2 Timothy
1:1Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will, according to promise of life, the [life] which [is] in Christ Jesus, 1:2to Timotheus, [my] beloved child: grace, mercy, peace, from God [the] Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord. 1:3I am thankful to God, whom I serve from [my] forefathers with pure conscience, how unceasingly I have the remembrance of thee in my supplications night and day, 1:4earnestly desiring to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may be filled with joy; 1:5calling to mind the unfeigned faith which [has been] in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and in thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that in thee also. 1:6For which cause I put thee in mind to rekindle the gift of God which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. 1:7For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of wise discretion. 1:8Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but suffer evil along with the glad tidings, according to the power of God; 1:9who has saved us, and has called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to [his] own purpose and grace, which [was] given to us in Christ Jesus before [the] ages of time, 1:10but has been made manifest now by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has annulled death, and brought to light life and incorruptibility by the glad tidings; 1:11to which *I* have been appointed a herald and apostle and teacher of [the] nations. 1:12For which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep for that day the deposit I have entrusted to him. 1:13Have an outline of sound words, which [words] thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which [are] in Christ Jesus. 1:14Keep, by the Holy Spirit which dwells in us, the good deposit entrusted. 1:15Thou knowest this, that all who [are] in Asia, of whom is Phygellus and Hermogenes, have turned away from me. 1:16The Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he has often refreshed me, and has not been ashamed of my chain; 1:17but being in Rome sought me out very diligently, and found [me] 1:18the Lord grant to him to find mercy from [the] Lord in that day and how much service he rendered in Ephesus *thou* knowest best.
2:1Thou therefore, my child, be strong in the grace which [is] in Christ Jesus. 2:2And the things thou hast heard of me in the presence of many witnesses, these entrust to faithful men, such as shall be competent to instruct others also. 2:3Take thy share in suffering as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 2:4No one going as a soldier entangles himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who has enlisted him as a soldier. 2:5And if also any one contend [in the games], he is not crowned unless he contend lawfully. 2:6The husbandman must labour before partaking of the fruits. 2:7Think of what I say, for the Lord will give thee understanding in all things. 2:8Remember Jesus Christ raised from among [the] dead, of [the] seed of David, according to my glad tidings, 2:9in which I suffer even unto bonds as an evil-doer: but the word of God is not bound. 2:10For this cause I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that *they* also may obtain the salvation which [is] in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. 2:11The word [is] faithful; for if we have died together with [him], we shall also live together; 2:12if we endure, we shall also reign together; if we deny, *he* also will deny us; 2:13if we are unfaithful, *he* abides faithful, for he cannot deny himself. 2:14Of these things put in remembrance, testifying earnestly before the Lord not to have disputes of words, profitable for nothing, to the subversion of the hearers. 2:15Strive diligently to present thyself approved to God, a workman that has not to be ashamed, cutting in a straight line the word of truth. 2:16But profane, vain babblings shun, for they will advance to greater impiety, 2:17and their word will spread as a gangrene; of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; 2:18[men] who as to the truth have gone astray, saying that the resurrection has taken place already; and overthrow the faith of some. 2:19Yet the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, [The] Lord knows those that are his; and, Let every one who names the name of [the] Lord withdraw from iniquity. 2:20But in a great house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also wooden and earthen; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. 2:21If therefore one shall have purified himself from these, [in separating himself from them], he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified, serviceable to the Master, prepared for every good work. 2:22But youthful lusts flee, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those that call upon the Lord out of a pure heart. 2:23But foolish and senseless questionings avoid, knowing that they beget contentions. 2:24And a bondman of [the] Lord ought not to contend, but be gentle towards all; apt to teach; forbearing; 2:25in meekness setting right those who oppose, if God perhaps may sometime give them repentance to acknowledgment of [the] truth, 2:26and that they may awake up out of the snare of the devil, [who are] taken by him, for *his* will.
3:1But this know, that in [the] last days difficult times shall be there; 3:2for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane, 3:3without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good, 3:4traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; 3:5having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away. 3:6For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts, 3:7always learning, and never able to come to [the] knowledge of [the] truth. 3:8Now in the same manner in which Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, thus these also withstand the truth; men corrupted in mind, found worthless as regards the faith. 3:9But they shall not advance farther; for their folly shall be completely manifest to all, as that of those also became. 3:10But *thou* hast been thoroughly acquainted with my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, endurance, 3:11persecutions, sufferings: what [sufferings] happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured; and the Lord delivered me out of all. 3:12And all indeed who desire to live piously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 3:13But wicked men and juggling impostors shall advance in evil, leading and being led astray. 3:14But *thou*, abide in those things which thou hast learned, and [of which] thou hast been fully persuaded, knowing of whom thou hast learned [them]; 3:15and that from a child thou hast known the sacred letters, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which [is] in Christ Jesus. 3:16Every scripture [is] divinely inspired, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; 3:17that the man of God may be complete, fully fitted to every good work.
