2 Timothy
1:1Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, in the hope of the life which is in Christ Jesus, 1:2To Timothy, my well-loved child: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 1:3I give praise to God, whose servant I have been, with a heart free from sin, from the time of my fathers, because in my prayers at all times the thought of you is with me, night and day 1:4Desiring to see you, keeping in my memory your weeping, so that I may be full of joy; 1:5Having in mind your true faith, which first was in your mother's mother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and, I am certain, is now in you. 1:6For this reason I say to you, Let that grace of God which is in you, given to you by my hands, have living power. 1:7For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control. 1:8Have no feeling of shame, then, for the witness of our Lord or for me, his prisoner: but undergo all things for the good news in the measure of the power of God; 1:9Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal, 1:10But has now been made clear by the revelation of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who put an end to death and made life unending come to light through the good news, 1:11Of which I was made a preacher and an Apostle and a teacher; 1:12And for which I undergo these things: but I have no feeling of shame. For I have knowledge of him in whom I have faith, and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have given into his care till that day. 1:13Keep the form of those true words which you had from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 1:14That good thing which was given to you keep safe, through the Holy Spirit which is in us. 1:15You have had news that all those in Asia went away from me; among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes: 1:16May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus because he frequently gave me help, and had no feeling of shame because I was in chains; 1:17But when he was in Rome, he went in search of me everywhere, and came to me 1:18(May he have the Lord's mercy in that day); and of all he did for me at Ephesus you have full knowledge.
2:1So then, my child, be strong in the grace which is in Christ Jesus. 2:2And the things which I have said to you before a number of witnesses, give to those of the faith, so that they may be teachers of others. 2:3Be ready to do without the comforts of life, as one of the army of Christ Jesus. 2:4A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army. 2:5And if a man takes part in a competition he does not get the crown if he has not kept the rules. 2:6It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit. 2:7Give thought to what I say; for the Lord will give you wisdom in all things. 2:8Keep in mind Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, who came back from the dead, as my good news gives witness: 2:9In which I put up with the hardest conditions, even prison chains, like one who has done a crime; but the word of God is not in chains. 2:10But I undergo all things for the saints, so that they may have salvation in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. 2:11This is a true saying: If we undergo death with him, then will we be living with him: 2:12If we go on to the end, then we will be ruling with him: if we say we have no knowledge of him, then he will say he has no knowledge of us: 2:13If we are without faith, still he keeps faith, for he will never be untrue to himself. 2:14Put these things before them, giving them orders in the name of the Lord to keep themselves from fighting about words, which is of no profit, only causing error in their hearers. 2:15Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way. 2:16But take no part in wrong and foolish talk, for those who do so will go farther into evil, 2:17And their words will be like poisoned wounds in the flesh: such are Hymenaeus and Philetus; 2:18Men whose ideas are all false, who say that the coming back from the dead has even now taken place, overturning the faith of some. 2:19But God's strong base is unchanging, having this sign, The Lord has knowledge of those who are his: and, Let everyone by whom the name of the Lord is named be turned away from evil. 2:20Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but others of wood and earth, and some which are honoured and some without honour. 2:21If a man makes himself clean from these, he will be a vessel for honour, made holy, ready for the master's use, ready for every good work. 2:22But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart. 2:23And put away foolish and uncontrolled questionings, seeing that they are a cause of trouble. 2:24For it is not right for the Lord's servant to make trouble, but he is to be gentle to all, ready in teaching, putting up with wrong, 2:25Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge, 2:26And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.
3:1But be certain of this, that in the last days times of trouble will come. 3:2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion, 3:3Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good, 3:4False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God; 3:5Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these. 3:6For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires, 3:7Ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of what is true. 3:8And as James and Jambres went against Moses, so do these go against what is true: men of evil minds, who, tested by faith, are seen to be false. 3:9But they will go no farther: for their foolish behaviour will be clear to all men, as theirs was in the end. 3:10But you took as your example my teaching, behaviour, purpose, and faith; my long waiting, my love, my quiet undergoing of trouble; 3:11My punishments and pain; the things which came to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; the cruel attacks made on me: and the Lord made me free from them all. 3:12Yes, and all whose purpose is to be living in the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus, will be cruelly attacked. 3:13Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit. 3:14But see that you keep to the teaching you have been given and the things of which you are certain, conscious of who has been your teacher; 3:15And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus. 3:16Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness: 3:17So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.
