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1 Gr. hath offered

up.

2 Or, of

3 Or, the Christ

4 Or.

instituted Gr. hath made.

5 Or, beaten to death

6 Gr.

By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac: yea, he that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten son; even 18 he 2 to whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called: 19 accounting that God is able to raise up, even from the dead; from whence he did also in a 20 parable receive him back. By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things 21 to come. By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon 22 the top of his staff. By faith Joseph, when his end was nigh, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave commandment con23 cerning his bones. By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw he was a goodly child; and they were not afraid of the king's com24 mandment. By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of 25 Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to be evil entreated with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for 26 a season; accounting the reproach of 3 Christ greater riches 8 Or, than the treasures of Egypt: all cumfor he looked unto the recom27 pense of reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he en-9 Or, doth dured, as seeing him who is 28 invisible. By faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should 29 not touch them. By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were swal30 lowed up. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed about for

the re

demption.

7 Or, foreseen

brance

closely cling Or, is admired of many

to us

10 Or, captain

seven days. By faith Rahab 31 the harlot perished not with them that were disobedient, having received the spies with peace. And what shall I more 32 say? for the time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah; of David and Samuel and the prophets: who 33 through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the 34 power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, waxed mighty in war, turned to flight armies of aliens. Women re- 35 ceived their dead by a resurrection: and others were 5tortured, not accepting their deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: and others had trial of mock- 36 ings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: they were stoned, they 37 were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, evil entreated (of whom the world 38 was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth. And these all, having 39 had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise, God having 40 7 provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

Therefore let us also, seeing 12 we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus 2 the 10 author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that

authori-
ties, some
ancient,
read him-

self.

was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, 1 Many and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of 3 God. For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against themselves, that ye wax not weary, faint-2 4 ing in your souls. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, 5 striving against sin: and ye have forgotten the exhortation, which reasoneth with you as with sons,

6

My son, regard not lightly
the chastening of the
Lord,

Nor faint when thou art re-
proved of him;

For whom the Lord loveth
he chasteneth,
And scourgeth every son
whom he receiveth.

Or, Endure unto chasten

ing

out of the way, but rather be healed.

Follow after peace with all 14 men, and the sanctification without which no man shall I see the Lord: looking care- 15 fully lest there be any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled; lest there be any 16 fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright. For ye know that even when 17 he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected (for he found no place of repentance), though he sought put out of it diligently with tears. joint

3 Or, our
spirits

4 Gr.

make
straight.

5 Or,

whether

falleth
back from

8 Or, a
palpable
and kin
dled fire

For ye are not come unto 8 a 18 mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound 19 of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that no word more should be spoken unto them for they could 20 not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned; and so fearful was the 21 appearance, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake: but ye are come unto mount 22 Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to 10 innumerable hosts of angels, to the general 23 church &c. assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in 10 Gr. my-heaven, and to God the Judge riads of of all, and to the spirits of just angels. men made perfect, and to Je- 21 sus the mediator of a new 11 covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better 12 than that of Abel.

72It is for chastening that ye 6 or. endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasten8 eth not? But if ye are with- 7 Or. out chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not 9 sons. Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and 10 live? For they verily for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be 11 partakers of his holiness. All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous, but grievous: yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, even the 12 fruit of righteousness. Where-11 Or, fore 4 lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied

9 Or, and
to innu-
merable
hosts, the
general
assembly
of angels,

and the

testament

13 knees; and make straight 12 Or, than See that ye refuse not him 25

paths for your feet, that that

which is lame be not 5 turned

Abet

that speaketh. For if they escaped not, when they re

fused him that warned them on earth, much more shall not we escape, who turn away from him that warneth from 26 heaven: whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, 27 but also the heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifleth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have 2 grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with 3 reverence 29 and awe: for our God is a consuming fire.

13 Let love of the brethren 2 continue. Forget not to shew love unto strangers: for thereby some have entertained 3 angels unawares. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are evil entreated, as being yourselves also in the body. 4 Let marriage be had in honour among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will 5 judge. 4 Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I 6 in any wise forsake thee. So that with good courage we say,

The Lord is my helper; I

will not fear: What shall man do unto me?

Remember them that had the rule over you, which spake unto you the word of God; and considering the issue of their 5 life, imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yes

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terday and to-day, yea and for ever. Be not carried away by 9 divers and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be stablished by grace; not by meats, wherein they that 7 occupied themselves were not profited. We have an altar, 10 whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. For the bodies of those 11 beasts, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned without the camp. Wherefore Jesus also, 12 that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let 13 us therefore go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For we have not 14 here an abiding city, but we seek after the city which is to come. Through him then let 15 us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which make confession to his name. But to 16 do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. Obey them that have the rule 17 over you, and submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with 10 grief: for this were unprofitable for you.

Pray for us: for we are per- 18 suaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honestly in all things. And I 19 exhort you the more exceedingly to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

Now the God of peace, who 20 brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep 11 with the blood of the eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus, make you perfect 21 in every good 12 thing to do

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1 Gr. bondservant.

2 Gr. wisheth joy. 3 Or, trials

4 Or, that a doubleminded

man, unstable in all his ways, shall receive any thing of the Lord.

5 Gr. from.

6 Or, is untried in evil

But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall 6 be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven 7 by the wind and tossed. For let not that man think 4 that he shall receive any thing of 8 the Lord; a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways. 9 But let the brother of low degree glory in his high es10 tate: and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall 11 pass away. For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass; and the flower thereof falleth, and 10 Or, the grace of the fashion of it

7 Gr. evil things. 8 Or, tempted by his own lust, being drawn away by it, and enticed

9 Or, giving

Know ye

perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.

Blessed is the man that en- 12 dureth temptation: for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that love him. Let no 13 man say when he is tempted, I am tempted 5 of God: for God 6 cannot be tempted with 7 evil, and he himself tempteth no man: but each man is 14 tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. Then the lust, when 15 it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death. Be not deceived, my beloved 16 brethren. Every good gift 17 and every perfect boon is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning. Of his own will he brought us 18 forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

10 Ye know this, my beloved 19 brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: for the wrath 20

1 Or, malice

2 Or, inborn

3 Gr. the face of his birth.

4 Or, seemeth to be

5 Or, do ye, in

accepting

persons,
hold the
faith...
glory?

6 Or, assembly

of man worketh not the right21 eousness of God. Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of 1 wickedness, receive with meekness the 2implanted word, which is able 22 to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your 23 own selves. For if any one is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding 3 his natural 24 face in a mirror: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he 25 was. But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and 80 continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth, but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed 26 in his doing. If any man 4 thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is 7 Or, do 27 vain. Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. 2 My brethren, 5 hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect 2 of persons. For if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile clothing; 3 and ye have regard to him that weareth the fine clothing, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit under my foot4 stool; 7 are ye not divided 8 in your own mind, and become judges with evil thoughts? 5 Hearken, my beloved bre- 12 Gr. thren; did not God choose demons, them that are poor as to the

ye not make distinctions

s Or, among yourselves

9 Gr.. which was called upon you.

10

Or, But

some one

will say

11 Some

ancient authori

ties read

there is one God.

world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him? But ye have dis- 6 honoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgement-seats? Do not they 7 blaspheme the honourable name 9by the which ye are called? Howbeit if ye fulfil 8 the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well but if ye have re- 9 spect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoso- 10 ever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all. For he that said, Do not com- 11 mit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law. So speak 12 ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty. For judgement is without 13 mercy to him that hath shewed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgement.

What doth it profit, my bre- 14 thren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him? If a 15 brother or sister be naked, and in lack of daily food, and 16 one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it have not 17 works, is dead in itself. 10 Yea, 18 a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith apart from thy works, and I by my works will shew thee my faith. Thou be- 19 lievest that 11 God is one; thou doest well: the 12 devils also believe, and shudder. But wilt 20

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