14:22As they were eating, Yah'shuah took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body." ^14:23He took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them. They all drank of it. ^14:24He said to them, "This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many. ^14:25Most assuredly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew in the kingdom of the Mighty One."
 

1:67His father, Zekharyah, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,

1:68"Blessed be Yahweh, the Mighty One of Yisra'el,

For he has visited and worked redemption for his people;

1:69Has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David

1:70(As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),

1:71Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us;

1:72To show mercy towards our fathers,

To remember his holy covenant,

1:73The oath which he spoke to Avraham, our father,

1:74To grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,

1:75In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

1:76Yes and you, child, will be called a prophet of HaElyon,

For you will go before the face of Yahweh to make ready his ways,

1:77To give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,

1:78Because of the tender mercy of our Mighty One,

Whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,

1:79To shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death;

22:13They went, found things as he had told them, and they prepared the Pesach. ^22:14When the hour had come, he sat down with the twelve apostles. ^22:15He said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Pesach with you before I suffer, ^22:16for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of the Mighty One." ^22:17He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, "Take this, and share it among yourselves, ^22:18for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of the Mighty One comes." ^22:19He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me." ^22:20He took the cup in like manner after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, that which is poured out for you.
 

7:2He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The Mighty One of glory appeared to our father Avraham, when he was in Aram-Naharayim, before he lived in Charan, ^7:3and said to him, 'Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.' ^7:4Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Charan. From there, when his father was dead, the Mighty One moved him into this land, where you are now living. ^7:5He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him in possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child. ^7:6The Mighty One spoke thus, that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years. ^7:7'I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,' said the Mighty One, 'and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.' ^7:8He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Avraham became the father of Yitzchak, and circumcised him the eighth day. Yitzchak became the father of Ya`akov, and Ya`akov became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
 

11:25For I don't desire, brothers, to have you ignorant of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part has happened to Yisra'el, until the fullness of the Goyim have come in, ^11:26and so all Yisra'el will be saved. Even as it is written,

"There will come out of Tzion the Deliverer,

And he will turn away ungodliness from Ya`akov.

11:27This is my covenant to them,

When I will take away their sins."

11:28Concerning the good news, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake. ^11:29For the gifts and the calling of the Mighty One are irrevocable. ^11:30For as you in time past were disobedient to the Mighty One, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, ^11:31even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy. ^11:32For the Mighty One has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all. ^11:33Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of the Mighty One! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

11:34"For who has known the mind of the Master?
Or who has been his counselor?"

11:35"Or who has first given to him,
And it will be repaid to him again?"

11:23For I received from the Master that which also I delivered to you, that the Master Yah'shuah on the night in which he was betrayed took bread. ^11:24When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me." ^11:25In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me." ^11:26For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you proclaim the Master's death until he comes. ^11:27Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Master's cup in an unworthy manner, will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Master. ^11:28But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. ^11:29For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Master's body. ^11:30For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep. ^11:31For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged. ^11:32But when we are judged, we are punished by the Master, that we may not be condemned with the world. ^11:33Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait one for another. ^11:34But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, that your coming together may not be to judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.
 

4:19My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Messiah is formed in you-- ^4:20but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you. ^4:21Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law? ^4:22For it is written that Avraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman. ^4:23However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise. ^4:24These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar. ^4:25Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in `Arav, and answers to the Yerushalayim that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children. ^4:26But the Yerushalayim that is above is free, which is our mother. ^4:27For it is written,

"Rejoice, you barren who don't bear.

Break forth and shout, you that don't travail.

For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has the husband."

7:1For this Malki-Tzedek, king of Shalem, Kohen of El Elyon, who met Avraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, ^7:2to whom also Avraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, King of righteousness, and then also King of Shalem, which is King of shalom; ^7:3without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of the Mighty One), remains a Kohen continually. ^7:4Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Avraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best spoils. ^7:5They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the Kohen's office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the loins of Avraham, ^7:6but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has taken tithes of Avraham, and has blessed him who has the promises. ^7:7But without any dispute the less is blessed of the better. ^7:8Here men who die receive tithes, but there one, of whom it is testified that he lives. ^7:9So to say, through Avraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes, ^7:10for he was yet in the loins of his father when Malki-Tzedek met him. ^7:11Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it have the people received the law), what further need was there for another Kohen to arise after the order of Malki-Tzedek, and not be called after the order of Aharon? ^7:12For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also of the law. ^7:13For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no man has given attendance at the altar. ^7:14For it is evident that our Master has sprung out of Yahudah, as to which tribe Moshe spoke nothing concerning priesthood. ^7:15This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Malki-Tzedek there arises another Kohen, ^7:16who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life: ^7:17for it is testified,

"You are a Kohen forever,

According to the order of Malki-Tzedek."