4:1I testify before God and Christ Jesus, who is about to judge living and dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom, 4:2proclaim the word; be urgent in season [and] out of season, convict, rebuke, encourage, with all longsuffering and doctrine. 4:3For the time shall be when they will not bear sound teaching; but according to their own lusts will heap up to themselves teachers, having an itching ear; 4:4and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables. 4:5But *thou*, be sober in all things, bear evils, do [the] work of an evangelist, fill up the full measure of thy ministry. 4:6For *I* am already being poured out, and the time of my release is come. 4:7I have combated the good combat, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 4:8Henceforth the crown of righteousness is laid up for me, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will render to me in that day; but not only to me, but also to all who love his appearing. 4:9Use diligence to come to me quickly; 4:10for Demas has forsaken me, having loved the present age, and is gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. 4:11Luke alone is with me. Take Mark, and bring [him] with thyself, for he is serviceable to me for ministry. 4:12But Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus. 4:13The cloak which I left behind [me] in Troas at Carpus's, bring when thou comest, and the books, especially the parchments. 4:14Alexander the smith did many evil things against me. The Lord will render to him according to his works. 4:15Against whom be *thou* also on thy guard, for he has greatly withstood our words. 4:16At my first defence no man stood with me, but all deserted me. May it not be imputed to them. 4:17But the Lord stood with [me], and gave me power, that through me the proclamation might be fully made, and all [those of] the nations should hear; and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth. 4:18The Lord shall deliver me from every wicked work, and shall preserve [me] for his heavenly kingdom; to whom [be] glory for the ages of ages. Amen. 4:19Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus. 4:20Erastus remained in Corinth, but Trophimus I left behind in Miletus sick. 4:21Use diligence to come before winter. Eubulus salutes thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and the brethren all. 4:22The Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit. Grace [be] with you.
Titus
1:1Paul, bondman of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ according to [the] faith of God's elect, and knowledge of [the] truth which [is] according to piety; 1:2in [the] hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of time, 1:3but has manifested in its own due season his word, in [the] proclamation with which *I* have been entrusted, according to [the] commandment of our Saviour God; 1:4to Titus, my own child according to [the] faith common [to us]: Grace and peace from God [the] Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour. 1:5For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest go on to set right what remained [unordered], and establish elders in each city, as *I* had ordered thee: 1:6if any one be free from all charge [against him], husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly. 1:7For the overseer must be free from all charge [against him] as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means; 1:8but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate, 1:9clinging to the faithful word according to the doctrine taught, that he may be able both to encourage with sound teaching and refute gainsayers. 1:10For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and deceivers of people's minds, specially those of [the] circumcision, 1:11who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which ought not [to be taught] for the sake of base gain. 1:12One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said, Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy gluttons. 1:13This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them severely, that they may be sound in the faith, 1:14not turning [their] minds to Jewish fables and commandments of men turning away from the truth. 1:15All things [are] pure to the pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing [is] pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. 1:16They profess to know God, but in works deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work.
2:1But do *thou* speak the things that become sound teaching; 2:2that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience; 2:3that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right; 2:4that they may admonish the young women to be attached to [their] husbands, to be attached to [their] children, 2:5discreet, chaste, diligent in home work, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of. 2:6The younger men in like manner exhort to be discreet: 2:7in all things affording thyself as a pattern of good works; in teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, 2:8a sound word, not to be condemned; that he who is opposed may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us: 2:9bondmen to be subject to their own masters, to make themselves acceptable in everything; not gainsaying; 2:10not robbing [their masters], but shewing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the teaching which [is] of our Saviour God in all things. 2:11For the grace of God which carries with it salvation for all men has appeared, 2:12teaching us that, having denied impiety and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, and justly, and piously in the present course of things, 2:13awaiting the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ; 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous for good works. 2:15These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise thee.
