Modern Literal Version
[Hebrews 1]


     1:1 God, having spoken to the fathers in the prophets long-ago, in many parts and in many manners, 1:2 has upon the end of these days spoken to us in his Son, whom he appointed* heir of all things, through whom he also made* the ages. 1:3 He who is the brightness of his glory and the exact representation of his essence and is carrying all things by the word of his power through himself. When he had made* a cleansing of our sins, he sat down by the right hand of the Majesty on high; 1:4 having become so-much better than the messengers, inasmuch as he has inherited a more excellent name than they.

     1:5 For* to which of the messengers has he previously said, ‘You are my Son; I have fathered you today.’? And again, ‘I will be to him a Father and he will be to me a Son.’? {Ps. 2:7, 89:26, 27} 1:6 And whenever he brings in the firstborn again into the world*, he says, ‘And let all the messengers of God worship him.’ 1:7 And of the messengers he says, ‘Who makes* his messengers, spirits, and his ministers*, a flame of fire.’ 1:8 But he says of the Son, ‘Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom. 1:9 You have loved* righteousness and hated lawlessness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your companions.’ {Ps. 45:6, 7} 1:10 And, ‘You, Lord, in the beginning made the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the works of your hands: 1:11 they will perish; but you are remaining and they will all become-obsolete like a garment; 1:12 and you will coil them up like an outer dressing and they will be changed; but you are the same and your years will not fail.’ {Ps. 102:25} 1:13 But of which of the messengers has he previously said, ‘Sit at my right hand, until I should place your enemies under the footstool of your feet? {Ps. 110:1}

     1:14 Are they not all ministering* spirits, being sent forth into the service because of those who are about to inherit salvation?


[Hebrews 2]


     2:1 Because of this, we ought to take-heed even-more to the things which were heard, lest we might drift away. 2:2 For* if the word spoken through the messengers became steadfast and every transgression and disobedience* received a just reward; 2:3 how will we escape, if we neglect so-great a salvation? Which was confirmed to us by those who heard, receiving it in the beginning as spoken through the Lord. 2:4 God was testifying together with them, both by signs and wonders and by various powers and by distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will.


     2:5 For* he did not subject the future world* to messengers, concerning which we speak. 2:6 But someone has testified somewhere, saying, ‘What is man, that you remember him? Or the son of man, that you visit him? 2:7 You made him a little bit inferior than the messengers. You crowned him with glory and honor. 2:8 You made all things to be subject underneath his feet.’ {Ps. 8:4-6} For* in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But we now do not yet see all things subjected to him. 2:9 But we see Jesus who has been made a little bit inferior than the messengers, because of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, *that by the grace of God he should taste of death on behalf of everyone. 2:10 For* it was suitable for him, because whom are all things and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect him, who is the author of their salvation through sufferings. 2:11 For* both he who is sanctifying and those who are sanctified are all from one. Because of which cause, he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 2:12 saying, ‘I will proclaim your name to my brethren, in the midst of the congregation I will sing hymns to you.’ {Ps. 22:22} 2:13 And again, ‘I will have confidence in him.’ And again, ‘Behold, I and the children whom God has given me.’{Ps. 18:2, 2Sam. 22. 3, Is. 8:17, Is. 8:18} 2:14 Therefore since the children have shared in flesh and blood, in like-manner he partook of the same; that* he might do-away-with him, through death, who had the dominion of death, who is the Slanderer; 2:15 and might set-free those, as many as were in the fear of death liable to bondage all their life. 2:16 For* absolutely he does not help messengers, but he helps the seed of Abraham. 2:17 Hence it obligated him to have been similar in all things to his brethren, that* he might become a merciful and faithful high-priest in things pertaining to God, *that* he should make atonement for the sins of the people. 2:18 For* in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.


