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    <book number='58' name='Hebrews' abbreviation='Heb' testament='new'>
        <chapter number='1'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>who at sundry <strongs greek='4181'>times</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>in divers <strongs greek='4187'>manners</strongs><strongs greek='2980'>spake</strongs>in time <strongs greek='3819'>past</strongs>unto <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3962'>fathers</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4396'>prophets</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='2'>Hath <strongs greek='1909'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5130'>these</strongs><strongs greek='2078'>last</strongs><strongs greek='2250'>days</strongs><strongs greek='2980'>spoken</strongs>unto <strongs greek='2254'>us</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>by</strongs><em>his</em> <strongs greek='5207'>Son</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs>he hath <strongs greek='5087'>appointed</strongs><strongs greek='2818'>heir</strongs>of all <strongs greek='3956'>things</strongs>, <strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>he <strongs greek='4160'>made</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='165'>worlds</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs greek='3739'>Who</strongs><strongs greek='5607'>being</strongs>the <strongs greek='541'>brightness</strongs>of <em>his</em> <strongs greek='1391'>glory</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>the express <strongs greek='5481'>image</strongs>of <strongs greek='848'>his</strongs><strongs greek='5287'>person</strongs>, <strongs greek='5037'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5342'>upholding</strongs>all <strongs greek='3956'>things</strongs>by <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4487'>word</strongs>of <strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='1411'>power</strongs>, when he had <strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>himself</strongs><strongs greek='4160 2512'>purged</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='266'>sins</strongs>, sat <strongs greek='2523'>down</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>on</strongs>the right <strongs greek='1188'>hand</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3172'>Majesty</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>on</strongs><strongs greek='5308'>high</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Being <strongs greek='1096'>made</strongs>so <strongs greek='5118'>much</strongs><strongs greek='2909'>better</strongs>than <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='32'>angels</strongs>, <strongs greek='3745'>as</strongs>he hath by inheritance <strongs greek='2816'>obtained</strongs>a more <strongs greek='1313'>excellent</strongs><strongs greek='3686'>name</strongs><strongs greek='3844'>than</strongs><strongs greek='846'>they</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>unto <strongs greek='5101'>which</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='32'>angels</strongs><strongs greek='2036'>said</strongs>he at any <strongs greek='4218'>time</strongs>, <strongs greek='4771'>Thou</strongs><strongs greek='1488'>art</strongs><strongs greek='3450'>my</strongs><strongs greek='5207'>son</strongs>, this <strongs greek='4594'>day</strongs>have <strongs greek='1473'>I</strongs><strongs greek='1080'>begotten</strongs><strongs greek='4571'>thee</strongs>? <strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='3825'>again</strongs>, <strongs greek='1473'>I</strongs>will <strongs greek='2071'>be</strongs>to <strongs greek='846'>him</strongs><strongs greek='*1519'>a</strongs><strongs greek='3962'>Father</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='846'>he</strongs>shall <strongs greek='2071'>be</strongs>to <strongs greek='3427'>me</strongs><strongs greek='*1519'>a</strongs><strongs greek='5207'>Son</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='1161'>And</strongs><strongs greek='3825'>again</strongs>, <strongs greek='3752'>when</strongs>he bringeth <strongs greek='1521'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>first <strongs greek='4416'>begotten</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3625'>world</strongs>, he <strongs greek='3004'>saith</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>let <strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs>the <strongs greek='32'>angels</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='4352'>worship</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>of the <strongs greek='4314 *3588 32'>angels</strongs>he <strongs greek='3004'>saith</strongs>, Who <strongs greek='4160'>maketh</strongs><strongs greek='848'>his</strongs><strongs greek='32'>angels</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>spirits</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='848'>his</strongs><strongs greek='3011'>ministers</strongs>a <strongs greek='5395'>flame</strongs>of <strongs greek='4442'>fire</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5207'>Son</strongs><em>he</em> <em>saith,</em> <strongs greek='4675'>Thy</strongs><strongs greek='2362'>throne</strongs>, O <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, <em>is</em> forever and <strongs greek='1519 165 165'>ever</strongs>: a <strongs greek='4464'>scepter</strongs>of <strongs greek='2118'>righteousness</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4464'>scepter</strongs>of <strongs greek='4675'>thy</strongs><strongs greek='932'>kingdom</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Thou hast <strongs greek='25'>loved</strongs><strongs greek='1343'>righteousness</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3404'>hated</strongs><strongs greek='458'>iniquity</strongs>; <strongs greek='1223 5124'>therefore</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs greek='4675'>thy</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, hath <strongs greek='5548'>anointed</strongs><strongs greek='4571'>thee</strongs>with the <strongs greek='1637'>oil</strongs>of <strongs greek='20'>gladness</strongs><strongs greek='3844'>above</strongs><strongs greek='4675'>thy</strongs><strongs greek='3353'>fellows</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>, <strongs greek='4771'>Thou</strongs>, <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>, <strongs greek='2596'>in</strongs>the <strongs greek='746'>beginning</strongs>hast laid the <strongs greek='2311'>foundation</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1093'>earth</strongs>; <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3772'>heavens</strongs><strongs greek='1526'>are</strongs>the <strongs greek='2041'>works</strongs>of <strongs greek='4675'>thine</strongs><strongs greek='5495'>hands</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs greek='846'>They</strongs>shall <strongs greek='622'>perish</strongs>; <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><strongs greek='4771'>thou</strongs><strongs greek='1265'>remainest</strongs>; <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>they <strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs>shall wax <strongs greek='3822'>old</strongs><strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs>doth a <strongs greek='2440'>garment</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='5616'>as</strongs>a <strongs greek='4018'>vesture</strongs>shalt thou fold them <strongs greek='1667 846'>up</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>they shall be <strongs greek='236'>changed</strongs>: <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><strongs greek='4771'>thou</strongs><strongs greek='1488'>art</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='846'>same</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4675'>thy</strongs><strongs greek='2094'>years</strongs>shall <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1587'>fail</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>to</strongs><strongs greek='5101'>which</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='32'>angels</strongs><strongs greek='2046'>said</strongs>he at any <strongs greek='4218'>time</strongs>, <strongs greek='2521'>Sit</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>on</strongs><strongs greek='3450'>my</strongs>right <strongs greek='1188'>hand</strongs>, <strongs greek='2193 302'>until</strongs>I <strongs greek='5087'>make</strongs><strongs greek='4675'>thine</strongs><strongs greek='2190'>enemies</strongs>thy <strongs greek='5286 4675 4228'>footstool</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='1526'>Are</strongs>they <strongs greek='3780'>not</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='3010'>ministering</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>spirits</strongs>, sent <strongs greek='649'>forth</strongs>to <strongs greek='1519 1248'>minister</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>for</strongs>them who shall <strongs greek='3195'>be</strongs><strongs greek='2816'>heirs</strongs>of <strongs greek='4991'>salvation</strongs>? </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='2'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs greek='1223 5124'>Therefore</strongs><strongs greek='2248'>we</strongs><strongs greek='1163'>ought</strongs>to give the more earnest <strongs greek='4337 4056'>heed</strongs>to the things which we have <strongs greek='191'>heard</strongs>, lest at any <strongs greek='3379'>time</strongs>we should let <em>them</em> <strongs greek='3901'>slip</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='1487'>if</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3056'>word</strongs><strongs greek='2980'>spoken</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='32'>angels</strongs><strongs greek='1096'>was</strongs><strongs greek='949'>steadfast</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>every</strongs><strongs greek='3847'>transgression</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3876'>disobedience</strongs><strongs greek='2983'>received</strongs>a <strongs greek='1738'>just</strongs>recompense of <strongs greek='3405'>reward</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs greek='4459'>How</strongs>shall <strongs greek='2249'>we</strongs><strongs greek='1628'>escape</strongs>, if we <strongs greek='272'>neglect</strongs>so <strongs greek='5082'>great</strongs><strongs greek='4991'>salvation</strongs>; <strongs greek='3748'>which</strongs>at the first <strongs greek='2983 746'>began</strongs>to be <strongs greek='2980'>spoken</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>was <strongs greek='950'>confirmed</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='2248'>us</strongs><strongs greek='5259'>by</strongs>them that <strongs greek='191'>heard</strongs><em>him</em> ; </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>also bearing <em>them</em> <strongs greek='4901'>witness</strongs>, <strongs greek='5037'>both</strongs>with <strongs greek='4592'>signs</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5059'>wonders</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>with <strongs greek='4164'>divers</strongs><strongs greek='1411'>miracles</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3311'>gifts</strongs>of the <strongs greek='40'>Holy</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>Ghost</strongs>, <strongs greek='2596'>according</strongs>to his <strongs greek='848'>own</strongs><strongs greek='2308'>will</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>unto the <strongs greek='32'>angels</strongs>hath he <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>put in <strongs greek='5293'>subjection</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3625'>world</strongs>to <strongs greek='3195'>come</strongs>, <strongs greek='4012 3739'>whereof</strongs>we <strongs greek='2980'>speak</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='5100'>one</strongs>in a certain <strongs greek='4225'>place</strongs><strongs greek='1263'>testified</strongs>, <strongs greek='3004'>saying</strongs>, <strongs greek='5101'>What</strongs><strongs greek='2076'>is</strongs><strongs greek='444'>man</strongs>, <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>thou art <strongs greek='3403'>mindful</strongs>of <strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>? <strongs greek='2228'>or</strongs>the <strongs greek='5207'>son</strongs>of <strongs greek='444'>man</strongs>, <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>thou <strongs greek='1980'>visitest</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Thou <strongs greek='1642'>madest</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>a little <strongs greek='5100 1024'>lower</strongs><strongs greek='3844'>than</strongs>the <strongs greek='32'>angels</strongs>; thou <strongs greek='4737'>crownedst</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>with <strongs greek='1391'>glory</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5092'>honor</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>didst <strongs greek='2525'>set</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>over</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2041'>works</strongs>of <strongs greek='4675'>thy</strongs><strongs greek='5495'>hands</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Thou hast put all things in <strongs greek='5293 3956'>subjection</strongs><strongs greek='5270'>under</strongs><strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='4228'>feet</strongs>. <strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>in that he put all in subjection <strongs greek='5293 3956'>under</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>, he <strongs greek='863'>left</strongs><strongs greek='3762'>nothing</strongs><em>that</em> <em>is</em> not put <strongs greek='506'>under</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>. <strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='3568'>now</strongs>we <strongs greek='3708'>see</strongs>not <strongs greek='3768'>yet</strongs>all <strongs greek='3956'>things</strongs>put <strongs greek='5293'>under</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs>we <strongs greek='991'>see</strongs><strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs>, who was made a little <strongs greek='1642 1024 5100'>lower</strongs><strongs greek='3844'>than</strongs>the <strongs greek='32'>angels</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3804'>suffering</strongs>of <strongs greek='2288'>death</strongs>, <strongs greek='4737'>crowned</strongs>with <strongs greek='1391'>glory</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5092'>honor</strongs>; <strongs greek='3704'>that</strongs>he by the <strongs greek='5485'>grace</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>should <strongs greek='1089'>taste</strongs><strongs greek='2288'>death</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs>every <strongs greek='3956'>man</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>it <strongs greek='4241'>became</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>, <strongs greek='1223'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs><em>are</em> all <strongs greek='3956'>things</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs><em>are</em> all <strongs greek='3956'>things</strongs>, in <strongs greek='71'>bringing</strongs><strongs greek='4183'>many</strongs><strongs greek='5207'>sons</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='1391'>glory</strongs>, to make the captain of their salvation <strongs greek='5048 3588 747 846 4991'>perfect</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>through</strongs><strongs greek='3804'>sufferings</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='5037'>both</strongs>he that <strongs greek='37'>sanctifieth</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>they who are <strongs greek='37'>sanctified</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs><strongs greek='1520'>one</strongs>: <strongs greek='1223'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs><strongs greek='156'>cause</strongs>he is <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1870'>ashamed</strongs>to <strongs greek='2564'>call</strongs><strongs greek='846'>them</strongs><strongs greek='80'>brethren</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs greek='3004'>Saying</strongs>, I will <strongs greek='518'>declare</strongs><strongs greek='4675'>thy</strongs><strongs greek='3686'>name</strongs>unto <strongs greek='3450'>my</strongs><strongs greek='80'>brethren</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>the <strongs greek='3319'>midst</strongs>of the <strongs greek='1577'>church</strongs>will I sing <strongs greek='5214'>praise</strongs>unto <strongs greek='4571'>thee</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='3825'>again</strongs>, <strongs greek='1473'>I</strongs>will put my <strongs greek='2071 3982'>trust</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>in</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>. <strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='3825'>again</strongs>, <strongs greek='2400'>Behold</strongs><strongs greek='1473'>I</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3813'>children</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>hath <strongs greek='1325'>given</strongs><strongs greek='3427'>me</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='1893'>Forasmuch</strongs><strongs greek='3767'>then</strongs>as <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3813'>children</strongs>are <strongs greek='2841'>partakers</strongs>of <strongs greek='4561'>flesh</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='129'>blood</strongs>, <strongs greek='846'>he</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>himself <strongs greek='3898'>likewise</strongs>took <strongs greek='3348'>part</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='846'>same</strongs>; <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>through</strongs><strongs greek='2288'>death</strongs>he might <strongs greek='2673'>destroy</strongs>him that <strongs greek='2192'>had</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2904'>power</strongs>of <strongs greek='2288'>death</strongs>, that <strongs greek='5123'>is</strongs>, <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1228'>devil</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='525'>deliver</strongs><strongs greek='5128'>them</strongs><strongs greek='3745'>who</strongs>through <strongs greek='5401'>fear</strongs>of <strongs greek='2288'>death</strongs><strongs greek='2258'>were</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='*1223'>their</strongs><strongs greek='2198'>lifetime</strongs>subject <strongs greek='1777'>to</strongs><strongs greek='1397'>bondage</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='1222'>verily</strongs>he took not <strongs greek='1949 3756'>on</strongs><em>him</em> <em>the</em> <em>nature</em> <em>of</em> <strongs greek='32'>angels</strongs>; <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>he took <strongs greek='1949'>on</strongs><em>him</em> the <strongs greek='4690'>seed</strongs>of <strongs greek='11'>Abraham</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs greek='3606'>Wherefore</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>in</strongs>all <strongs greek='3956'>things</strongs>it <strongs greek='3784'>behooved</strongs>him to be made like <strongs greek='3666'>unto</strongs><em>his</em> <strongs greek='80'>brethren</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>he might <strongs greek='1096'>be</strongs>a <strongs greek='1655'>merciful</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4103'>faithful</strongs>high <strongs greek='749'>priest</strongs>in <strongs greek='4314'>things</strongs><em>pertaining</em> to <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, to make reconciliation <strongs greek='2433'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='266'>sins</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2992'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>that</strongs><strongs greek='846'>he</strongs>himself hath <strongs greek='3958'>suffered</strongs>being <strongs greek='3985'>tempted</strongs>, he is <strongs greek='1410'>able</strongs>to <strongs greek='997'>succor</strongs>them that are <strongs greek='3985'>tempted</strongs>. </verse>
