Hebrews 13
13
Service that pleases God
1Keep being concerned about each other as the Lord's followers should.
2Be sure to welcome strangers into your home. By doing this, some people have welcomed angels as guests, without even knowing it.#Gn 18.1-8; 19.1-3.
3Remember the Lord's people who are in jail and be concerned for them. Don't forget those who are suffering, but imagine that you are there with them.
4Have respect for marriage. Always be faithful to your partner, because God will punish anyone who is immoral or unfaithful in marriage.
5Don't fall in love with money. Be satisfied with what you have. The Lord has promised that he will not leave us or desert us.#Dt 31.6,8; Js 1.5. 6That should make you feel like saying,#Ps 118.6 (LXX).
“The Lord helps me!
Why should I be afraid
of what people
can do to me?”
7Don't forget about your leaders who taught you God's message. Remember what kind of lives they lived and try to have faith like theirs.
8Jesus Christ never changes! He is the same yesterday, today, and for ever. 9Don't be fooled by any kind of strange teachings. It is better to receive strength from God's undeserved kindness than to depend on certain foods. After all, these foods don't really help the people who eat them. 10But we have an altar where even the priests who serve in the place of worship have no right to eat.
11After the high priest offers the blood of animals as a sin offering, the bodies of those animals are burnt outside the camp.#Lv 16.27. 12Jesus himself suffered outside the city gate, so that his blood would make people holy. 13That's why we should go outside the camp to Jesus and share in his disgrace. 14On this earth we don't have a city that lasts for ever, but we are waiting for such a city.
15Our sacrifice is to keep offering praise to God in the name of Jesus. 16But don't forget to help others and to share your possessions with them. This too is like offering a sacrifice that pleases God.
17Obey your leaders and do what they say. They are watching over you, and they must answer to God. So don't make them sad as they do their work. Make them happy. Otherwise, they won't be able to help you at all.
18Pray for us. Our consciences are clear, and we always try to live right. 19I especially want you to pray that I can visit you again soon.
Final prayers and greetings
20God gives peace, and he raised our Lord Jesus Christ from death. Now Jesus is like a Great Shepherd whose blood was used to make God's eternal agreement with his flock.#13.20 whose blood was used to make God's eternal agreement with his flock: See 9.18-22. 21I pray that God will make you ready to obey him and that you will always be eager to do right. May Jesus help you do what pleases God. To Jesus Christ be glory for ever and ever! Amen.
22My friends, I have written only a short letter to encourage you, and I beg you to pay close attention to what I have said.
23By now you must know that our friend Timothy is out of jail. If he gets here in time, I will bring him with me when I come to visit you.
24Please give my greetings to your leaders and to the rest of the Lord's people.
His followers from Italy send you their greetings.
25I pray that God will be kind to all of you!#13.25 to all of you!: Some manuscripts add “Amen.”
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Hebrews 13
13
Brotherly Love in the Community
1Let brotherly love continue.
2Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers—for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
3Remember the prisoners as if you were fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you also were suffering bodily.
4Let marriage be held in honor among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
5Keep your lifestyle free from the love of money, and be content with what you have. For God Himself has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you,”
6so that with confidence we say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What will man do to me?”
7Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.
8Yeshua the Messiah is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
9Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace—not by foods that have not benefited those occupied by them.
10We have an altar from which those serving in the tabernacle have no right to eat.
11For the bodies of those animals—whose blood is brought into the Holies by the kohen gadol as an offering for sin—are burned outside the camp.
12Therefore, to make the people holy through His own blood, Yeshua also suffered outside the gate.
13So let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing His disgrace.
14For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the one that is to come.
15Through Yeshua then, let us continually offer up to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips giving thanks to His name.
16Do not neglect doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
17Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as ones who must give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no benefit to you.
18Pray for us, for we are convinced that we have a clear conscience, desiring to conduct ourselves honorably in all things.
19I especially urge you to do this, so that I may be restored to you sooner.
Closing Blessing
20Now may the God of shalom, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep by the blood of an everlasting covenant, our Lord Yeshua,
21make you complete in every good thing to do His will, accomplishing in us what is pleasing in His sight, through Messiah Yeshua. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Final Greetings
22But I urge you, brothers and sisters, listen patiently to this word of exhortation, for in fact I have written to you in few words.
23Know that our brother Timothy has been released. If he comes soon, I will visit you with him.
24Greet all your leaders and all the kedoshim—those from Italy greet you.
25Grace be with you all.
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