[Hebrews 3]


     3:1 Hence, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus Christ, the Apostle and High-Priest of our confession; 3:2 who was faithful to him who made* him such, as Moses also was in all his house. 3:3 For* he has been deemed worthy of glory, more than Moses, inasmuch as he who constructed the house has more honor than the house. 3:4 For* every house is constructed by someone; but he who constructed all things is God. 3:5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a bond-servant, *for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later; 3:6 but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house we are, if indeed we hold-onto our boldness and the boasting of our hope steadfast till the end. 3:7 Hence, just-as the Holy Spirit says, ‘Today if you* hear his voice, 3:8 do not harden your* hearts, as in the rebellion, in the day of the testing in the wilderness, 3:9 where your* fathers tested me, proving me, and saw my works forty years. 3:10 Hence I was displeased with this generation and said, They are habitually misled by their heart; but they did not know my ways. 3:11 As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest.’ {Num. 14:22, Ps. 95:7-11} 3:12 Beware brethren, lest there will be an evil heart of unbelief in anyone of you*, in apostatizing from the living God. 3:13 But encourage one another day by day, up to that which is called today; in order that no one out of you* might be hardened by the deception of sin. 3:14 For* we have become partakers of Christ, if indeed we hold-onto the beginning of our firmness steadfast till the end; 3:15 while it is said, ‘If you* hear his voice today, do not harden your* hearts, as in the rebellion.’ {Num. 14:29} 3:16 For* some, having heard, rebelled. But was it not all those who came out of Egypt through Moses? 3:17 And with whom was he displeased with for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead-bodies fell in the wilderness? 3:18 And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, except to those who were disobedient? 3:19 And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.


[Hebrews 4]


     4:1 Therefore, we should fear, since a promise was left of entering into his rest, lest any out of you* might seem to have fallen-short of it. 4:2 For* indeed we have had the good-news proclaimed to us, just-as they also had; but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it had not been mixed together in the faith in those who heard it. 4:3 For* we who have believed are entering into that rest; just-as he has said, ‘As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest,’ although the works were done from the conception of the world. {Ps. 95:7:11, Num. 14:22} 4:4 For* he has so said somewhere about the seventh day, ‘And God rested on the seventh day from all his works’; {Gen. 2:2} 4:5 and in this place again, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’ {Ps. 95:11} 4:6 Therefore since it is left that some might enter into it and those to whom the good-news was proclaimed beforehand did not enter into it because of disobedience, 4:7 he again determines a certain day saying in David, Today, so-much time after, (just-as it has been said), ‘Today if you* hear his voice, do not harden your* hearts.’ {Ps. 95:7, 8} 4:8 For* if Joshua had given-rest to them, he would not have spoken about another day after this. 4:9 Consequently, a Sabbath-rest is left for the people of God. 4:10 For* he who entered into his rest has himself, also rested from his works, as God did from his. 4:11 Therefore we should be diligent to enter into that rest, that* no one might fall into the same example of disobedience.

     4:12 For* the word of God is living and effective and sharper beyond any two edged sword and penetrates even to the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow and is a judge of the contemplations and deliberations of the heart. 4:13 And there is no created thing unapparent before him; but all things are naked and laid-bare before the eyes of him to whom we will give our account.


     4:14 Therefore having a great high-priest, Jesus the Son of God, who has gone through the heavens, we should hold-fast our confession. 4:15 For* we do not have a high-priest who is not able to sympathize with our weaknesses; but one who has been tempted in all things according to our likeness, yet without sin. 4:16 Therefore we should come to the throne of the grace with boldness, that* we may receive mercy and may find grace *for well timed help.


[Hebrews 5]


     5:1 For* every high-priest, being taken from among men, is designated on behalf of men in things pertaining to God, that* he may offer both gifts and sacrifices on behalf of sins; 5:2 he who is able to have a measure of feeling with the ignorant and the misled, since he himself is also encompassed with weakness; 5:3 and because of this weakness he ought to offer himself on behalf of sins, as concerning the people, so also concerning himself. 5:4 And no one takes the honor for himself, but he who is called by God, just-as Aaron was. 5:5 So Christ also did not glorify himself to become a high-priest, but he who spoke to him, ‘You are my Son; I have fathered you* today.’ {Ps. 2:7} 5:6 As he also says in another place, ‘You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.’ {Ps. 110:4} 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with a strong outcry and tears to him who was able to save him from death and having been heard for his godly-fear, 5:8 although being a Son, yet learned obedience from the things which he suffered; 5:9 and having been perfected, he became the cause of eternal salvation to all those who are obeying* him; 5:10 having been addressed by God, he became a high-priest according to the order of Melchizedek.


