULD HAVE HAD NO MORE CONSCIENCE OF SINS.
/10-3- BUT IN THOSE SACRIFICES THERE IS A REMEMBRANCE AGAIN MADE OF SINS EVERY YEAR.
/10-4- FOR IT IS NOT POSSIBLE THAT THE BLOOD OF BULLS AND OF GOATS SHOULD TAKE AWAY SINS.
/10-5- WHEREFORE WHEN HE COMETH INTO THE WORLD
HE SAITH
SACRIFICE AND OFFERING THOU WOULDEST NOT
BUT A BODY HAST THOU PREPARED ME-
/10-6- IN BURNT OFFERINGS AND SACRIFICES FOR SIN THOU HAST HAD NO PLEASURE.
/10-7- THEN SAID I
LO
I COME (IN THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME
) TO DO THY WILL
O GOD.
/10-8- 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
/10-9- THEN SAID HE
LO
I COME TO DO THY WILL
O GOD. HE TAKETH AWAY THE FIRST
THAT HE MAY ESTABLISH THE SECOND.
/10-10- BY THE WHICH WILL WE ARE SANCTIFIED THROUGH THE OFFERING OF THE BODY OF JESUS CHRIST ONCE FOR ALL.
/10-11- AND EVERY PRIEST STANDETH DAILY MINISTERING AND OFFERING OFTENTIMES THE SAME SACRIFICES
WHICH CAN NEVER TAKE AWAY SINS-
/10-12- BUT THIS MAN
AFTER HE HAD OFFERED ONE SACRIFICE FOR SINS FOR EVER
SAT DOWN ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD
/10-13- FROM HENCEFORTH EXPECTING TILL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE HIS FOOTSTOOL.
/10-14- FOR BY ONE OFFERING HE HATH PERFECTED FOR EVER THEM THAT ARE SANCTIFIED.
/10-15- WHEREOF THE HOLY GHOST ALSO IS A WITNESS TO US- FOR AFTER THAT HE HAD SAID BEFORE
/10-16- 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
/10-17- AND THEIR SINS AND INIQUITIES WILL I REMEMBER NO MORE.
/10-18- NOW WHERE REMISSION OF THESE IS
THERE IS NO MORE OFFERING FOR SIN.
/10-19- HAVING THEREFORE
BRETHREN
BOLDNESS TO ENTER INTO THE HOLIEST BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS
/10-20- BY A NEW AND LIVING WAY
WHICH HE HATH CONSECRATED FOR US
THROUGH THE VEIL
THAT IS TO SAY
HIS FLESH
/10-21- AND HAVING AN HIGH PRIEST OVER THE HOUSE OF GOD
/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.
/10-23- LET US HOLD FAST THE PROFESSION OF OUR FAITH WITHOUT WAVERING (FOR HE IS FAITHFUL THAT PROMISED)
/10-24- AND LET US CONSIDER ONE ANOTHER TO PROVOKE UNTO LOVE AND TO GOOD WORKS-
/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.
/10-26- FOR IF WE SIN WILFULLY AFTER THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH
THERE REMAINETH NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR SINS
/10-27- BUT A CERTAIN FEARFUL LOOKING FOR OF JUDGMENT AND FIERY INDIGNATION
WHICH SHALL DEVOUR THE ADVERSARIES.
/10-28- HE THAT DESPISED MOSES' LAW DIED WITHOUT MERCY UNDER TWO OR THREE WITNESSES-
/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?
/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.
/10-31- IT IS A FEARFUL THING TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD.
/10-32- BUT CALL TO REMEMBRANCE THE FORMER DAYS
IN WHICH
AFTER YE WERE ILLUMINATED
YE ENDURED A GREAT FIGHT OF AFFLICTIONS
/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.
/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.
/10-35- CAST NOT AWAY THEREFORE YOUR CONFIDENCE
WHICH HATH GREAT RECOMPENCE OF REWARD.
/10-36- FOR YE HAVE NEED OF PATIENCE
THAT
AFTER YE HAVE DONE THE WILL OF GOD
YE MIGHT RECEIVE THE PROMISE.
/10-37- FOR YET A LITTLE WHILE
AND HE THAT SHALL COME WILL COME
AND WILL NOT TARRY.
