 CHAPTER 1 In many parts, in many ways, God of old, having spoken to the fathers and the prophets, in these days did speak to, as in a son, whom we appointed heir of all things, through whom also he did make the ages, who, being the brightness of the glory and the impress of his sustenance, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might, through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness to the highest, having become so much better than the messengers, as he did inherit a more excellent name than they. For to which of the messengers said, he ever, my son now art, I today have begotten me, and again I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to me for a son, and when again he may bring in the firstborn to the world, he saith and let them bow before him, all messengers of God. And unto the messengers indeed he saith, Who is making his messengers spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire? And unto the Son thy throne, O God, is the age of the age, a scepter of righteousness, is the scepter of thy reign. And thou dist love righteousness, and dist hate lawlessness. Because of this did he anoint thee, God thy Father, with oil of gladness, above thy partners. And thou at the beginning, Lord, the earth dist found, in a work of thy hands are the heavens. These shall perish, and thou dost remain, and all as a garment shall become old. And as a mantle thou shall roll them together, and they shall be changed. And thou art the same, and thy year shall not fail. And unto which of the messengers saith he ever, Sit at my right hand, till I may make none enemies thy footstool. Are they not all spirits of service for ministration being sent forth because of those about to inherit salvation? 2. Because of this it behoofeth us more abundantly to take heed to the things heard lest we may glide aside. For if the word being spoken through messengers did become steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience did receive a just recompense, how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation? Which a beginning receiving to be spoken through the Lord, by those having heard was confirmed to us, God also bearing joint witness, both with signs and wonders, and manifold powers and distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to his will. For not to messengers did he subject becoming world, concerning which we speak, and one in a certain place did testify fully, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him, or a son of man, that thou dost look after him? Thou dost make him some little less than messengers. With glory and honor thou dost crown him, and disset him over the works of thy hands. All things thou dost put in subjection under his feet, for in the subjecting to him, the all things, nothing did he leave to him unsubjected. And now not yet do we see the all things subjected to him, and him who was made some little less than messengers we see, Jesus, because of the suffering of the death, with glory and honor having been crowned, that by the grace of God for everyone he might taste of death. For it was becoming to him, because of whom are the all things, and through whom are the all things, many gods to glory bringing the author of their salvation through sufferings to make perfect, for both he who is sanctified and those sanctified are all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, I will declare thy name to my brethren in the midst of an assembly. I will sing praise to thee, and again I will be trusting on him, and again behold I and the children that God did give to me. Seeing then the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also, unlike Manor, did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death, that is, the devil, and might deliver those, whoever with fear of death, throughout all their life were subjects of bondage, for doubtless of messengers it doth not lay hold, but a seed of Abraham it layeth hold, wherefore it did behove him and all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and steadfast chief priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people, and in that he suffered himself being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted. 3. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Christ Jesus, being steadfast to him who did appoint him, as also Moses in all his house, for of more glory than Moses hath this one, than count it worthy, and as much as more honor than the house hath he who doth buildeth. For every house is buildeth by someone, and he who the all things did build is God, and Moses indeed was steadfast in all his house as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken, and Christ as a son over his house, whose house are we, with the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast. 4. Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit saith, today, if his voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation and the wilderness, and which tempt me did your fathers, they did prove me, and saw my works forty years. 5. Wherefore I was grief with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known my ways, so I swear of my anger, if they shall enter into my rest. See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God, but exhort ye one another every day, while the today is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin, for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast. In its being said today, if his voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, for certain, having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses, but with whom was he grieved forty years. Was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell on the wilderness, and to whom did he swear that he shall not enter into his rest except to those who did not believe? And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief. End of chapters one through three. Chapters four through six of Young's literal translation of the Holy Scriptures be pissled to the Hebrews. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org Young's literal translation of the Holy Scriptures be pissled to the Hebrews by Robert Young. Four. We may fear then lest a promise being left of entering into his rest any one of you may seem to have come short, for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard, did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard. For we do enter into the rest, we who did believe, as he said, so I swear am I anger, if they shall enter into my rest. And yet the works were done from the foundation of the world, for he spake in a certain place concerning the seventh day, thus God did rest in the seventh day from all his works. And in this place again, if they shall enter into my rest. Since then it remained it for certain to enter into it, for those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief, again he doth limit a certain day. Today in David sang after so long a time, as it hath been said, today if his voice ye may hear ye may not harden your hearts, for if Joshua had given them rest he would not concerning another day hath spoken after these things. There doth remain, then, a sabatic rest to the people of God, for he who did enter into his rest he also rested from his works as God from his own. May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall, for the reckoning of God is living and working and sharp above every two-edged sword, in piercing unto the dividing asunder both the soul and spirit of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is not a created thing not manifest before him, but all things are naked and open to his eyes with whom is our reckoning. Having then a great chief priest pass through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, may we hold fast the profession, for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathize with our infirmities, but one tempted in all things in like manner, apart from sin. We may come near, then, with freedom to the throne of grace that we may receive kindness in fine grace or seasonable help. Five, for every chief priest out of men taken, in behalf of men is set in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins, able to be gentle to those ignorant in going astray, since himself also is compassed with infirmity, and because of this infirmity he ought, as for the people, so also for himself to offer for sins, and no one to himself doth take the honor, but he who is called by God, as also Aaron, so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but he who spake unto him. My Son thou art, I today have begotten thee, as also in another place he saith, Thou art a priest to the age according to the order of Melchizedek, who in the days of his flesh both prayers and supplications unto him, who was able to save him from death, with strong crying and tears, having offered up and having been heard in respect to that which he feared, though being his Son did learn by the things which he suffered, the obedience, and having been made perfect he did become to all those obeying him, a cause of salvation age-endoring, having been addressed by God a chief priest according to the order of Melchizedek, concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say since ye have become dull of hearing, for even owing to be teachers. Because of the time again we have need that one teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk and not of strong food, for every one who is partaking of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is an infant, and a perfect man is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised unto the discernment both of good and evil. 6. Wherefore having left the word of the beginning of the Christ unto the perfection we may advance not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works and of faith on God, of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on also of hands, of rising again also of the dead, and of judgment age-endoring, and this we will do if God may permit, for it is impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit, and to taste the good saying of God the first also of the coming age, and having fallen away again to renew them to reformation, having crucified again to themselves the Son of God, and exposed to public shame. For earth that is drinking in the rain many times coming upon it, and his bring forth herbs fit for those because of whom also it is dressed, doth partake of blessing from God, and that which is bearing thorns and briars is disapproved of, and nigh to cursing whose end is for burning, and we are persuaded concerning you, beloved, that things that are better in accompanying salvation, though even thus we speak, for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labor of the love that ye showed to his name having ministered to the saints in ministering. And we desire each one of you the same diligence to show unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end that ye may not become slothful but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises. For to Abraham, God having made promise, seeing he was able to swear by no greater, did swear by himself, saying, blessing indeed I will bless thee, and multiply I will multiply thee, and so having patiently endured he did obtain the promise for men indeed do swear by the greater, and an end of all controversy to them for confirmation is the oath in which God more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel did interpose by an oath that through two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us, which we have as an anchor of the soul will shore instead fast in entry into that within the veil whither a forerunner for us did enter Jesus after the order of Melchizedek, chief priest having become to the age. End of chapters four through six. Chapters seven through nine of Young's literal translation of the Holy Scriptures. Epistle to the Hebrews. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org. Young's literal translation of the Holy Scriptures. Epistle to the Hebrews by Robert Young. Seven. For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who did meet Abraham, turning back from the smiting of the kings, and did bless him, to whom also a tenth of all did Abraham divide, first indeed being interpreted, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace, without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of days, and being made like to the son of God doth remain a priest continually. And see how great this one is, to whom also a tenth, Abraham the patriarch, did give out of the best of the spoils, and those indeed out of the sons of Levi receiving the priesthood, the command have to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is their brethren, even though they came forth out of the loins of Abraham. And he who was not reckoned by genealogy of them, received tithes from Abraham, in him having the promises he hath blessed, and apart from all controversy, the less by the better is blessed, and here indeed men who died do receive tithes, and there he who is testified to that he was living, and so to speak, through Abraham, even Levi, who was receiving tithes, hath paid tithes, for he was yet in the loins of the father when Melchizedek met him. If indeed, then, perfection were through the Levitical priesthood for the people under it had received law, what further need, according to the order of Melchizedek, for another priest to arise, and not to be called according to the order of Aaron? For the priesthood being changed also of the law a changed doth come, for he of whom these things are said in another tribe hath had part of whom no one gave attendance at the altar, for it is evident that out Judah hath arisen our Lord in regard to which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. And it is yet more abundantly most evident if, according to the similitude of Melchizedek, there doth arise another priest who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life, for he doth testify thou art a priest to the age according to the order of Melchizedek, for disannulling indeed doth come of the command going before because of its weakness and unprofitableness, for nothing did the law perfect, and the bring in of a better hope through which we draw nigh to God. And inasmuch as it is not apart from oath, for those indeed apart from oath have become priests and he with an oath through him who is saying unto him, the Lord swear and will not repent, thou art a priest to the age according to the order of Melchizedek, by so much of a better covenant hath Jesus become surety, and those indeed are many who have become priests, because by death they are hindered from remaining, and he because of his remaining, to this age hath the priesthood not transient. Once also he is able to save to the very end those coming through him unto God, ever living to make intercession for them. For such a chief priest it become us, kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners. It become higher than the heavens, who hath no necessity daily as the chief priest, first of his own sins to offer up sacrifice, then for those of the people. For this he did once, having offered up himself for the law doth appoint men, chief priests, having infirmity. But the word of the oath that is after the law appointed it the son to the age having been perfected. 8. And the sum concerning the things spoken of is we hath such a chief priest who did sit down at the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens of the holy places, a servant, and of the true tabernacle which the Lord did set up. And not man, for every chief priest to offer both gifts and sacrifices is appointed. Once it is necessary for this one to have also something that he may offer, for if indeed he were upon earth he would not be a priest, there being the priests who are offering according to the law the gifts. Who want to an example and shadow to serve with the heavenly things, as Moses hath been divinely warned being about to construct the tabernacle. For see saith he, thou mayest make all things according to the pattern that was shown to thee in the mount. And now he hath obtained the more excellent service, how much also of a better covenant is he mediator, which on better promises hath been sanctioned, for if that first were faultless a place would not have been sought for a second. For finding faulty saith to them, lo, days come saith the Lord, and I will complete with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, and the day of my taking them by their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not remain in my covenant. And I did not regard them, saith the Lord, because this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord, giving my laws into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to me for a people, and they shall not teach each his neighbor, and each his brother, saith, No thou the Lord, because they shall all know me from the small one of them unto the great one of them, because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their lawlessness, I will remember no more. In the saying new he hath made the first old, and what doth become obsolete, and his old is nigh disappearing. Nine. It had indeed then even the first tabernacle ordinances of service, also a worldly sanctuary, for a tabernacle was prepared, the first in which was both the labstand and the table and the bread of the presence, which is called holy, and after the second veil a tabernacle that is called holy of holies, having a golden censor, and the ark of the covenant overlaid all round about with gold, and which is the golden pot having the manna, and the rod of errand that budded, and the tables of the covenant and over at cherubim of the glory overshadowing the mercy seat, concerning which we are not now to speak particularly. And these things having been thus prepared