     5:11 Concerning whom we have many things to say and it is difficult to clarify, since you* have become sluggish in hearing. 5:12 For* indeed, because of the time, you* ought to be teachers by now; but you* again have need that someone teach you* the fundamental principles of the beginning oracles of God, and have become such as have need of milk and not of solid nourishment. 5:13 For* everyone who partakes of milk is inexperienced from the word of righteousness; for* he is an infant. 5:14 But solid nourishment is for mature men, those who have their senses exercised to the discerning of both good and evil because of habit.

[Hebrews 6]


     6:1 Hence leaving the word of the beginning principles of Christ, we should carry onward to maturity; not putting down again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, 6:2 of the teaching of ceremonial washings* and of the laying on of hands and of resurrection of the dead and of eternal judgment. 6:3 And we might do this, if God permits. 6:4 For* those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and became partakers of the Holy Spirit 6:5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the future world 6:6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, because they are again crucifying for themselves the Son of God and disgracing him. 6:7 For* the land which has drunk the rain that comes often upon it and bears forth vegetation fit for them because of whom it is also cultivated, receives blessing from God. 6:8 But if it brings forth thorns and thistles, it is unapproved and near to a curse; whose end is *for burning.


     6:9 But, beloved, we have confidence of better things concerning you* and better things holding to salvation, even if we speak so. 6:10 For* God is not unrighteous to forget your* work and the labor of love* which you* showed toward his name, in that you* served the holy-ones and still serving them. 6:11 And we are desiring each one of you* to show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope even to the end; 6:12 that* you* should not become sluggish, but imitators of those who are inheriting the promises through faith and patience.


     6:13 For* when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear according to none greater, he swore according to himself, 6:14 saying, Surely in blessing, I will bless you and multiplying, I will multiply you. {Gen. 22:17} 6:15 And thus Abraham, having been patient, obtained the promise. 6:16 For* indeed, men swear according to the greater and the oath made *for confirmation is an end in every dispute of theirs. 6:17 In which God, intending to show even-more to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable will of his counsel, mediated this with an oath; 6:18 that* through two unchangeable matters, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge, to take-hold of the hope that lays before us. 6:19 This hope which we have as an anchor of the soul, is both secure and steadfast and entering into the inner side of the curtain; 6:20 where a forerunner Jesus entered on our behalf, having become a high-priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.


[Hebrews 7]


     7:1 For* this Melchizedek, King of Salem, priest of the Highest God, who met Abraham returning from the butcher of the kings and blessed him, 7:2 to whom Abraham also divided a tenth of all. Being first, by translation, King of righteousness and thereafter also King of Salem, which is King of peace; 7:3 he was without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made similar to the Son of God, remains a continual priest.


     7:4 Now view how-great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the spoils. 7:5 And they indeed from the sons of Levi who receive the priest's office have the commandment to take-tithes from the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, although these have come out of the loins of Abraham. 7:6 But he whose genealogy is not traced from them has taken-tithes of Abraham and has blessed him who has the promises. 7:7 But without any dispute the inferior is blessed by the better. 7:8 And men receive tithes who die here; but there, it is testified that he is living. 7:9 And, as to say, through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid-tithes; 7:10 for* he was still in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met him.


     7:11 Therefore if indeed there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for the people had the law instituted upon it), why was there still a need that another priest should stand up according to the order of Melchizedek and not to be named according to the order of Aaron? 7:12 For* when the priesthood is transferred, there also becomes, out of necessity, a transfer of the law. 7:13 For* he belongs to another tribe of whom these things are said, from which no one has taken-heed at the altar. 7:14 For* it is evident that our Lord has risen up out of Judah; as to which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning the priesthood. 7:15 And what we say is still even-more evident, if there stands up another priest, according to the likeness of Melchizedek, 7:16 who has become, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an indestructible life; 7:17 for* he testifies, ‘You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’ {Ps. 110:4} 7:18 For* indeed, there becomes a nullifying of a commandment that preceded because of its weakness and unprofitableness 7:19 (for the law perfected nothing) and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we are drawing near to God. 7:20 And inasmuch as it is not without the taking of an oath 7:21 for they indeed have become priests without an oath; but he with an oath through him who says of him, ‘The Lord swore and will not regret, you are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’ {Ps. 110:4} 7:22 According to so-much more, Jesus has also become the guarantee of a better {F} covenant*. 7:23 And they have become many priests in number, because they are prevented by death from remaining in office; 7:24 but because he remains forever, he has his perpetual priesthood. 7:25 Hence he is also able to completely save those who come to God through him, to this end, he is always living that he may intercede on behalf of them.