7:18For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness ^7:19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw near to the Mighty One. ^7:20Inasmuch as it is not without the taking of an oath, ^7:21for they indeed have been made Kohanim without an oath; but he with an oath by him that says of him,

"Yahweh swore and will not change his mind,
'You are a Kohen forever,
According to the order of Malki-Tzedek'".

7:22By so much has Yah'shuah become the collateral of a better covenant. ^7:23Many, indeed, have been made Kohanim, because they are hindered from continuing by death. ^7:24But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable. ^7:25Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to the Mighty One through him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.

7:26For such a Kohen Gadol was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; ^7:27who doesn't need, like those Kohenim Gedolim, to daily offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For this he did once for all, when he offered up himself. ^7:28For the law appoints men Kohenim Gedolim, having infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, appoints a Son, perfected forevermore.

8:1Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a Kohen Gadol, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, ^8:2a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tent, which the Master pitched, not man. ^8:3For every Kohen Gadol is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this Kohen Gadol also has something to offer. ^8:4For if he were on earth, he would not be a Kohen at all, seeing there are Kohanim who offer the gifts according to the law; ^8:5who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moshe was warned by the Mighty One when he was about to make the tent, for, "See," he said, "that you make all things according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain." ^8:6But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises. ^8:7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. ^8:8For finding fault with them, he said,

"Behold, the days come," says Yahweh,

"That I will make a new covenant with the house of Yisra'el and with the house of Yahudah;

8:9Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers,

In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Mitzrayim;

For they didn't continue in my covenant,

And I disregarded them," says Yahweh.

8:10"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Yisra'el.

After those days," says Yahweh;

"I will put my laws into their mind,

I will also write them on their heart.

I will be to them a Mighty One,

And they will be to me a people.

8:11They will not teach every man his fellow citizen,

Every man his brother, saying, 'Know Yahweh,'

For all will know me,

From the least of them to the greatest of them.

8:12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness.

I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more."

8:13In that he says, "A new covenant," he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

9:1Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary. ^9:2For there was a tent prepared, the first, in which were the lampstand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place. ^9:3After the second veil, the tent which is called the Holy of Holies, ^9:4having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aharon's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; ^9:5and above it Keruvim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can't now speak in detail. ^9:6Now these things having been thus prepared, the Kohanim go in continually into the first tent, accomplishing the services, ^9:7but into the second the Kohen Gadol alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people. ^9:8The Holy Spirit is signifying this, that the way into the Holy Place has not yet been revealed, while the first tent is yet standing; ^9:9which is an illustration of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect; ^9:10being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation. ^9:11But Messiah having come as a Kohen Gadol of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, ^9:12nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption. ^9:13For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh: ^9:14how much more will the blood of Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to the Mighty One, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living Mighty One? ^9:15For this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. ^9:16For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it. ^9:17For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives. ^9:18Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood. ^9:19For when every commandment had been spoken by Moshe to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, ^9:20saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which Yahweh commanded toward you." ^9:21Moreover he sprinkled the tent and all the vessels of the ministry in like manner with the blood. ^9:22According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission. ^9:23It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. ^9:24For Messiah entered not into a holy place made with hands, similar in pattern to the true, but into Heaven itself, now to appear before the face of the Mighty One for us; ^9:25nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the Kohen Gadol enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own, ^9:26or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. ^9:27Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment, ^9:28so Messiah also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

10:1For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near. ^10:2Or else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins? ^10:3But in those sacrifices there is a memory made of sins year by year. ^10:4For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. ^10:5Therefore when he comes into the world, he says,

"Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire,

But a body did you prepare for me;

10:6In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you had no pleasure.

10:7Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (In the scroll of the book it is written of me)

To do your will, the Mighty One.'"