/10-38- NOW THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH- BUT IF ANY MAN DRAW BACK
MY SOUL SHALL HAVE NO PLEASURE IN HIM.
/10-39- BUT WE ARE NOT OF THEM WHO DRAW BACK UNTO PERDITION BUT OF THEM THAT BELIEVE TO THE SAVING OF THE SOUL.
/11-1- NOW FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR
THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN.
/11-2- FOR BY IT THE ELDERS OBTAINED A GOOD REPORT.
/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.
/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.
/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.
/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.
/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.
/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.
/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-
/11-10- FOR HE LOOKED FOR A CITY WHICH HATH FOUNDATIONS
WHOSE BUILDER AND MAKER IS GOD.
/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.
/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.
/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.
/11-14- FOR THEY THAT SAY SUCH THINGS DECLARE PLAINLY THAT THEY SEEK A COUNTRY.
/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.
/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.
/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
/11-18- OF WHOM IT WAS SAID
THAT IN ISAAC SHALL THY SEED BE CALLED-
/11-19- ACCOUNTING THAT GOD WAS ABLE TO RAISE HIM UP
EVEN FROM THE DEAD FROM WHENCE ALSO HE RECEIVED HIM IN A FIGURE.
/11-20- BY FAITH ISAAC BLESSED JACOB AND ESAU CONCERNING THINGS TO COME.
/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.
/11-22- BY FAITH JOSEPH
WHEN HE DIED
MADE MENTION OF THE DEPARTING OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND GAVE COMMANDMENT CONCERNING HIS BONES.
/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.
/11-24- BY FAITH MOSES
WHEN HE WAS COME TO YEARS
REFUSED TO BE CALLED THE SON OF PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER
/11-25- CHOOSING RATHER TO SUFFER AFFLICTION WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD
THAN TO ENJOY THE PLEASURES OF SIN FOR A SEASON
/11-26- ESTEEMING THE REPROACH OF CHRIST GREATER RICHES THAN THE TREASURES IN EGYPT- FOR HE HAD RESPECT UNTO THE RECOMPENCE OF THE REWARD.
/11-27- BY FAITH HE FORSOOK EGYPT
NOT FEARING THE WRATH OF THE KING- FOR HE ENDURED
AS SEEING HIM WHO IS INVISIBLE.
/11-28- THROUGH FAITH HE KEPT THE PASSOVER
AND THE SPRINKLING OF BLOOD
LEST HE THAT DESTROYED THE FIRSTBORN SHOULD TOUCH THEM.
/11-29- BY FAITH THEY PASSED THROUGH THE RED SEA AS BY DRY LAND- WHICH THE EGYPTIANS ASSAYING TO DO WERE DROWNED.
/11-30- BY FAITH THE WALLS OF JERICHO FELL DOWN
AFTER THEY WERE COMPASSED ABOUT SEVEN DAYS.
/11-31- BY FAITH THE HARLOT RAHAB PERISHED NOT WITH THEM THAT BELIEVED NOT
WHEN SHE HAD RECEIVED THE SPIES WITH PEACE.
/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-
/11-33- WHO THROUGH FAITH SUBDUED KINGDOMS
WROUGHT RIGHTEOUSNESS
OBTAINED PROMISES
STOPPED THE MOUTHS OF LIONS
/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.
/11-35- WOMEN RECEIVED THEIR DEAD RAISED TO LIFE AGAIN- AND OTHERS WERE TORTURED
NOT ACCEPTING DELIVERANCE THAT THEY MIGHT OBTAIN A BETTER RESURRECTION-
/11-36- AND OTHERS HAD TRIAL OF CRUEL MOCKINGS AND SCOURGINGS
YEA
MOREOVER OF BONDS AND IMPRISONMENT-
/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
/11-38- (OF WHOM THE WORLD WAS NOT WORTHY-) THEY WANDERED IN DESERTS
AND IN MOUNTAINS
AND IN DENS AND CAVES OF THE EARTH.
/11-39- AND THESE ALL
HAVING OBTAINED A GOOD REPORT THROUGH FAITH
RECEIVED NOT THE PROMISE-
/11-40- GOD HAVING PROVIDED SOME BETTER THING FOR US
THAT THEY WITHOUT US SHOULD NOT BE MADE PERFECT.
/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
/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.
/12-3- FOR CONSIDER HIM THAT ENDURED SUCH CONTRADICTION OF SINNERS AGAINST HIMSELF
LEST YE BE WEARIED AND FAINT IN YOUR MINDS.
/12-4- YE HAVE NOT YET RESISTED UNTO BLOOD
STRIVING AGAINST SIN.
/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-
/12-6- FOR WHOM THE LORD LOVETH HE CHASTENETH
AND SCOURGETH EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVETH.
/12-7- IF YE ENDURE CHASTENING
GOD DEALETH WITH YOU AS WITH SONS FOR WHAT SON IS HE WHOM THE FATHER CHASTENETH NOT?
/12-8- BUT IF YE BE WITHOUT CHASTISEMENT
WHEREOF ALL ARE PARTAKERS
THEN ARE YE BASTARDS
AND NOT SONS.
/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?
/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.
/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.
/12-12- WHEREFORE LIFT UP THE HANDS WHICH HANG DOWN
AND THE FEEBLE KNEES
/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.
/12-14- FOLLOW PEACE WITH ALL MEN
AND HOLINESS
WITHOUT WHICH NO MAN SHALL SEE THE LORD-
/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
/12-16- LEST THERE BE ANY FORNICATOR
OR PROFANE PERSON
AS ESAU
WHO FOR ONE MORSEL OF MEAT SOLD HIS BIRTHRIGHT.
/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.
/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
/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-
/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-
/12-21- AND SO TERRIBLE WAS THE SIGHT
THAT MOSES SAID
I EXCEEDINGLY FEAR AND QUAKE-)
/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
/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
/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.
/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-
/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.
/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.
/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-
/12-29- FOR OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE.
/13-1- LET BROTHERLY LOVE CONTINUE.
/13-2- BE NOT FORGETFUL TO ENTERTAIN STRANGERS- FOR THEREBY SOME HAVE ENTERTAINED ANGELS UNAWARES.
/13-3- REMEMBER THEM THAT ARE IN BONDS
AS BOUND WITH THEM AND THEM WHICH SUFFER ADVERSITY
AS BEING YOURSELVES ALSO IN THE BODY.
/13-4- MARRIAGE IS HONOURABLE IN ALL
AND THE BED UNDEFILED- BUT WHOREMONGERS AND ADULTERERS GOD WILL JUDGE.
/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.
/13-6- SO THAT WE MAY BOLDLY SAY
THE LORD IS MY HELPER
AND I WILL NOT FEAR WHAT MAN SHALL DO UNTO ME.
/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.
/13-8- JESUS CHRIST THE SAME YESTERDAY
AND TO DAY
AND FOR EVER.
/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.
/13-10- WE HAVE AN ALTAR
WHEREOF THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO EAT WHICH SERVE THE TABERNACLE.
/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.
/13-12- WHEREFORE JESUS ALSO
THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY THE PEOPLE WITH HIS OWN BLOOD
SUFFERED WITHOUT THE GATE.
/13-13- LET US GO FORTH THEREFORE UNTO HIM WITHOUT THE CAMP
BEARING HIS REPROACH.
/13-14- FOR HERE HAVE WE NO CONTINUING CITY
BUT WE SEEK ONE TO COME.
/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.
/13-16- BUT TO DO GOOD AND TO COMMUNICATE FORGET NOT- FOR WITH SUCH SACRIFICES GOD IS WELL PLEASED.
/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.
/13-18- PRAY FOR US- FOR WE TRUST WE HAVE A GOOD CONSCIENCE
IN ALL THINGS WILLING TO LIVE HONESTLY.
/13-19- BUT I BESEECH YOU THE RATHER TO DO THIS
THAT I MAY BE RESTORED TO YOU THE SOONER.
/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
/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.
/13-22- AND I BESEECH YOU
BRETHREN
SUFFER THE WORD OF EXHORTATION- FOR I HAVE WRITTEN A LETTER UNTO YOU IN FEW WORDS.
/13-23- KNOW YE THAT OUR BROTHER TIMOTHY IS SET AT LIBERTY WITH WHOM
IF HE COME SHORTLY
I WILL SEE YOU.
/13-24- SALUTE ALL THEM THAT HAVE THE RULE OVER YOU
AND ALL THE SAINTS. THEY OF ITALY SALUTE YOU.
/13-25- GRACE BE WITH YOU ALL. AMEN.
