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Hebrews Chapter 1
Hebrews 1:1 (NIV)
1 In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
Hebrews 1:2 (NIV)
2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe.
Hebrews 1:3 (AMP)
3 He is the sole expression of the glory of God [the Light-being, the out-raying or radiance of the divine], and He is the perfect imprint and very image of [God’s] nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty word of power. When He had by offering Himself accomplished our cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt, He sat down at the right hand of the divine Majesty on high,
Hebrews 1:4 (NASB)
4 having become as much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they.
Hebrews 1:5 (NIV)
5 For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father? Or again, “I will be his Father, and he will be my Son”?
Hebrews 1:6 (NIV)
6 And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.”
Hebrews 1:7 (NKJV)
7 And of the angels He says: “Who makes His angels spirits And His ministers a flame of fire.”
Hebrews 1:8 (NIV)
8 But about the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever, and righteousness will be the scepter of your kingdom.
Hebrews 1:9 (NLT2)
9 You love justice and hate evil. Therefore, O God, your God has anointed you, pouring out the oil of joy on you more than on anyone else.”
Hebrews 1:10 (NLT2)
10 He also says to the Son, “In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundation of the earth and made the heavens with your hands.
Hebrews 1:11 (NLT2)
11 They will perish, but you remain forever. They will wear out like old clothing.
Hebrews 1:12 (NLT2)
12 You will fold them up like a cloak and discard them like old clothing. But you are always the same; you will live forever.”
Hebrews 1:13 (NIV)
13 To which of the angels did God ever say, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?
Hebrews 1:14 (NIV)
14 Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
Hebrews Chapter 2
Hebrews 2:1 (NASB)
1 For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it.
Hebrews 2:2 (NIV)
2 For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment,
Hebrews 2:3 (NIV)
3 how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.
Hebrews 2:4 (NIV)
4 God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.
Hebrews 2:5 (AMP)
5 For it was not to angels that God subjected the habitable world of the future, of which we are speaking.
Hebrews 2:6 (NIV)
6 But there is a place where someone has testified: “What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?
Hebrews 2:7 (NIV)
7 You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor
Hebrews 2:8 (HCSB)
8 and subjected everything under his feet. For in subjecting everything to him, He left nothing that is not subject to him. As it is, we do not yet see everything subjected to him.
Hebrews 2:9 (CJB)
9 But we do see Jesus — who indeed was made for a little while lower than the angels — now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by God’s grace he might taste death for all humanity.
Hebrews 2:10 (NKJV)
10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Hebrews 2:11 (NASB)
11 For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren,
Hebrews 2:12 (NKJV)
12 saying: “I will declare Your name to My brethren; In the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You.”
Hebrews 2:13 (NIV)
13 And again, “I will put my trust in him.” And again he says, “Here am I, and the children God has given me.”
Hebrews 2:14 (CJB)
14 Therefore, since the children share a common physical nature as human beings, he became like them and shared that same human nature; so that by his death he might render ineffective the one who had power over death (that is, the Adversary)
Hebrews 2:15 (CJB)
15 and thus set free those who had been in bondage all their lives because of their fear of death.
Hebrews 2:16 (AMP)
16 For, as we all know, He [Christ] did not take hold of angels [the fallen angels, to give them a helping and delivering hand], but He did take hold of [the fallen] descendants of Abraham [to reach out to them a helping and delivering hand].
Hebrews 2:17 (NASB)
17 Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
Hebrews 2:18 (NIV)
18 Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
Hebrews Chapter 3
Hebrews 3:1 (NASB)
1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession;
Hebrews 3:2 (NIV)
2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
Hebrews 3:3 (NIV)
3 Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.
Hebrews 3:4 (NASB)
4 For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
Hebrews 3:5 (NIV2011)
5 “Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,” bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future.
Hebrews 3:6 (NASB)
6 but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house—whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.
Hebrews 3:7 (NKJV)
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you will hear His voice,
Hebrews 3:8 (NKJV)
8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness,
Hebrews 3:9 (NKJV)
9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, and saw My works forty years.
Hebrews 3:10 (NKJV)
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.’
