Service Well-pleasing to God

131 Let brotherly love remain; 2 of the hospitality be not forgetful, for through this unawares certain did entertain messengers; 3 be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being in the body; 4 honourable 'is' the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge. 5 Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, 'No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,' 6 so that we do boldly say, 'The Lord 'is' to me a helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.' 7 Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith—considering the issue of the behaviour—be imitating, 8 Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages; 9 with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for 'it is' good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited; 10 we have an altar, of which to eat they have no authority who the tabernacle are serving, 11 for of those beasts whose blood is brought for sin into the holy places through the chief priest—of these the bodies are burned without the camp. 12 Wherefore, also Jesus—that he might sanctify through 'his' own blood the people—without the gate did suffer; 13 now, then, may we go forth unto him without the camp, his reproach bearing; 14 for we have not here an abiding city, but the coming one we seek; 15 through him, then, we may offer up a sacrifice of praise always to God, that is, the fruit of lips, giving thanks to His name; 16 and of doing good, and of fellowship, be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased. 17 Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this 'is' unprofitable to you.

18 Pray for us, for we trust that we have a good conscience, in all things willing to behave well, 19 and more abundantly do I call upon 'you' to do this, that more quickly I may be restored to you.

Benediction and Final Greetings

20 And the God of the peace, who did bring up out of the dead the great shepherd of the sheep—in the blood of an age-during covenant—our Lord Jesus, 21 make you perfect in every good work to do His will, doing in you that which is well-pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom 'is' the glory—to the ages of the ages! Amen. 22 And I entreat you, brethren, suffer the word of the exhortation, for also through few words I have written to you. 23 Know ye that the brother Timotheus is released, with whom, if he may come more shortly, I will see you. 24 Salute all those leading you, and all the saints; salute you doth those from Italy: 25 the grace 'is' with you all! Amen.

Christ Superior to Moses

31 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Christ Jesus, 2 being stedfast to Him who did appoint him, as also Moses in all his house, 3 for of more glory than Moses hath this one been counted worthy, inasmuch as more honour than the house hath he who doth build it, 4 for every house is builded by some one, and He who the all things did build 'is' God, 5 and Moses indeed 'was' stedfast in all his house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken, 6 and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.

A Rest for the People of God

7 Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, 'To-day, if His voice ye may hear— 8 ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness, 9 in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years; 10 wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways; 11 so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest—!') 12 See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God, 13 but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin, 14 for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast, 15 in its being said, 'To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,' 16 for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses; 17 but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? 18 and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe?— 19 and we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.