     7:26 For* such a high-priest is suitable for us, holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners and became exalted in the heavens; 7:27 who has no daily necessity to offer up sacrifices like the high-priests, (beforehand on behalf of their own sins), and thereafter for* those of the people; for* he did this once for all, when he offered up himself. 7:28 For* the law designates men as high-priests, who have weakness; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, appoints a Son, perfected forever.


    {Footnotes: Heb 7:22 and throughout Hebrews: the English words, ‘covenant’ and ‘testament’ used by various translations are the same Greek word. The Old or New Testament is exactly the same as The Old or New Covenant. Covenant was adapted throughout the MLV because it also has a verb form. More is in the Appendix.}


[Hebrews 8]


     8:1 Now a summation on the things which we are saying is this: we have such a high-priest, who sat down by the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 8:2 a minister* of the holy-places and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched and not man. 8:3 For* every high-priest is designated, *that* he may offer both gifts and sacrifices; hence it is necessary to have also something that he may offer. 8:4 Now if indeed, he were upon the earth, he would not even be a priest, seeing there are the priests who offer the gifts according to the law; 8:5 who gives-divine service to what is a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just-as Moses was divinely-warned when he was about to finish the tabernacle; for* he says, See that you make* all things according to the pattern that was showed to you in the mountain. {Ex 25:40} 8:6 But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry*, inasmuch as he is also the intermediary of a better {F} covenant*, which has been instituted upon better promises.

     8:7 For* if that first {F} covenant* had been blameless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8:8 For* finding-fault with them, he says, ‘Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, That I will accomplish a {F} new covenant* with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; 8:9 not according to the covenant* that I made* with their fathers in the day that I took them by their hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt, because they did not remain in my {F} covenant* and I neglected them, says the Lord. 8:10 Because this is the {F} covenant* that I will covenant* with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will give my laws into their mind and I will also write them upon their hearts. And I will be a God to them and they will be a people to me; 8:11 and they may never* need to teach, saying, Know the Lord; to each one his fellow-citizen and each one his brother, because all will know me, from the least to the greatest of them. 8:12 Because I will be lenient to their unrighteousness; I may never* remember their lawlessness and their sins anymore.’ {Jer. 31:31-34}

     8:13 In the saying, a new covenant*, the first has become-obsolete. But what becomes-obsolete and is aged, it is near to disappearing.


    {Footnotes: Heb 8:4,6- SEE 7:22 footnote or Appendix.}


[Hebrews 9]


     9:1 Now even the first tabernacle had ordinances of divine service to God and its holy-place, a worldly one. 9:2 For* the first tabernacle was prepared which is called holy, in which were the lamp-stand and the table and the showbread. 9:3 But, the tabernacle which is called the holy of holies was after the second curtain; 9:4 holding a golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant* covered around in every side with gold, in which was the golden jar holding the manna and Aaron's rod which had sprouted and the tablets of the covenant*; 9:5 and up above it the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat; concerning which things it is now not the time to speak of them individually.

     9:6 Now these things having thus always been prepared, the priests go into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the divine services to God; 9:7 but into the second the high-priest went alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers on behalf of himself and on behalf of the sins of ignorance of the people. 9:8 The Holy Spirit indicating this, that the way into the holy-places has still not been made manifest, while the first tabernacle still has a standing. 9:9 This tabernacle, (which is a figure toward the present time); according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that cannot, according to the conscience, perfect he who is giving-divine service to God, 9:10 being only fleshly ordinances, (with foods, drinks and assorted ceremonial washings*), laid upon us till a time of reformation.


