Hebrews 13:1-19 - Concluding Ethical Instructions

¹ LET brotherly love continue. ² Forget not to exercise hospitality: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. ³ Remember those who are in chains, as in chains with them; and those who are suffering afflictions, as being yourselves also in the body. ⁴ Marriage is honourable for all persons, and the marriage bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. ⁵ Let the tenor of your life be divested of the love of money; content with your present possessions: for he hath said, "I will in no wise leave thee, neither will I in any case forsake thee." ⁶ So that we may with confidence say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

⁷ Remember your presidents, who have spoken to you the word of God: the ultimate issue of whose conduct attentively observing, be imitators of their fidelity. ⁸ Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. ⁹ Be not tossed about by various and strange doctrines: for it is good to have the heart firmly established by grace, not by meats, in which observances they who have walked have found no manner of advantage. ¹⁰ We have an altar, of which they have no right to eat, who perform the service in the tabernacle. ¹¹ For the bodies of those beasts are burnt without the camp, whose blood for a sin offering is brought into the holy of holies by the high-priest. ¹² Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with 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 not here an abiding city, but we earnestly seek that which is to come. ¹⁵ By him therefore let us offer a sacrifice of praise perpetually to God, that is the fruit of our lips confessing his name. ¹⁶ But of beneficence, and liberal distribution, be not unmindful: for such sacrifices God accepts with delight. ¹⁷ Obey your presidents, and be subject to them: for they are vigilant for your souls, as being to render an account, that they may do it with joy, and not groaning: for that would be disadvantageous for you. ¹⁸ Pray for us: for we have confidence that we maintain a good conscience, in all things desirous to conduct ourselves with propriety.??19 But I entreat you the rather to do this, that I may the more speedily be restored to you.