3:1Put them in mind to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient to rule, to be ready to do every good work, 3:2to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, [to be] mild, shewing all meekness towards all men. 3:3For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another. 3:4But when the kindness and love to man of our Saviour God appeared, 3:5not on the principle of works which [have been done] in righteousness which *we* had done, but according to his own mercy he saved us through [the] washing of regeneration and renewal of [the] Holy Spirit, 3:6which he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 3:7that, having been justified by *his* grace, we should become heirs according to [the] hope of eternal life. 3:8The word [is] faithful, and I desire that thou insist strenuously on these things, that they who have believed God may take care to pay diligent attention to good works. These things are good and profitable to men. 3:9But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and contentions about the law, shun; for they are unprofitable and vain. 3:10An heretical man after a first and second admonition have done with, 3:11knowing that such a one is perverted, and sins, being self-condemned. 3:12When I shall send Artemas to thee, or Tychicus, use diligence to come to me to Nicopolis; for I have decided to winter there. 3:13Zenas the lawyer and Apollos set forward diligently on their way, that nothing may be lacking to them; 3:14and let ours also learn to apply themselves to good works for necessary wants, that they may not be unfruitful. 3:15All with me salute thee. Salute those who love us in [the] faith. Grace [be] with you all.
Philemon
1:1Paul, prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timotheus the brother, to Philemon the beloved and our fellow-workman,
Hebrews
1:1God having spoken in many parts and in many ways formerly to the fathers in the prophets, 1:2at the end of these days has spoken to us in [the person of the] Son, whom he has established heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 1:3who being [the] effulgence of his glory and [the] expression of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made [by himself] the purification of sins, set himself down on the right hand of the greatness on high, 1:4taking a place by so much better than the angels, as he inherits a name more excellent than they. 1:5For to which of the angels said he ever, *Thou* art my Son: this day have *I* begotten thee? and again, *I* will be to him for father, and *he* shall be to me for son? 1:6and again, when he brings in the firstborn into the habitable world, he says, And let all God's angels worship him. 1:7And as to the angels he says, Who makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire; 1:8but as to the Son, Thy throne, O God, [is] to the age of the age, and a sceptre of uprightness [is] the sceptre of thy kingdom. 1:9Thou hast loved righteousness and hast hated lawlessness; therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with oil of gladness above thy companions. 1:10And, *Thou* in the beginning, Lord, hast founded the earth, and works of thy hands are the heavens. 1:11They shall perish, but *thou* continuest still; and they all shall grow old as a garment, 1:12and as a covering shalt thou roll them up, and they shall be changed; but *thou* art the Same, and thy years shall not fail. 1:13But as to which of the angels said he ever, Sit at my right hand until I put thine enemies [as] footstool of thy feet? 1:14Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out for service on account of those who shall inherit salvation?
2:1For this reason we should give heed more abundantly to the things [we have] heard, lest in any way we should slip away. 2:2For if the word which was spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and disobedience received just retribution, 2:3how shall *we* escape if we have been negligent of so great salvation, which, having had its commencement in being spoken [of] by the Lord, has been confirmed to us by those who have heard; 2:4God bearing, besides, witness with [them] to [it], both by signs and wonders, and various acts of power, and distributions of [the] Holy Spirit, according to his will? 2:5For he has not subjected to angels the habitable world which is to come, of which we speak; 2:6but one has testified somewhere, saying, What is man, that thou rememberest him, or son of man that thou visitest him? 2:7Thou hast made him some little inferior to the angels; thou hast crowned him with glory and honour, [and hast set him over the works of thy hands;] 2:8thou hast subjected all things under his feet. For in subjecting all things to him, he has left nothing unsubject to him. But now we see not yet all things subjected to *him*, 2:9but we see Jesus, who [was] made some little inferior to angels on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste death for every thing. 2:10For it became him, for whom [are] all things, and by whom [are] all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make perfect the leader of their salvation through sufferings. 2:11For both he that sanctifies and those sanctified [are] all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 2:12saying, I will declare thy name to my brethren; in [the] midst of [the] assembly will I sing thy praises. 2:13And again, I will trust in him. And again, Behold, I and the children which God has given me. 2:14Since therefore the children partake of blood and flesh, he also, in like manner, took part in the same, that through death he might annul him who has the might of death, that is, the devil; 2:15and might set free all those who through fear of death through the whole of their life were subject to bondage. 2:16For he does not indeed take hold of angels [by the hand], but he takes hold of the seed of Abraham. 2:17Wherefore it behoved him in all things to be made like to [his] brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people; 2:18for, in that himself has suffered, being tempted, he is able to help those that are being tempted.
3:1Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of [the] heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus, 3:2who is faithful to him that has constituted him, as Moses also in all his house. 3:3For *he* has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by how much he that has built it has more honour than the house. 3:4For every house is built by some one; but he who has built all things [is] God. 3:5And Moses indeed [was] faithful in all his house, as a ministering servant, for a testimony of the things to be spoken after; 3:6but Christ, as Son over his house, whose house are *we*, if indeed we hold fast the boldness and the boast of hope firm to the end. 3:7Wherefore, even as says the Holy Spirit, To-day if ye will hear his voice, 3:8harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness; 3:9where your fathers tempted [me], by proving [me], and saw my works forty years. 3:10Wherefore I was wroth with this generation, and said, They always err in heart; and *they* have not known my ways; 3:11so I swore in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest. 3:12See, brethren, lest there be in any one of you a wicked heart of unbelief, in turning away from [the] living God. 3:13But encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called To-day, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 3:14For we are become companions of the Christ if indeed we hold the beginning of the assurance firm to the end; 3:15in that it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation; 3:16(for who was it, who, having heard, provoked? but [was it] not all who came out of Egypt by Moses? 3:17And with whom was he wroth forty years? [Was it] not with those who had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? 3:18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who had not hearkened to the word? 3:19And we see that they could not enter in on account of unbelief;)
4:1Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you might seem to have failed [of it]. 4:2For indeed we have had glad tidings presented to us, even as they also; but the word of the report did not profit *them*, not being mixed with faith in those who heard. 4:3For we enter into the rest who have believed; as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest; although the works had been completed from [the] foundation of [the] world. 4:4For he has said somewhere of the seventh [day] thus, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works: 4:5and in this again, If they shall enter into my rest. 4:6Seeing therefore it remains that some enter into it, and those who first received the glad tidings did not enter in on account of not hearkening to the word, 4:7again he determines a certain day, saying, in David, 'To-day,' after so long a time; (according as it has been said before), To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 4:8For if Jesus had brought them into rest, he would not have spoken afterwards about another day. 4:9There remains then a sabbatism to the people of God. 4:10For he that has entered into his rest, he also has rested from his works, as God did from his own. 4:11Let us therefore use diligence to enter into that rest, that no one may fall after the same example of not hearkening to the word. 4:12For the word of God [is] living and operative, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to [the] division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of [the] heart. 4:13And there is not a creature unapparent before him; but all things [are] naked and laid bare to his eyes, with whom we have to do. 4:14Having therefore a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the confession. 4:15For we have not a high priest not able to sympathise with our infirmities, but tempted in all things in like manner, sin apart. 4:16Let us approach therefore with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace for seasonable help.
5:1For every high priest taken from amongst men is established for men in things relating to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins; 5:2being able to exercise forbearance towards the ignorant and erring, since he himself also is clothed with infirmity; 5:3and, on account of this [infirmity], he ought, even as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. 5:4And no one takes the honour to himself but [as] called by God, even as Aaron also. 5:5Thus the Christ also has not glorified himself to be made a high priest; but he who had said to him, *Thou* art my Son, *I* have to-day begotten thee. 5:6Even as also in another [place] he says, *Thou* [art] a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec. 5:7Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up both supplications and entreaties to him who was able to save him out of death, with strong crying and tears; (and having been heard because of his piety;) 5:8though he were Son, he learned obedience from the things which he suffered; 5:9and having been perfected, became to all them that obey him, author of eternal salvation; 5:10addressed by God [as] high priest according to the order of Melchisedec. 5:11Concerning whom we have much to say, and hard to be interpreted in speaking [of it], since ye are become dull in hearing. 5:12For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that [one] should teach you what [are] the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, [and] not of solid food. 5:13For every one that partakes of milk [is] unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe; 5:14but solid food belongs to full-grown men, who, on account of habit, have their senses exercised for distinguishing both good and evil.
6:1Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of the Christ, let us go on [to what belongs] to full growth, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God, 6:2of [the] doctrine of washings, and of imposition of hands, and of resurrection of [the] dead, and of eternal judgment; 6:3and this will we do if God permit. 6:4For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those once enlightened, and who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of [the] Holy Spirit, 6:5and have tasted the good word of God, and [the] works of power of [the] age to come, 6:6and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves [as they do] the Son of God, and making a show of [him]. 6:7For ground which drinks the rain which comes often upon it, and produces useful herbs for those for whose sakes also it is tilled, partakes of blessing from God; 6:8but bringing forth thorns and briars, it is found worthless and nigh to a curse, whose end [is] to be burned. 6:9But we are persuaded concerning you, beloved, better things, and connected with salvation, even if we speak thus. 6:10For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and [still] ministering. 6:11But we desire earnestly that each one of you shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end; 6:12that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises. 6:13For God, having promised to Abraham, since he had no greater to swear by, swore by himself, 6:14saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee; 6:15and thus, having had long patience, he got the promise. 6:16For men indeed swear by a greater, and with them the oath is a term to all dispute, as making matters sure. 6:17Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath, 6:18that by two unchangeable things, in which [it was] impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us, 6:19which we have as anchor of the soul, both secure and firm, and entering into that within the veil, 6:20where Jesus is entered as forerunner for us, become for ever a high priest according to the order of Melchisedec.
7:1For this Melchisedec, King of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from smiting the kings, and blessed him; 7:2to whom Abraham gave also the tenth portion of all; first being interpreted King of righteousness, and then also King of Salem, which is King of peace; 7:3without father, without mother, without genealogy; having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but assimilated to the Son of God, abides a priest continually. 7:4Now consider how great this [personage] was, to whom [even] the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth out of the spoils. 7:5And they indeed from among the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is from their brethren, though these are come out of the loins of Abraham: 7:6but he who has no genealogy from them has tithed Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises. 7:7But beyond all gainsaying, the inferior is blessed by the better. 7:8And here dying men receive tithes; but there [one] of whom the witness is that he lives; 7:9and, so to speak, through Abraham, Levi also, who received tithes, has been made to pay tithes. 7:10For he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchisedec met him. 7:11If indeed then perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for the people had their law given to them in connexion with *it*, what need [was there] still that a different priest should arise according to the order of Melchisedec, and not be named after the order of Aaron? 7:12For, the priesthood being changed, there takes place of necessity a change of law also. 7:13For he, of whom these things are said, belongs to a different tribe, of which no one has [ever] been attached to the service of the altar. 7:14For it is clear that our Lord has sprung out of Juda, as to which tribe Moses spake nothing as to priests. 7:15And it is yet more abundantly evident, since a different priest arises according to the similitude of Melchisedec, 7:16who has been constituted not according to law of fleshly commandment, but according to power of indissoluble life. 7:17For it is borne witness, *Thou* art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec. 7:18For there is a setting aside of the commandment going before for its weakness and unprofitableness, 7:19(for the law perfected nothing,) and the introduction of a better hope by which we draw nigh to God. 7:20And by how much [it was] not without the swearing of an oath; 7:21(for they are become priests without the swearing of an oath, but he with the swearing of an oath, by him who said, as to him, The Lord has sworn, and will not repent [of it], *Thou* [art] priest for ever [according to the order of Melchisedec];) 7:22by so much Jesus became surety of a better covenant. 7:23And they have been many priests, on account of being hindered from continuing by death; 7:24but he, because of his continuing for ever, has the priesthood unchangeable. 7:25Whence also he is able to save completely those who approach by him to God, always living to intercede for them. 7:26For such a high priest became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and become higher than the heavens: 7:27who has not day by day need, as the high priests, first to offer up sacrifices for his own sins, then [for] those of the people; for this he did once for all [in] having offered up himself. 7:28For the law constitutes men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the swearing of the oath which [is] after the law, a Son perfected for ever.
8:1Now a summary of the things of which we are speaking [is], We have such a one high priest who has sat down on [the] right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens; 8:2minister of the holy places and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord has pitched, [and] not man. 8:3For every high priest is constituted for the offering both of gifts and sacrifices; whence it is needful that this one also should have something which he may offer. 8:4If then indeed he were upon earth, he would not even be a priest, there being those who offer the gifts according to the law, 8:5(who serve the representation and shadow of heavenly things, according as Moses was oracularly told [when] about to make the tabernacle; for See, saith He, that thou make all things according to the pattern which has been shewn to thee in the mountain.) 8:6But now he has got a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is mediator of a better covenant, which is established on the footing of better promises. 8:7For if that first was faultless, place had not been sought for a second. 8:8For finding fault, he says to them, Behold, days come, saith the Lord, and I will consummate a new covenant as regards the house of Israel, and as regards the house of Juda; 8:9not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in [the] day of my taking their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because *they* did not continue in my covenant, and *I* did not regard them, saith [the] Lord. 8:10Because this [is] the covenant that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and *they* shall be to me for people. 8:11And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know me in themselves, from [the] little one [among them] unto [the] great among them. 8:12Because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more. 8:13In that he says New, he has made the first old; but that which grows old and aged [is] near disappearing.