     9:11 But Christ having come as a high-priest of the future good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made* with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, 9:12 nor yet through the blood of he-goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy-place, having found eternal redemption. 9:13 For* if the blood of he-goats and oxen and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling those who have been desecrated, sanctify for the cleanness of the flesh; 9:14 how much more the blood of Christ, (who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God), will cleanse your* conscience from dead works, *that* you may give-divine service to the living God.

     9:15 And because of this, he is the intermediary of a {F} new covenant*, *that his death having happened *for the redemption of the transgressions that were against the first {F} covenant*, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 9:16 For* where a {F} covenant* is, there must be of necessity the death of him who covenanted it. 9:17 For* a {F} covenant* is steadfast upon death; since it is never* in power while he who covenanted it is living. 9:18 Hence even the first covenant* has not been dedicated without blood. 9:19 For* when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the he-goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 9:20 saying, ‘This is the blood of the covenant* which God commanded toward you*.’ {Ex. 24:8} 9:21 Now likewise he sprinkled the tabernacle with the blood and all the vessels of the ministry*. 9:22 And according to the law, I may say, almost all things are cleansed with blood and no forgiveness happens without the shedding of blood.


     9:23 Therefore it was a necessity that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 9:24 For* Christ did not enter into a holy-place made* with hands, a counterpart to the true one; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God on our behalf. 9:25 Nor did he enter that* he should offer himself often, as the high-priest enters into the holy-place year by year with another's blood; 9:26 since it was often essential for him to suffer from the conception of the world; but now once upon the end of the ages, he has been manifested *for the nullifying of sin through the sacrifice of himself. 9:27 And inasmuch as it is laid up for men to die once and after this is the judgment; 9:28 so Christ, (having been offered once, *that* he should carry the sins of many), will also appear a second time, separate from sin, to those who wait for him, *for salvation.


    {Footnotes: Heb 9:15-17 SEE 7:22 footnote or Appendix.}


[Hebrews 10]


     10:1 For* the law, having a shadow of the future good things, (not the same image of the matters), they are never* able to perfect those who come near with the same continual sacrifices which they are offering year after year. 10:2 Otherwise, why would they not have ceased being offered? Because those who are giving-divine service to God, once having been cleansed, would then have no more consciousness of sins. 10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance made of sins year after year. 10:4 For* it is impossible that the blood of oxen and he-goats should take away sins. 10:5 Hence when he comes into the world, he says, ‘You had no pleasure in sacrifice and offering, but you did perfect a body for me. 10:6 You were not delighted in whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices concerning sin. 10:7 then I said, (as it has been written concerning me in the volume of the book), Behold, I come to do your will, O God.’ {Ps. 40:6-8} 10:8 After saying this above, You do not wish, nor were delighted in sacrifice and offering and whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices concerning sin, (which are offered according to the law), 10:9 then he has said, ‘Behold, I come to do your will, O God.’ {Ps. 40:6-8} He {F} abolishes the first {F} covenant*, in order that he should establish the second {F} covenant*. 10:10 In which we will have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 10:11 And indeed every priest has stood day by day ministering* and often offering the same sacrifices, which are never* able to take away sins. 10:12 But when he had offered one continual sacrifice on behalf of sins, he sat down at the right hand of God; 10:13 furthermore waiting until his enemies should be placed under the footstool of his feet. 10:14 For* he has perfected the sanctified by one continual offering. 10:15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for* after he has said, 10:16 ‘This is the covenant* that I will covenant* *for them after those days, says the Lord, I will give my laws upon their heart and I will also write them upon their minds.’ 10:17 And ‘I may never* remember their sins and their lawlessness anymore.’ {Jer. 31:33-34} 10:18 Now where the forgiveness of these is, there is no more an offering concerning sin.