Hebrews 3:11 (NKJV)
11 So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ “
Hebrews 3:12 (NASB)-M
12 Be attentive, brethren, that there not be found in any one of you an evil and unbelieving heart, which could lead you to apostatize from the living God!
Hebrews 3:13 (NASB)
13 But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Hebrews 3:14 (NKJV)
14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,
Hebrews 3:15 (NKJV)
15 while it is said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
Hebrews 3:16 (NKJV)
16 For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses?
Hebrews 3:17 (NKJV)
17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?
Hebrews 3:18 (NKJV)
18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?
Hebrews 3:19 (NKJV)
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Hebrews Chapter 4
Hebrews 4:1 (NKJV)
1 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.
Hebrews 4:2 (NIV)
2 For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.
Hebrews 4:3 (NKJV)
3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Hebrews 4:4 (CJB)
4 For there is a place where it is said, concerning the seventh day, “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.”
Hebrews 4:5 (NKJV)
5 and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.”
Hebrews 4:6 (NIV)
6 It still remains that some will enter that rest, and those who formerly had the gospel preached to them did not go in, because of their disobedience.
Hebrews 4:7 (NIV2011)
7 God again set a certain day, calling it “Today.” This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
Hebrews 4:8 (NIV)
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.
Hebrews 4:9 (NKJV)
9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.
Hebrews 4:10 (NIV)
10 for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his.
Hebrews 4:11 (NASB)
11 Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience.
Hebrews 4:12 (NASB)
12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Hebrews 4:13 (NASB)
13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.
Hebrews 4:14 (NASB)
14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
Hebrews 4:15 (NASB)
15 For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.
Hebrews 4:16 (7KB)
16 Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews Chapter 5
Hebrews 5:1 (NASB)
1 For every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in things pertaining to God, in order to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;
Hebrews 5:2 (NASB)
2 he can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is beset with weakness;
Hebrews 5:3 (NIV)
3 This is why he has to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people.
Hebrews 5:4 (NASB)
4 And no one takes the honor to himself, but receives it when he is called by God, even as Aaron was.
Hebrews 5:5 (NIV)
5 So Christ also did not take upon himself the glory of becoming a high priest. But God said to him, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father.
Hebrews 5:6 (NIV)
6 And he says in another place, “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.”
Hebrews 5:7 (NIV)
7 During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.
Hebrews 5:8 (NASB)
8 Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered.
Hebrews 5:9 (NASB)
9 And having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation,
Hebrews 5:10 (NASB)
10 being designated by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 5:11 (NASB)
11 Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
Hebrews 5:12 (NASB)
12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
Hebrews 5:13 (NKJV)
13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.
Hebrews 5:14 (NIV)
14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.
Hebrews Chapter 6
Hebrews 6:1 (NASB)
1 Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
Hebrews 6:2 (NASB)
2 of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.
Hebrews 6:3 (NASB)
3 And this we will do, if God permits.
Hebrews 6:4 (NASB)
4 For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
Hebrews 6:5 (NASB)
5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,
Hebrews 6:6 (NASB)
6 and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame.
Hebrews 6:7 (NASB)
7 For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God;
Hebrews 6:8 (NASB)
8 but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.
Hebrews 6:9 (NASB)
9 But, beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and things that accompany salvation, though we are speaking in this way.
Hebrews 6:10 (NASB)
10 For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints.
Hebrews 6:11 (NASB)
11 And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end,
Hebrews 6:12 (NASB)
12 so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Hebrews 6:13 (NASB)
13 For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,
Hebrews 6:14 (NIV)
14 saying, “I will surely bless you and give you many descendants.”
Hebrews 6:15 (NIV)
15 And so after waiting patiently, Abraham received what was promised.
Hebrews 6:16 (NIV)
16 Men swear by someone greater than themselves, and the oath confirms what is said and puts an end to all argument.
Hebrews 6:17 (NIV)
17 Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath.
Hebrews 6:18 (NASB)
18 so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.
Hebrews 6:19 (NIV)
19 We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,
Hebrews 6:20 (NIV)
20 where Jesus, who went before us, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews Chapter 7
Hebrews 7:1 (NIV)
1 This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him,
Hebrews 7:2 (NASB)
2 to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth part of all the spoils, was first of all, by the translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace.