into the first tabernacle indeed at all times the priests do go in, performing the services, and in the second once in the year only the chief priests, not apart from blood, which he doth offer for himself in the eras of the people. The Holy Spirit is evidencing that not yet hath been manifested the way of the holy places, the first tabernacle having yet a standing, which is a simile in regard to the present time, of which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able in regard to conscience to make perfect him who is serving, only individuals and drinks, and different baptisms, and fleshly ordinances, till the time of reformation imposed upon them. In Christ being come, chief priests of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is not of this creation, neither through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood did enter and once into the holy places, aged during redemption having obtained, for if the blood of bulls and goats and ashes of Anne Heffern, sprinkling those defiled, doth sanctify to the purify of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of the Christ, who through the age-during spirit did offer himself, o' blemish to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God. And because of this, of a new covenant, he is mediated, that death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance, for where a covenant is, the death of the covenant victim to come in is necessary, for a covenant over dead victims is steadfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant victim liveth, once not even the first apart from blood hath been initiated. For every command having been spoken, according to law by Moses, to all the people having taken the blood of the calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and high-sip, he both the book itself and all the people did sprinkle, saying, this is the blood of the covenant that God enjoined unto you, and both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the service with blood in like manner he did sprinkle, and with blood almost all things are purified, according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come. It is necessary, therefore, the pattern indeed of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these, for not into holy places made with hands did the Christ enter, figures of the true, but into the heaven itself now to be manifested in the presence of God for us, nor that he may many times offer himself, even as the chief priest doth enter into the holy places, every year with blood of others, since it had behoved him many times to suffer from the foundation of the world, but now, once at the full end of the ages, for putting a way of sin through his sacrifice he hath been manifested, and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this judgment so also the Christ, once having been offered to bear the sins of many, a second time, apart from a sin offering shall appear to those waiting for him to salvation. 10. For the law having a shadow of the coming good things, not the very image of the matters every year by the same sacrifices that they offer continually and ever able to make perfect those coming here, since would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified, but in those sacrifices is a remembrance of sins every year, for it is impossible for blood of voles and goats to take away sins. 11. Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, sacrifice in entering thou not will, and a body thou disprepare for me in burnt offerings and concerning sin offerings thou disnot delight. Then I said, lo, I come in a volume of the book that hath been written concerning me, to do oh God, thy will, saying above sacrifice in offering and burnt offerings, and concerning sin offering thou disnot will, nor delight in, which according to the law are offered. Then he said, lo, come to do oh God, thy will. He doth take away the first that the second he may establish in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once and every priest indeed hath stood daily serving, and the same sacrifices many times offering that are never able to take away sins. And he for sin once sacrifice having offered to the end sit down on the right hand of God as to the rest expecting till he may place his enemies as his footstool for by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified. And testified to us also doth the Holy Spirit for after that he hath said before this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord giving my laws on their hearts and upon their minds I will write them and their sins and their lawlessness I will remember no more and where forgiveness of these is there is no more offering for sin. Having therefore brethren boldness for the entrance into the holy places in the blood of Jesus which way he did initiate for us new and living through the veil that is his flesh and a high priest over the house of God may we draw near with a true heart full assurance of faith having the heart sprinkled from an evil conscience and having the body bathed with pure water may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope for faithful as he who did promise and may we consider one another to provoke, to love and to good works not forsaking the assembly of ourselves together as a custom of certain is but exhorting and so much the more as you see the day coming nigh for we willfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice but a certain fearful look for of judgment in fiery zeal about to devour the opposers anyone who did set at nought a law of Moses apart from mercies by two or three witnesses doth die and how much sore punishment shall he count it worthy who the son of man did trample on and the blood of the covenant did count a common thing in which he was sanctified into the spirit of the grace did despite for we have known him who is saying vengeance is mine I will recompense sayeth the lord and again the lord shall judge his people