For some of them practice going into people's houses and capturing weak and silly women who are overwhelmed with the weight of their sins, who are easily led about by all sorts of evil impulses,

And by which way Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also do these oppose the truth. Men corrupted in mind, worthless about the faith.

You, however, know all about my teaching, my conduct, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,

You, however, must continue in the things you have learned and are confident about. You know who taught you

I adjure you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is about to judge the living and the dead??y his appearing and his kingdom, I adjure you??2 proclaim the message, be urgent in season and out of season; convince, rebuke, encourage, with never-failing patience and teaching.

But as for you, be serious about everything, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure [from this world] is at hand and I will soon go free.

in everything. Make yourself an example of good works with integrity and dignity in your teaching.

let your message be wholesome and unobjectionable, so that our opponent may be put to shame at having nothing evil to say about us.

not stealing [things, regardless of value], but proving themselves trustworthy, so that in every respect they will adorn and do credit to the teaching of God our Savior.

who [willingly] gave Himself [to be crucified] on our behalf to redeem us and purchase our freedom from all wickedness, and to purify for Himself a chosen and very special people to be His own possession, who are enthusiastic for doing what is good.

It is a message to be trusted, and I want you to be emphatic about these things, so that those who believe in God may be careful to take the lead in doing good. These things are right and render service to mankind.

But hold yourself aloof from foolish controversies, pedigrees, strife, and wrangles about the law, for these are fruitless and futile.

[because I] hear about your love and faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints.

so that the christian faith, which you have in common with us, displays itself to the observation of all good men about you.

whom I wished to detain about myself, that in thy stead he might have waited upon me during my bonds for the gospel:

but I would not do a single thing about it without your consent, so that this kindness of yours to me might not seem to come by compulsion but voluntarily.

I, Paul, put my own hand to it--I will repay you myself. I say nothing about your owing me your very self.

And about the angels He says:

He makes His angels winds,
and His servants a fiery flame,

but to the Son:

Your throne, God,
is forever and ever,
and the scepter of Your kingdom
is a scepter of justice.

And like a robe You will roll them up;
Like a garment they will be changed.
But You are the same [forever],
And Your years will never end.”

But which one of the angels did God ever say [this] about [Psa. 110:1], "You should sit at my right side until I put your enemies [in full subjection] beneath your feet"?

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth for service in behalf of those who are about to inherit salvation?

For he did not subject the coming world to heavenly agents, about which we speak.

But someone has testified somewhere [Psa. 8:4-6], "What is man, that you [i.e., God] should remember him? Or the son of man [i.e., mankind], that you should care about him?

Therefore, holy brothers [and sisters], who have been called [by God] to share in heaven, think about Jesus, the Apostle and Head Priest, whom we have confessed [as Savior].

And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, bearing testimony to a witness about to be spoken;

For we [Christians] have had the good news [about resting with God] preached to us, just as the Israelites [had good news proclaimed to them. See 1:16-19]. But the message they heard did not benefit them, because it was not coupled with faith by those who heard it.

For he spoke somewhere about the seventh this way, And God rested during the seventh day from all his works,

Therefore, since the promise remains for some to enter His rest, and those who formerly had the good news preached to them failed to [grasp it and did not] enter because of [their unbelief evidenced by] disobedience,

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken about another day after these things.

being able to sympathize with the ignorant and erring, since himself is also compassed about with infirmity;

About whom, much subject matter from us is also difficult to explain, since ye have become sluggish in hearing.

And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

Now everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced with the message about righteousness, because he is an infant.

So then let us once for all quit the elementary teaching about Christ and continue progressing toward maturity; let us stop relaying a foundation of repentance from works that mean only death, and of faith in God,

of teaching about ceremonial washings and the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead and final judgment.

And tasted of the good word of God, and powers of the life about to be,

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and about to be cursed, and will be burned at the end.

But we are persuaded better things about you, beloved, and things that have salvation, even though we speak this way.

And here indeed, men who die receive tithes, but there, he who is testified about that he lives.

For the one about whom these [things] are spoken belongs to another tribe from which no one has officiated at the altar.

For it is evident that our Lord arose out of Judah, regarding which tribe Moses spoke nothing about the priesthood.

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.

For here is the testimony about him: "You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek."

(for there was nothing final about the Law), and a better hope begins to dawn, through which we may approach God.

For the law appoints imperfect men as high priests, but the assertion about the taking of an oath, which was spoken after the time of the law, appoints a Son who is perfectly qualified to be High Priest forever.

Now a summation about the things being spoken is, we have such a high priest who was seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

He is a minister in the sanctuary, [serving about holy things] in the true tabernacle, which was set up by the Lord and not by man [Note: This sanctuary/tabernacle represents either heaven or the church].