Hebrews 7:3 (NASB)
3 Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest perpetually.
Hebrews 7:4 (NASB)
4 Now observe how great this man was to whom Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth of the choicest spoils.
Hebrews 7:5 (NASB)
5 And those indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest’s office have commandment in the Law to collect a tenth from the people, that is, from their brethren, although these are descended from Abraham.
Hebrews 7:6 (NASB)
6 But the one whose genealogy is not traced from them collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises.
Hebrews 7:7 (NIV)
7 And without doubt the lesser person is blessed by the greater.
Hebrews 7:8 (AMP)
8 Furthermore, here [in the Levitical priesthood] tithes are received by men who are subject to death; while there [in the case of Melchizedek], they are received by one of whom it is testified that he lives [perpetually].
Hebrews 7:9 (AMP)
9 A person might even say that Levi [the father of the priestly tribe] himself, who received tithes (the tenth), paid tithes through Abraham,
Hebrews 7:10 (AMP)
10 For he was still in the loins of his forefather [Abraham] when Melchizedek met him [Abraham].
Hebrews 7:11 (NIV)
11 If perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the law was given to the people), why was there still need for another priest to come–one in the order of Melchizedek, not in the order of Aaron?
Hebrews 7:12 (NASB)
12 For when the priesthood is changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law also.
Hebrews 7:13 (NIV)
13 He of whom these things are said belonged to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever served at the altar.
Hebrews 7:14 (NIV)
14 For it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah, and in regard to that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.
Hebrews 7:15 (AMP)
15 And this becomes more plainly evident when another Priest arises Who bears the likeness of Melchizedek,
Hebrews 7:16 (AMP)
16 Who has been constituted a Priest, not on the basis of a bodily legal requirement [an externally imposed command concerning His physical ancestry], but on the basis of the power of an endless and indestructible Life.
Hebrews 7:17 (AMP)
17 For it is witnessed of Him, You are a Priest forever after the order (with the rank) of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7:18 (NASB)
18 For, on the one hand, there is a setting aside of a former commandment because of its weakness and uselessness
Hebrews 7:19 (AMP)
19 For the Law never made anything perfect—but instead a better hope is introduced through which we [now] come close to God.
Hebrews 7:20 (AMP)
20 And it was not without the taking of an oath [that Christ was made Priest],
Hebrews 7:21 (AMP)
21 For those who formerly became priests received their office without its being confirmed by the taking of an oath by God, but this One was designated and addressed and saluted with an oath, The Lord has sworn and will not regret it or change His mind, You are a Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7:22 (NIV)
22 Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
Hebrews 7:23 (AMP)
23 [Again, the former successive line of priests] was made up of many, because they were each prevented by death from continuing [perpetually in office];
Hebrews 7:24 (NASB)
24 but Jesus, on the other hand, because He continues forever, holds His priesthood permanently.
Hebrews 7:25 (NASB)
25 Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
Hebrews 7:26 (NIV)
26 Such a high priest meets our need–one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.
Hebrews 7:27 (NIV)
27 Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself.
Hebrews 7:28 (AMP)
28 For the Law sets up men in their weakness [frail, sinful, dying human beings] as high priests, but the word of [God’s] oath, which [was spoken later] after the institution of the Law, [chooses and appoints as priest One Whose appointment is complete and permanent], a Son Who has been made perfect forever.
Hebrews Chapter 8
Hebrews 8:1 (NKJV)
1 Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
Hebrews 8:2 (NKJV)
2 a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.
Hebrews 8:3 (NASB)
3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; so it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.
Hebrews 8:4 (AMP)
4 If then He were still living on earth, He would not be a priest at all, for there are [already priests] who offer the gifts in accordance with the Law.
Hebrews 8:5 (AMP)
5 [But these offer] service [merely] as a pattern and as a foreshadowing of [what has its true existence and reality in] the heavenly sanctuary. For when Moses was about to erect the tabernacle, he was warned by God, saying, See to it that you make it all [exactly] according to the copy (the model) which was shown to you on the mountain.
Hebrews 8:6 (NASB)
6 But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
Hebrews 8:7 (NASB)
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second.
