Hebrews 13:1-19 - Concluding Ethical Instructions

¹ Let brotherly love continue. ² Forget not hospitality: for by it some having entertained angels were incognizant. ³ Remember those bound, as having been bound along with them; those suffering persecutions, as you yourselves being also in the body. ⁴ Marriage is honorable among all, and the couch undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers. ⁵ Let your deportment be free from covetousness; being content with present things: for he said, I will not, I will not, leave you, neither do I ever forsake you; ⁶ so being confident we say, The Lord is my helper, I will not fear; what shall man do unto me?

⁷ Remember your leaders, who spoke to you the word of God: the outgoing of whose deportment seeing, imitate their faith. ⁸ Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever. ⁹ Be not carried away with fantastical and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, in which those going round were not profited. ¹⁰ We have an altar, from which those ministering in the tabernacle have no right to eat. ¹¹ For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is shed by the high priest in the sanctuary for sin, are utterly burnt up outside of the camp. ¹² Therefore indeed Jesus, in order that he might sanctify the people by his own blood, suffered without the gate. ¹³ Therefore let us go forth to him without the camp, bearing his reproach; ¹⁴ for we have here no continuing city, but we are seeking unto one which is to come. ¹⁵ Therefore let us offer to God a sacrifice of praise continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, confessing to his name. ¹⁶ But do not forget benefaction and fellowship: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. ¹⁷ Obey your leaders, and be submissive: for they are watching for your souls, as they shall give an account that they may do this with joy and not with grief, for this is unprofitable to you. ¹⁸ Pray for us: for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, wishing in all things to deport ourselves in harmony with the beauty of holiness. ¹⁹ But I the more exhort you to do this, that I may the more speedily be restored unto you.