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        <chapter number='3'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs greek='3606'>Wherefore</strongs>, <strongs greek='40'>holy</strongs><strongs greek='80'>brethren</strongs>, <strongs greek='3353'>partakers</strongs>of the <strongs greek='2032'>heavenly</strongs><strongs greek='2821'>calling</strongs>, <strongs greek='2657'>consider</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='652'>Apostle</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>High <strongs greek='749'>Priest</strongs>of <strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='3671'>profession</strongs>, <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs><strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='2'>Who <strongs greek='5607'>was</strongs><strongs greek='4103'>faithful</strongs>to him that <strongs greek='4160'>appointed</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>, <strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><strongs greek='3475'>Moses</strongs><em>was</em> <em>faithful</em> <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3650'>all</strongs><strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='3624'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3778'>this</strongs><em>man</em> was counted <strongs greek='515'>worthy</strongs>of <strongs greek='4119'>more</strongs><strongs greek='1391'>glory</strongs><strongs greek='3844'>than</strongs><strongs greek='3475'>Moses</strongs>, <strongs greek='2596 3745'>inasmuch</strongs>as he who hath <strongs greek='2680'>builded</strongs>the <strongs greek='*846'>house</strongs><strongs greek='2192'>hath</strongs><strongs greek='4119'>more</strongs><strongs greek='5092'>honor</strongs>than <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3624'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>every</strongs><strongs greek='3624'>house</strongs>is <strongs greek='2680'>builded</strongs><strongs greek='5259'>by</strongs><strongs greek='5100'>some</strongs><em>man</em> ; <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs>he that <strongs greek='2680'>built</strongs>all <strongs greek='3956'>things</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='3475'>Moses</strongs><strongs greek='3303'>verily</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs greek='4103'>faithful</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3650'>all</strongs><strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='3624'>house</strongs>, <strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs>a <strongs greek='2324'>servant</strongs>, <strongs greek='1519'>for</strongs>a <strongs greek='3142'>testimony</strongs>of those things which were to be spoken <strongs greek='2980'>after</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs><strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs>a <strongs greek='5207'>son</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>over</strongs>his <strongs greek='848'>own</strongs><strongs greek='3624'>house</strongs>; <strongs greek='3739'>whose</strongs><strongs greek='3624'>house</strongs><strongs greek='2070'>are</strongs><strongs greek='2249'>we</strongs>, <strongs greek='1437 4007'>if</strongs>we hold <strongs greek='2722'>fast</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3954'>confidence</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2745'>rejoicing</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1680'>hope</strongs><strongs greek='949'>firm</strongs><strongs greek='3360'>unto</strongs>the <strongs greek='5056'>end</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs greek='1352'>Wherefore</strongs>( <strongs greek='2531'>as</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='40'>Holy</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>Ghost</strongs><strongs greek='3004'>saith</strongs>, <strongs greek='4594'>Today</strongs><strongs greek='1437'>if</strongs>ye will <strongs greek='191'>hear</strongs><strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='5456'>voice</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs greek='4645'>Harden</strongs><strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='2588'>hearts</strongs>, <strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3894'>provocation</strongs>, <strongs greek='2596'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2250'>day</strongs>of <strongs greek='3986'>temptation</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2048'>wilderness</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs greek='3757'>When</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='3962'>fathers</strongs><strongs greek='3985'>tempted</strongs><strongs greek='3165'>me</strongs>, <strongs greek='1381'>proved</strongs><strongs greek='3165'>me</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1492'>saw</strongs><strongs greek='3450'>my</strongs><strongs greek='2041'>works</strongs><strongs greek='5062'>forty</strongs><strongs greek='2094'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='1352'>Wherefore</strongs>I was <strongs greek='4360'>grieved</strongs>with <strongs greek='1565'>that</strongs><strongs greek='1074'>generation</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2036'>said</strongs>, They do <strongs greek='104'>always</strongs><strongs greek='4105'>err</strongs>in <em>their</em> <strongs greek='2588'>heart</strongs>; <strongs greek='1161'>and</strongs><strongs greek='846'>they</strongs>have <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1097'>known</strongs><strongs greek='3450'>my</strongs><strongs greek='3598'>ways</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs greek='5613'>So</strongs>I <strongs greek='3660'>swore</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3450'>my</strongs><strongs greek='3709'>wrath</strongs>, <strongs greek='*1487'>They</strongs>shall not <strongs greek='1525'>enter</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs><strongs greek='3450'>my</strongs><strongs greek='2663'>rest</strongs>.) </verse>
            <verse number='12'>Take <strongs greek='991'>heed</strongs>, <strongs greek='80'>brethren</strongs>, <strongs greek='3379'>lest</strongs>there <strongs greek='2071'>be</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5100'>any</strongs>of <strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>an <strongs greek='4190'>evil</strongs><strongs greek='2588'>heart</strongs>of <strongs greek='570'>unbelief</strongs>, in <strongs greek='868'>departing</strongs><strongs greek='575'>from</strongs>the <strongs greek='2198'>living</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs greek='235'>But</strongs><strongs greek='3870'>exhort</strongs>one <strongs greek='1438'>another</strongs><strongs greek='2596 1538 2250'>daily</strongs>, <strongs greek='891 3757'>while</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>it</strongs>is <strongs greek='2564'>called</strongs><strongs greek='4594'>Today</strongs>; <strongs greek='3363'>lest</strongs><strongs greek='5100'>any</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>be <strongs greek='4645'>hardened</strongs>through the <strongs greek='539'>deceitfulness</strongs>of <strongs greek='266'>sin</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>we are <strongs greek='1096'>made</strongs><strongs greek='3353'>partakers</strongs>of <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>, <strongs greek='1437 4007'>if</strongs>we <strongs greek='2722'>hold</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='746'>beginning</strongs>of our <strongs greek='5287'>confidence</strongs><strongs greek='949'>steadfast</strongs><strongs greek='3360'>unto</strongs>the <strongs greek='5056'>end</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='15'>While it is <strongs greek='3004'>said</strongs>, <strongs greek='4594'>Today</strongs><strongs greek='1437'>if</strongs>ye will <strongs greek='191'>hear</strongs><strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='5456'>voice</strongs>, <strongs greek='4645'>harden</strongs><strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='2588'>hearts</strongs>, <strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3894'>provocation</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='5100'>some</strongs>, when they had <strongs greek='191'>heard</strongs>, did <strongs greek='3893'>provoke</strongs>: <strongs greek='235'>howbeit</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs>that <strongs greek='1831'>came</strongs>out <strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs><strongs greek='125'>Egypt</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3475'>Moses</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs>with <strongs greek='5101'>whom</strongs>was he <strongs greek='4360'>grieved</strongs><strongs greek='5062'>forty</strongs><strongs greek='2094'>years</strongs>? <em>was</em> <em>it</em> <strongs greek='3780'>not</strongs>with them that had <strongs greek='264'>sinned</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>whose</strongs><strongs greek='2966'>carcasses</strongs><strongs greek='4098'>fell</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2048'>wilderness</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='18'><strongs greek='1161'>And</strongs>to <strongs greek='5101'>whom</strongs><strongs greek='3660'>swore</strongs>he that they should <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1525'>enter</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs><strongs greek='848'>his</strongs><strongs greek='2663'>rest</strongs>, <strongs greek='1508'>but</strongs>to them that believed <strongs greek='544'>not</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs greek='2532'>So</strongs>we <strongs greek='991'>see</strongs><strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>they <strongs greek='1410'>could</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>enter <strongs greek='1525'>in</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>because</strongs>of <strongs greek='570'>unbelief</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='4'>
            <verse number='1'>Let us <strongs greek='3767'>therefore</strongs><strongs greek='5399'>fear</strongs>, <strongs greek='3379'>lest</strongs>, a <strongs greek='1860'>promise</strongs>being <strongs greek='2641'>left</strongs><em>us</em> of <strongs greek='1525'>entering</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs><strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='2663'>rest</strongs>, <strongs greek='5100'>any</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>should <strongs greek='1380'>seem</strongs>to come <strongs greek='5302'>short</strongs>of it. </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>unto <strongs greek='*2532'>us</strongs>was the gospel <strongs greek='2070 2097'>preached</strongs>, as well <strongs greek='2509'>as</strongs>unto <strongs greek='2548'>them</strongs>: <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3056'>word</strongs><strongs greek='189'>preached</strongs>did <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='5623'>profit</strongs><strongs greek='1565'>them</strongs>, <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs>being mixed <strongs greek='4786'>with</strongs><strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs>in them that <strongs greek='191'>heard</strongs><em>it.</em> </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>we which have <strongs greek='4100'>believed</strongs>do <strongs greek='1525'>enter</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs><strongs greek='2663'>rest</strongs>, <strongs greek='2531'>as</strongs>he <strongs greek='2046'>said</strongs>, <strongs greek='5613'>As</strongs>I have <strongs greek='3660'>sworn</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3450'>my</strongs><strongs greek='3709'>wrath</strongs>, <strongs greek='1487'>if</strongs>they shall <strongs greek='1525'>enter</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs><strongs greek='3450'>my</strongs><strongs greek='2663'>rest</strongs>: <strongs greek='2543'>although</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2041'>works</strongs>were <strongs greek='1096'>finished</strongs><strongs greek='575'>from</strongs>the <strongs greek='2602'>foundation</strongs>of the <strongs greek='2889'>world</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>he <strongs greek='2046'>spake</strongs>in a certain <strongs greek='4225'>place</strongs><strongs greek='4012'>of</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1442'>seventh</strongs><em>day</em> on this <strongs greek='3779'>wise</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>did <strongs greek='2664'>rest</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1442'>seventh</strongs><strongs greek='2250'>day</strongs><strongs greek='575'>from</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='848'>his</strongs><strongs greek='2041'>works</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5129'>this</strongs><em>place</em> <strongs greek='3825'>again</strongs>, <strongs greek='1487'>If</strongs>they shall <strongs greek='1525'>enter</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs><strongs greek='3450'>my</strongs><strongs greek='2663'>rest</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='1893'>Seeing</strongs><strongs greek='3767'>therefore</strongs>it <strongs greek='620'>remaineth</strongs>that <strongs greek='5100'>some</strongs>must <strongs greek='1525'>enter</strongs><strongs greek='1519 846'>therein</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>they to whom it was first <strongs greek='2097 4386'>preached</strongs>entered not <strongs greek='1525 3756'>in</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>because</strongs>of <strongs greek='543'>unbelief</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs greek='3825'>Again</strongs>, he <strongs greek='3724'>limiteth</strongs>a <strongs greek='5100'>certain</strongs><strongs greek='2250'>day</strongs>, <strongs greek='3004'>saying</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='1138'>David</strongs>, <strongs greek='4594'>Today</strongs>, <strongs greek='3326'>after</strongs>so <strongs greek='5118'>long</strongs>a <strongs greek='5550'>time</strongs>; <strongs greek='2531'>as</strongs>it is <strongs greek='2046'>said</strongs>, <strongs greek='4594'>Today</strongs><strongs greek='1437'>if</strongs>ye will <strongs greek='191'>hear</strongs><strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='5456'>voice</strongs>, <strongs greek='4645'>harden</strongs><strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='2588'>hearts</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='1487'>if</strongs><strongs greek='2424'>Joshua</strongs>had given them <strongs greek='2664 846'>rest</strongs>, then would he <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='3326 5023'>afterward</strongs>have <strongs greek='2980'>spoken</strongs><strongs greek='4012'>of</strongs><strongs greek='243'>another</strongs><strongs greek='2250'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>There <strongs greek='620'>remaineth</strongs><strongs greek='686'>therefore</strongs>a <strongs greek='4520'>rest</strongs>to <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2992'>people</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>he that is <strongs greek='1525'>entered</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs><strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='2663'>rest</strongs>, <strongs greek='846'>he</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>hath <strongs greek='2664'>ceased</strongs><strongs greek='575'>from</strongs>his <strongs greek='848'>own</strongs><strongs greek='2041'>works</strongs>, <strongs greek='5618'>as</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><em>did</em> <strongs greek='575'>from</strongs><strongs greek='2398'>his</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Let us <strongs greek='4704'>labor</strongs><strongs greek='3767'>therefore</strongs>to <strongs greek='1525'>enter</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs><strongs greek='1565'>that</strongs><strongs greek='2663'>rest</strongs>, <strongs greek='3363'>lest</strongs>any <strongs greek='5100'>man</strongs><strongs greek='4098'>fall</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>after</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='846'>same</strongs><strongs greek='5262'>example</strongs>of <strongs greek='543'>unbelief</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3056'>word</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='2198'>quick</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1756'>powerful</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5114'>sharper</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>than</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>any</strongs><strongs greek='1366'>two</strongs>-edged <strongs greek='3162'>sword</strongs>, <strongs greek='1338'>piercing</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>even</strongs><strongs greek='891'>to</strongs>the dividing <strongs greek='3311'>asunder</strongs><strongs greek='*5037'>of</strongs><strongs greek='5590'>soul</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>spirit</strongs>, <strongs greek='5037'>and</strongs>of the <strongs greek='719'>joints</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3452'>marrow</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>is</em> a <strongs greek='2924'>discerner</strongs>of the <strongs greek='1761'>thoughts</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1771'>intents</strongs>of the <strongs greek='2588'>heart</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs greek='2532 3756'>Neither</strongs><strongs greek='2076'>is</strongs>there any <strongs greek='2937'>creature</strongs>that is not <strongs greek='852'>manifest</strongs>in his <strongs greek='1799 846'>sight</strongs>: <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs>all <strongs greek='3956'>things</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs greek='1131'>naked</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5136'>opened</strongs>unto <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3788'>eyes</strongs>of <strongs greek='846'>him</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>with</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs>we have to <strongs greek='2254 3056'>do</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>Seeing <strongs greek='3767'>then</strongs>that we <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs>a <strongs greek='3173'>great</strongs>high <strongs greek='749'>priest</strongs>, that is passed <strongs greek='1330'>into</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3772'>heavens</strongs>, <strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5207'>Son</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, let us hold <strongs greek='2902'>fast</strongs><em>our</em> <strongs greek='3671'>profession</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>we <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>a high <strongs greek='749'>priest</strongs>which <strongs greek='1410 3361'>cannot</strongs>be touched with the feeling <strongs greek='4834'>of</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='769'>infirmities</strongs>; <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs>was <strongs greek='2596'>in</strongs>all <strongs greek='3956'>points</strongs><strongs greek='3985'>tempted</strongs>like <strongs greek='2596 3665'>as</strongs><em>we</em> <em>are,</em> <em>yet</em> <strongs greek='5565'>without</strongs><strongs greek='266'>sin</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>Let us <strongs greek='3767'>therefore</strongs><strongs greek='4334'>come</strongs><strongs greek='3326 3954'>boldly</strongs>unto <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2362'>throne</strongs>of <strongs greek='5485'>grace</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>we may <strongs greek='2983'>obtain</strongs><strongs greek='1656'>mercy</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2147'>find</strongs><strongs greek='5485'>grace</strongs>to help in time of <strongs greek='1519 2121 996'>need</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='5'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>every</strongs>high <strongs greek='749'>priest</strongs><strongs greek='2983'>taken</strongs>from <strongs greek='1537'>among</strongs><strongs greek='444'>men</strongs>is <strongs greek='2525'>ordained</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='444'>men</strongs>in <strongs greek='3588'>things</strongs><em>pertaining</em> <strongs greek='4314'>to</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>he may <strongs greek='4374'>offer</strongs><strongs greek='5037'>both</strongs><strongs greek='1435'>gifts</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2378'>sacrifices</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='266'>sins</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='2'>Who <strongs greek='1410'>can</strongs>have <strongs greek='3356'>compassion</strongs>on <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='50'>ignorant</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>on them that are out of the <strongs greek='4105'>way</strongs>; for <strongs greek='1893'>that</strongs><strongs greek='846'>he</strongs>himself <strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>is compassed <strongs greek='4029'>with</strongs><strongs greek='769'>infirmity</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>by reason <strongs greek='1223 5026'>hereof</strongs>he <strongs greek='3784'>ought</strongs>, <strongs greek='2531'>as</strongs><strongs greek='4012'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2992'>people</strongs>, <strongs greek='3779'>so</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><strongs greek='4012'>for</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>himself</strongs>, to <strongs greek='4374'>offer</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='266'>sins</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>no <strongs greek='5100 3756'>man</strongs><strongs greek='2983'>taketh</strongs>this <strongs greek='5092'>honor</strongs>unto <strongs greek='1438'>himself</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>he that is <strongs greek='2564'>called</strongs><strongs greek='5259'>of</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, <strongs greek='2509'>as</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs greek='2'>Aaron</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='3779'>So</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs><strongs greek='1392'>glorified</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>himself</strongs>to be <strongs greek='1096'>made</strongs>a high <strongs greek='749'>priest</strongs>; <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>he that <strongs greek='2980'>said</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>, <strongs greek='4771'>Thou</strongs><strongs greek='1488'>art</strongs><strongs greek='3450'>my</strongs><strongs greek='5207'>Son</strongs>, <strongs greek='4594'>today</strongs>have <strongs greek='1473'>I</strongs><strongs greek='1080'>begotten</strongs><strongs greek='4571'>thee</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='2531'>As</strongs>he <strongs greek='3004'>saith</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='2087'>another</strongs><em>place,</em> <strongs greek='4771'>Thou</strongs><em>art</em> a <strongs greek='2409'>priest</strongs><strongs greek='1519 165'>forever</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>after</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5010'>order</strongs>of <strongs greek='3198'>Melchizedek</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs greek='3739'>Who</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2250'>days</strongs>of <strongs greek='848'>his</strongs><strongs greek='4561'>flesh</strongs>, when he had offered <strongs greek='4374'>up</strongs><strongs greek='1162'>prayers</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2428'>supplications</strongs><strongs greek='3326'>with</strongs><strongs greek='2478'>strong</strongs><strongs greek='2906'>crying</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1144'>tears</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>unto</strongs>him that was <strongs greek='1410'>able</strongs>to <strongs greek='4982'>save</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>from</strongs><strongs greek='2288'>death</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>was <strongs greek='1522'>heard</strongs>in that he <strongs greek='575 2124'>feared</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs greek='2539'>Though</strongs>he <strongs greek='5607'>were</strongs>a <strongs greek='5207'>Son</strongs>, yet <strongs greek='3129'>learned</strongs>he <strongs greek='5218'>obedience</strongs><strongs greek='575'>by</strongs>the things <strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs>he <strongs greek='3958'>suffered</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>being made <strongs greek='5048'>perfect</strongs>, he <strongs greek='1096'>became</strongs>the <strongs greek='159'>author</strongs>of <strongs greek='166'>eternal</strongs><strongs greek='4991'>salvation</strongs>unto <strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs>them that <strongs greek='5219'>obey</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='4316'>Called</strongs><strongs greek='5259'>of</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>a high <strongs greek='749'>priest</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>after</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5010'>order</strongs>of <strongs greek='3198'>Melchizedek</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs greek='4012'>Of</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs><strongs greek='2254'>we</strongs>have many things to <strongs greek='4183 3056'>say</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1421'>hard</strongs>to be <strongs greek='3004'>uttered</strongs>, <strongs greek='1893'>seeing</strongs>ye <strongs greek='1096'>are</strongs><strongs greek='3576'>dull</strongs>of <strongs greek='189'>hearing</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>when</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5550'>time</strongs>ye <strongs greek='3784'>ought</strongs>to <strongs greek='1511'>be</strongs><strongs greek='1320'>teachers</strongs>, ye <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs><strongs greek='5532'>need</strongs>that one <strongs greek='1321'>teach</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs><strongs greek='3825'>again</strongs><strongs greek='5101'>which</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='746'>first</strongs><strongs greek='4747'>principles</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3051'>oracles</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>; <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>are <strongs greek='1096'>become</strongs>such as <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs><strongs greek='5532'>need</strongs>of <strongs greek='1051'>milk</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>of strong <strongs greek='4731 5160'>meat</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>every <strongs greek='3956'>one</strongs>that <strongs greek='3348'>useth</strongs><strongs greek='1051'>milk</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='552'>unskillfull</strongs>in the <strongs greek='3056'>word</strongs>of <strongs greek='1343'>righteousness</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>he <strongs greek='2076'>is</strongs>a <strongs greek='3516'>babe</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs>strong <strongs greek='4731 5160'>meat</strongs><strongs greek='2076'>belongeth</strongs>to them that are of full <strongs greek='5046'>age</strongs>, <em>even</em> those who by reason <strongs greek='1223'>of</strongs><strongs greek='1838'>use</strongs><strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs>their <strongs greek='145'>senses</strongs><strongs greek='1128'>exercised</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>to</strongs><strongs greek='1253'>discern</strongs><strongs greek='5037'>both</strongs><strongs greek='2570'>good</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2556'>evil</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='6'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs greek='1352'>Therefore</strongs><strongs greek='863'>leaving</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='746'>principles</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3056'>doctrine</strongs>of <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>, let us go <strongs greek='5342'>on</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='5047'>perfection</strongs>; <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='2598'>laying</strongs><strongs greek='3825'>again</strongs>the <strongs greek='2310'>foundation</strongs>of <strongs greek='3341'>repentance</strongs><strongs greek='575'>from</strongs><strongs greek='3498'>dead</strongs><strongs greek='2041'>works</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>of <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>toward</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='2'>Of the <strongs greek='1322'>doctrine</strongs>of <strongs greek='909'>baptisms</strongs>, <strongs greek='5037'>and</strongs>of laying <strongs greek='1936'>on</strongs>of <strongs greek='5495'>hands</strongs>, <strongs greek='5037'>and</strongs>of <strongs greek='386'>resurrection</strongs>of the <strongs greek='3498'>dead</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>of <strongs greek='166'>eternal</strongs><strongs greek='2917'>judgment</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='5124'>this</strongs>will we <strongs greek='4160'>do</strongs>, <strongs greek='1437 4007'>if</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='2010'>permit</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs greek='102'>impossible</strongs>for those who were once <strongs greek='5461 530'>enlightened</strongs>, <strongs greek='5037'>and</strongs>have <strongs greek='1089'>tasted</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2032'>heavenly</strongs><strongs greek='1431'>gift</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>were <strongs greek='1096'>made</strongs><strongs greek='3353'>partakers</strongs>of the <strongs greek='40'>Holy</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>Ghost</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>have <strongs greek='1089'>tasted</strongs>the <strongs greek='2570'>good</strongs><strongs greek='4487'>word</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, <strongs greek='5037'>and</strongs>the <strongs greek='1411'>powers</strongs>of the <strongs greek='165'>world</strongs>to <strongs greek='3195'>come</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='6'>If <strongs greek='*2532'>they</strongs>shall fall <strongs greek='3895'>away</strongs>, to <strongs greek='340'>renew</strongs>them <strongs greek='3825'>again</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='3341'>repentance</strongs>; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God <strongs greek='388 1438 3588 5207 2316'>afresh</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>put <em>him</em> to an open <strongs greek='3856'>shame</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>the <strongs greek='1093'>earth</strongs>which drinketh <strongs greek='4095'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5205'>rain</strongs>that <strongs greek='2064'>cometh</strongs><strongs greek='4178'>oft</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>upon</strongs><strongs greek='846'>it</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>bringeth <strongs greek='5088'>forth</strongs><strongs greek='1008'>herbs</strongs><strongs greek='2111'>meet</strongs>for <strongs greek='1565'>them</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs>it <strongs greek='*2532'>is</strongs><strongs greek='1090'>dressed</strongs>, <strongs greek='3335'>receiveth</strongs><strongs greek='2129'>blessing</strongs><strongs greek='575'>from</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs>that which <strongs greek='1627'>beareth</strongs><strongs greek='173'>thorns</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5146'>briars</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='96'>rejected</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>is</em> nigh <strongs greek='1451'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='2671'>cursing</strongs>; <strongs greek='3739'>whose</strongs><strongs greek='5056'>end</strongs><em>is</em> to be <strongs greek='1519 2740'>burned</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs>, <strongs greek='27'>beloved</strongs>, we are <strongs greek='3982'>persuaded</strongs>better <strongs greek='2909'>things</strongs><strongs greek='4012'>of</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>things that <strongs greek='2192'>accompany</strongs><strongs greek='4991'>salvation</strongs>, <strongs greek='1499'>though</strongs>we <strongs greek='3779'>thus</strongs><strongs greek='2980'>speak</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='94'>unrighteous</strongs>to <strongs greek='1950'>forget</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='2041'>work</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2873'>labor</strongs>of <strongs greek='26'>love</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs>ye have <strongs greek='1731'>showed</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>toward</strongs><strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='3686'>name</strongs>, in that ye have <strongs greek='1247'>ministered</strongs>to <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='40'>saints</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>do <strongs greek='1247'>minister</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs greek='1161'>And</strongs>we <strongs greek='1937'>desire</strongs>that every <strongs greek='1538'>one</strongs>of <strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>do <strongs greek='1731'>show</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='846'>same</strongs><strongs greek='4710'>diligence</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>to</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>full <strongs greek='4136'>assurance</strongs>of <strongs greek='1680'>hope</strongs><strongs greek='891'>unto</strongs>the <strongs greek='5056'>end</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs greek='2443'>That</strongs>ye <strongs greek='1096'>be</strongs><strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='3576'>slothful</strongs>, <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><strongs greek='3402'>followers</strongs>of them who <strongs greek='1223'>through</strongs><strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3115'>patience</strongs><strongs greek='2816'>inherit</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1860'>promises</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>when <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>made <strongs greek='1861'>promise</strongs>to <strongs greek='11'>Abraham</strongs>, <strongs greek='1893'>because</strongs>he <strongs greek='2192'>could</strongs><strongs greek='3660'>swear</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3762'>no</strongs><strongs greek='3187'>greater</strongs>, he <strongs greek='3660'>swore</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>by</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>himself</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='3004'>Saying</strongs>, <strongs greek='2229 3375'>Surely</strongs><strongs greek='2127'>blessing</strongs>I will <strongs greek='2127'>bless</strongs><strongs greek='4571'>thee</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4129'>multiplying</strongs>I will <strongs greek='4129'>multiply</strongs><strongs greek='4571'>thee</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='3779'>so</strongs>, after he had patiently <strongs greek='3114'>endured</strongs>, he <strongs greek='2013'>obtained</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1860'>promise</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='444'>men</strongs><strongs greek='3303'>verily</strongs><strongs greek='3660'>swear</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3187'>greater</strongs>: <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>an <strongs greek='3727'>oath</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>for</strongs><strongs greek='951'>confirmation</strongs><em>is</em> to <strongs greek='846'>them</strongs>an <strongs greek='4009'>end</strongs>of <strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='485'>strife</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs greek='1722 3739'>Wherein</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, <strongs greek='1014'>willing</strongs>more <strongs greek='4054'>abundantly</strongs>to <strongs greek='1925'>show</strongs>unto <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2818'>heirs</strongs>of <strongs greek='1860'>promise</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='276'>immutability</strongs>of <strongs greek='848'>his</strongs><strongs greek='1012'>counsel</strongs>, <strongs greek='3315'>confirmed</strongs><em>it</em> by an <strongs greek='3727'>oath</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='18'><strongs greek='2443'>That</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='1417'>two</strongs><strongs greek='276'>immutable</strongs><strongs greek='4229'>things</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs><em>it</em> <em>was</em> <strongs greek='102'>impossible</strongs>for <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>to <strongs greek='5574'>lie</strongs>, we might <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs>a <strongs greek='2478'>strong</strongs><strongs greek='3874'>consolation</strongs>, who have fled for <strongs greek='2703'>refuge</strongs>to lay hold <strongs greek='2902'>upon</strongs>the <strongs greek='1680'>hope</strongs>set <strongs greek='4295'>before</strongs>us: </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs greek='3739'>Which</strongs><em>hope</em> we <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs><strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs>an <strongs greek='45'>anchor</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5590'>soul</strongs>, <strongs greek='5037'>both</strongs><strongs greek='804'>sure</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='949'>steadfast</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>which <strongs greek='1525'>entereth</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs>that <strongs greek='2082'>within</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2665'>veil</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='20'><strongs greek='3699'>Whither</strongs>the <strongs greek='4274'>forerunner</strongs>is <strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>us</strongs><strongs greek='1525'>entered</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs>, <strongs greek='1096'>made</strongs>a high <strongs greek='749'>priest</strongs><strongs greek='1519 165'>forever</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>after</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5010'>order</strongs>of <strongs greek='3198'>Melchizedek</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='7'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3778'>this</strongs><strongs greek='3198'>Melchizedek</strongs>, <strongs greek='935'>king</strongs>of <strongs greek='4532'>Salem</strongs>, <strongs greek='2409'>priest</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>most <strongs greek='5310'>high</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, who <strongs greek='4876'>met</strongs><strongs greek='11'>Abraham</strongs><strongs greek='5290'>returning</strongs><strongs greek='575'>from</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2871'>slaughter</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='935'>kings</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2127'>blessed</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='2'>To <strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><strongs greek='11'>Abraham</strongs><strongs greek='3307'>gave</strongs>a tenth <strongs greek='1181'>part</strongs><strongs greek='575'>of</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs>; <strongs greek='4412 3303'>first</strongs>being by <strongs greek='2059'>interpretation</strongs><strongs greek='935'>King</strongs>of <strongs greek='1343'>righteousness</strongs>, <strongs greek='1161'>and</strongs>after <strongs greek='1899'>that</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><strongs greek='935'>King</strongs>of <strongs greek='4532'>Salem</strongs>, which <strongs greek='3603'>is</strongs>, <strongs greek='935'>King</strongs>of <strongs greek='1515'>peace</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Without <strongs greek='540'>father</strongs>, without <strongs greek='282'>mother</strongs>, without <strongs greek='35'>descent</strongs>, <strongs greek='2192'>having</strongs><strongs greek='3383'>neither</strongs><strongs greek='746'>beginning</strongs>of <strongs greek='2250'>days</strongs>, <strongs greek='3383'>nor</strongs><strongs greek='5056'>end</strongs>of <strongs greek='2222'>life</strongs>; <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs>made like <strongs greek='871'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5207'>Son</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>; <strongs greek='3306'>abideth</strongs>a <strongs greek='2409'>priest</strongs><strongs greek='1519 1336'>continually</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs greek='1161'>Now</strongs><strongs greek='2334'>consider</strongs>how <strongs greek='4080'>great</strongs>this <strongs greek='3778'>man</strongs><em>was,</em> unto <strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>even</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3966'>patriarch</strongs><strongs greek='11'>Abraham</strongs><strongs greek='1325'>gave</strongs>the <strongs greek='1181'>tenth</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='205'>spoils</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='3303'>verily</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>they</strongs>that are <strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5207'>sons</strongs>of <strongs greek='3017'>Levi</strongs>, who <strongs greek='2983'>receive</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>office of the <strongs greek='2405'>priesthood</strongs>, <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs>a <strongs greek='1785'>commandment</strongs>to take <strongs greek='586'>tithes</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2992'>people</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>according</strongs>to <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3551'>law</strongs>, that <strongs greek='5123'>is</strongs>, of <strongs greek='848'>their</strongs><strongs greek='80'>brethren</strongs>, <strongs greek='2539'>though</strongs>they <strongs greek='1831'>come</strongs>out <strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3751'>loins</strongs>of <strongs greek='11'>Abraham</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs>he whose descent is not <strongs greek='1075 3361'>counted</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>from</strongs><strongs greek='846'>them</strongs>received <strongs greek='1183'>tithes</strongs>of <strongs greek='11'>Abraham</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2127'>blessed</strongs>him that <strongs greek='2192'>had</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1860'>promises</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs greek='1161'>And</strongs><strongs greek='5565'>without</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='485'>contradiction</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1640'>less</strongs>is <strongs greek='2127'>blessed</strongs><strongs greek='5259'>of</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2909'>better</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='5602 3303'>here</strongs><strongs greek='444'>men</strongs>that <strongs greek='599'>die</strongs><strongs greek='2983'>receive</strongs><strongs greek='1181'>tithes</strongs>; <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><strongs greek='1563'>there</strongs>he <em>receiveth</em> <em>them,</em> of whom it is <strongs greek='3140'>witnessed</strongs><strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>he <strongs greek='2198'>liveth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>as I may so <strongs greek='5613 2031 2036'>say</strongs>, <strongs greek='3017'>Levi</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>, who <strongs greek='2983'>receiveth</strongs><strongs greek='1181'>tithes</strongs>, paid <strongs greek='1183'>tithes</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>in</strongs><strongs greek='11'>Abraham</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>he <strongs greek='2258'>was</strongs><strongs greek='2089'>yet</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3751'>loins</strongs>of his <strongs greek='3962'>father</strongs>, <strongs greek='3753'>when</strongs><strongs greek='3198'>Melchizedek</strongs><strongs greek='4876'>met</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs greek='1487'>If</strongs><strongs greek='3767'>therefore</strongs><strongs greek='5050'>perfection</strongs><strongs greek='2258'>were</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3020'>Levitical</strongs><strongs greek='2420'>priesthood</strongs>, ( <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>under</strongs><strongs greek='846'>it</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2992'>people</strongs>received the <strongs greek='3549'>law</strongs>,) <strongs greek='5101'>what</strongs><strongs greek='2089'>further</strongs><strongs greek='5532'>need</strongs><em>was</em> <em>there</em> that <strongs greek='2087'>another</strongs><strongs greek='2409'>priest</strongs>should <strongs greek='450'>rise</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>after</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5010'>order</strongs>of <strongs greek='3198'>Melchizedek</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>be <strongs greek='3004'>called</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>after</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5010'>order</strongs>of <strongs greek='2'>Aaron</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2420'>priesthood</strongs>being <strongs greek='3346'>changed</strongs>, there is <strongs greek='1096'>made</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs><strongs greek='318'>necessity</strongs>a <strongs greek='3331'>change</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>of the <strongs greek='3551'>law</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>he <strongs greek='1909'>of</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs>these <strongs greek='5023'>things</strongs>are <strongs greek='3004'>spoken</strongs><strongs greek='3348'>pertaineth</strongs>to <strongs greek='2087'>another</strongs><strongs greek='5443'>tribe</strongs>, <strongs greek='575'>of</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs>no <strongs greek='3762'>man</strongs>gave <strongs greek='4337'>attendance</strongs>at <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2379'>altar</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs greek='4271'>evident</strongs><strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs><strongs greek='393'>sprang</strongs>out <strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs><strongs greek='2455'>Judah</strongs>; <strongs greek='1519'>of</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs><strongs greek='5443'>tribe</strongs><strongs greek='3475'>Moses</strongs><strongs greek='2980'>spake</strongs><strongs greek='3762'>nothing</strongs><strongs greek='4012'>concerning</strongs><strongs greek='2420'>priesthood</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>it <strongs greek='2076'>is</strongs><strongs greek='2089'>yet</strongs>far <strongs greek='4054'>more</strongs><strongs greek='2612'>evident</strongs>: for <strongs greek='1487'>that</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>after</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3665'>similitude</strongs>of <strongs greek='3198'>Melchizedek</strongs>there <strongs greek='450'>ariseth</strongs><strongs greek='2087'>another</strongs><strongs greek='2409'>priest</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs greek='3739'>Who</strongs>is <strongs greek='1096'>made</strongs>, <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>after</strongs>the <strongs greek='3551'>law</strongs>of a <strongs greek='4559'>carnal</strongs><strongs greek='1785'>commandment</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>after</strongs>the <strongs greek='1411'>power</strongs>of an <strongs greek='179'>endless</strongs><strongs greek='2222'>life</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>he <strongs greek='3140'>testifieth</strongs>, <strongs greek='4771'>Thou</strongs><em>art</em> a <strongs greek='2409'>priest</strongs><strongs greek='1519 165'>forever</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>after</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5010'>order</strongs>of <strongs greek='3198'>Melchizedek</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>there <strongs greek='1096'>is</strongs><strongs greek='3303'>verily</strongs>a <strongs greek='115'>disannulling</strongs>of the <strongs greek='1785'>commandment</strongs>going <strongs greek='4254'>before</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='772'>weakness</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='512'>unprofitableness</strongs><strongs greek='846'>thereof</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3551'>law</strongs>made nothing <strongs greek='5048 3762'>perfect</strongs>, <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs>the bringing <strongs greek='1898'>in</strongs>of a <strongs greek='2909'>better</strongs><strongs greek='1680'>hope</strongs><em>did;</em> <strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs>the <strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs>we draw <strongs greek='1448'>nigh</strongs>unto <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>inasmuch <strongs greek='2596 3745'>as</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='5565'>without</strongs>an <strongs greek='3728'>oath</strongs><em>he</em> <em>was</em> <em>made</em> <em>priest</em> : </verse>