4:1I give you orders, before God and Christ Jesus, who will be the judge of the living and the dead, and by his revelation and his kingdom; 4:2Be preaching the word at all times, in every place; make protests, say sharp words, give comfort, with long waiting and teaching; 4:3For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them; 4:4And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories. 4:5But be self-controlled in all things, do without comfort, go on preaching the good news, completing the work which has been given you to do. 4:6For I am even now being offered, and my end is near. 4:7I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith: 4:8From now on, the crown of righteousness is made ready for me, which the Lord, the upright judge, Will give to me at that day: and not only to me, but to all those who have had love for his revelation. 4:9Do your best to come to me before long: 4:10For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. 4:11Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and take him with you; for he is of use to me in the work. 4:12Tychicus I sent to Ephesus. 4:13The coat which I did not take from Troas and which is with Carpus, get when you come, and the books, specially the papers. 4:14Alexander the copper-worker did me much wrong: the Lord will give him the reward of his works: 4:15But be on the watch for him, for he was violent in his attacks on our teaching. 4:16At my first meeting with my judges, no one took my part, but all went away from me. May it not be put to their account. 4:17But the Lord was by my side and gave me strength; so that through me the news might be given out in full measure, and all the Gentiles might give ear: and I was taken out of the mouth of the lion. 4:18The Lord will keep me safe from every evil work and will give me salvation in his kingdom in heaven: to whom be glory for ever and ever. So be it. 4:19Give my love to Prisca and Aquila and those of the house of Onesiphorus. 4:20Erastus was stopping at Corinth; but Trophimus, when I last saw him was at Miletus, ill. 4:21Do your best to come before the winter. Eubulus sends you his love, and Pudens and Linus and Claudia, and all the brothers. 4:22The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.
Titus
1:1Paul, a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, in agreement with the faith of the saints of God and the full knowledge of what is true in harmony with religion, 1:2In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true; 1:3Who, in his time, made clear his word in the good news, of which, by the order of God our Saviour, I became a preacher; 1:4To Titus, my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour. 1:5I did not take you with me when I went away from Crete, so that you might do what was necessary to put things in order there, placing men in authority over the churches in every town, as I said to you; 1:6Men having a good record, husbands of one wife, whose children are of the faith, children of whom it may not be said that they are given to loose living or are uncontrolled. 1:7For it is necessary for a Bishop to be a man of virtue, as God's servant; not pushing himself forward, not quickly moved to wrath or blows, not desiring profit for himself; 1:8But opening his house freely to guests; a lover of what is good, serious-minded, upright, holy, self-controlled; 1:9Keeping to the true word of the teaching, so that he may be able to give comfort by right teaching and overcome the arguments of the doubters. 1:10For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision, 1:11By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped. 1:12One of their prophets has said, The men of Crete are ever false, evil beasts, lovers of food, hating work. 1:13This witness is true. So say sharp words to them so that they may come to the right faith, 1:14Giving no attention to the fictions of the Jews and the rules of men who have no true knowledge. 1:15To the clean in heart all things are clean: but to those who are unclean and without faith nothing is clean; they become unclean in mind and in thought. 1:16They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.
2:1But let your words be in agreement with true and right teaching: 2:2That old men are to be simple in their tastes, serious, wise, true in faith, in love, and of a quiet mind. 2:3That old women are to be self-respecting in behaviour, not saying evil of others, not given to taking much wine, teachers of that which is good, 2:4Training the younger women to have love for their husbands and children, 2:5To be wise in mind, clean in heart, kind; working in their houses, living under the authority of their husbands; so that no evil may be said of the word of God. 2:6To the young men give orders to be wise and serious-minded: 2:7In all things see that you are an example of good works; holy in your teaching, serious in behaviour, 2:8Saying true and right words, against which no protest may be made, so that he who is not on our side may be put to shame, unable to say any evil of us. 2:9Servants are to be under the authority of their masters, pleasing them in all things, without argument; 2:10Not taking what is not theirs, but giving clear signs of their good faith, in all things doing credit to the teaching of God our Saviour. 2:11For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men, 2:12Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life; 2:13Looking for the glad hope, the revelation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ; 2:14Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works. 2:15On all these points give teaching and help, and make clear what is right with all authority. Let all men give you honour.