     10:19 Therefore brethren, having boldness at the entrance into the holy-places by the blood of Jesus, 10:20 a way which he dedicated for us, a fresh and living way, through the curtain, that is to say, his flesh; 10:21 and having a great priest over the house of God; 10:22 we should come near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body bathed with clean water. 10:23 We should hold-onto the confession of our hope– unwavering; for* he who promised is faithful. 10:24 And we should consider one another *for motivating each other to love* and to good works; 10:25 not forsaking our own gathering together, just-as the custom is with some, but encouraging one another, and so-much more, inasmuch as you* are seeing the day drawing near.


     10:26 For* if we sin willfully after receiving the full knowledge of the truth, a sacrifice is left no more for us concerning sins, 10:27 but a certain fearful expectancy of judgment and a zeal of fire which is about to devour the adversaries. 10:28 Anyone rejecting the Law of Moses dies without mercy upon the word of two or three witnesses. 10:29 How much worse punishment, do you* think he will be deemed worthy of, who has trampled under foot the Son of God and has deemed common the blood of the covenant* in which he was sanctified and has insulted the Spirit of the grace? 10:30 For* we know him who said, ‘Vengeance is for me. I will repay says the Lord.’ And again, ‘The Lord will judge his people.’ {Deut. 32:35-36, Ps. 135:14} 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.


     10:32 But remind yourselves of the former days, in which, after you* were enlightened, you* endured a great conflict of sufferings; 10:33 in this indeed, you* were made a spectacle both by reproaches and afflictions, but in this too, you became partners with those who conducted themselves so. 10:34 For* you* also sympathized with those who were in bonds and accepted the plunder of your* possessions with joy, knowing that you* have for yourselves a better possession in the heavens and an abiding one. 10:35 Therefore do not cast away your* boldness, which has great reward. 10:36 For* you* have need of endurance, that*, having done the will of God, you* may get the promise. 10:37 ‘For* yet a little while, O how-much? O how-much? He who is coming will come and will not delay. 10:38 But my righteous one will live from faith and if he shrinks-back, my soul does not delight in him.’ {Is. 26:20, Hab. 2:3-4} 10:39 But we are not from this shrinking-back leading to destruction; but we are from the faith leading to the preservation of the soul.


    {Footnotes: Heb 10:8a Or: take away (permanently) OR assassinates. 10:8b SEE 7:22 footnote or the Appendix.}


[Hebrews 11]


     11:1 Now faith is the essence of things hoped for, a conviction of matters not seen. 11:2 For* the elders testified in this; 11:3 in faith we perceive that the ages have been framed by the word of God, toward the things seen, not having become from things which appear. 11:4 In faith Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice to God than Cain, through which he had testified that he was righteous, God testifying in regard to his gifts and through it, he speaks still being dead. 11:5 In faith Enoch was transferred, not to see death, and he was not found, because God transferred him; for* it had been testified of him to be well pleasing to God before his transfer. 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to God; for* the one who comes to God must believe that he is and that he becomes a rewarder to those who are seeking him out. 11:7 In faith Noah, being divinely-warned concerning things not yet seen, being scared, prepared an ark *for the salvation of his house; through which he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. 11:8 In faith Abraham, obeyed* when he was called to go out to the place which he was about to receive *for an inheritance, and he went out, not knowing where he was going. 11:9 In faith he was a foreigner in the land of promise, as an alien, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the joint heirs with him of the same promise. 11:10 For* he waited for the city which has the foundations, whose craftsman and contractor is God. 11:11 In faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed and bore a son beyond the time of her fertile age*, since she deemed him faithful who had promised. 11:12 Hence also, these were born from one sterile, just-as the stars of heaven in a multitude and like the innumerable sand which is beside the sea shore.


     11:13 These all died according to faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and having been persuaded of them and having greeted them from farther out and having confessed that they were strangers and travelers upon the earth. 11:14 For* those who are saying such things indicate that they are seeking after a homeland of their own. 11:15 And if indeed they were remembering that country from which they went out, they might have had opportunity to revisit. 11:16 But now they are aspiring for a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Hence God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for* he has prepared for them a city.