            <verse number='21'>( <strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>those <strongs greek='2409'>priests</strongs><strongs greek='1526'>were</strongs><strongs greek='1096'>made</strongs><strongs greek='5565'>without</strongs>an <strongs greek='3728'>oath</strongs>; <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>this</strongs><strongs greek='3326'>with</strongs>an <strongs greek='3728'>oath</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs>him that <strongs greek='3004'>said</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>, The <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs><strongs greek='3660'>swore</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>will <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='3338'>repent</strongs>, <strongs greek='4771'>Thou</strongs><em>art</em> a <strongs greek='2409'>priest</strongs><strongs greek='1519 165'>forever</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>after</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5010'>order</strongs>of <strongs greek='3198'>Melchizedek</strongs>:) </verse>
            <verse number='22'><strongs greek='2596'>By</strongs>so <strongs greek='5118'>much</strongs>was <strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs><strongs greek='1096'>made</strongs>a <strongs greek='1450'>surety</strongs>of a <strongs greek='2909'>better</strongs><strongs greek='1242'>testament</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>they</strongs><strongs greek='3303'>truly</strongs><strongs greek='1526'>were</strongs><strongs greek='4119'>many</strongs><strongs greek='2409'>priests</strongs>, because they were not <strongs greek='2967'>suffered</strongs>to <strongs greek='3887'>continue</strongs>by reason of <strongs greek='2288'>death</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='24'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>this</strongs><em>man,</em> because <strongs greek='846'>he</strongs><strongs greek='3306'>continueth</strongs><strongs greek='1519 165'>ever</strongs>, <strongs greek='2192'>hath</strongs>an <strongs greek='531'>unchangeable</strongs><strongs greek='2420'>priesthood</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'><strongs greek='3606'>Wherefore</strongs>he is <strongs greek='1410'>able</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>to <strongs greek='4982'>save</strongs>them <strongs greek='1519'>to</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3838'>uttermost</strongs>that <strongs greek='4334'>come</strongs>unto <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>, seeing he <strongs greek='3842'>ever</strongs><strongs greek='2198'>liveth</strongs>to make <strongs greek='1793'>intercession</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='846'>them</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='5108'>such</strongs>a high <strongs greek='749'>priest</strongs><strongs greek='4241'>became</strongs><strongs greek='2254'>us</strongs>, <em>who</em> <em>is</em> <strongs greek='3741'>holy</strongs>, <strongs greek='172'>harmless</strongs>, <strongs greek='283'>undefiled</strongs>, <strongs greek='5563'>separate</strongs><strongs greek='575'>from</strongs><strongs greek='268'>sinners</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1096'>made</strongs><strongs greek='5308'>higher</strongs>than <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3772'>heavens</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='27'><strongs greek='3739'>Who</strongs><strongs greek='2192 318'>needeth</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='2596 2250'>daily</strongs>, <strongs greek='5618'>as</strongs>those high <strongs greek='749'>priests</strongs>, to offer <strongs greek='399'>up</strongs><strongs greek='2378'>sacrifice</strongs>, <strongs greek='4386'>first</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs>his <strongs greek='2398'>own</strongs><strongs greek='266'>sins</strongs>, and <strongs greek='1899'>then</strongs><strongs greek='*3588'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2992'>people</strongs>'s: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs><strongs greek='5124'>this</strongs>he <strongs greek='4160'>did</strongs><strongs greek='2178'>once</strongs>, when he offered <strongs greek='399'>up</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>himself</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3551'>law</strongs><strongs greek='2525'>maketh</strongs><strongs greek='444'>men</strongs>high <strongs greek='749'>priests</strongs>which <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs><strongs greek='769'>infirmity</strongs>; <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3056'>word</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3728'>oath</strongs>, <strongs greek='3588'>which</strongs>was <strongs greek='3326'>since</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3551'>law</strongs>, <em>maketh</em> the <strongs greek='5207'>Son</strongs>, who is <strongs greek='5048'>consecrated</strongs><strongs greek='1519 165'>forevermore</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='8'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs greek='1161'>Now</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>of</strongs>the things which we have <strongs greek='3004'>spoken</strongs><em>this</em> <em>is</em> the <strongs greek='2774'>sum</strongs>: We <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs><strongs greek='5108'>such</strongs>a high <strongs greek='749'>priest</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>who</strongs>is <strongs greek='2523'>set</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>on</strongs>the right <strongs greek='1188'>hand</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2362'>throne</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3172'>Majesty</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3772'>heavens</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='2'>A <strongs greek='3011'>minister</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='39'>sanctuary</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='228'>true</strongs><strongs greek='4633'>tabernacle</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs><strongs greek='4078'>pitched</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='444'>man</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>every</strongs>high <strongs greek='749'>priest</strongs>is <strongs greek='2525'>ordained</strongs>to <strongs greek='4374'>offer</strongs><strongs greek='1435'>gifts</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2378'>sacrifices</strongs>: <strongs greek='3606'>wherefore</strongs><em>it</em> <em>is</em> of <strongs greek='316'>necessity</strongs>that this <strongs greek='5126'>man</strongs><strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs><strongs greek='5100 3739'>somewhat</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>to <strongs greek='4374'>offer</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='1487'>if</strongs><strongs greek='*3303'>he</strongs><strongs greek='2258'>were</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>on</strongs><strongs greek='1093'>earth</strongs>, he should <strongs greek='3761'>not</strongs><strongs greek='2258 302'>be</strongs>a <strongs greek='2409'>priest</strongs>, seeing that there <strongs greek='5607'>are</strongs><strongs greek='2409'>priests</strongs>that <strongs greek='4374'>offer</strongs><strongs greek='1435'>gifts</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>according</strongs>to <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3551'>law</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='3748'>Who</strongs><strongs greek='3000'>serve</strongs>unto the <strongs greek='5262'>example</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4639'>shadow</strongs>of heavenly <strongs greek='2032'>things</strongs>, <strongs greek='2531'>as</strongs><strongs greek='3475'>Moses</strongs>was admonished of <strongs greek='5537'>God</strongs>when he was <strongs greek='3195'>about</strongs>to <strongs greek='2005'>make</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4633'>tabernacle</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>, <strongs greek='3708'>See</strongs>, <strongs greek='5346'>saith</strongs>he, <em>that</em> thou <strongs greek='4160'>make</strongs>all <strongs greek='3956'>things</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>according</strongs>to <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5179'>pattern</strongs><strongs greek='1166'>showed</strongs>to <strongs greek='4671'>thee</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3735'>mount</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='3570'>now</strongs>hath he <strongs greek='5177'>obtained</strongs>a more <strongs greek='1313'>excellent</strongs><strongs greek='3009'>ministry</strongs>, by how <strongs greek='3745'>much</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>he <strongs greek='2076'>is</strongs>the <strongs greek='3316'>mediator</strongs>of a <strongs greek='2909'>better</strongs><strongs greek='1242'>covenant</strongs>, <strongs greek='3748'>which</strongs>was <strongs greek='3549'>established</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>upon</strongs><strongs greek='2909'>better</strongs><strongs greek='1860'>promises</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='1487'>if</strongs><strongs greek='1565'>that</strongs><strongs greek='4413'>first</strongs><em>covenant</em> had <strongs greek='2258'>been</strongs><strongs greek='273'>faultless</strongs>, then should <strongs greek='3756'>no</strongs><strongs greek='5117'>place</strongs>have been <strongs greek='2212'>sought</strongs>for the <strongs greek='1208'>second</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>finding <strongs greek='3201'>fault</strongs>with <strongs greek='846'>them</strongs>, he <strongs greek='3004'>saith</strongs>, <strongs greek='2400'>Behold</strongs>, the <strongs greek='2250'>days</strongs><strongs greek='2064'>come</strongs>, <strongs greek='3004'>saith</strongs>the <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>when</strongs>I will <strongs greek='4931'>make</strongs>a <strongs greek='2537'>new</strongs><strongs greek='1242'>covenant</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>with</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3624'>house</strongs>of <strongs greek='2474'>Israel</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>with</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3624'>house</strongs>of <strongs greek='2455'>Judah</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs greek='3756'>Not</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>according</strongs>to <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1242'>covenant</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>that</strongs>I <strongs greek='4160'>made</strongs>with <strongs greek='846'>their</strongs><strongs greek='3962'>fathers</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>the <strongs greek='2250'>day</strongs>when <strongs greek='3450'>I</strongs><strongs greek='1949'>took</strongs><strongs greek='846'>them</strongs>by <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5495'>hand</strongs>to <strongs greek='1806'>lead</strongs><strongs greek='846'>them</strongs>out <strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs>the <strongs greek='1093'>land</strongs>of <strongs greek='125'>Egypt</strongs>; <strongs greek='3754'>because</strongs><strongs greek='846'>they</strongs><strongs greek='1696'>continued</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3450'>my</strongs><strongs greek='1242'>covenant</strongs>, and <strongs greek='2504'>I</strongs>regarded them <strongs greek='272 846'>not</strongs>, <strongs greek='3004'>saith</strongs>the <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='3754'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3778'>this</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1242'>covenant</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>that</strongs>I will <strongs greek='1303'>make</strongs>with <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3624'>house</strongs>of <strongs greek='2474'>Israel</strongs><strongs greek='3326'>after</strongs><strongs greek='1565'>those</strongs><strongs greek='2250'>days</strongs>, <strongs greek='3004'>saith</strongs>the <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>; I will <strongs greek='1325'>put</strongs><strongs greek='3450'>my</strongs><strongs greek='3551'>laws</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs><strongs greek='846'>their</strongs><strongs greek='1271'>mind</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1924'>write</strongs><strongs greek='846'>them</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>in</strongs><strongs greek='846'>their</strongs><strongs greek='2588'>hearts</strongs>: <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>I will <strongs greek='2071'>be</strongs>to <strongs greek='846'>them</strongs><strongs greek='*1519'>a</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='846'>they</strongs>shall <strongs greek='2071'>be</strongs>to <strongs greek='3427'>me</strongs><strongs greek='*1519'>a</strongs><strongs greek='2992'>people</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>they shall <strongs greek='3364'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1321'>teach</strongs>every <strongs greek='1538'>man</strongs><strongs greek='848'>his</strongs><strongs greek='4139'>neighbor</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>every <strongs greek='1538'>man</strongs><strongs greek='848'>his</strongs><strongs greek='80'>brother</strongs>, <strongs greek='3004'>saying</strongs>, <strongs greek='1097'>Know</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>: <strongs greek='3754'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs>shall <strongs greek='1492'>know</strongs><strongs greek='3165'>me</strongs>, <strongs greek='575'>from</strongs>the <strongs greek='3398 *846'>least</strongs><strongs greek='2193'>to</strongs>the <strongs greek='3173 *846'>greatest</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs greek='3754'>For</strongs>I will <strongs greek='2071'>be</strongs><strongs greek='2436'>merciful</strongs>to <strongs greek='846'>their</strongs><strongs greek='93'>unrighteousness</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='846'>their</strongs><strongs greek='266'>sins</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='846'>their</strongs><strongs greek='458'>iniquities</strongs>will I <strongs greek='3415'>remember</strongs>no <strongs greek='3364 2089'>more</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>In that he <strongs greek='3004'>saith</strongs>, A <strongs greek='2537'>new</strongs><em>covenant,</em> he hath made the first <strongs greek='3822 3588 4413'>old</strongs>. <strongs greek='1161'>Now</strongs>that which <strongs greek='3822'>decayeth</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>waxeth <strongs greek='1095'>old</strongs><em>is</em> ready to vanish <strongs greek='1451 854'>away</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='9'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs greek='3767'>Then</strongs><strongs greek='3303'>verily</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4413'>first</strongs><em>covenant</em> <strongs greek='2192'>had</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><strongs greek='1345'>ordinances</strongs>of divine <strongs greek='2999'>service</strongs>, <strongs greek='5037'>and</strongs>a <strongs greek='2886'>worldly</strongs><strongs greek='39'>sanctuary</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>there was a <strongs greek='4633'>tabernacle</strongs><strongs greek='2680'>made</strongs>; <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4413'>first</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722 3739'>wherein</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs greek='*5037 3739'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3087'>candlestick</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5132'>table</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4286 740'>shewbread</strongs>; <strongs greek='3748'>which</strongs>is <strongs greek='3004'>called</strongs>the <strongs greek='39'>sanctuary</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs greek='1161'>And</strongs><strongs greek='3326'>after</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1208'>second</strongs><strongs greek='2665'>veil</strongs>, the <strongs greek='4633'>tabernacle</strongs>which is <strongs greek='3004'>called</strongs>the holiest of <strongs greek='39 39'>all</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Which <strongs greek='2192'>had</strongs>the <strongs greek='5552'>golden</strongs><strongs greek='2369'>censer</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2787'>ark</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1242'>covenant</strongs><strongs greek='4028'>overlaid</strongs>round <strongs greek='3840'>about</strongs>with <strongs greek='5552'>gold</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722 3739'>wherein</strongs><em>was</em> the <strongs greek='5553'>golden</strongs><strongs greek='4713'>pot</strongs>that <strongs greek='2192'>had</strongs><strongs greek='3131'>manna</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2'>Aaron</strongs>'s <strongs greek='4464'>rod</strongs>that <strongs greek='985'>budded</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4109'>tables</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1242'>covenant</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='1161'>And</strongs><strongs greek='5231'>over</strongs><strongs greek='846'>it</strongs>the <strongs greek='5502'>cherubim</strongs>of <strongs greek='1391'>glory</strongs><strongs greek='2683'>shadowing</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>mercy <strongs greek='2435'>seat</strongs>; <strongs greek='4012'>of</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs>we <strongs greek='2076 3756'>cannot</strongs><strongs greek='3568'>now</strongs><strongs greek='3004'>speak</strongs><strongs greek='2596 3313'>particularly</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='1161'>Now</strongs>when these <strongs greek='5130'>things</strongs>were <strongs greek='3779'>thus</strongs><strongs greek='2680'>ordained</strongs>, <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2409'>priests</strongs><strongs greek='1524'>went</strongs><strongs greek='1275'>always</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4413'>first</strongs><strongs greek='4633'>tabernacle</strongs>, <strongs greek='2005'>accomplishing</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2999'>service</strongs><em>of</em> <em>God.