3:1Make clear to them that they are to put themselves under rulers and authorities, to do what they are ordered, to be ready for every good work, 3:2To say no evil of any man, not to be fighters, to give way to others, to be gentle in behaviour to all men. 3:3For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another. 3:4But when the mercy of God our Saviour, and his love to man was seen, 3:5Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit, 3:6Which he gave us freely through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 3:7So that, having been given righteousness through grace, we might have a part in the heritage, the hope of eternal life. 3:8This is a true saying; and it is my desire that you may give certain witness about these things, so that those who have had faith in God may give attention to good works. These things are good and of profit to men; 3:9But have nothing to do with foolish questionings, and lists of generations, and fights and arguments about the law; for they are of no profit and foolish. 3:10A man whose opinions are not those of the church, after a first and second protest, is to be kept out of your society; 3:11Clearly he is in error and a sinner, being self-judged. 3:12When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis: for it is my purpose to be there for the winter. 3:13Send Zenas, the man of law, and Apollos on their journey with all care, so that they may be in need of nothing. 3:14And let our people go on with good works for necessary purposes, so that they may not be without fruit. 3:15All who are with me send you their love. Give our love to our friends in the faith. Grace be with you all.
Philemon
1:1Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our dear helper in the faith,
Hebrews
1:1In times past the word of God came to our fathers through the prophets, in different parts and in different ways; 1:2But now, at the end of these days, it has come to us through his Son, to whom he has given all things for a heritage, and through whom he made the order of the generations; 1:3Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven; 1:4Having become by so much better than the angels, as the name which is his heritage is more noble than theirs. 1:5To which of the angels did God say at any time, You are my Son, this day I have given you being? or, I will be his Father, and he will be my Son? 1:6And again, when he is sending his only Son into the world, he says, Let all the angels of God give him worship. 1:7And of the angels he says, Who makes his angels winds, and his servants flames of fire: 1:8But of the Son he says, Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; and the rod of your kingdom is a rod of righteousness. 1:9You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil; and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head more than on the heads of those who are with you. 1:10You, Lord, at the first did put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the works of your hands: 1:11They will come to their end; but you are for ever; they will become old as a robe; 1:12They will be rolled up like a cloth, even like a robe, and they will be changed: but you are the same and your years will have no end. 1:13But of which of the angels has he said at any time, Take your seat at my right hand till I put all those who are against you under your feet? 1:14Are they not all helping spirits, who are sent out as servants to those whose heritage will be salvation?
2:1For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away. 2:2Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment; 2:3What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came; 2:4And God was a witness with them, by signs and wonders, and by more than natural powers, and by his distribution of the Holy Spirit at his pleasure. 2:5For he did not make the angels rulers over the world to come, of which I am writing. 2:6But a certain writer has given his witness, saying, What is man, that you keep him in mind? what is the son of man, that you take him into account? 2:7You made him a little lower than the angels; you gave him a crown of glory and honour, and made him ruler over all the works of your hands: 2:8You put all things under his feet. For in making man the ruler over all things, God did not put anything outside his authority; though we do not see everything under him now. 2:9But we see him who was made a little lower than the angels, even Jesus, crowned with glory and honour, because he let himself be put to death so that by the grace of God he might undergo death for all men. 2:10Because it was right for him, for whom and through whom all things have being, in guiding his sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation complete through pain. 2:11For he who makes holy and those who are made holy are all of one family; and for this reason it is no shame for him to give them the name of brothers, 2:12Saying, I will give the knowledge of your name to my brothers, I will make a song of praise to you before the church. 2:13And again he says, I will put my faith in him. And again, See, I am here, and the children which God has given to me. 2:14And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One; 2:15And let those who all their lives were in chains because of their fear of death, go free. 2:16For, truly, he does not take on the life of angels, but that of the seed of Abraham. 2:17Because of this it was necessary for him to be made like his brothers in every way, so that he might be a high priest full of mercy and keeping faith in everything to do with God, making offerings for the sins of the people. 2:18For having been put to the test himself, he is able to give help to others when they are tested.