Hebrews 8:8 (NIV)
8 But God found fault with the people and said: “The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
Hebrews 8:9 (NKJV)
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 did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the LORD.
Hebrews 8:10 (NIV)
10 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Hebrews 8:11 (NKJV)
11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.
Hebrews 8:12 (NKJV)
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
Hebrews 8:13 (NKJV)
13 In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
Hebrews Chapter 9
Hebrews 9:1 (NASB)
1 Now even the first covenant had regulations of divine worship and the earthly sanctuary.
Hebrews 9:2 (NASB)
2 For there was a tabernacle prepared, the outer one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the sacred bread; this is called the holy place.
Hebrews 9:3 (NASB)
3 Behind the second veil there was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,
Hebrews 9:4 (NASB)
4 having a golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden jar holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod which budded, and the tables of the covenant;
Hebrews 9:5 (NASB)
5 and above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat; but of these things we cannot now speak in detail.
Hebrews 9:6 (NASB)
6 Now when these things have been so prepared, the priests are continually entering the outer tabernacle performing the divine worship,
Hebrews 9:7 (AMP)
7 But into the second [division of the tabernacle] none but the high priest goes, and he only once a year, and never without taking a sacrifice of blood with him, which he offers for himself and for the errors and sins of ignorance and thoughtlessness which the people have committed.
Hebrews 9:8 (AMP)
8 By this the Holy Spirit points out that the way into the [true Holy of] Holies is not yet thrown open as long as the former [the outer portion of the] tabernacle remains a recognized institution and is still standing,
Hebrews 9:9 (AMP)
9 Seeing that that first [outer portion of the] tabernacle was a parable (a visible symbol or type or picture of the present age). In it gifts and sacrifices are offered, and yet are incapable of perfecting the conscience or of cleansing and renewing the inner man of the worshiper.
Hebrews 9:10 (AMP)
10 For [the ceremonies] deal only with clean and unclean meats and drinks and different washings, [mere] external rules and regulations for the body imposed to tide the worshipers over until the time of setting things straight [of reformation, of the complete new order when Christ, the Messiah, shall establish the reality of what these things foreshadow—a better covenant].
Hebrews 9:11 (AMP)
11 But [that appointed time came] when Christ (the Messiah) appeared as a High Priest of the better things that have come and are to come. [Then] through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with [human] hands, that is, not a part of this material creation,
Hebrews 9:12 (AMP)
12 He went once for all into the [Holy of] Holies [of heaven], not by virtue of the blood of goats and calves [by which to make reconciliation between God and man], but His own blood, having found and secured a complete redemption (an everlasting release for us).
Hebrews 9:13 (AMP)
13 For if [the mere] sprinkling of unholy and defiled persons with blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a burnt heifer is sufficient for the purification of the body,
Hebrews 9:14 (AMP)
14 How much more surely shall the blood of Christ, Who by virtue of [His] eternal Spirit [His own preexistent divine personality] has offered Himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, purify our consciences from dead works and lifeless observances to serve the [ever] living God?
Hebrews 9:15 (AMP)
15 [Christ, the Messiah] is therefore the Negotiator and Mediator of an [entirely] new agreement (testament, covenant), so that those who are called and offered it may receive the fulfillment of the promised everlasting inheritance—since a death has taken place which rescues and delivers and redeems them from the transgressions committed under the [old] first agreement.
Hebrews 9:16 (AMP)
16 For where there is a [last] will and testament involved, the death of the one who made it must be established,
Hebrews 9:17 (AMP)
17 For a will and testament is valid and takes effect only at death, since it has no force or legal power as long as the one who made it is alive.
Hebrews 9:18 (NASB)
18 Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood.
Hebrews 9:19 (AMP)
19 For when every command of the Law had been read out by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of slain calves and goats, together with water and scarlet wool and with a bunch of hyssop, and sprinkled both the Book (the roll of the Law and covenant) itself and all the people,
Hebrews 9:20 (NIV)
20 He said, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”
Hebrews 9:21 (NASB)
21 And in the same way he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with the blood.
Hebrews 9:22 (7KB)
22 And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission of sin.
Hebrews 9:23 (AMP)
23 By such means, therefore, it was necessary for the [earthly] copies of the heavenly things to be purified, but the actual heavenly things themselves [required far] better and nobler sacrifices than these.