</em> </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1208'>second</strongs><em>went</em> <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>high <strongs greek='749'>priest</strongs><strongs greek='3441'>alone</strongs><strongs greek='530'>once</strongs>every <strongs greek='1763'>year</strongs>, <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='5565'>without</strongs><strongs greek='129'>blood</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs>he <strongs greek='4374'>offered</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>himself</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>for</em> <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='51'>errors</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2992'>people</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs greek='3588'>The</strongs><strongs greek='40'>Holy</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>Ghost</strongs><strongs greek='5124'>this</strongs><strongs greek='1213'>signifying</strongs>, that <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3598'>way</strongs>into <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>holiest of <strongs greek='39'>all</strongs>was not <strongs greek='3380'>yet</strongs>made <strongs greek='5319'>manifest</strongs>, while as <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4413'>first</strongs><strongs greek='4633'>tabernacle</strongs><strongs greek='2192'>was</strongs><strongs greek='2089'>yet</strongs><strongs greek='4714'>standing</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs greek='3748'>Which</strongs><em>was</em> a <strongs greek='3850'>figure</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2540'>time</strongs>then <strongs greek='1764'>present</strongs>, <strongs greek='2596'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs>were <strongs greek='4374'>offered</strongs><strongs greek='5037'>both</strongs><strongs greek='1435'>gifts</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2378'>sacrifices</strongs>, that <strongs greek='1410'>could</strongs><strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs>make him that did the service <strongs greek='5048 3588 3000'>perfect</strongs>, as <strongs greek='2596'>pertaining</strongs>to the <strongs greek='4893'>conscience</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='10'><em>Which stood</em> <strongs greek='3440'>only</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>in</strongs><strongs greek='1033'>meats</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4188'>drinks</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1313'>divers</strongs><strongs greek='909'>washings</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4561'>carnal</strongs><strongs greek='1345'>ordinances</strongs>, <strongs greek='1945'>imposed</strongs><em>on</em> <em>them</em> <strongs greek='3360'>until</strongs>the <strongs greek='2540'>time</strongs>of <strongs greek='1357'>reformation</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>being <strongs greek='3854'>come</strongs>a high <strongs greek='749'>priest</strongs>of good <strongs greek='18'>things</strongs>to <strongs greek='3195'>come</strongs>, <strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs>a <strongs greek='3187'>greater</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>more <strongs greek='5046'>perfect</strongs><strongs greek='4633'>tabernacle</strongs>, <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>made with <strongs greek='5499'>hands</strongs>, that is to <strongs greek='5123'>say</strongs>, <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>of <strongs greek='5026'>this</strongs><strongs greek='2937'>building</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs greek='3761'>Neither</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs>the <strongs greek='129'>blood</strongs>of <strongs greek='5131'>goats</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3448'>calves</strongs>, <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs>his <strongs greek='2398'>own</strongs><strongs greek='129'>blood</strongs>he entered <strongs greek='1525'>in</strongs><strongs greek='2178'>once</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>holy <strongs greek='39'>place</strongs>, having <strongs greek='2147'>obtained</strongs><strongs greek='166'>eternal</strongs><strongs greek='3085'>redemption</strongs><em>for</em> <em>us.</em> </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='1487'>if</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='129'>blood</strongs>of <strongs greek='5022'>bulls</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>of <strongs greek='5131'>goats</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>the <strongs greek='4700'>ashes</strongs>of a <strongs greek='1151'>heifer</strongs><strongs greek='4472'>sprinkling</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2840'>unclean</strongs>, <strongs greek='37'>sanctifieth</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>to</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2514'>purifying</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4561'>flesh</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='14'>How <strongs greek='4214'>much</strongs><strongs greek='3123'>more</strongs>shall <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='129'>blood</strongs>of <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>who</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>through</strongs>the <strongs greek='166'>eternal</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>Spirit</strongs><strongs greek='4374'>offered</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>himself</strongs>without <strongs greek='299'>spot</strongs>to <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, <strongs greek='2511'>purge</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='4893'>conscience</strongs><strongs greek='575'>from</strongs><strongs greek='3498'>dead</strongs><strongs greek='2041'>works</strongs>to <strongs greek='3000'>serve</strongs>the <strongs greek='2198'>living</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>for this <strongs greek='1223 5124'>cause</strongs>he <strongs greek='2076'>is</strongs>the <strongs greek='3316'>mediator</strongs>of the <strongs greek='2537'>new</strongs><strongs greek='1242'>testament</strongs>, <strongs greek='3704'>that</strongs>by means of <strongs greek='2288 1096'>death</strongs>, <strongs greek='1519'>for</strongs>the <strongs greek='629'>redemption</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3847'>transgressions</strongs><em>that</em> <em>were</em> <strongs greek='1909'>under</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4413'>first</strongs><strongs greek='1242'>testament</strongs>, they which are <strongs greek='2564'>called</strongs>might <strongs greek='2983'>receive</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1860'>promise</strongs>of <strongs greek='166'>eternal</strongs><strongs greek='2817'>inheritance</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3699'>where</strongs>a <strongs greek='1242'>testament</strongs><em>is,</em> there must also of <strongs greek='318'>necessity</strongs><strongs greek='5342'>be</strongs>the <strongs greek='2288'>death</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1303'>testator</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>a <strongs greek='1242'>testament</strongs><em>is</em> of <strongs greek='949'>force</strongs>after men are <strongs greek='1909 3498'>dead</strongs>: <strongs greek='1893'>otherwise</strongs>it is of no strength at <strongs greek='2480 3379'>all</strongs><strongs greek='3753'>while</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1303'>testator</strongs><strongs greek='2198'>liveth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'><strongs greek='3606'>Whereupon</strongs><strongs greek='3761'>neither</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4413'>first</strongs><em>testament</em> was <strongs greek='1457'>dedicated</strongs><strongs greek='5565'>without</strongs><strongs greek='129'>blood</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='*5259'>when</strongs><strongs greek='3475'>Moses</strongs>had <strongs greek='2980'>spoken</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>every</strongs><strongs greek='1785'>precept</strongs>to <strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2992'>people</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>according</strongs>to the <strongs greek='3551'>law</strongs>, he <strongs greek='2983'>took</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='129'>blood</strongs>of <strongs greek='3448'>calves</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>of <strongs greek='5131'>goats</strongs>, <strongs greek='3326'>with</strongs><strongs greek='5204'>water</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2847'>scarlet</strongs><strongs greek='2053'>wool</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5301'>hyssop</strongs>, and <strongs greek='4472'>sprinkled</strongs><strongs greek='5037'>both</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='975'>book</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2992'>people</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='20'><strongs greek='3004'>Saying</strongs>, <strongs greek='5124'>This</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='129'>blood</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1242'>testament</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>hath <strongs greek='1781'>enjoined</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'><strongs greek='3668'>Moreover</strongs>he <strongs greek='4472'>sprinkled</strongs>with <strongs greek='129'>blood</strongs><strongs greek='1161'>both</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4633'>tabernacle</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4632'>vessels</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3009'>ministry</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='4975'>almost</strongs>all <strongs greek='3956'>things</strongs>are <strongs greek='2596'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3551'>law</strongs><strongs greek='2511'>purged</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>with</strongs><strongs greek='129'>blood</strongs>; <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5565'>without</strongs>shedding of <strongs greek='130'>blood</strongs><strongs greek='1096'>is</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>no</strongs><strongs greek='859'>remission</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'><em>It was</em> <strongs greek='3767'>therefore</strongs><strongs greek='318'>necessary</strongs>that <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5262'>patterns</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>things</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3772'>heavens</strongs>should be <strongs greek='2511'>purified</strongs>with <strongs greek='5125'>these</strongs>; <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>heavenly <strongs greek='2032'>things</strongs><strongs greek='846'>themselves</strongs>with <strongs greek='2909'>better</strongs><strongs greek='2378'>sacrifices</strongs><strongs greek='3844'>than</strongs><strongs greek='5025'>these</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>is <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1525'>entered</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs>the holy <strongs greek='39'>places</strongs>made with <strongs greek='5499'>hands</strongs>, <em>which</em> <em>are</em> the <strongs greek='499'>figures</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='228'>true</strongs>; <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs><strongs greek='3772'>heaven</strongs><strongs greek='846'>itself</strongs>, <strongs greek='3568'>now</strongs>to <strongs greek='1718'>appear</strongs>in <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4383'>presence</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>us</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='25'><strongs greek='3761'>Nor</strongs>yet <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>he should <strongs greek='4374'>offer</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>himself</strongs><strongs greek='4178'>often</strongs>, <strongs greek='5618'>as</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>high <strongs greek='749'>priest</strongs><strongs greek='1525'>entereth</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>holy <strongs greek='39'>place</strongs>every <strongs greek='2596 1763'>year</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>with</strongs><strongs greek='129'>blood</strongs>of <strongs greek='245'>others</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='26'>For <strongs greek='1893'>then</strongs><strongs greek='1163'>must</strongs><strongs greek='846'>he</strongs><strongs greek='4178'>often</strongs>have <strongs greek='3958'>suffered</strongs><strongs greek='575'>since</strongs>the <strongs greek='2602'>foundation</strongs>of the <strongs greek='2889'>world</strongs>: <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><strongs greek='3568'>now</strongs><strongs greek='530'>once</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>in</strongs>the <strongs greek='4930'>end</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='165'>world</strongs>hath he <strongs greek='5319'>appeared</strongs>to put <strongs greek='1519 115'>away</strongs><strongs greek='266'>sin</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2378'>sacrifice</strongs>of <strongs greek='848'>himself</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='2596 3745'>as</strongs>it is <strongs greek='606'>appointed</strongs>unto <strongs greek='444'>men</strongs><strongs greek='530'>once</strongs>to <strongs greek='599'>die</strongs>, <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><strongs greek='3326'>after</strongs><strongs greek='5124'>this</strongs>the <strongs greek='2920'>judgment</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='28'><strongs greek='3779'>So</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>was <strongs greek='530'>once</strongs><strongs greek='4374'>offered</strongs>to <strongs greek='399'>bear</strongs>the <strongs greek='266'>sins</strongs>of <strongs greek='4183'>many</strongs>; and unto them that look <strongs greek='553'>for</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>shall he <strongs greek='3700'>appear</strongs><strongs greek='*1537'>the</strongs>second <strongs greek='1208'>time</strongs><strongs greek='5565'>without</strongs><strongs greek='266'>sin</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='4991'>salvation</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='10'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3551'>law</strongs><strongs greek='2192'>having</strongs>a <strongs greek='4639'>shadow</strongs>of good <strongs greek='18'>things</strongs>to <strongs greek='3195'>come</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='846'>very</strongs><strongs greek='1504'>image</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4229'>things</strongs>, <strongs greek='1410'>can</strongs><strongs greek='3763'>never</strongs>with <strongs greek='846'>those</strongs><strongs greek='2378'>sacrifices</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs>they <strongs greek='4374'>offered</strongs>year by <strongs greek='2596 1763'>year</strongs><strongs greek='1519 1336'>continually</strongs>make the comers thereunto <strongs greek='5048 3588 4334'>perfect</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>For <strongs greek='1893'>then</strongs>would they <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>have <strongs greek='3973 302'>ceased</strongs>to be <strongs greek='4374'>offered</strongs>? because that <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3000'>worshipers</strongs><strongs greek='530'>once</strongs><strongs greek='2508'>purged</strongs>should have <strongs greek='2192'>had</strongs>no <strongs greek='2089 3367'>more</strongs><strongs greek='4893'>conscience</strongs>of <strongs greek='266'>sins</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs greek='235'>But</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='846'>those</strongs><em>sacrifices</em> <em>there</em> <em>is</em> a remembrance <strongs greek='364'>again</strongs><em>made</em> of <strongs greek='266'>sins</strongs>every <strongs greek='2596 1763'>year</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><em>it</em> <em>is</em> not <strongs greek='102'>possible</strongs>that the <strongs greek='129'>blood</strongs>of <strongs greek='5022'>bulls</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>of <strongs greek='5131'>goats</strongs>should take <strongs greek='851'>away</strongs><strongs greek='266'>sins</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='1352'>Wherefore</strongs>when he <strongs greek='1525'>cometh</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2889'>world</strongs>, he <strongs greek='3004'>saith</strongs>, <strongs greek='2378'>Sacrifice</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4376'>offering</strongs>thou <strongs greek='2309'>wouldest</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>, <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs>a <strongs greek='4983'>body</strongs>hast thou <strongs greek='2675'>prepared</strongs><strongs greek='3427'>me</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='6'>In burnt <strongs greek='3646'>offerings</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>sacrifices</em> <strongs greek='4012'>for</strongs><strongs greek='266'>sin</strongs>thou hast had no <strongs greek='2106 3756'>pleasure</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs greek='5119'>Then</strongs><strongs greek='2036'>said</strongs>I, <strongs greek='2400'>Lo</strongs>, I <strongs greek='2240'>come</strongs>( <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>the <strongs greek='2777'>volume</strongs>of the <strongs greek='975'>book</strongs>it is <strongs greek='1125'>written</strongs><strongs greek='4012'>of</strongs>me,) <strongs greek='1700'>to</strongs><strongs greek='4160'>do</strongs><strongs greek='4675'>thy</strongs><strongs greek='2307'>will</strongs>, O <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs greek='511'>Above</strongs>when he <strongs greek='3004'>said</strongs>, <strongs greek='2378'>Sacrifice</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4374'>offering</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>burnt <strongs greek='3646'>offerings</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>offering</em> <strongs greek='4012'>for</strongs><strongs greek='266'>sin</strongs>thou <strongs greek='2309'>wouldest</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>, <strongs greek='3761'>neither</strongs>hadst <strongs greek='2106'>pleasure</strongs><em>therein</em> ; <strongs greek='3748'>which</strongs>are <strongs greek='4376'>offered</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3551'>law</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs greek='5119'>Then</strongs><strongs greek='2046'>said</strongs>he, <strongs greek='2400'>Lo</strongs>, I <strongs greek='2240'>come</strongs>to <strongs greek='4160'>do</strongs><strongs greek='4675'>thy</strongs><strongs greek='2307'>will</strongs>, O <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>. He taketh <strongs greek='337'>away</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4413'>first</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>he may <strongs greek='2476'>establish</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1208'>second</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='1722'>By</strongs>the <strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs><strongs greek='2307'>will</strongs>we <strongs greek='2070'>are</strongs><strongs greek='37'>sanctified</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>through</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4376'>offering</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4983'>body</strongs>of <strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs><strongs greek='2178'>once</strongs><em>for</em> <em>all.</em> </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='3956 *3303'>every</strongs><strongs greek='2409'>priest</strongs><strongs greek='2476'>standeth</strongs><strongs greek='2596 2250'>daily</strongs><strongs greek='3008'>ministering</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4374'>offering</strongs><strongs greek='4178'>oftentimes</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='846'>same</strongs><strongs greek='2378'>sacrifices</strongs>, <strongs greek='3748'>which</strongs><strongs greek='1410'>can</strongs><strongs greek='3763'>never</strongs>take <strongs greek='4014'>away</strongs><strongs greek='266'>sins</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs>this <strongs greek='846'>man</strongs>, after he had <strongs greek='4374'>offered</strongs><strongs greek='3391'>one</strongs><strongs greek='2378'>sacrifice</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='266'>sins</strongs><strongs greek='1519 1336'>forever</strongs>, sat <strongs greek='2523'>down</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>on</strongs>the right <strongs greek='1188'>hand</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='13'>From <strongs greek='3063'>henceforth</strongs><strongs greek='1551'>expecting</strongs><strongs greek='2193'>till</strongs><strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='2190'>enemies</strongs>be <strongs greek='5087'>made</strongs>his <strongs greek='5286 846 4228'>footstool</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>by <strongs greek='3391'>one</strongs><strongs greek='4376'>offering</strongs>he hath <strongs greek='5048'>perfected</strongs><strongs greek='1519 1336'>forever</strongs>them that are <strongs greek='37'>sanctified</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'><em>Whereof</em> <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='40'>Holy</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>Ghost</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>is a <strongs greek='3140'>witness</strongs>to <strongs greek='2254'>us</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3326'>after</strongs>that he had said <strongs greek='4280'>before</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs greek='3778'>This</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1242'>covenant</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>that</strongs>I will <strongs greek='1303'>make</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>with</strongs><strongs greek='846'>them</strongs><strongs greek='3326'>after</strongs><strongs greek='1565'>those</strongs><strongs greek='2250'>days</strongs>, <strongs greek='3004'>saith</strongs>the <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>, I will <strongs greek='1325'>put</strongs><strongs greek='3450'>my</strongs><strongs greek='3551'>laws</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>into</strongs><strongs greek='846'>their</strongs><strongs greek='2588'>hearts</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>in</strongs><strongs greek='846'>their</strongs><strongs greek='1271'>minds</strongs>will I <strongs greek='1924'>write</strongs><strongs greek='846'>them</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='846'>their</strongs><strongs greek='266'>sins</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='*458'>iniquities</strongs>will I <strongs greek='3415'>remember</strongs>no <strongs greek='3364 2089'>more</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'><strongs greek='1161'>Now</strongs><strongs greek='3699'>where</strongs><strongs greek='859'>remission</strongs>of <strongs greek='5130'>these</strongs><em>is,</em> there <em>is</em> no <strongs greek='3765'>more</strongs><strongs greek='4376'>offering</strongs><strongs greek='4012'>for</strongs><strongs greek='266'>sin</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs greek='2192'>Having</strongs><strongs greek='3767'>therefore</strongs>, <strongs greek='80'>brethren</strongs>, <strongs greek='3954'>boldness</strongs>to enter <strongs greek='1519 1529'>into</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='39'>holiest</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='129'>blood</strongs>of <strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='20'>By a <strongs greek='4372'>new</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2198'>living</strongs><strongs greek='3598'>way</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs>he hath <strongs greek='1457'>consecrated</strongs>for <strongs greek='2254'>us</strongs>, <strongs greek='1223'>through</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2665'>veil</strongs>, that is to <strongs greek='5123'>say</strongs>, <strongs greek='848'>his</strongs><strongs greek='4561'>flesh</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='21'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><em>having</em> a <strongs greek='3173'>high</strongs><strongs greek='2409'>priest</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>over</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3624'>house</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='22'>Let us draw <strongs greek='4334'>near</strongs><strongs greek='3326'>with</strongs>a <strongs greek='228'>true</strongs><strongs greek='2588'>heart</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>full <strongs greek='4136'>assurance</strongs>of <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs>, having our <strongs greek='2588'>hearts</strongs><strongs greek='4472'>sprinkled</strongs><strongs greek='575'>from</strongs>an <strongs greek='4190'>evil</strongs><strongs greek='4893'>conscience</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>our <strongs greek='4983'>bodies</strongs><strongs greek='3068'>washed</strongs>with <strongs greek='2513'>pure</strongs><strongs greek='5204'>water</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>Let us hold <strongs greek='2722'>fast</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3671'>profession</strongs>of <em>our</em> <strongs greek='1680'>faith</strongs>without <strongs greek='186'>wavering</strongs>; ( <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>he <em>is</em> <strongs greek='4103'>faithful</strongs>that <strongs greek='1861'>promised</strongs>;) </verse>