3:1For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith; 3:2Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house. 3:3And it was right for this man to have more honour than Moses, even as the builder of a house has more honour than the house. 3:4For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God. 3:5And Moses certainly kept faith as a servant, in all his house, and as a witness of those things which were to be said later; 3:6But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end. 3:7And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears, 3:8Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land, 3:9When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years. 3:10So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways; 3:11And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest. 3:12My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God: 3:13But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin: 3:14For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ; 3:15As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry. 3:16Who made him angry when his voice came to them? was it not all those who came out of Egypt with Moses? 3:17And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land? 3:18And to whom did he make an oath that they might not come into his rest? was it not to those who went against his orders? 3:19So we see that they were not able to go in because they had no belief.
4:1Let us then, though we still have God's word that we may come into his rest, go in fear that some of you may be unable to do so. 4:2And, truly, the good news came to us, even as it did to them; but the hearing of the word did them no good, because they were not united in faith with the true hearers. 4:3For those of us who have belief come into his rest; even as he has said, As I said in my oath when I was angry, They may not come into my rest: though the works were done from the time of the making of the world. 4:4For in one place he has said of the seventh day, And God had rest from all his works on the seventh day; 4:5And in the same place he says again, They will not come into my rest. 4:6So that as it is clear that some have to go in, and that the first hearers of the good news were not able to go in because they went against God's orders, 4:7After a long time, again naming a certain day, he says in David, Today (as he had said before), Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, 4:8For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have said anything about another day. 4:9So that there is still a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God. 4:10For the man who comes into his rest has had rest from his works, as God did from his. 4:11Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders. 4:12For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart. 4:13And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do. 4:14Having then a great high priest, who has made his way through the heavens, even Jesus the Son of God, let us be strong in our faith. 4:15For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched by the feelings of our feeble flesh; but we have one who has been tested in all points as we ourselves are tested, but without sin. 4:16Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.
5:1Every high priest who is taken from among men is given his position to take care of the interests of men in those things which have to do with God, so that he may make offerings for sins. 5:2He is able to have feeling for those who have no knowledge and for those who are wandering from the true way, because he himself is feeble; 5:3And being feeble, he has to make sin-offerings for himself as well as for the people. 5:4And no man who is not given authority by God, as Aaron was, takes this honour for himself. 5:5In the same way Christ did not take for himself the glory of being made a high priest, but was given it by him who said, You are my Son, this day I have given you being: 5:6As he says in another place, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. 5:7Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God. 5:8And though he was a Son, through the pain which he underwent, the knowledge came to him of what it was to be under God's orders; 5:9And when he had been made complete, he became the giver of eternal salvation to all those who are under his orders; 5:10Being named by God a high priest of the order of Melchizedek. 5:11Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing. 5:12And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food. 5:13For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child. 5:14But solid food is for men of full growth, even for those whose senses are trained by use to see what is good and what is evil.