Hebrews 9:24 (AMP)
24 For Christ (the Messiah) has not entered into a sanctuary made with [human] hands, only a copy and pattern and type of the true one, but [He has entered] into heaven itself, now to appear in the [very] presence of God on our behalf.
Hebrews 9:25 (AMP)
25 Nor did He [enter into the heavenly sanctuary to] offer Himself regularly again and again, as the high priest enters the [Holy of] Holies every year with blood not his own.
Hebrews 9:26 (NIV)
26 Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Hebrews 9:27 (AMP)
27 And just as it is appointed for [all] men once to die, and after that the [certain] judgment,
Hebrews 9:28 (AMP)
28 Even so it is that Christ, having been offered to take upon Himself and bear as a burden the sins of many once and once for all, will appear a second time, not to carry any burden of sin nor to deal with sin, but to bring to full salvation those who are [eagerly, constantly, and patiently] waiting for and expecting Him.
Hebrews Chapter 10
Hebrews 10:1 (NIV)
1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming–not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
Hebrews 10:2 (AMP)
2 For if it were otherwise, would [these sacrifices] not have stopped being offered? Since the worshipers had once for all been cleansed, they would no longer have any guilt or consciousness of sin.
Hebrews 10:3 (NIV)
3 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,
Hebrews 10:4 (NASB)
4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Hebrews 10:5 (AMP)
5 Hence, when He [Christ] entered into the world, He said, Sacrifices and offerings You have not desired, but instead You have made ready a body for Me [to offer];
Hebrews 10:6 (NIV)
6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased.
Hebrews 10:7 (AMP)
7 Then I said, Behold, here I am, coming to do Your will, O God—[to fulfill] what is written of Me in the volume of the Book.
Hebrews 10:8 (NIV)
8 First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them” (although the law required them to be made).
Hebrews 10:9 (NKJV)
9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second.
Hebrews 10:10 (CJB)
10 It is in connection with this will that we have been separated for God and made holy, once and for all, through the offering of Jesus the Messiah’s body.
Hebrews 10:11 (NASB)
11 Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;
Hebrews 10:12 (NKJV)
12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God,
Hebrews 10:13 (NIV)
13 Since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool,
Hebrews 10:14 (NASB)
14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
Hebrews 10:15 (NIV)
15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:
Hebrews 10:16 (NIV)
16 “This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.”
Hebrews 10:17 (NIV)
17 Then he adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”
Hebrews 10:18 (AMP)
18 Now where there is absolute remission (forgiveness and cancellation of the penalty) of these [sins and lawbreaking], there is no longer any offering made to atone for sin.
Hebrews 10:19 (7KB)
19 Therefore, brethren, we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus the Messiah,
Hebrews 10:20 (NASB)
20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh,
Hebrews 10:21 (NASB)
21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
Hebrews 10:22 (NASB)
22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Hebrews 10:23 (NASB)
23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful;
Hebrews 10:24 (NASB)
24 and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds,
Hebrews 10:25 (NASB)
25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.
Hebrews 10:26 (NASB)
26 For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
Hebrews 10:27 (NKJV)
27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.
Hebrews 10:28 (NKJV)
28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Hebrews 10:29 (NASB)
29 How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
Hebrews 10:30 (NKJV)
30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. And again, “The LORD will judge His people.”
Hebrews 10:31 (NKJV)
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Hebrews 10:32 (NKJV)
32 But recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:
Hebrews 10:33 (NKJV)
33 partly while you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you became companions of those who were so treated;
Hebrews 10:34 (NKJV)
34 for you had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your goods, knowing that you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven.
Hebrews 10:35 (NASB)
35 Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
Hebrews 10:36 (NASB)
36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.