            <verse number='24'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>let us <strongs greek='2657'>consider</strongs>one <strongs greek='240'>another</strongs>to provoke <strongs greek='1519 3948'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='26'>love</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>to <strongs greek='2570'>good</strongs><strongs greek='2041'>works</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='25'><strongs greek='3361'>Not</strongs><strongs greek='1459'>forsaking</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>assembling of ourselves <strongs greek='1997 1438'>together</strongs>, <strongs greek='2531'>as</strongs>the <strongs greek='1485'>manner</strongs>of <strongs greek='5100'>some</strongs><em>is</em> ; <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='3870'>exhorting</strongs><em>one</em> <em>another</em> : <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>so <strongs greek='5118'>much</strongs>the <strongs greek='3123'>more</strongs>, <strongs greek='3745'>as</strongs>ye <strongs greek='991'>see</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2250'>day</strongs><strongs greek='1448'>approaching</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>if <strongs greek='2257'>we</strongs><strongs greek='264'>sin</strongs><strongs greek='1596'>willfully</strongs>after that we have <strongs greek='2983'>received</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1922'>knowledge</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='225'>truth</strongs>, there <strongs greek='620'>remaineth</strongs>no <strongs greek='3765'>more</strongs><strongs greek='2378'>sacrifice</strongs><strongs greek='4012'>for</strongs><strongs greek='266'>sins</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='27'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs>a <strongs greek='5100'>certain</strongs><strongs greek='5398'>fearful</strongs>looking <strongs greek='1561'>for</strongs>of <strongs greek='2920'>judgment</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4442'>fiery</strongs><strongs greek='2205'>indignation</strongs>, which <strongs greek='3195'>shall</strongs><strongs greek='2068'>devour</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5227'>adversaries</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'><strongs greek='5100'>He</strongs>that <strongs greek='114'>despised</strongs><strongs greek='3475'>Moses</strongs>' <strongs greek='3551'>law</strongs><strongs greek='599'>died</strongs><strongs greek='5565'>without</strongs><strongs greek='3628'>mercy</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>under</strongs><strongs greek='1417'>two</strongs><strongs greek='2228'>or</strongs><strongs greek='5140'>three</strongs><strongs greek='3144'>witnesses</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='29'>Of how <strongs greek='4214'>much</strongs><strongs greek='5501'>sorer</strongs><strongs greek='5098'>punishment</strongs>, <strongs greek='1380'>suppose</strongs>ye, shall he be thought <strongs greek='515'>worthy</strongs>, who hath trodden under <strongs greek='2662'>foot</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5207'>Son</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>hath <strongs greek='2233'>counted</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='129'>blood</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1242'>covenant</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722 3739'>wherewith</strongs>he was <strongs greek='37'>sanctified</strongs>, an unholy <strongs greek='2839'>thing</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>hath done <strongs greek='1796'>despite</strongs>unto <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>Spirit</strongs>of <strongs greek='5485'>grace</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='30'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>we <strongs greek='1492'>know</strongs>him that hath <strongs greek='2036'>said</strongs>, <strongs greek='1557'>Vengeance</strongs><em>belongeth</em> unto <strongs greek='1698'>me</strongs>, <strongs greek='1473'>I</strongs>will <strongs greek='467'>recompense</strongs>, <strongs greek='3004'>saith</strongs>the <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>. <strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='3825'>again</strongs>, The <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>shall <strongs greek='2919'>judge</strongs><strongs greek='848'>his</strongs><strongs greek='2992'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'><em>It is</em> a fearful <strongs greek='5398'>thing</strongs>to <strongs greek='1706'>fall</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs>the <strongs greek='5495'>hands</strongs>of the <strongs greek='2198'>living</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs>call to <strongs greek='363'>remembrance</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4386'>former</strongs><strongs greek='2250'>days</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs>, after ye were <strongs greek='5461'>illuminated</strongs>, ye <strongs greek='5278'>endured</strongs>a <strongs greek='4183'>great</strongs><strongs greek='119'>fight</strongs>of <strongs greek='3804'>afflictions</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='33'><strongs greek='5124 3303'>Partly</strongs>, whilst ye were made a <strongs greek='2301'>gazingstock</strongs><strongs greek='5037'>both</strongs>by <strongs greek='3680'>reproaches</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2347'>afflictions</strongs>; <strongs greek='1161'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5124'>partly</strongs>, whilst ye <strongs greek='1096'>became</strongs><strongs greek='2844'>companions</strongs>of them that were so <strongs greek='390 3779'>used</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>ye had <strongs greek='4834 *2532'>compassion</strongs>of me in <strongs greek='3450'>my</strongs><strongs greek='1199'>bonds</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4327'>took</strongs><strongs greek='3326 5479'>joyfully</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='724'>spoiling</strongs>of <strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='5224'>goods</strongs>, <strongs greek='1097'>knowing</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>yourselves</strongs>that ye <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3772'>heaven</strongs>a <strongs greek='2909'>better</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>an <strongs greek='3306'>enduring</strongs><strongs greek='5223'>substance</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='35'>Cast not <strongs greek='577 3361'>away</strongs><strongs greek='3767'>therefore</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='3954'>confidence</strongs>, <strongs greek='3748'>which</strongs><strongs greek='2192'>hath</strongs><strongs greek='3173'>great</strongs>recompense of <strongs greek='3405'>reward</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='36'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>ye <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs><strongs greek='5532'>need</strongs>of <strongs greek='5281'>patience</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>, after ye have <strongs greek='4160'>done</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2307'>will</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, ye might <strongs greek='2865'>receive</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1860'>promise</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='37'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='2089'>yet</strongs>, a little <strongs greek='3397 3745 3745'>while</strongs>, and he that shall <strongs greek='2064'>come</strongs>will <strongs greek='2240'>come</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>will <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='5549'>tarry</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='38'><strongs greek='1161'>Now</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1342'>just</strongs>shall <strongs greek='2198'>live</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>by</strongs><strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs>: <strongs greek='2532'>but</strongs><strongs greek='1437'>if</strongs><em>any</em> <em>man</em> draw <strongs greek='5288'>back</strongs>, <strongs greek='3450'>my</strongs><strongs greek='5590'>soul</strongs>shall have no <strongs greek='2106 3756'>pleasure</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='39'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='2249'>we</strongs><strongs greek='2070'>are</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>of them who draw <strongs greek='5289'>back</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='684'>perdition</strongs>; <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>of them that <strongs greek='4102'>believe</strongs>to the <strongs greek='1519 4047'>saving</strongs>of the <strongs greek='5590'>soul</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='11'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs greek='1161'>Now</strongs><strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs><strongs greek='2076'>is</strongs>the <strongs greek='5287'>substance</strongs>of things hoped <strongs greek='1679'>for</strongs>, the <strongs greek='1650'>evidence</strongs>of <strongs greek='4229'>things</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='991'>seen</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>by</strongs><strongs greek='5026'>it</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4245'>elders</strongs>obtained a good <strongs greek='3140'>report</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Through <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs>we <strongs greek='3539'>understand</strongs>that <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='165'>worlds</strongs>were <strongs greek='2675'>framed</strongs>by the <strongs greek='4487'>word</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, so that things which are <strongs greek='991'>seen</strongs>were <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1096'>made</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs>things which do <strongs greek='5316'>appear</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>By <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs><strongs greek='6'>Abel</strongs><strongs greek='4374'>offered</strongs>unto <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>a more <strongs greek='4119'>excellent</strongs><strongs greek='2378'>sacrifice</strongs><strongs greek='3844'>than</strongs><strongs greek='2535'>Cain</strongs>, <strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs>he obtained <strongs greek='3140'>witness</strongs>that he <strongs greek='1511'>was</strongs><strongs greek='1342'>righteous</strongs>, <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='3140'>testifying</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>of</strongs><strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='1435'>gifts</strongs>: <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='846'>it</strongs>he being <strongs greek='599'>dead</strongs><strongs greek='2089'>yet</strongs><strongs greek='2980'>speaketh</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>By <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs><strongs greek='1802'>Enoch</strongs>was <strongs greek='3346'>translated</strongs>that he should <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1492'>see</strongs><strongs greek='2288'>death</strongs>; <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>was <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='2147'>found</strongs>, <strongs greek='1360'>because</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>had <strongs greek='3346'>translated</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs><strongs greek='4253'>before</strongs><strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='3331'>translation</strongs>he had this <strongs greek='3140'>testimony</strongs>, that he <strongs greek='2100'>pleased</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='5565'>without</strongs><strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs><em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs greek='102'>impossible</strongs>to <strongs greek='2100'>please</strongs><em>him</em> : <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>he that <strongs greek='4334'>cometh</strongs>to <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='1163'>must</strongs><strongs greek='4100'>believe</strongs><strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>he <strongs greek='2076'>is</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>that</em> he <strongs greek='1096'>is</strongs>a <strongs greek='3406'>rewarder</strongs>of them that diligently <strongs greek='1567'>seek</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>By <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs><strongs greek='3575'>Noah</strongs>, being warned of <strongs greek='5537'>God</strongs><strongs greek='4012'>of</strongs>things not seen as <strongs greek='3369 991'>yet</strongs>, moved with <strongs greek='2125'>fear</strongs>, <strongs greek='2680'>prepared</strongs>an <strongs greek='2787'>ark</strongs>to the <strongs greek='1519 4991'>saving</strongs>of <strongs greek='848'>his</strongs><strongs greek='3624'>house</strongs>; <strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs>the <strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs>he <strongs greek='2632'>condemned</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2889'>world</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1096'>became</strongs><strongs greek='2818'>heir</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1343'>righteousness</strongs>which is <strongs greek='2596'>by</strongs><strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>By <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs><strongs greek='11'>Abraham</strongs>, when he was <strongs greek='2564'>called</strongs>to go <strongs greek='1831'>out</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs>a <strongs greek='5117'>place</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs>he should <strongs greek='3195'>after</strongs><strongs greek='2983'>receive</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>for</strongs>an <strongs greek='2817'>inheritance</strongs>, <strongs greek='5219'>obeyed</strongs>; <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>he went <strongs greek='1831'>out</strongs>, <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1987'>knowing</strongs><strongs greek='4226'>whither</strongs>he <strongs greek='2064'>went</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>By <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs>he <strongs greek='3939'>sojourned</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1093'>land</strongs>of <strongs greek='1860'>promise</strongs>, as <em>in</em> a strange <strongs greek='245'>country</strongs>, <strongs greek='2730'>dwelling</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='4633'>tabernacles</strongs><strongs greek='3326'>with</strongs><strongs greek='2464'>Isaac</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2384'>Jacob</strongs>, <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>heirs with <strongs greek='4789'>him</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='846'>same</strongs><strongs greek='1860'>promise</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>he looked <strongs greek='1551'>for</strongs>a <strongs greek='4172'>city</strongs>which <strongs greek='2192'>hath</strongs><strongs greek='2310'>foundations</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>whose</strongs><strongs greek='5079'>builder</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1217'>maker</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Through <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><strongs greek='4564'>Sarah</strongs><strongs greek='846'>herself</strongs><strongs greek='2983'>received</strongs><strongs greek='1411'>strength</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>to</strongs><strongs greek='2602'>conceive</strongs><strongs greek='4690'>seed</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>was delivered of a <strongs greek='5088'>child</strongs>when she was past <strongs greek='3844 2244 2540'>age</strongs>, <strongs greek='1893'>because</strongs>she <strongs greek='2233'>judged</strongs>him <strongs greek='4103'>faithful</strongs>who had <strongs greek='1861'>promised</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs greek='1352'>Therefore</strongs><strongs greek='1080'>sprang</strongs>there <strongs greek='2532'>even</strongs><strongs greek='575'>of</strongs><strongs greek='1520'>one</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5023'>him</strongs>as good as <strongs greek='3499'>dead</strongs>, <em>so</em> <em>many</em> <strongs greek='2531'>as</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='798'>stars</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3772'>sky</strongs>in <strongs greek='4128'>multitude</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5616'>as</strongs>the <strongs greek='285'>sand</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>which</strongs>is <strongs greek='3844'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>sea <strongs greek='5491 2281'>shore</strongs><strongs greek='382'>innumerable</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs greek='3778'>These</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='599'>died</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>in</strongs><strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs>, <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs>having <strongs greek='2983'>received</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1860'>promises</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>having <strongs greek='1492'>seen</strongs><strongs greek='846'>them</strongs>afar <strongs greek='4207'>off</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>were <strongs greek='3982'>persuaded</strongs>of <em>them,</em> <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='782'>embraced</strongs><em>them,</em> <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3670'>confessed</strongs><strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>they <strongs greek='1526'>were</strongs><strongs greek='3581'>strangers</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3927'>pilgrims</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>on</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1093'>earth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>they that <strongs greek='3004'>say</strongs>such <strongs greek='5108'>things</strongs>declare <strongs greek='1718'>plainly</strongs><strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>they <strongs greek='1934'>seek</strongs>a <strongs greek='3968'>country</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='3303'>truly</strongs>, <strongs greek='1487'>if</strongs>they had been <strongs greek='3421'>mindful</strongs>of <strongs greek='1565'>that</strongs><em>country</em> <strongs greek='575'>from</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>whence</strongs>they came <strongs greek='1831'>out</strongs>, they might have <strongs greek='2192 302'>had</strongs><strongs greek='2540'>opportunity</strongs>to have <strongs greek='344'>returned</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='3570'>now</strongs>they <strongs greek='3713'>desire</strongs>a <strongs greek='2909'>better</strongs><em>country,</em> that <strongs greek='5123'>is</strongs>, a <strongs greek='2032'>heavenly</strongs>: <strongs greek='1352'>wherefore</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>is <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1870'>ashamed</strongs>to be <strongs greek='1941'>called</strongs><strongs greek='846'>their</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>he hath <strongs greek='2090'>prepared</strongs>for <strongs greek='846'>them</strongs>a <strongs greek='4172'>city</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>By <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs><strongs greek='11'>Abraham</strongs>, when he was <strongs greek='3985'>tried</strongs>, offered <strongs greek='4374'>up</strongs><strongs greek='2464'>Isaac</strongs>: <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>he that had <strongs greek='324'>received</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1860'>promises</strongs>offered <strongs greek='4374'>up</strongs>his only <strongs greek='3439'>begotten</strongs><em>son,</em> </verse>
