13Hebrews 13

1Let brotherly love always continue.Select Hebrews 13:1

2Do not neglect to show kindness to strangers; for, in this way, some, without knowing it, have had angels as their guests.Select Hebrews 13:2

3Remember prisoners, as if you were in prison with them; and remember those suffering ill-treatment, for you yourselves also are still in the body.Select Hebrews 13:3

4Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.Select Hebrews 13:4

5Your lives should be untainted by love for money. Be content with what you have; for God Himself has said, "I will never, never let go your hand: I will never never forsake you."Select Hebrews 13:5

6So that we fearlessly say, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid: what can man do to me?"Select Hebrews 13:6

7Remember your former leaders--it was they who brought you God's Message. Bear in mind how they ended their lives, and imitate their faith.Select Hebrews 13:7

8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to-day--yes, and to the ages to come.Select Hebrews 13:8

9Do not be drawn aside by all sorts of strange teaching; for it is well to have the heart made stedfast through God's grace, and not by special kinds of food, from which those who scrupulously attend to them have derived no benefit.Select Hebrews 13:9

10We Christians have an altar from which the ministers of the Jewish Tent have no right to eat.Select Hebrews 13:10

11For the bodies of those animals of which the blood is carried by the High Priest into the Holy place as an offering for sin, are burned outside the camp.Select Hebrews 13:11

12And for this reason Jesus also, in order, by His own blood, to set the people free from sin, suffered outside the gate.Select Hebrews 13:12

13Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, sharing the insults directed against Him.Select Hebrews 13:13

14For we have no permanent city here, but we are longing for the city which is soon to be ours.Select Hebrews 13:14

15Through Him, then, let us continually lay on the altar a sacrifice of praise to God, namely, the utterance of lips that give thanks to His Name.Select Hebrews 13:15

16And do not forget to be kind and liberal; for with sacrifices of that sort God is greatly pleased.Select Hebrews 13:16

17Obey your leaders and be submissive to them. For they are keeping watch over your souls as those who will have to give account; that they may do this with joy and not with lamentation. For that would be of no advantage to you.Select Hebrews 13:17

18Keep on praying for us; for we are sure that we have clear consciences, and we desire to live nobly in every respect.Select Hebrews 13:18

19I specially urge this upon you in order that I may be the more speedily restored to you.Select Hebrews 13:19

20Now may God who gives peace, and brought Jesus, our Lord, up again from among the dead--even Him who, by virtue of the blood of the eternal Covenant, is the great Shepherd of the sheep--Select Hebrews 13:20

21fully equip you with every grace that you may need for the doing of His will, producing in us that which will truly please Him through Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory to the Ages of the Ages! Amen.Select Hebrews 13:21

22Bear with me, brethren, when I thus exhort you; for, in fact, it is but a short letter that I have written to you.Select Hebrews 13:22

23You will rejoice to hear that our brother Timothy has been set at liberty. If he comes soon, I will see you with him.Select Hebrews 13:23

24Greet all your leaders and all God's people. The brethren from Italy send you greetings.Select Hebrews 13:24

25Grace be with you all! Amen.Select Hebrews 13:25