     11:17 In faith Abraham, being tested, had offered up Isaac. And he who had accepted the promises was offering up his only begotten son; 11:18 even he to whom it was said, In Isaac your seed will be called. {Gen. 21:12} 11:19 Reasoning that God is able to lift up even from the dead; from where he did also get him back in a figure. 11:20 In faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, concerning future things. 11:21 In faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, resting upon the tip of his staff. 11:22 In faith Joseph, when he was almost dead*, made mention concerning the exodus of the sons of Israel, and commanded them concerning his bones. 11:23 In faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw he was a handsome child, and they were not afraid of the king's command. 11:24 In faith Moses, when he became great, denied to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; 11:25 having adopted for himself to be mistreated together with the people of God, than to have temporary enjoyment of sin. 11:26 He was deeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for* he looked toward the reward. 11:27 In faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for* he persevered, as seeing him who is invisible. 11:28 In faith he has made* the Passover and the splashing of the blood on the door frames, in order that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them. 11:29 In faith they crossed over the Red Sea like through dry land; from which the Egyptians taking an attempt were swallowed up. 11:30 In faith the walls of Jericho fell down, having been surrounded for seven days. 11:31 In faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who were disobedient, having accepted the spies with peace.


     11:32 And what more should I say? For* the time will fail me if I describe the things about Gideon, Barak, and also Samson and Jephthah; both David and Samuel and the prophets: 11:33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, sealed the mouths of lions, 11:34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were empowered, became mighty in war, the encampments of aliens bowed down. 11:35 Women received back their dead from a resurrection. And others were tortured, not accepting their redemption; that* they might obtain a better resurrection, 11:36 and others received a trial from mocking and scourges, but even more, from bonds and prison: 11:37 they were stoned; they were sawed in two; they were tempted; they were murdered with the sword; they went around in sheepskins, in goat hides; they were lacking, afflicted, and mistreated, 11:38 (of whom the world was not worthy), made to wander in the wildernesses and mountains and caves and the holes of the earth. 11:39 And all these did not get the promise, having been testified of through the faith, 11:40 God having foreseen something better concerning us, that* they should not be perfected separate from us.


[Hebrews 12]


     12:1 Therefore, since we also have so-great a cloud of witnesses encompassing about us, we should place away from ourselves every interference and the {F} easily restricting sin and run with endurance the contest laying before us. 12:2 Looking away from things, look toward Jesus, the author and perfecter of the faith, who endured the cross in exchange-for the joy that laid before him, despising shame and has sat down by the right hand of the throne of God. 12:3 For* study him who has endured such dispute by sinners to himself, that* you* might not be weary, fainting in your* souls. 12:4 You* have not yet withstood as far as blood, in your struggle against sin. 12:5 And you* have forgotten the encouragement which reasons with you* as with sons, ‘My son, do not regard-lightly the disciplining of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; 12:6 For* whom the Lord loves*, he disciplines and scourges every son, whom he is accepting.’ {Prov. 3:11-12, Job 5:17} 12:7 If you* endure disciplining; God is dealing with you* as with sons; for* what is the son whom his father does not discipline? 12:8 But if you* are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, consequently, you* are illegitimate and not sons. 12:9 Thereafter, we have had the fathers of our flesh as a corrector of us and we revered them. Will we not much rather be made subject to the Father of spirits and live? 12:10 For* they indeed disciplined us *for a few days according to what did seem right to them; but he does it upon what is advantageous for us, *that* we may receive of his holiness. 12:11 Now all disciplining does not seem to be a thing of joy for the present, but of sorrow; yet later it gives peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised because of it. 12:12 Hence straighten your drooping hands and the paralyzed knees; 12:13 and make* straight tracks for your* feet, that* what is lame may not be turned aside, but rather should be healed.


     12:14 Pursue peace with all men and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord: 12:15 exercising the oversight of yourselves lest there is anyone who falls-short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing upward might trouble you* and the many might be defiled through this; 12:16 lest there is any fornicator or profane person, like Esau, who gave away his birthright in exchange-for one dinner. 12:17 For* you* know thereafter that even wishing to inherit the blessing, he was rejected*; for* he found no chance for repentance although he sought it with tears.


