By faith Abraham, when tried, has offered up Isaac; yea, he who gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten son,

By faith he has instituted the passover, and the applying of the blood, lest the destroyer of the first-born should touch them.

Therefore, [since] we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and {the sin that so easily ensnares us}, let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us,

looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

For consider him who has endured such hostility from sinners against himself, so that you do not grow weary in your souls and lose heart.

For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod.

And if you are left without discipline, of which every true son has had a share, that shows that you are bastards, and not true sons.

And to Jesus by whom the new agreement has been made between God and man, and to the sign of the blood which says better things than Abel's blood.

whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."

The expression "once more" signifies the removal of what can be shaken, that is, what he has made, so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will never leave you or forsake you."

Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food ??that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it.

May God, the giver of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus who through the blood by which he ratified the everlasting agreement has become the great shepherd of the sheep,

Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.