Hebrews 10:37 (CJB)
37 For “There is so, so little time! The One coming will indeed come, he will not delay.
Hebrews 10:38 (NKJV)
38 Now the just shall live by faith; But if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him.”
Hebrews 10:39 (NKJV)
39 But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.
Hebrews Chapter 11
Hebrews 11:1 (NKJV)
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:2 (NIV2011)
2 This is what the ancients were commended for.
Hebrews 11:3 (NKJV)
3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
Hebrews 11:4 (NIV)
4 By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.
Hebrews 11:5 (NKJV)
5 By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
Hebrews 11:6 (NKJV)
6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Hebrews 11:7 (NKJV)
7 By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
Hebrews 11:8 (NKJV)
8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
Hebrews 11:9 (NIV)
9 By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.
Hebrews 11:10 (AMP)
10 For he was [waiting expectantly and confidently] looking forward to the city which has fixed and firm foundations, whose Architect and Builder is God.
Hebrews 11:11 (NASB)
11 By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive, even beyond the proper time of life, since she considered him faithful who had promised.
Hebrews 11:12 (NIV)
12 And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
Hebrews 11:13 (NASB)
13 All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
Hebrews 11:14 (NASB)
14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.
Hebrews 11:15 (NASB)
15 And indeed if they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.
Hebrews 11:16 (NASB)
16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them.
Hebrews 11:17 (AMP)
17 By faith Abraham, when he was put to the test [while the testing of his faith was still in progress], had already brought Isaac for an offering; he who had gladly received and welcomed [God’s] promises was ready to sacrifice his only son,
Hebrews 11:18 (AMP)
18 Of whom it was said, Through Isaac shall your descendants be reckoned.
Hebrews 11:19 (AMP)
19 For he reasoned that God was able to raise [him] up even from among the dead. Indeed in the sense that Isaac was figuratively dead [potentially sacrificed], he did [actually] receive him back from the dead.
Hebrews 11:20 (NIV)
20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.
Hebrews 11:21 (NIV)
21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.
Hebrews 11:22 (NASB)
22 By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the exodus of the sons of Israel, and gave orders concerning his bones.
Hebrews 11:23 (NKJV)
23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king’s command.
Hebrews 11:24 (NKJV)
24 By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
Hebrews 11:25 (NASB)
25 choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin,
Hebrews 11:26 (AMP)
26 He considered the contempt and abuse and shame [borne for] the Christ (the Messiah Who was to come) to be greater wealth than all the treasures of Egypt, for he looked forward and away to the reward (recompense).
Hebrews 11:27 (NIV)
27 By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible.
Hebrews 11:28 (NASB)
28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that he who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.
Hebrews 11:29 (NKJV)
29 By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned.
Hebrews 11:30 (NASB)
30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.
Hebrews 11:31 (NASB)
31 By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish along with those who were disobedient, after she had welcomed the spies in peace.
Hebrews 11:32 (NASB)
32 And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets,
Hebrews 11:33 (NASB)
33 who by faith conquered kingdoms, performed acts of righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions,
Hebrews 11:34 (NASB)
34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
Hebrews 11:35 (NASB)
35 Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection;
Hebrews 11:36 (NASB)
36 and others experienced mockings and scourgings, yes, also chains and imprisonment.
Hebrews 11:37 (NASB)
37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
Hebrews 11:38 (NKJV)
38 of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.
Hebrews 11:39 (NIV)
39 These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised.
Hebrews 11:40 (AMP)
40 Because God had us in mind and had something better and greater in view for us, so that they [these heroes and heroines of faith] should not come to perfection apart from us [before we could join them].
Hebrews Chapter 12
Hebrews 12:1 (NKJV)
1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Hebrews 12:2 (NKJV)
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 has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:3 (NASB)
3 For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
Hebrews 12:4 (NASB)
4 You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;
Hebrews 12:5 (NIV)-M
5 And you have forgotten that word of encouragement that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart, become despondent or be discouraged or give up and faint when he rebukes you,
Hebrews 12:6 (NASB)-M
6 For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and He corrects every son whom He receives.
Hebrews 12:7 (AMP)-M
7 You must submit to and endure God’s correction and discipline; for God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there whom his father does not [thus] train and correct and discipline?
Hebrews 12:8 (AMP)
8 Now if you are exempt from correction and left without discipline in which all [of God’s children] share, then you are illegitimate offspring and not true sons [at all].
Hebrews 12:9 (AMP)-M
9 Moreover, we have had human fathers who disciplined us and we yielded [to them] and respected [them for training us]. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live!