     12:18 For* you* have not come to a mountain which has been touched and burned with fire and to blackness and to darkness and to tempest, 12:19 and to the noise of a trumpet and to the voice of words; which voice those who heard renounced, asking the word not to be added to them. 12:20 For* they were not able to carry out what was ordered, ‘Even if a beast might touch the mountain, it will be stoned.’ {Ex. 19:12-13, 16, Deut. 4:11} 12:21 And so fearful was the manifestation, that Moses said, ‘I am fearful and trembling. {Deut. 9:19} 12:22 But you* have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem and to tens of thousands of messengers, 12:23 to the festal-gathering and to the congregation of the firstborn ones registered in the heavens and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of perfected righteous men, 12:24 and to Jesus the intermediary of a {F} new covenant* and to the blood of sprinkling which speaks better than that of Abel. 12:25 Beware that you* do not renounce him who speaks. For* if they did not escape when they renounced him who divinely-warned them upon the earth, much more we may not escape who are turning away from him who warns from the heavens; 12:26 whose voice then shook the earth. But now he has promised, saying, ‘Still once for all, I do not only shake the earth, but also the heaven.’ {Hag. 2:6} 12:27 And the saying, still once more, indicates the transfer of those things which are shaken, as of things that have been made*, in order that those things which are not shaken may remain. 12:28 Hence, receiving an unshakable kingdom, we may have grace, through which we may give-divine service in ways well pleasing to God with reverence and godly-fear; 12:29 for* our God is a consuming fire.


    {Footnotes: Heb 12:1 Or: popular sin; what stands around us well. 12:24 SEE 7:22 footnote or Appendix.}

        

[Hebrews 13]


     13:1 Let brotherly-love abide. 13:2 Do not forget hospitality; for* through this some, being eluded, have lodged messengers. 13:3 Remember those who are prisoners, as though bound together with them; those who are mistreated, as though being mistreated yourselves also in the body. 13:4 Let marriage be honored among all and let the marriage-bed be undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. 13:5 In the manner of life, be content with present things not being a money-lover; for* he himself has said, I may never* be lax concerning you, nor should I ever forsake you. 13:6 So-that we, being courageous, may say, The Lord is my helper and I will not fear. What will man do to me? {Ps. 56:4, 11; 118:6}


     13:7 Remember your* leaders, men who spoke to you* the word of God, and review the outcome of their conduct, imitate the faith of such. 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. 13:9 Do not be carried around by various and strange teachings; for* it is good that the heart be established by grace; not by foods, in which those who walked have not been profited. 13:10 We have an altar, from which those who give-divine service to the tabernacle have no authority to eat. 13:11 For* the bodies of those creatures, whose blood is brought into the holy-place through the high-priest as an offering concerning sin, are burned outside the encampment. 13:12 Hence Jesus also suffered outside the gate, that* he might sanctify the people through his own blood. 13:13 Therefore we should go forth to him outside the encampment, carrying his reproach. 13:14 For* we do not have an abiding city here, but we are seeking after the future city. 13:15 Therefore, we should always offer up a sacrifice of praising through him to God, that is, the fruit of our lips confessing to his name. 13:16 But do not forget the practice of good* and fellowship; for God is well pleased with such sacrifices. 13:17 Obey your* leaders and yield yourselves to them; for* they are watching out on behalf of your* souls, as those who will give account; that* they may do this with joy and not groaning; for* this would be detrimental to you*.


     13:18 Pray concerning us; for* we have confidence that we have a good conscience, wishing to conduct ourselves in a good manner in all things. 13:19 And I am encouraging you* even-more to do this, that* I may be restored to you* shortly.


     13:20 Now the God of peace, who brought up the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus, from the dead with the blood of an eternal covenant*, 13:21 may he perfect you* in every good work, *that* you* should practice his will, doing what is well pleasing in his sight in you*, through Jesus Christ: to whom is the glory forever and ever. Amen.


     13:22 But I am encouraging you*, brethren, tolerate the word of encouragement, for* I have informed you* by letter through bits of information. 13:23 Do you* know that our brother Timothy has been released? With whom, I will see you* if he comes shortly.


     13:24 Greet all your* leaders and all the holy-ones. Those from Italy greet you*.


     13:25 Grace be with you* all. Amen.





Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1999, 2014 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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