            <verse number='18'><strongs greek='4314'>Of</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs>it was <strongs greek='2980'>said</strongs>, <strongs greek='3754'>That</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='2464'>Isaac</strongs>shall <strongs greek='4671'>thy</strongs><strongs greek='4690'>seed</strongs>be <strongs greek='2564'>called</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs greek='3049'>Accounting</strongs><strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs greek='1415'>able</strongs>to raise <em>him</em> <strongs greek='1453'>up</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>even</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>from</strongs>the <strongs greek='3498'>dead</strongs>; from <strongs greek='3606'>whence</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>he <strongs greek='2865'>received</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>a <strongs greek='3850'>figure</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>By <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs><strongs greek='2464'>Isaac</strongs><strongs greek='2127'>blessed</strongs><strongs greek='2384'>Jacob</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2269'>Esau</strongs><strongs greek='4012'>concerning</strongs>things to <strongs greek='3195'>come</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>By <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs><strongs greek='2384'>Jacob</strongs>, when he was a <strongs greek='599'>dying</strongs>, <strongs greek='2127'>blessed</strongs><strongs greek='1538'>both</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5207'>sons</strongs>of <strongs greek='2501'>Joseph</strongs>; <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4352'>worshiped</strongs>, <em>leaning</em> <strongs greek='1909'>upon</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='206'>top</strongs>of <strongs greek='848'>his</strongs><strongs greek='4464'>staff</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>By <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs><strongs greek='2501'>Joseph</strongs>, when he <strongs greek='5053'>died</strongs>, made <strongs greek='3421'>mention</strongs><strongs greek='4012'>of</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1841'>departing</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5207'>children</strongs>of <strongs greek='2474'>Israel</strongs>; <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>gave <strongs greek='1781'>commandment</strongs><strongs greek='4012'>concerning</strongs><strongs greek='848'>his</strongs><strongs greek='3747'>bones</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>By <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs><strongs greek='3475'>Moses</strongs>, when he was <strongs greek='1080'>born</strongs>, was <strongs greek='2928'>hid</strongs>three <strongs greek='5150'>months</strongs><strongs greek='5259'>of</strongs><strongs greek='848'>his</strongs><strongs greek='3962'>parents</strongs>, <strongs greek='1360'>because</strongs>they <strongs greek='1492'>saw</strongs><em>he</em> <em>was</em> a <strongs greek='791'>proper</strongs><strongs greek='3813'>child</strongs>; <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>they were not <strongs greek='5399 3756'>afraid</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='935'>king</strongs>'s <strongs greek='1297'>commandment</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>By <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs><strongs greek='3475'>Moses</strongs>, when he was come to <strongs greek='1096 3173'>years</strongs>, <strongs greek='720'>refused</strongs>to be <strongs greek='3004'>called</strongs>the <strongs greek='5207'>son</strongs>of <strongs greek='5328'>Pharaoh</strongs>'s <strongs greek='2364'>daughter</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='25'><strongs greek='138'>Choosing</strongs><strongs greek='3123'>rather</strongs>to suffer affliction <strongs greek='4778'>with</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2992'>people</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, <strongs greek='2228'>than</strongs>to enjoy the <strongs greek='2192 619'>pleasures</strongs>of <strongs greek='266'>sin</strongs>for a <strongs greek='4340'>season</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='26'><strongs greek='2233'>Esteeming</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3680'>reproach</strongs>of <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs><strongs greek='3187'>greater</strongs><strongs greek='4149'>riches</strongs>than <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2344'>treasures</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='125'>Egypt</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>he had <strongs greek='578'>respect</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>recompense of the <strongs greek='3405'>reward</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>By <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs>he <strongs greek='2641'>forsook</strongs><strongs greek='125'>Egypt</strongs>, <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='5399'>fearing</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2372'>wrath</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='935'>king</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>he <strongs greek='2594'>endured</strongs>, <strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs><strongs greek='3708'>seeing</strongs>him who is <strongs greek='517'>invisible</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>Through <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs>he <strongs greek='4160'>kept</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3957'>passover</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4378'>sprinkling</strongs>of <strongs greek='129'>blood</strongs>, <strongs greek='3363'>lest</strongs>he that <strongs greek='3645'>destroyed</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4416'>firstborn</strongs>should <strongs greek='2345'>touch</strongs><strongs greek='846'>them</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>By <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs>they passed <strongs greek='1224'>through</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2063'>Red</strongs><strongs greek='2281'>sea</strongs><strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3584'>dry</strongs><em>land</em> : <strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='124'>Egyptians</strongs>attempting to <strongs greek='2983 3984'>do</strongs>were <strongs greek='2666'>drowned</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>By <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5038'>walls</strongs>of <strongs greek='2410'>Jericho</strongs>fell <strongs greek='4098'>down</strongs>, after they were compassed <strongs greek='2944 *1909'>about</strongs><strongs greek='2033'>seven</strongs><strongs greek='2250'>days</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>By <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4204'>harlot</strongs><strongs greek='4460'>Rahab</strongs><strongs greek='4881'>perished</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>with them that believed <strongs greek='544'>not</strongs>, when she had <strongs greek='1209'>received</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2685'>spies</strongs><strongs greek='3326'>with</strongs><strongs greek='1515'>peace</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='5101'>what</strongs>shall I <strongs greek='2089'>more</strongs><strongs greek='3004'>say</strongs>? <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5550'>time</strongs>would <strongs greek='1952'>fail</strongs><strongs greek='3165'>me</strongs>to <strongs greek='1334'>tell</strongs><strongs greek='4012'>of</strongs><strongs greek='1066'>Gideon</strongs>, <strongs greek='5037'>and</strongs><em>of</em> <strongs greek='913'>Barak</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>of</em> <strongs greek='4546'>Samson</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>of</em> <strongs greek='2422'>Jephthah</strongs>; <em>of</em> <strongs greek='1138'>David</strongs><strongs greek='5037'>also</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4545'>Samuel</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>of</em> <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4396'>prophets</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='33'><strongs greek='3739'>Who</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>through</strongs><strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs><strongs greek='2610'>subdued</strongs><strongs greek='932'>kingdoms</strongs>, <strongs greek='2038'>wrought</strongs><strongs greek='1343'>righteousness</strongs>, <strongs greek='2013'>obtained</strongs><strongs greek='1860'>promises</strongs>, <strongs greek='5420'>stopped</strongs>the <strongs greek='4750'>mouths</strongs>of <strongs greek='3023'>lions</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='34'><strongs greek='4570'>Quenched</strongs>the <strongs greek='1411'>violence</strongs>of <strongs greek='4442'>fire</strongs>, <strongs greek='5343'>escaped</strongs>the <strongs greek='4750'>edge</strongs>of the <strongs greek='3162'>sword</strongs>, out <strongs greek='575'>of</strongs><strongs greek='769'>weakness</strongs>were made <strongs greek='1743'>strong</strongs>, <strongs greek='1096'>waxed</strongs><strongs greek='2478'>valiant</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='4171'>fight</strongs>, turned to <strongs greek='2827'>flight</strongs>the <strongs greek='3925'>armies</strongs>of the <strongs greek='245'>aliens</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='35'><strongs greek='1135'>Women</strongs><strongs greek='2983'>received</strongs><strongs greek='848'>their</strongs><strongs greek='3498'>dead</strongs>raised to life <strongs greek='1537 386'>again</strongs>: <strongs greek='1161'>and</strongs><strongs greek='243'>others</strongs>were <strongs greek='5178'>tortured</strongs>, <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='4327'>accepting</strongs><strongs greek='629'>deliverance</strongs>; <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>they might <strongs greek='5177'>obtain</strongs>a <strongs greek='2909'>better</strongs><strongs greek='386'>resurrection</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='36'><strongs greek='1161'>And</strongs><strongs greek='2087'>others</strongs><strongs greek='2983'>had</strongs><strongs greek='3984'>trial</strongs>of <em>cruel</em> <strongs greek='1701'>mockings</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3148'>scourgings</strongs>, <strongs greek='1161'>yea</strongs>, <strongs greek='2089'>moreover</strongs>of <strongs greek='1199'>bonds</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5438'>imprisonment</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='37'>They were <strongs greek='3034'>stoned</strongs>, they were sawn <strongs greek='4249'>asunder</strongs>, were <strongs greek='3985'>tempted</strongs>, were <strongs greek='599'>slain</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>with</strongs><strongs greek='*5408'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3162'>sword</strongs>: they wandered <strongs greek='4022'>about</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3374'>sheepskins</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='*122 1192'>goatskins</strongs>; being <strongs greek='5302'>destitute</strongs>, <strongs greek='2346'>afflicted</strongs>, <strongs greek='2558'>tormented</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='38'>(Of <strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2889'>world</strongs><strongs greek='2258'>was</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>worthy:) <strongs greek='514'>they</strongs><strongs greek='4105'>wandered</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='2047'>deserts</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>in</em> <strongs greek='3735'>mountains</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>in</em> <strongs greek='4693'>dens</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3692'>caves</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1093'>earth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='39'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='3778'>these</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs>, having obtained a good <strongs greek='3140'>report</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>through</strongs><strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs>, <strongs greek='2865'>received</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1860'>promise</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='40'><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>having <strongs greek='4265'>provided</strongs><strongs greek='5100'>some</strongs>better <strongs greek='2909'>thing</strongs><strongs greek='4012'>for</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>us</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>they <strongs greek='5565'>without</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>us</strongs>should <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs>be made <strongs greek='5048'>perfect</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='12'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs greek='5105'>Wherefore</strongs>seeing <strongs greek='2249'>we</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>are compassed <strongs greek='*4029'>about</strongs><strongs greek='*2254'>with</strongs>so <strongs greek='5118'>great</strongs>a <strongs greek='3509'>cloud</strongs>of <strongs greek='3144'>witnesses</strongs>, let us lay <strongs greek='659'>aside</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>every</strongs><strongs greek='3591'>weight</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>the <strongs greek='266'>sin</strongs>which doth so easily <strongs greek='2139'>beset</strongs><em>us,</em> <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>let us <strongs greek='5143'>run</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>with</strongs><strongs greek='5281'>patience</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='73'>race</strongs>that is set <strongs greek='4295'>before</strongs><strongs greek='2254'>us</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs greek='872'>Looking</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='747'>author</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5051'>finisher</strongs>of <em>our</em> <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs>; <strongs greek='3739'>who</strongs><strongs greek='473'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5479'>joy</strongs>that was set <strongs greek='4295'>before</strongs><strongs greek='848'>him</strongs><strongs greek='5278'>endured</strongs>the <strongs greek='4716'>cross</strongs>, <strongs greek='2706'>despising</strongs>the <strongs greek='152'>shame</strongs>, <strongs greek='5037'>and</strongs>is set <strongs greek='2523'>down</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>at</strongs>the right <strongs greek='1188'>hand</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2362'>throne</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='357'>consider</strongs>him that <strongs greek='5278'>endured</strongs><strongs greek='5108'>such</strongs><strongs greek='485'>contradiction</strongs><strongs greek='5259'>of</strongs><strongs greek='268'>sinners</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>against</strongs><strongs greek='848'>himself</strongs>, <strongs greek='3363'>lest</strongs>ye be <strongs greek='2577'>wearied</strongs>and <strongs greek='1590'>faint</strongs>in <strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='5590'>minds</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Ye have not <strongs greek='3768'>yet</strongs><strongs greek='478'>resisted</strongs><strongs greek='3360'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='129'>blood</strongs>, <strongs greek='464'>striving</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>against</strongs><strongs greek='266'>sin</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>ye have <strongs greek='1585'>forgotten</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3874'>exhortation</strongs><strongs greek='3748'>which</strongs><strongs greek='1256'>speaketh</strongs>unto <strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs><strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs>unto <strongs greek='5207'>children</strongs>, <strongs greek='3450'>My</strongs><strongs greek='5207'>son</strongs>, <strongs greek='3643'>despise</strongs><strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs>thou the <strongs greek='3809'>chastening</strongs>of the <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>, <strongs greek='3366'>nor</strongs><strongs greek='1590'>faint</strongs>when thou art <strongs greek='1651'>rebuked</strongs><strongs greek='5259'>of</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs>the <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs><strongs greek='25'>loveth</strongs>he <strongs greek='3811'>chasteneth</strongs>, <strongs greek='1161'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3146'>scourgeth</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>every</strongs><strongs greek='5207'>son</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs>he <strongs greek='3858'>receiveth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs greek='1487'>If</strongs>ye <strongs greek='5278'>endure</strongs><strongs greek='3809'>chastening</strongs>, <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='4374'>dealeth</strongs>with <strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs><strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs>with <strongs greek='5207'>sons</strongs>; <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs><strongs greek='5101'>what</strongs><strongs greek='5207'>son</strongs><strongs greek='2076'>is</strongs>he <strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs>the <strongs greek='3962'>father</strongs><strongs greek='3811'>chasteneth</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='1487'>if</strongs>ye <strongs greek='2075'>be</strongs><strongs greek='5565'>without</strongs><strongs greek='3809'>chastisement</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>whereof</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='1096'>are</strongs><strongs greek='3353'>partakers</strongs>, <strongs greek='686'>then</strongs><strongs greek='2075'>are</strongs>ye <strongs greek='3541'>bastards</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='5207'>sons</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs greek='1534'>Furthermore</strongs>we have <strongs greek='2192'>had</strongs><strongs greek='3962'>fathers</strongs>of <strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='4561'>flesh</strongs>which <strongs greek='*3810'>corrected</strongs><em>us,</em> <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>we gave <em>them</em> <strongs greek='1788'>reverence</strongs>: shall we <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='4183'>much</strongs><strongs greek='3123'>rather</strongs>be in <strongs greek='5293'>subjection</strongs>unto <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3962'>Father</strongs>of <strongs greek='4151'>spirits</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2198'>live</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>they</strongs><strongs greek='3303'>verily</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>for</strongs>a <strongs greek='3641'>few</strongs><strongs greek='2250'>days</strongs><strongs greek='3811'>chastened</strongs><em>us</em> <strongs greek='2596'>after</strongs>their <strongs greek='848'>own</strongs><strongs greek='1380'>pleasure</strongs>; <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>he</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>for</strongs><em>our</em> <strongs greek='4851'>profit</strongs>, that <em>we</em> might be <strongs greek='3335'>partakers</strongs>of <strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='41'>holiness</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs greek='1161'>Now</strongs><strongs greek='3956 3756'>no</strongs><strongs greek='3809'>chastening</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3918'>present</strongs><strongs greek='1380'>seemeth</strongs>to <strongs greek='1511'>be</strongs><strongs greek='5479'>joyous</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='3077'>grievous</strongs>: <strongs greek='1161'>nevertheless</strongs><strongs greek='5305'>afterward</strongs>it <strongs greek='591'>yieldeth</strongs>the <strongs greek='1516'>peaceable</strongs><strongs greek='2590'>fruit</strongs>of <strongs greek='1343'>righteousness</strongs>unto them which are <strongs greek='1128'>exercised</strongs><strongs greek='1223 846'>thereby</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs greek='1352'>Wherefore</strongs>lift <strongs greek='461'>up</strongs>the <strongs greek='5495'>hands</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>which</strongs>hang <strongs greek='3935'>down</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3886'>feeble</strongs><strongs greek='1119'>knees</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='4160'>make</strongs><strongs greek='3717'>straight</strongs><strongs greek='5163'>paths</strongs>for <strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='4228'>feet</strongs>, <strongs greek='3363'>lest</strongs>that which is <strongs greek='5560'>lame</strongs>be turned out of the <strongs greek='1624'>way</strongs>; <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs>let it <strongs greek='3123'>rather</strongs>be <strongs greek='2390'>healed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='1377'>Follow</strongs><strongs greek='1515'>peace</strongs><strongs greek='3326'>with</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><em>men,</em> <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='38'>holiness</strongs>, <strongs greek='5565'>without</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs>no <strongs greek='3762'>man</strongs>shall <strongs greek='3700'>see</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='15'>Looking <strongs greek='1983'>diligently</strongs><strongs greek='3361'>lest</strongs>any <strongs greek='5100'>man</strongs><strongs