Now were he on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there are here those who present the gifts according to the Law??5 those priests who serve a mere outline and shadow of the heavenly reality, just as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to build the Tabernacle. "See", he says, "that you make everything on the pattern showed you on the mountain."

and yet they officiate in a sanctuary that is a mere copy and shadow of the heavenly one, as Moses, when he was about to make the tent of worship, was warned, for, said He, "See to it that you make it all just like the pattern shown you on the mountain."

By saying, a new covenant, He has declared that the first is old. And what is old and aging is about to disappear.

having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was a golden pot holding the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

And above it were cherubim of glory overshadowing the place of forgiveness, about which things it is not now to speak in detail.

And Christ being present, a chief priest of good things about to be, by a greater and more perfect tent, not made with hands, that is; not of this creation;

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have contracted defilement make them holy so as to bring about ceremonial purity,

For the law, possessing a shadow of the good [things] that are about to come, not the form of things itself, [is] never able {year by year} by means of the same sacrifices which they offer without interruption to make perfect those who draw near.

For this reason, the Scriptures say, when the Messiah was about to come into the world: "You did not want sacrifices and offerings, but you prepared a body for me.

Then I said, Lo, I come (in the volume of a book it is written about me) to do thy will, O God,

The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. For after He says:

And let us think about {how to stir one another up to love} and good works,

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fiery indignation which is about to devour the adversaries.

For ye were both compassionate about my bonds, and ye accepted with joy the plundering of your possessions, knowing yourselves to have a superior and an enduring existence in the heavens.

Now faith is the foundation of our hopes of happiness, and the persuasion we have about things not evident to our senses.

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, because of which he was reported to be righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through it, he who died still speaks.

By faith Noah, being divinely warned about things not yet seen, moved with awe, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became an heir of righteousness according to faith.

By faith Abraham, when he was called [by God], obeyed by going to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he went, not knowing where he was going.

If they had been thinking about what they had left behind, they would have had an opportunity to go back.

By faith Abraham, when he was put to the test, was on the point of offering up Isaac; yes, he who had received the promise was about to offer up his only son,

about whom it was said, The seed by thee will be called in Isaac.

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau about things coming.

By faith Jacob, when about to die, put his blessing on each of Joseph's sons, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.

By faith Joseph, while perishing, remembered about the exodus of the sons of Israel, and commanded about his bones.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed about for seven days.

And what shall I say further? For the time would fail me telling about Gideon, also Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets,

men who, as the result of faith, conquered whole kingdoms, brought about true justice, obtained promises from God, stopped lions' mouths,

others, again, had to experience scoffs and scourging, aye chains and imprisonment ??37 they were stoned, sawn in two, and cut to pieces; they had to roam about in sheepskins and goatskins, forlorn, oppressed, ill-treated

they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

of whom the world was not worthy, wandering about on deserts and mountains and in caves and in holes in the ground.

Therefore let us also, seeing 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,

Now think about how Jesus endured such opposition against Himself from sinners, so that you do not grow weary and become discouraged [yourself].

Remember your leaders, those who have spoken God's word to you. Think about the impact of their lives, and imitate their faith.

Do not be carried away by diverse and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established and strengthened by grace and not by foods [rules of diet and ritualistic meals], which bring no benefit or spiritual growth to those who observe them.

For here have we no abiding city, but we seek that about to be.

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this is unprofitable to you.

Pray about us, for we trust that we have a good conscience, desiring to behave well in all things.

But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by wind and tossed about.

Such a man must not expect to get anything from the Lord??8 an irresolute person like him, who is uncertain about everything he does.

being a double-minded man, unstable and restless in all his ways [in everything he thinks, feels, or decides].

For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass [so that] its flower [blossoms] fall off, and its beautiful appearance is destroyed. In the same way, the wealthy person will fade away as he goes about his business [affairs].

Make no mistake about this, my beloved brothers:

Every good gift and every perfect present is from heaven, and comes down from the Father of the heavenly lights, about whom there is no variation of changing shadow.

For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.

Speak and act [consistently] as people who are going to be judged by the law of liberty [that moral law that frees obedient Christians from the bondage of sin].

Now if we put the horses bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.

Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth.

Believers, do not speak against or slander one another. He who speaks [self-righteously] against a brother or judges his brother [hypocritically], speaks against the Law and judges the Law. If you judge the Law, you are not a doer of the Law but a judge of it.

Come now, you who say, "To-day or to-morrow we are going to such and such a city; we shall spend a year there trading and making money" ??14 you who know nothing about to-morrow! For what is your life? You are but a mist, which appears for a little and then vanishes.

Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air].

But you boast about your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.