Hebrews 13:1–25

¹Let ​YOUR​ brotherly love continue.²Do not forget hospitality, for through it some, unknown to themselves, entertained angels.³Keep in mind those in prison bonds as though ​YOU​ have been bound with them, and those being ill‐treated, since ​YOU​ yourselves also are still in a body.⁴Let marriage be honorable among all, and the marriage bed be without defilement, for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.⁵Let [YOUR] manner of life be free of the love of money, while ​YOU​ are content with the present things. For he has said: “I will by no means leave you nor by any means forsake you.”⁶So that we may be of good courage and say: “Jehovah is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”

⁷Remember those who are taking the lead among ​YOU, who have spoken the word of God to ​YOU, and as ​YOU​ contemplate how [their] conduct turns out imitate [their] faith.

⁸Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, and forever.

⁹Do not be carried away with various and strange teachings; for it is fine for the heart to be given firmness by undeserved kindness, not by eatables, by which those who occupy themselves with them have not been benefited.

¹⁰We have an altar from which those who do sacred service at the tent have no authority to eat.¹¹For the bodies of those animals whose blood is taken into the holy place by the high priest for sin are burned up outside the camp.¹²Hence Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered outside the gate.¹³Let us, then, go forth to him outside the camp, bearing the reproach he bore,¹⁴for we do not have here a city that continues, but we are earnestly seeking the one to come.¹⁵Through him let us always offer to God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips which make public declaration to his name.¹⁶Moreover, do not forget the doing of good and the sharing of things with others, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

¹⁷Be obedient to those who are taking the lead among ​YOU​ and be submissive, for they are keeping watch over ​YOUR​ souls as those who will render an account; that they may do this with joy and not with sighing, for this would be damaging to ​YOU.

¹⁸Carry on prayer for us, for we trust we have an honest conscience, as we wish to conduct ourselves honestly in all things.¹⁹But I exhort ​YOU​ more especially to do this, that I may be restored to ​YOU​ the sooner.

²⁰Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an everlasting covenant, our Lord Jesus,²¹equip ​YOU​ with every good thing to do his will, performing in us through Jesus Christ that which is well‐pleasing in his sight; to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

²²Now I exhort ​YOU, brothers, to bear with this word of encouragement, for I have, indeed, composed a letter to ​YOU​ in few words.²³Take note that our brother Timothy has been released, with whom, if he comes quite soon, I shall see ​YOU.

²⁴Give my greetings to all those who are taking the lead among ​YOU​ and to all the holy ones. Those in Italy send ​YOU​ their greetings.

²⁵The undeserved kindness be with all of ​YOU.