Hebrews 13
25 verses
The command to pursue brotherly love (philadelphia), to practice hospitality to strangers (some have entertained angels), and to care for prisoners remembers identifying with them establishes concrete justice and mercy as expressions of faith, bodies and freedom becoming contexts for gospel witness. The honor of marriage and purity of sexual life contrasted with God's judgment on fornicators and adulterers establishes sexual ethics grounded in divine accountability, Christian virtue rooted in reverence for God's judgment. Freedom from love of money with contentment (autarkeia) remembering God's promise I will never leave you nor forsake you—the Lord is my helper, I will not fear—establishes financial peace rooted in confidence in divine provision, the quote subverting Psalm 118 to apply God's promise universally. Jesus Christ the same yesterday and today and forever grounds Christian steadiness in Christ's immutable nature, making his constancy the foundation for believers' faithfulness even as false teachings proliferate. The call to go to him outside the camp bearing his reproach—here we have no lasting city—establishes Christian identity as outsider identity, believers' pilgrimage orientation precluding settlement in earthly structures, Christ's reproach the cost of following him. The sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips confessing his name, redefines sacrifice in the post-Levitical world as vocative, praise and thanksgiving replacing animal offerings. The closing prayer—the God of peace who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep by the blood of the eternal covenant—grounds all encouragement in resurrection reality, Christ's exaltation from death the guarantee of God's power to establish believers wholly, equip them for every good work, working in them what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
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Let brotherly love continue.
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Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
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Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
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Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
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Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
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So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
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Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
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Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
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Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
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We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
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For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
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Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
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Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
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For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
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By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
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But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
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God is faithful in every circumstance.. I love how this passage doesn't shy away from the difficulty of obedience. God i...
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Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
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Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
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But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
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Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
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Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
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And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
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Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.
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Now I understand why — it's a daily declaration of dependence on God.. I notice the repetition here is deliberate — the ...
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Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.
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Grace be with you all. Amen. Written to the Hebrews from Italy by Timothy.
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