Hebrews 12:10 (CJB)-M
10 For our human fathers disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them; but He disciplines us in a way that provides genuine benefit to us and enables us to share in His holiness.
Hebrews 12:11 (NIV)-M
11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful and grievous. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
Hebrews 12:12 (7KB)
Therefore shake off your despondency which is indicated by your drooping arms and tottering knees. Stand upright like a man and show some backbone and receive your correction from the Lord and change! Put away self-pity that causes your posture to droop like a feeble old woman!
Hebrews 12:13 (AMP)-M
13 And cut through and make firm and plain and smooth, straight paths for your feet by determining to walk in the right direction. Set your jaw with purpose headed straight forward on the path laid out for you by the Lord. Walk with purpose rather than halting on limbs that are put out of joint by indecision and self-pity. Determine to hear and obey God and be healed of the lameness caused by indecisiveness and stumbling around in self-pity when rebuked by God.
Hebrews 12:14 (NIV)
14 Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.
Hebrews 12:15 (NASB)-M
15 See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled and [shipwrecked];
Hebrews 12:16 (7KB)
16 that there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.
Hebrews 12:17 (NASB)
17 For you know that even afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears.
Hebrews 12:18 (AMP)
18 For you have not come [as did the Israelites in the wilderness] to a [material] mountain that can be touched, [a mountain] that is ablaze with fire, and to gloom and darkness and a raging storm,
Hebrews 12:19 (NKJV)
19 and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore.
Hebrews 12:20 (AMP)
20 For they could not bear the command that was given: If even a wild animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned to death.
Hebrews 12:21 (NKJV)
21 And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.”)
Hebrews 12:22 (NKJV)
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,
Hebrews 12:23 (NKJV)
23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Hebrews 12:24 (NASB)
24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.
Hebrews 12:25 (NASB)
25 See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven.
Hebrews 12:26 (NKJV)
26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.”
Hebrews 12:27 (AMP)
27 Now this expression, Yet once more, indicates the final removal and transformation of all [that can be] shaken—that is, of that which has been created—in order that what cannot be shaken may remain and continue.
Hebrews 12:28 (NKJV)
28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.
Hebrews 12:29 (NKJV)
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Hebrews Chapter 13
Hebrews 13:1 (AMP)
1 Let love for your fellow believers continue and be a fixed practice with you [never let it fail].
Hebrews 13:2 (NIV)
2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
Hebrews 13:3 (NIV)
3 Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.
Hebrews 13:4 (CJB)
4 Marriage is honorable in every respect; and, in particular, sex within marriage is pure. But God will indeed punish fornicators and adulterers.
Hebrews 13:5 (NIV2011)-M
5 Keep your lives free from [all forms of greed] and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
Hebrews 13:6 (NIV)
6 So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”
Hebrews 13:7 (NIV)
7 Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.
Hebrews 13:8 (CJB)
8 Yeshua the Messiah is the same yesterday, today and forever.
Hebrews 13:9 (NKJV)
9 Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.
Hebrews 13:10 (NASB)
10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.
Hebrews 13:11 (NASB)
11 For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside the camp.
Hebrews 13:12 (NASB)
12 Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.
Hebrews 13:13 (NASB)
13 So, let us go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.
Hebrews 13:14 (NASB)
14 For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.
Hebrews 13:15 (NKJV)
15 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.
Hebrews 13:16 (NASB)
16 And do not neglect doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
Hebrews 13:17 (NASB)-M
17 Obey your spiritual leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account to God. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you.
Hebrews 13:18 (NKJV)
18 Pray for us; for we are confident that we have a good conscience, in all things desiring to live honorably.
Hebrews 13:19 (NASB)
19 And I urge you all the more to do this, so that I may be restored to you the sooner.
Hebrews 13:20 (NIV)
20 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,
Hebrews 13:21 (NKJV)
21 make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Hebrews 13:22 (NIV)
22 Brothers, I urge you to bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written you only a short letter.
Hebrews 13:23 (NIV)
23 I want you to know that our brother Timothy has been released. If he arrives soon, I will come with him to see you.
Hebrews 13:24 (NKJV)
24 Greet all those who rule over you, and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you.
Hebrews 13:25 (NKJV)
25 Grace be with you all. Amen.