greek='5302'>fail</strongs><strongs greek='575'>of</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5485'>grace</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>; <strongs greek='3361'>lest</strongs><strongs greek='5100'>any</strongs><strongs greek='4491'>root</strongs>of <strongs greek='4088'>bitterness</strongs><strongs greek='5453'>springing</strongs><strongs greek='507'>up</strongs><strongs greek='1776'>trouble</strongs><em>you,</em> <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1223 5026'>thereby</strongs><strongs greek='4183'>many</strongs>be <strongs greek='3392'>defiled</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs greek='3361'>Lest</strongs>there <em>be</em> <strongs greek='5100'>any</strongs><strongs greek='4205'>fornicator</strongs>, <strongs greek='2228'>or</strongs>profane <strongs greek='952'>person</strongs>, <strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs><strongs greek='2269'>Esau</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>who</strongs><strongs greek='473'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3391'>one</strongs>morsel of <strongs greek='1035'>meat</strongs><strongs greek='591'>sold</strongs><strongs greek='848'>his</strongs><strongs greek='4415'>birthright</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>ye <strongs greek='2467'>know</strongs>how <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs><strongs greek='3347'>afterward</strongs>, when he <strongs greek='2309'>would</strongs>have <strongs greek='2816'>inherited</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2129'>blessing</strongs>, he was <strongs greek='593'>rejected</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>he <strongs greek='2147'>found</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>no</strongs><strongs greek='5117'>place</strongs>of <strongs greek='3341'>repentance</strongs>, <strongs greek='2539'>though</strongs>he sought it <strongs greek='1567 846'>carefully</strongs><strongs greek='3326'>with</strongs><strongs greek='1144'>tears</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>ye are <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='4334'>come</strongs>unto the <strongs greek='3735'>mount</strongs>that might be <strongs greek='5584'>touched</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>that <strongs greek='2545'>burned</strongs>with <strongs greek='4442'>fire</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>nor</strongs>unto <strongs greek='1105'>blackness</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4655'>darkness</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2366'>tempest</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>the <strongs greek='2279'>sound</strongs>of a <strongs greek='4536'>trumpet</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>the <strongs greek='5456'>voice</strongs>of <strongs greek='4487'>words</strongs>; <strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs><em>voice</em> they that <strongs greek='191'>heard</strongs><strongs greek='3868'>entreated</strongs>that the <strongs greek='3056'>word</strongs>should <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs>be spoken to them any <strongs greek='4369 846'>more</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='20'>( <strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>they could <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='5342'>endure</strongs>that which was <strongs greek='1291'>commanded</strongs>, And if so much <strongs greek='2579'>as</strongs>a <strongs greek='2342'>beast</strongs><strongs greek='2345'>touch</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3735'>mountain</strongs>, it shall be <strongs greek='3036'>stoned</strongs>, or thrust <strongs greek='2700'>through</strongs>with a <strongs greek='1002'>dart</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='21'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='3779'>so</strongs><strongs greek='5398'>terrible</strongs><strongs greek='2258'>was</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5324'>sight</strongs>, <em>that</em> <strongs greek='3475'>Moses</strongs><strongs greek='2036'>said</strongs>, I exceedingly <strongs greek='*1510 1630'>fear</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1790'>quake</strongs>:) </verse>
            <verse number='22'><strongs greek='235'>But</strongs>ye are come <strongs greek='4334'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='3735'>mount</strongs><strongs greek='4622'>Zion</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>unto the <strongs greek='4172'>city</strongs>of the <strongs greek='2198'>living</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, the <strongs greek='2032'>heavenly</strongs><strongs greek='2419'>Jerusalem</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>to an innumerable <strongs greek='3461'>company</strongs>of <strongs greek='32'>angels</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='23'>To the general <strongs greek='3831'>assembly</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1577'>church</strongs>of the <strongs greek='4416'>firstborn</strongs>, which are <strongs greek='583'>written</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3772'>heaven</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>to <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>the <strongs greek='2923'>Judge</strongs>of <strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>to the <strongs greek='4151'>spirits</strongs>of just <strongs greek='1342'>men</strongs>made <strongs greek='5048'>perfect</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='24'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>to <strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs>the <strongs greek='3316'>mediator</strongs>of the <strongs greek='3501'>new</strongs><strongs greek='1242'>covenant</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>to the <strongs greek='129'>blood</strongs>of <strongs greek='4473'>sprinkling</strongs>, that <strongs greek='2980'>speaketh</strongs>better <strongs greek='2909'>things</strongs><strongs greek='3844'>than</strongs><em>that</em> <em>of</em> <strongs greek='6'>Abel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'><strongs greek='991'>See</strongs>that ye <strongs greek='3868'>refuse</strongs><strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs>him that <strongs greek='2980'>speaketh</strongs>. <strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='1487'>if</strongs><strongs greek='1565'>they</strongs><strongs greek='5343'>escaped</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>who <strongs greek='3868'>refused</strongs>him that <strongs greek='5537'>spake</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>on</strongs><strongs greek='1093'>earth</strongs>, <strongs greek='4183'>much</strongs><strongs greek='3123'>more</strongs><em>shall</em> <em>not</em> <strongs greek='2249'>we</strongs><em>escape,</em> if we turn away <strongs greek='654'>from</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>him</strongs>that <em>speaketh</em> <strongs greek='575'>from</strongs><strongs greek='3772'>heaven</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='26'><strongs greek='3739'>Whose</strongs><strongs greek='5456'>voice</strongs><strongs greek='5119'>then</strongs><strongs greek='4531'>shook</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1093'>earth</strongs>: <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><strongs greek='3568'>now</strongs>he hath <strongs greek='1861'>promised</strongs>, <strongs greek='3004'>saying</strongs>, <strongs greek='2089'>Yet</strongs>once <strongs greek='530'>more</strongs><strongs greek='1473'>I</strongs><strongs greek='4579'>shake</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1093'>earth</strongs><strongs greek='3440'>only</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><strongs greek='3772'>heaven</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'><strongs greek='1161'>And</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>this</strongs><em>word,</em> <strongs greek='2089'>Yet</strongs>once <strongs greek='530'>more</strongs>, <strongs greek='1213'>signifieth</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3331'>removing</strongs>of those things that are <strongs greek='4531'>shaken</strongs>, <strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs>of things that are <strongs greek='4160'>made</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>those things which cannot be <strongs greek='4531 3361'>shaken</strongs>may <strongs greek='3306'>remain</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'><strongs greek='1352'>Wherefore</strongs>we <strongs greek='3880'>receiving</strongs>a <strongs greek='932'>kingdom</strongs>which cannot be <strongs greek='761'>moved</strongs>, let us <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs><strongs greek='5485'>grace</strongs>, <strongs greek='1223 3739'>whereby</strongs>we may <strongs greek='3000'>serve</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='2102'>acceptably</strongs><strongs greek='3326'>with</strongs><strongs greek='127'>reverence</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>godly <strongs greek='2124'>fear</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='29'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><em>is</em> a <strongs greek='2654'>consuming</strongs><strongs greek='4442'>fire</strongs>. </verse>
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        <chapter number='13'>
            <verse number='1'>Let brotherly <strongs greek='5360'>love</strongs><strongs greek='3306'>continue</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>Be not <strongs greek='1950 3361'>forgetful</strongs>to entertain <strongs greek='5381'>strangers</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs><strongs greek='1223 5026'>thereby</strongs><strongs greek='5100'>some</strongs>have <strongs greek='3579'>entertained</strongs><strongs greek='32'>angels</strongs><strongs greek='2990'>unawares</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs greek='3403'>Remember</strongs>them that are in <strongs greek='1198'>bonds</strongs>, <strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs>bound <strongs greek='4887'>with</strongs>them; <em>and</em> them which suffer <strongs greek='2558'>adversity</strongs>, <strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs><strongs greek='5607'>being</strongs><strongs greek='848'>yourselves</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>the <strongs greek='4983'>body</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs greek='1062'>Marriage</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='5093'>honorable</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2845'>bed</strongs><strongs greek='283'>undefiled</strongs>: <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><strongs greek='4205'>whoremongers</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3432'>adulterers</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>will <strongs greek='2919'>judge</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><em>Let your</em> <strongs greek='5158'>conversation</strongs><em>be</em> without <strongs greek='866'>covetousness</strongs>; <em>and</em> <em>be</em> <strongs greek='714'>content</strongs>with such things as ye <strongs greek='3918'>have</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs><strongs greek='846'>he</strongs>hath <strongs greek='2046'>said</strongs>, I will <strongs greek='3364'>never</strongs><strongs greek='447'>leave</strongs><strongs greek='4571'>thee</strongs>, <strongs greek='3761'>nor</strongs><strongs greek='1459'>forsake</strongs><strongs greek='4571'>thee</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>So <strongs greek='5620'>that</strongs><strongs greek='2248'>we</strongs>may <strongs greek='2292'>boldly</strongs><strongs greek='3004'>say</strongs>, The <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='1698'>my</strongs><strongs greek='998'>helper</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>I will <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='5399'>fear</strongs><strongs greek='5101'>what</strongs><strongs greek='444'>man</strongs>shall <strongs greek='4160'>do</strongs>unto <strongs greek='3427'>me</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs greek='3421'>Remember</strongs>them which have the rule <strongs greek='2233'>over</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='3748'>who</strongs>have <strongs greek='2980'>spoken</strongs>unto <strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3056'>word</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>: <strongs greek='3739'>whose</strongs><strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs><strongs greek='3401'>follow</strongs>, <strongs greek='333'>considering</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1545'>end</strongs>of <em>their</em> <strongs greek='391'>conversation</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='846'>same</strongs><strongs greek='5504'>yesterday</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4594'>today</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1519 165'>forever</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Be <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs>carried <strongs greek='4064'>about</strongs>with <strongs greek='4164'>divers</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3581'>strange</strongs><strongs greek='1322'>doctrines</strongs>. <strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><em>it</em> <em>is</em> a good <strongs greek='2570'>thing</strongs>that <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2588'>heart</strongs>be <strongs greek='950'>established</strongs>with <strongs greek='5485'>grace</strongs>; <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>with <strongs greek='1033'>meats</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs>have <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='5623'>profited</strongs>them that have been occupied <strongs greek='4043'>therein</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>We <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs>an <strongs greek='2379'>altar</strongs>, <strongs greek='1537 3739'>whereof</strongs>they <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>no</strongs><strongs greek='1849'>right</strongs>to <strongs greek='5315'>eat</strongs>which <strongs greek='3000'>serve</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4633'>tabernacle</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4983'>bodies</strongs>of <strongs greek='5130'>those</strongs><strongs greek='2226'>beasts</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>whose</strongs><strongs greek='129'>blood</strongs>is <strongs greek='1533'>brought</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='39'>sanctuary</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>high <strongs greek='749'>priest</strongs><strongs greek='4012'>for</strongs><strongs greek='266'>sin</strongs>, are <strongs greek='2618'>burned</strongs><strongs greek='1854'>without</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3925'>camp</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs greek='1352'>Wherefore</strongs><strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>he might <strongs greek='37'>sanctify</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2992'>people</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>with</strongs>his <strongs greek='2398'>own</strongs><strongs greek='129'>blood</strongs>, <strongs greek='3958'>suffered</strongs><strongs greek='1854'>without</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4439'>gate</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>Let us go <strongs greek='1831'>forth</strongs><strongs greek='5106'>therefore</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs><strongs greek='1854'>without</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3925'>camp</strongs>, <strongs greek='5342'>bearing</strongs><strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='3680'>reproach</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='5602'>here</strongs><strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs>we <strongs greek='3756'>no</strongs><strongs greek='3306'>continuing</strongs><strongs greek='4172'>city</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>we <strongs greek='1934'>seek</strongs>one to <strongs greek='3195'>come</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs greek='1223'>By</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs><strongs greek='3767'>therefore</strongs>let us <strongs greek='399'>offer</strongs>the <strongs greek='2378'>sacrifice</strongs>of <strongs greek='133'>praise</strongs>to <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='1275'>continually</strongs>, that <strongs greek='5123'>is</strongs>, the <strongs greek='2590'>fruit</strongs>of <em>our</em> <strongs greek='5491'>lips</strongs>giving <strongs greek='3670'>thanks</strongs>to <strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='3686'>name</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs>to do <strongs greek='2140'>good</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>to <strongs greek='2842'>communicate</strongs><strongs greek='1950'>forget</strongs><strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>with <strongs greek='5108'>such</strongs><strongs greek='2378'>sacrifices</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>is well <strongs greek='2100'>pleased</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs greek='3982'>Obey</strongs>them that have the rule <strongs greek='2233'>over</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5226'>submit</strongs>yourselves: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs><strongs greek='846'>they</strongs><strongs greek='69'>watch</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='5590'>souls</strongs>, <strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs>they that must <strongs greek='591'>give</strongs><strongs greek='3056'>account</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>they may <strongs greek='4160'>do</strongs><strongs greek='5124'>it</strongs><strongs greek='3326'>with</strongs><strongs greek='5479'>joy</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs>with <strongs greek='4727'>grief</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs><strongs greek='5124'>that</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='255'>unprofitable</strongs>for <strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'><strongs greek='4336'>Pray</strongs><strongs greek='4012'>for</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>us</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>we <strongs greek='3982'>trust</strongs><strongs greek='*3754'>we</strongs><strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs>a <strongs greek='2570'>good</strongs><strongs greek='4893'>conscience</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>all <strongs greek='3956'>things</strongs><strongs greek='2309'>willing</strongs>to live <strongs greek='390 2573'>honestly</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs>I <strongs greek='3870'>beseech</strongs><em>you</em> the <strongs greek='4056'>rather</strongs>to <strongs greek='4160'>do</strongs><strongs greek='5124'>this</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>I may be <strongs greek='600'>restored</strongs>to <strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs>the <strongs greek='5032'>sooner</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'><strongs greek='1161'>Now</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>of <strongs greek='1515'>peace</strongs>, that brought <strongs greek='321'>again</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>from</strongs>the <strongs greek='3498'>dead</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs><strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs>, that <strongs greek='3173'>great</strongs><strongs greek='4166'>shepherd</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4263'>sheep</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>through</strongs>the <strongs greek='129'>blood</strongs>of the <strongs greek='166'>everlasting</strongs><strongs greek='1242'>covenant</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='21'>Make you <strongs greek='2675 5209'>perfect</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>every</strongs><strongs greek='18'>good</strongs><strongs greek='2041'>work</strongs>to <strongs greek='4160'>do</strongs><strongs greek='848'>his</strongs><strongs greek='2307'>will</strongs>, <strongs greek='4160'>working</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs>that which is <strongs greek='2101'>wellpleasing</strongs>in his <strongs greek='1799 848'>sight</strongs>, <strongs greek='1223'>through</strongs><strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>; to <strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs greek='1391'>glory</strongs>forever and <strongs greek='1519 165 165'>ever</strongs>. <strongs greek='281'>Amen</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'><strongs greek='1161'>And</strongs>I <strongs greek='3870'>beseech</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='80'>brethren</strongs>, <strongs greek='430'>suffer</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3056'>word</strongs>of <strongs greek='3874'>exhortation</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>I <strongs greek='*2532'>have</strongs>written a <strongs greek='1989'>letter</strongs>unto <strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>in</strongs>few <strongs greek='1024'>words</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'><strongs greek='1097'>Know</strongs>ye that <em>our</em> <strongs greek='80'>brother</strongs><strongs greek='5095'>Timothy</strongs>is set at <strongs greek='630'>liberty</strongs>; <strongs greek='3326'>with</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs>, <strongs greek='1437'>if</strongs>he <strongs greek='2064'>come</strongs><strongs greek='5032'>shortly</strongs>, I will <strongs greek='3700'>see</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'><strongs greek='782'>Salute</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs>them that have the rule <strongs greek='2233'>over</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='40'>saints</strongs>. <strongs greek='3588'>They</strongs><strongs greek='575'>of</strongs><strongs greek='2482'>Italy</strongs><strongs greek='782'>salute</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'><strongs greek='5485'>Grace</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs greek='3326'>with</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs>. <strongs greek='281'>Amen</strongs>. </verse>
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