fearful is the falling into the hands of a living god in call to your remembrance of the former days which having been enlightened he did endure much conflict of suffering partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles and partly having become partners of those so living for also with my bonds he sympathized and the robbery of your goods with joy he did receive knowing that you have in yourselves a better substance may not cast away then your boldness which hath great recompense of reward for patience you have need that the will of god having done you may receive the promise for yet a very very little he who is coming will come and will not tarry and the righteous by faith shall live and if he may draw back my soul hath no pleasure in him and we are not of those drawing back to destruction those believing to a preserving of soul eleven in faith is of things hoped for a confidence of matters not seen a conviction for in this were the elders testified of by faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of god in regard to the things seen not having come out of things appearing by faith a better sacrifice did able offer to god through which he testified to be righteous god testifying of his gifts and through it he being dead doth yet speak by faith unit was translated not to see death and was not found because god did translate him before his translation he had been testified to that he had pleased god well and apart from faith it is impossible to please well be hooveth him who is coming to god to believe that he is and to those seeking him he become at the rewarder by faith Noah having been divinely warning concerning the things not yet seen having feared did prepare an art to the salvation of his house through which he did condemn the world and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir by faith Abraham being called did obey to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance and he went forth not knowing whether he doth go by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country in tabernacles having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob fellow heirs of the same promise for he was looking for the city having the foundations whose artificer and constructor is god for faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed and she bear after the time of light seeing she did judge him faithful who did promise wherefore also from one were begotten and that of one who had become dead as the stars of the heaven in multitude and as sand that is by the sea shore the innumerable in faith died all these not having received the promises but from afar having seen them and having been persuaded and having saluted them and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country and if indeed they had been mindful of that from which they came forth they might have had an opportunity to return but now they long for a better that is and heavenly wherefore god is not ashamed of them to be called by god for he did prepare for them the city by faith Abraham had offered a by-sec being tried and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises of whom it was said in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee reckoning that even out of the dead god is able to raise up once also in the figure he did receive him by faith concerning coming things Isaac did bless up and he saw by faith Jacob dying each of the sons of Joseph did bless and did bow down upon the top of his staff by faith Joseph dying concerning the outgoing of the sons of Israel did make mention and concerning his bones did give command by faith Moses having been born was hid three months by his parents because they saw the child cumbly and were not afraid of the decree by faith Moses having become great did refuse to be called the son of the daughter of Pharaoh having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God than to have sins pleasure for a season greater wealth having reckoned reproach of the Christ and the treasures in Egypt for he did look to the recompense of reward by faith he left Egypt behind not having been afraid of the wrath for a seeing the invisible one he endured by faith he had kept the Passover and the sprinkly of the blood that he was destroying the first born might not touch them by faith they did pass through the Red Sea as though dry land which the Egyptians having received a trial of were swallowed up by faith the walls of Jericho did fall having been surrounded for seven days by faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disbelieve having received the spies with peace and what shall I yet say for the time will fail me recounting about Gideon Barak also in Samsu in Jephthah David also in Samuel in the prophets who through faith did subdue kingdoms brought righteousness obtained promises stopped mouths of lions quenched the power of fire escaped the mouth of the sword were made powerful out of infirmities became strong in battle caused to give way camps of the aliens women received by arising again they're dead and others were tortured not accepting the redemption that a better rising again they might receive and others of mockings and scorchings did receive trial and yet a bonds and imprisonment they were stone they were sawn asunder tried in the killing of the sword they died they went about in sheepskins in goat skins being destitute afflicted injuriously treated of whom the world was not worthy in deserts wandering and in mountains and in caves and in the holes of the earth and these all being testified to through the faith did not receive the promise God for us something better having provided that apart from us they might not be made perfect end of chapters 10 and 11 chapters 12 and 13 of young's literal translation of the holy scriptures epistle to the Hebrews this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org young's literal translation of the holy scriptures epistle to the Hebrews by young chapters 12 and 13 12 therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us every weight having put off and the closely besetting sin through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us looking to the author and perfecter of faith Jesus who over against the joy set before him in a door across shame having despised on the right hand also the throne of God did sit down for consider again him who endured such gainsang from the sinners to himself that you may not be worried in your souls being faint not yet unto blood did he resist with the sin striving and he have forgotten the exhortation that don't speak fully with you as with sons my son be not despising chasing nor be faint being reproved by him for whom the Lord doth love he doth chase him and he's gorgeous every son whom he receive it if chastening he endure as to sons God bear it himself to you for who is a son whom a father doth not chase him and if he are apart from chasing of which all have become partakers and bastards are he and not sons then indeed fathers of our flesh we have had chasing us and we were reverencing them shall we not much better be subject to the father of the spirits and live for they indeed for a few days according to what seemed good to them were chastening but he for profit to be partakers of his separation and all chastening for the present indeed doth not seem to be of joy but of sorrow yet of righteousness to those exercised through it it doth yield wherefore the hanging down hands and the loosened knees set ye up and straight paths make for your feet that which is lay may not be turned aside but rather be healed peace pursue with all and the separation apart from which no one shall see the Lord looking diligently over lest anyone be failing of the grace of God lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble and through this many may be defiled lest anyone be a fornicator or a profane person as he saw who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright for ye know that also afterwards wishing to inherit the blessing he was disapproved of for a place of reformation he found not though with tears having sauded he came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire into blackness and darkness and tempest and a sound of a trumpet and a voice of sayings which those having heard did entreat that a word might not be added to them for they were not bearing that which is commanded and if a beast may touch the mountain it shall be stoned or with an arrow shot through and so terrible was the sight Moses said I am fearful and deceitingly and trembling but he came to Mount Zion into a city of the living God to the heavenly Jerusalem and to myriads of messengers to the company and assembly of the firstborn in heaven enrolled into God the judge of all and to spirits of righteous men made perfect and to a mediator of a new covenant Jesus and to blood of sprinkling speaking better things than that of Abel see may he not refuse him who is speaking for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking much less we who do turn away from him speaketh from heaven whose voice the earth shook then and now hath he promised saying yet once I shake not only the earth but also the heaven and this yet once doth make evident the removal of the things shaken as a things that have not been made that the things not shaken may remain wherefore a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving may we have grace through which we may serve God well pleasingly with reverence and religious fear for also our God is a consuming fire 13 let brotherly love remain of the hospitality be not forgetful for through this unaware of those who have not maintained messengers be mindful of those in bonds as having been bound with them of those maltreated as also yourselves being in the body honorable is the marriage and all in the bed undefiled and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge without covetousness the behavior being content with the things present for he hath said be mindful of those leaving you who did speak to you the word of God whose faith considering the issue of the behavior be imitating Jesus Christ yesterday and today the same and to the ages 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 carried by God for it is good that by grace in which they who were occupied were not profited we had an altar of which to eat they had no authority who the tabernacle are serving 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 wherefore also Jesus that he might sanctify through his own blood the people without the gate did suffer now then may go forth unto him without the camp his reproach bearing for we have not here an abiding city but the coming one we seek through him then we may offer up a sacrifice a praise always to God that is the fruit of lips giving thanks to his name and of doing good in a fellowship be not forgetful for with such sacrifices God is well pleased be obedient to those leading you for these do watch for your souls as about to give account that with joy they may do this and not sign for this is unprofitable to you pray for us for we trust that we have a good conscience and all things willing to behave well and more abundantly do I call upon you to do this that more quickly I may be restored to you and the God of the peace who did bring up out of the dead the great shepherd of the sheep the blood of an age during covenant our Lord Jesus make you perfect in every good work to you his will doing in you that which is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ to whom is the glory to the age of the ages amen and I entreat you brethren suffer the word of the exhortation for also through few words I have written to you with whom if he may come more shortly I will see you salute all those leading you and all the saints salute you do those from Italy the grace is with you all amen end of chapters 12 and 13 end of the epistle to the Hebrews from Young's literal translation translated by Robert Young