6:1For this reason let us go on from the first things about Christ to full growth; not building again that on which it is based, that is, the turning of the heart from dead works, and faith in God, 6:2The teaching of baptisms, and of the putting on of hands, and of the future life of the dead, and of the judging on the last day. 6:3Now we will do this, if God lets us. 6:4As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit, 6:5With knowledge of the good word of God, and of the powers of the coming time, 6:6And then let themselves be turned away, it is not possible for their hearts to be made new a second time; because they themselves put the Son of God on the cross again, openly shaming him. 6:7For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God: 6:8But if it sends up thorns and evil plants, it is of no use and is ready to be cursed; its only end is to be burned. 6:9But, my loved ones, though we say this, we are certain that you have better things in you, things which go with salvation; 6:10For God is true, and will not put away from him the memory of your work and of your love for his name, in the help which you gave and still give to the saints. 6:11And it is our desire that you may all keep the same high purpose in certain hope to the end: 6:12So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting. 6:13For when God made his oath to Abraham, because there was no greater oath, he made it by himself, 6:14Saying, Be certain that I will give you my blessing, and make your numbers very great. 6:15And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect. 6:16For men at all times make their oaths by what is greater; and any argument is ended by the decision of the oath. 6:17So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath; 6:18So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false; 6:19And this hope is like a strong band for our souls, fixed and certain, and going in to that which is inside the veil; 6:20Where Jesus has gone before us, as a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
7:1For this Melchizedek, the king of Salem, a priest of the Most High God, who gave Abraham his blessing, meeting him when he came back after putting the kings to death, 7:2And to whom Abraham gave a tenth part of everything which he had, being first named King of righteousness, and then in addition, King of Salem, that is to say, King of peace; 7:3Being without father or mother, or family, having no birth or end to his life, being made like the Son of God, is a priest for ever. 7:4Now see how great this man was, to whom our father Abraham gave a tenth part of what he had got in the fight. 7:5And it is true that by the law, those of the sons of Levi who have the position of priests may take a tenth part of the people's goods; that is to say, they take it from their brothers though these are the sons of Abraham. 7:6But this man, who was not of their family, took the tenth from Abraham, and gave a blessing to him to whom God had given his undertaking. 7:7But there is no doubt that the less gets his blessing from the greater. 7:8Now at the present time, men over whom death has power take the tenth; but then it was taken by one of whom it is witnessed that he is living. 7:9And we may say that in Abraham, even Levi, who has a right to take the tenth part, gave it; 7:10Because he was still in his father's body when Melchizedek came to him. 7:11Now if it was possible for things to be made complete through the priests of the house of Levi (for the law was given to the people in connection with them), what need was there for another priest who was of the order of Melchizedek and not of the order of Aaron? 7:12Because if the priests are changed, it is necessary to make a change in the law. 7:13For he of whom these things are said comes of another tribe, of which no man has ever made offerings at the altar. 7:14Because it is clear that our Lord comes out of Judah, and Moses said nothing about priests from that tribe. 7:15And this is even more clear if a second priest has come up who is like Melchizedek, 7:16That is to say, not made by a law based on the flesh, but by the power of a life without end: 7:17For it has been witnessed of him, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. 7:18So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit. 7:19(Because the law made nothing complete), and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God. 7:20And as this is not without the taking of an oath 7:21(For those were made priests without an oath, but this one was made a priest with an oath by him who says of him, The Lord gave his oath, which he will not take back, that you are a priest for ever); 7:22By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus. 7:23And it is true that there have been a great number of those priests, because death does not let them go on for ever; 7:24But this priest, because his life goes on for ever, is unchanging. 7:25So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them. 7:26It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens: 7:27Who has no need to make offerings for sins every day, like those high priests, first for himself, and then for the people; because he did this once and for ever when he made an offering of himself. 7:28The law makes high priests of men who are feeble; but the word of the oath, which was made after the law, gives that position to a Son, in whom all good is for ever complete.
8:1Now of the things we are saying this is the chief point: We have such a high priest, who has taken his place at the right hand of God's high seat of glory in heaven, 8:2As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man. 8:3Now every high priest is given authority to take to God the things which are given and to make offerings; so that it is necessary for this man, like them, to have something for an offering. 8:4If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law; 8:5Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain. 8:6But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things. 8:7For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second. 8:8For, protesting against them, he says, See, the days are coming when I will make a new agreement with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah; 8:9Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand, to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; for they did not keep the agreement with me, and I gave them up, says the Lord. 8:10For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people: 8:11And there will be no need for every man to be teaching his brother, or his neighbour, saying, This is the knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, great and small. 8:12And I will have mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind. 8:13When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.