Hebrews 13
1. May you be bound with brotherly love.
2. And do not lose your mercy toward strangers. For this is how a human being is deemed worthy to receive angels while awake.
3. Remember those who are imprisoned, as if you were imprisoned with them. Remember those who are persecuted, as you are also a human being in the flesh.
4. All married couples are to be honored, and their bed is clean. Those who are adulterers and fornicators, however, God will judge.
5. Do not let your mercy be guided by money, except expend everything you have for the sake of mercy. For the Lord has said, "I shall neither leave you, nor loosen my hold on you."
6. And we have this assurance as He has said, "My Lord is my backer, I submit to no one, what can the human being do to me?"
7. Remember your leaders in ministry, those who spoke to you of the Manifestation of God. Imitate their relentless service and proclaim their faith.
8. Eashoa the Messiah is the fulfillment of yesterday, today and forever.*
9. Do not follow the foreign and constantly changing knowledge of others. For it is beautiful that our hearts be justified by grace and not by what we eat, because diet was not much help to those that followed it.
10. We have an altar, however, from which those who served at the tabernacle have no authority to eat.
11. For the beasts that the king priests brought their blood into the holy of holies, [to be offered] on behalf of sins, their meat was cooked* after the ceremonial forgiveness of sins.*
12. Because of that Eashoa also when He sanctified His people with His blood, after He entered the City, He Sorrowed.
13. And we also likewise who went out to Him after the forgiveness of sins, accepted His sacrificed Body.
14. For we have no city established here now, except we hold on for the one destined to come.
15. And by His hand we raise the offerings of glory for God in every season, those that are "the lambs" from the lips of those who confess His name.
16. And do not lose your mercy for and association with the poor, for through these actions does a human being glorify God.
17. Adhere to your leaders in ministry and listen to them, for they hold the vigil on behalf of your souls, like the human being who gives the accounting on your behalf, so as that they may do this with joy and not while sighing in despair because you do not show appreciation.
18. Pray over us. For we rely on that consciousness of blessings, so that through everything we wish for, we may lead beautifully.
19. Moreover, I beg you to do this, so as I may return to you very soon.
20. Then the God of Peace, who rose from the dead to be the great shepherd of the Church through the blood of the Covenant, who is Eashoa the Messiah our Lord,
21. He who preserves you through every blessed act to do His will, He who pledges through us that which is beautiful before Him, by the hand of Eashoa the Messiah, to Whom is the glory to the end of the universe of all the universes, amen.
22. I beg you, then, my brothers and sisters, to let your spirits flow through the Manifestation of Love, as I have written you in all detail.
23. You shall come to know our brother Timothy, who has been redeemed. And if I should come soon, I will see you together with him.
24. Shalom to all your leaders in the ministry, and all the saints. All of us from Italy say shalom.
25. Blessings to all of you, amen.(The end of the Letter to the Hebrews that was written from Italy.)
*13:8 Lit. Ar. id.: "To the end of the universe."
*13:11.1 Lit. Ar. idiomatic figure of speech: "Burned."
*13:11.2 Lit. Ar. id.: "The loosening." Or: "the untying."
Translated by Victor Alexander © 2001
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