10:8Saying above, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law), ^10:9then has he said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first, that he may establish the second, ^10:10by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Yah'shuah the Messiah once for all. ^10:11Every Kohen indeed stands day by day ministering and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins, ^10:12but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of the Mighty One; ^10:13henceforth expecting until his enemies to be made the footstool of his feet. ^10:14For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are sanctified. ^10:15The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after he has said,

10:16"This is the covenant that I will make with them:

'After those days,' says Yahweh,

'I will put my laws on their heart,

I will also write them on their mind;'"

then,

10:17"I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more."

10:18Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. ^10:19Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Yah'shuah, ^10:20by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; ^10:21and having a great Kohen over the house of the Mighty One; ^10:22let us draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water, ^10:23let us hold fast the confession of our hope unyieldingly. For he who promised is faithful. ^10:24Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, ^10:25not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching. ^10:26For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, ^10:27but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries. ^10:28A man who has set at nothing Moshe's law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses. ^10:29How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of the Mighty One, and has counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? ^10:30For we know him who said, "Vengeance belongs to me," says Yahweh, "I will repay." Again, "Yahweh will judge his people." ^10:31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living Mighty One. ^10:32But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings; ^10:33partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so. ^10:34For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens. ^10:35Therefore don't throw away your boldness, which has a great reward. ^10:36For you need patience, so that, having done the will of the Mighty One, you may receive the promise.

10:37"For yet a very little while,

He who comes will come, and will not wait.

10:38But the righteous will live by faith.

If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."

10:39But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

11:1Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. ^11:2For by this, the Zakenim obtained testimony. ^11:3By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of the Mighty One, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible. ^11:4By faith, Hevel offered to the Mighty One a more excellent sacrifice than Kayin, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, the Mighty One bearing witness with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks. ^11:5By faith, Chanokh was translated, so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because the Mighty One translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to the Mighty One. ^11:6Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to the Mighty One must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. ^11:7By faith, Noach, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with righteous fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. ^11:8By faith, Avraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went. ^11:9By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Yitzchak and Ya`akov, the heirs with him of the same promise. <sup>11:10</sup>For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is the Mighty One. <sup>11:11</sup>By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised. <sup>11:12</sup>Therefore they were fathered by one, and him as good as dead, as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore. <sup>11:13</sup>These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. <sup>11:14</sup>For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking after a country of their own. <sup>11:15</sup>If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return. <sup>11:16</sup>But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore the Mighty One is not ashamed of them, to be called their Mighty One, for he has prepared a city for them. <sup>11:17</sup>By faith, Avraham, being tested, offered up Yitzchak. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son; <sup>11:18</sup>even he to whom it was said, "In Yitzchak will your seed be called;" <sup>11:19</sup>accounting that the Mighty One is able to raise up, even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead. <sup>11:20</sup>By faith, Yitzchak blessed Ya`akov and Esav, even concerning things to come. ^11:21By faith, Ya`akov, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Yosef, and worshipped, leaning on the top of his staff. <sup>11:22</sup>By faith, Yosef, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Yisra'el; and gave instructions concerning his bones. <sup>11:23</sup>By faith, Moshe, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment. <sup>11:24</sup>By faith, Moshe, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Par`oh's daughter, ^11:25choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people of the Mighty One, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time; ^11:26accounting the reproach of Messiah greater riches than the treasures of Mitzrayim; for he looked to the reward. ^11:27By faith, he left Mitzrayim, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. ^11:28By faith, he kept the Pesach, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them. ^11:29By faith, they passed through the Red sea as by dry land. When the Mitzrim tried to do so, they were swallowed up. ^11:30By faith, the walls of Yericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days. ^11:31By faith, Rachav, the prostitute, didn't perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in shalom. ^11:32What more will I say? For the time will fail me if I tell of Gid`on, Barak, Shimshon, Yiftach, David, Shemu'el, and the prophets; ^11:33who, through faith, subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, ^11:34quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and turned to flight armies of aliens. ^11:35Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. ^11:36Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment. ^11:37They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated ^11:38(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth. ^11:39These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn't receive the promise, ^11:40The Mighty One having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

12:1Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, ^12:2looking to Yah'shuah, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Mighty One. ^12:3For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls. ^12:4You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin; ^12:5and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with sons,

"My son, don't take lightly the chastening of Yahweh,

Nor faint when you are reproved by him;

12:6For whom Yahweh loves, he chastens,

And scourges every son whom he receives."

