Hebrews 13

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Brotherly Love

¹Continue in brotherly love.

¹Let brotherly love remain.

²Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.

²Do not be forgetful of hospitality, for through this, some entertained angels unawares.

³Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them.

³Remember the prisoners as having been bound with them, those being mistreated as yourselves also being in the body.

⁴Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

⁴Let marriage be honored in all, and the marriage bed undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Christ’s Unchanging Nature

⁵Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said:

“Never will I leave you,

never will I forsake you.”^a

⁵your manner of life let be without love of money, being satisfied with the present; for He Himself has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”

⁶So we say with confidence:

“The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.

What can man do to me?”^a

⁶So we are confident to say: “The Lord is to me a helper, and I will not be afraid; what will man do to me?”

⁷Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.

⁷Remember those leading you who spoke the word of God to you, of whom, considering the outcome of their conduct, imitate the faith.

⁸Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

⁸Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and to the ages.

⁹Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.

⁹Do not be carried along by various and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be confirmed by grace, not by foods, in which those walking were not profited.

¹⁰We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.

¹⁰We have an altar from which those serving in the tabernacle have no authority to eat.

¹¹Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.

¹¹For animals whose blood is brought for sin into the holy places by the high priest—the bodies of those are burned outside the camp.

¹²And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.

¹²Therefore Jesus also suffered outside the gate. so that He might sanctify the people by His own blood,

¹³Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore.

¹³Therefore we should go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.

¹⁴For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

¹⁴For here we do not have an abiding city, but we are seeking for the one about to be.

Sacrifice, Obedience, and Prayer

¹⁵Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.

¹⁵Through Him, then, we should offer up a sacrifice of praise through all time to God, that is, the fruit of lips confessing His name.

¹⁶And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

¹⁶And do not be forgetful of doing good and of sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

¹⁷Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch over your souls as those who must give an account. To this end, allow them to lead with joy and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.

¹⁷Obey you those leading and be subject, for they watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they may do this with joy and not groaning, for this is unprofitable for you.

¹⁸Pray for us; we are convinced that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in every way.

¹⁸Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, wanting to conduct ourselves well in all things.

¹⁹And I especially urge you to pray that I may be restored to you soon.

¹⁹And more abundantly I exhort you to do this, so that I may be restored to you more quickly.

Benediction and Farewell

²⁰Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,

²⁰Now may the God of peace, the One having brought up out from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus, by the blood of the eternal covenant,

²¹equip you with every good thing^a to do His will. And may He accomplish in us^b what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

²¹equip you in everything good in order to do His will, doing in us that which is well pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory to the ages of the ages. Amen.

²²I urge you, brothers, to bear with my word of exhortation, for I have only written to you briefly.

²²Now I exhort you, brothers, bear with the word of exhortation, for I have also written to you by few words.

²³Be aware that our brother Timothy has been released. If he arrives soon, I will come with him to see you.

²³You know our brother Timothy has been released, with whom I will see you if he should come more quickly.

²⁴Greet all your leaders and all the saints.

Those from Italy send you greetings.

²⁴Greet all those leading you and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you.

²⁵Grace be with all of you.^a

²⁵Grace be with all of you.