12:7It is for discipline that you endure. The Mighty One deals with you as with sons, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline? ^12:8But if you are without discipline, whereof all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not sons. ^12:9Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? ^12:10For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. ^12:11All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby. ^12:12Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees, ^12:13and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. ^12:14Follow after shalom with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Master, ^12:15looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of the Mighty One; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled; ^12:16lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, as Esav, who sold his birthright for one meal. ^12:17For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears. ^12:18For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, tempest, ^12:19the sound of a shofar, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them, ^12:20for they could not stand that which was enjoined, "If even a animal touch the mountain, it will be stoned;" ^12:21and so fearful was the appearance, that Moshe said, "I am terrified and trembling." ^12:22But you have come to Mount Tzion, and to the city of the living Mighty One, the heavenly Yerushalayim, and to innumerable hosts of angels, ^12:23to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in Heaven, to the Mighty One, the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, ^12:24to Yah'shuah, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Hevel. ^12:25See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from Heaven, ^12:26whose voice shook the earth, then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more will I shake not only the earth, but also the heavens." ^12:27This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. ^12:28Therefore, receiving a kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well pleasing to the Mighty One, with reverence and awe, ^12:29for our Mighty One is a consuming fire.

13:1Let brotherly love continue. ^13:2Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some have entertained angels unawares that way. ^13:3Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body. ^13:4Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but the Mighty One will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers. ^13:5Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you." ^13:6So that with good courage we say,

"Yahweh is my helper. I will not fear.

What will man do to me?"

13:7Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of the Mighty One, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith. ^13:8Yah'shuah the Messiah is the same yesterday, today, and forever. ^13:9Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

13:10 We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tent have no right to eat. ^13:11For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the Kohen Gadol as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp. ^13:12Therefore Yah'shuah also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate. ^13:13Let us therefore go forth to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach. ^13:14For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come. ^13:15Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to the Mighty One continually, that is, the fruit of lips which make confession to his name. ^13:16But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices the Mighty One is well pleased. ^13:17Obey those who have the rule over you, and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you. ^13:18Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things. ^13:19I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner. ^13:20Now may the Mighty One of shalom, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Master Yah'shuah, ^13:21make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Yah'shuah the Messiah, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

1:1Kefa, an apostle of Yah'shuah the Messiah, to the chosen ones who are living as aliens in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, ^1:2according to the foreknowledge of Yahweh the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Yah'shuah the Messiah: Grace to you and shalom be multiplied. ^1:3Blessed be the Mighty One and Father of our Master Yah'shuah the Messiah, who according to his great mercy became the father of us again to a living hope by the resurrection of Yah'shuah the Messiah from the dead, ^1:4to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance, and that doesn't fade away, reserved in Heaven for you, ^1:5who by the power of the Mighty One are guarded through faith to a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. ^1:6Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials, ^1:7that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Yah'shuah the Messiah -- ^1:8whom not having known you love; on whom, though now you don't see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory -- ^1:9receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls. ^1:10Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, ^1:11searching for what or what kind of time the Spirit of Messiah, which was in them, pointed to, when he testified beforehand the sufferings of Messiah, and the glories that should follow them. ^1:12To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, did they minister these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent forth from Heaven; which things angels desire to look into. ^1:13Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Yah'shuah the Messiah -- ^1:14as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, ^1:15but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; ^1:16because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy." ^1:17If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as strangers here in reverent fear: ^1:18knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, ^1:19but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, the blood of Messiah; ^1:20who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake, ^1:21who through him are believers in the Mighty One, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in the Mighty One. ^1:22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently: ^1:23having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of the Mighty One, which lives and remains forever. ^1:24For,

"All flesh is like grass,

And all of man's glory like the flower in the grass.

The grass withers, and its flower falls;

1:25But Yahweh's word endures forever."

11:15The seventh angel sounded, and there followed great voices in Heaven, and they said, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Master, and of his Messiah. He will reign forever and ever!"

11:16The twenty-four Zakenim, who sit before the Mighty One on their thrones, fell on their faces and worshipped the Mighty One, ^11:17saying, "We give you thanks, Yahweh the Mighty One, Shaddai, who are and who were; because you have taken your great power, and reigned. ^11:18The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your servants, the prophets, their reward, as well as the holy ones, and those who fear your name, the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth."