Chapter 1

1 God, who at ¹sundry times and in divers manners spake in time ²past unto the fathers by the prophets,

2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his ¹Son, ²whom he hath appointed ³heir of all things, by whom also he made the ⁴worlds;

3 Who being the ¹brightness of his glory, and the express image of his ²person, and ³upholding all things by His mighty word, ⁴hath by himself purged our sins, and ⁵sitteth on the right hand of the Majesty in the highest places:

4 ¹And is made so much more excellent than the angels, inasmuch as he hath obtained a more excellent ²Name than they.

5 ¹For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, ²this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be His Father, and he shall be my Son?

6 And ¹again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.

7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels ¹spirits, and his ministers a flame ²of fire.

8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy ¹throne, O God, is for ever ²and ever: the ³scepter of thy kingdom is a scepter of righteousness.

9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and ¹hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath ²anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy ³fellows.

10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast ¹laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

11 They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, ¹Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?

14 Are they not all ¹ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

Chapter 1 Footnotes:

¹Hebrews 1:1 The first part of the general proposition of this Epistle: the Son of God is indeed that Prophet or teacher, which hath actually now performed that that God after a sort and in shadows signified by his Prophets, and hath fully opened his Father’s will to the world.
²Hebrews 1:1 So that the former declaration made by the Prophets was not full, and nothing must be added to this latter.
¹Hebrews 1:2 Which one Son is God and man.
²Hebrews 1:2 The second part of the same proposition: The same Son is appointed by the Father to be our King and Lord, by whom also he made all things, and in whom only he setteth forth his glory, yea and himself also to be beholden of us, who beareth up and sustaineth all things by his will and pleasure.
³Hebrews 1:2 Possessor and equal compartner of all things with the Father.
⁴Hebrews 1:2 That is, whatsoever hath been at any time, is, or shall be.
¹Hebrews 1:3 He in whom that glory and Majesty of the Father shineth, who is otherwise infinite, and cannot be beholden.
²Hebrews 1:3 His father’s person.
³Hebrews 1:3 Sustaineth, defendeth and cherisheth.
⁴Hebrews 1:3 The third part of the same proposition. The same Son executed the office of the high Priest in offering up himself, and is our only and most mighty Mediator in heaven.
⁵Hebrews 1:3 This showeth that the savor of that his sacrifice is not only most acceptable to the Father, but also is everlasting, and furthermore how far this high Priest passeth all the other high Priests.
¹Hebrews 1:4 Before he cometh to declare the office of Christ, he setteth forth the excellency of his person, and first of all he showeth him so to be man, that therewithal he is God also.
²Hebrews 1:4 Dignity and honor.
¹Hebrews 1:5 He proveth and confirmeth the dignity of Christ manifested in the flesh by these six evident testimonies, whereby it appeareth that he far passeth all angels, insomuch that he is called both Son, and God, in verses 5, 6, 7, 10, 13.
²Hebrews 1:5 The Father begat the Son from everlasting, but that everlasting generation was made manifest and represented to the world in his time, and therefore he addeth this word (Today.)
¹Hebrews 1:6 The Lord was not content to have spoken it once, but repeateth it in another place.
¹Hebrews 1:7 Cherub, Ps 18:11.
²Hebrews 1:7 Seraph, Isa. 6:2.
¹Hebrews 1:8 The throne is proper to the Prince, and not to the servant.
²Hebrews 1:8 For everlasting, for this doubling of the word increaseth the signification of it beyond all measure.
³Hebrews 1:8 The government of thy kingdom is righteous.
¹Hebrews 1:9 This kind of rehearsing in which the Jews use contraries, hath great force in it.
²Hebrews 1:9 In that, that the word became flesh, by pouring the holy Ghost upon him without measure.
³Hebrews 1:9 For he is the head and we are his members.
¹Hebrews 1:10 Madest the earth firm and sure.
¹ Hebrews 1:13 Inasmuch as Christ was not sent for the salvation of the reprobate, God liveth to take vengeance upon them. Deut. 32:35. The office of Christ is glorified herein, for the efficacy of His ministry is displayed in the obstinacy and destruction of His enemies.
¹Hebrews 1:14 By that name by which we commonly call Princes’ messengers, he here calleth the spirits.

Chapter 2

1 Therefore ¹we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which ²we have heard, lest at any time we should ³let them slip.

2 For if the ¹word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;

3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; ²which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by ³them that heard him;

4 God bearing them witness thereto, both with ¹signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

5 ¹For he hath not put in subjection unto the angels, the ²world to come, whereof we speak.

6 ¹But one in a certain place testified, saying, ²What is man, that thou shouldest be mindful of him? or the ³son of man that thou wouldest consider him?

7 Thou ¹madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with ²glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:

8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. ¹But now we see not yet all things put under him.

9 ¹But we ²see Jesus, who was made a little ³lower than the angels ⁴for the ⁵suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should ⁶taste death for ⁷every man.

10 ¹For it became ²him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, ³in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the ⁴captain of their salvation ⁵perfect through sufferings.

11 ¹For both he that ²sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of ³one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

12 ¹Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.

13 ¹And again, I will put my ²trust in him. And again, ³Behold, here am I and the children which God hath given me.

14 Forasmuch then as the children are ¹partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part with them; that through death he might destroy him that had the ²power of death, that is, the ³devil;

15 And deliver them who through fear of ¹death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

16 ¹For verily he took not on him the nature of ²angels; but he took on him the ³seed of Abraham.

17 ¹Wherefore in ²all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be ³merciful, and a ⁴faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

18 For in that he himself hath suffered being ¹tempted, he is able to ²succour them that are tempted.

Chapter 2 Footnotes:

¹Hebrews 2:1 Now as it were pausing with himself and showing to what end and purpose all these things were spoken, to wit, to understand by the excellency of Christ above all creatures, that his doctrine, majesty and Priesthood is most perfect, he useth an exhortation taken from a comparison.
²Hebrews 2:1 He maketh himself an hearer.
³Hebrews 2:1 They are said to let the word run out, which hold it not fast when they have heard it.
¹Hebrews 2:2 The Law which appointed punishment for the offenders: and which Paul saith was given by angels, Gal. 3:19, and Stephen, Acts 7:53.
¹Hebrews 2:3 If the breach and trangression of the word spoken by angels was not suffered unpunished, much less shall it be lawful for us to neglect the Gospel which the Lord of angels preached, and was confirmed by the voice of the Apostles, and with so many signs and wonders from heaven, and especially with so great and mighty working of the holy Ghost.
²Hebrews 2:3 By the Apostles.
¹Hebrews 2:4 This is the true end of miracles. Now they are called signs, because they appear one thing, and represent another: and they are called wonders, because they represent some strange and unaccustomed things and virtues, because they give us a glimpse of God’s mighty power.
¹Hebrews 2:5 If it were an heinous matter to contemn the angels which are but servants, much more heinous is it to contemn that most mighty King of the restored world.
²Hebrews 2:5 The world to come, whereof Christ is Father, Isa. 9:6, or the Church, which as a new world, was to be gathered together by the Gospel.
¹Hebrews 2:6 He showeth that the use of this kingly dignity consisteth herein, that men might not only [in] Christ recover that dignity which they have lost, but also might be through him advanced above all things, which dignity of men David describeth most excellently.
²Hebrews 2:6 What is there in man that thou shouldest have so great regard of him, and do him that honor?
³Hebrews 2:6 He calleth all the citizens of that heavenly kingdom as they are considered in themselves, before that God giveth them the liberty, of that city in Christ, Man, and Son of man.
¹Hebrews 2:7 This is the first honor of the citizens of the world to come, that they are next [to] the angels.
²Hebrews 2:7 For they shall be in very great honor, when they shall be partakers of the kingdom. And he speaketh of the thing that shall be, as though it were already, because it is so certain.
¹Hebrews 2:8 An objection: But where is this so great rule and dominion?
¹Hebrews 2:9 The answer: this is already fulfilled in Jesus Christ our head, who was for a time for our sakes inferior to the angels, being made man: but now is advanced into most high glory.
²Hebrews 2:9 By his virtue and power which appeareth manifestly in the Church.
³Hebrews 2:9 Who abased himself for a season, and took upon him the position of a servant.
⁴Hebrews 2:9 He showeth the cause of this subjection, to wit, to taste of death for our sakes, that so doing the part of a redeemer, he might not only be our Prophet and King, but also our high Priest.
⁵Hebrews 2:9 That he might die.
⁶Hebrews 2:9 Feel death.
⁷Hebrews 2:9 Herein consisteth the force of the argument: for we could not at length be glorified with him, unless he was abased for us; even all the faithful. And by this occasion the Apostle cometh to the other part of the declaration of Christ’s person, wherein he proveth him to be in such sort God, and he is also man. Note: Not for every man absolutely, but to whom it pertains relatively, as is proved in the following verses. Viz. “many sons”, “children which God hath given me”
¹Hebrews 2:10 He proveth moreover by other arguments, why it behooveth the Son of God who is true God (as he proveth a little before) to become man notwithstanding, subject to all miseries, sin only except.
²Hebrews 2:10 God.
³Hebrews 2:10 First of all, because the Father, to whose glory all these things are to be referred, purposed to bring many sons unto glory. And how could he have men for his sons, unless his only begotten Son had become brother to men?
⁴Hebrews 2:10 The Chieftain, who as he is chiefest in dignity, so is he the first begotten from among the dead, amongst many brethren.
⁵Hebrews 2:10 Secondly, The Father determined to bring those sons to glory, to wit, out of that ignominy wherein they lay before. Therefore the Son should not have been seen plainly to be made man, unless he had been made like unto other men, that he might come to glory in the selfsame way, by which he should bring others: yea rather, it became him which was Prince [Captain] of the salvation of others, to be consecrated above others, through those afflictions, Prophet, King, and Priest, which are the parts of that principality for the salvation of others.
¹Hebrews 2:11 The ground of both the former arguments: for neither should we be sons through him, neither could he be consecrated through afflictions, unless he hath been made man like unto us. But because this Sonhood dependeth not upon nature only, for no man is accounted the son of God, unless that besides that he is a son of a man, he be also Christ’s brother, (which is by sanctification, that is, by becoming one with Christ, who sanctifieth us through faith) therefore the Apostle maketh mention of the sanctifier, to wit, of Christ, and of them that are sanctified, to wit, of all the faithful, whom therefore Christ vouchsafeth to call brethren.
²Hebrews 2:11 He useth the time that now is, to show us that we are yet still going on, and increasing in this sanctification, and by sanctification he meaneth our separation from the rest of the world, our cleansing from sin, and our dedication wholly unto God, all which Christ alone worketh in us.
³Hebrews 2:11 One, of one selfsame nature of man.
¹Hebrews 2:12 That which he taught before of the incarnation of the sanctifier, he applieth to the prophetical office.
¹Hebrews 2:13 He applieth the same to the kingly power of Christ in delivering his from the power of the devil and death.
²Hebrews 2:13 I will commit myself to him, and to his defense.
³Hebrews 2:13 This Isaiah speaketh of himself and his disciples, but betokening thereby all ministers, as also his disciples signify the whole Church. And therefore seeing Christ is the head of the Prophets and ministers, these words are more rightly verified of him, than of Isaiah.
¹Hebrews 2:14 Are made of flesh and blood which is a frail and brittle nature.
²Hebrews 2:14 The devil is said to have the power of death, because he is the author of sin: and from sin cometh death, and for this cause he eggeth us daily to sin.
³Hebrews 2:14 He speaketh of one as of the Prince, joining to him secretly all his angels.
¹Hebrews 2:15 By (death) thou must understand here that death which is joined with the wrath of God, as it must needs be, if it be without Christ, then there can be nothing devised more miserable.
¹Hebrews 2:16 He expoundeth those words of flesh and blood, showing that Christ is true man, and not by turning his divine nature, but by taking on man’s nature. And he nameth Abraham, respecting the promises made to Abraham in this behalf.
²Hebrews 2:16 The nature of angels.
³Hebrews 2:16 The very nature of man.
¹Hebrews 2:17 He applieth the same to the Priesthood, for which he should not have benefit, unless he had become man, and that like unto us in all things, sin only except.
²Hebrews 2:17 Not only as touching nature, but qualities also.
³Hebrews 2:17 That he might be truly touched with the feeling of our miseries.
⁴Hebrews 2:17 Doing his office sincerely.
¹Hebrews 2:18 Was tried and egged to wickedness by the devil.
²Hebrews 2:18 Effectually aid.

Chapter 3

1 Wherefore, ¹holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the ²Apostle and High Priest of our ³profession, Christ Jesus;

2 ¹Who was faithful to him that ²appointed him, ³even as Moses was faithful in all his house.

3 ¹For this man is counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.

4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

5 ¹And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

6 But Christ as a son over his own house; ¹whose ²house are we, if we hold fast the ³confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye ¹will hear his voice,

8 Harden not your hearts, as in the ¹provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway ¹err in their heart; and they have not ²known my ways.

11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

12 ¹Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

13 But exhort one another daily, ¹while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

14 ¹For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the ²beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

15 ¹While it is said, ²To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

16 For some, when they heard, provoked him to anger: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that ¹obeyed not?

19 So we see that they could not enter in because of ¹unbelief.

Chapter 3 Footnotes:

¹Hebrews 3:1 Having laid the foundation, that is to say, declared and proved both the natures of one selfsame Christ, he giveth him three offices, to wit, the office of a Prophet, king, and Priest: and as touching the office of teaching and governing, compareth them with Moses and Joshua, unto verse 14 of the next Chapter, and with Aaron touching the Priesthood. And he propoundeth that which he purposeth to speak of, with a most grave exhortation, that all our faith may tend to Christ, as to the only everlasting teacher, governor, and high Priest.
²Hebrews 3:1 The Ambassador or messenger, as Rom. 1:5, he is called the minister of circumcision.
³Hebrews 3:1 Of the doctrine of the Gospel which we profess.
¹Hebrews 3:2 He confirmeth this exhortation with two reasons, first of all because Christ Jesus was appointed such an one of God: secondly, because he thoroughly executed the offices that his Father enjoined him.
²Hebrews 3:2 Apostle and high Priest.
³Hebrews 3:2 Now he cometh to the comparison with Moses, and he maketh them like one to the other in this, that they were both appointed rulers over God’s house, and executed faithfully their office: but by and by after he showeth that there is great unlikeness in that similitude.
¹Hebrews 3:3 The first comparison: The builder of the house is better than the house itself, therefore is Christ better than Moses. The reason of the consequent is this: because the builder of this house is God, which cannot be attributed to Moses: and therefore Moses was not properly the builder, but a part of the house: but Christ as Lord and God, made all this house.
¹Hebrews 3:5 Another comparison: Moses was a faithful servant in this house, that is, in the Church, seeing the Lord that was to come, but Christ ruleth and governeth his house as Lord.
¹Hebrews 3:6 He applieth the former doctrine to this end, exhorting all men by the words of David to hear the Son himself speak, and to give full credit to his words, seeing that otherwise they cannot enter into that eternal rest.
²Hebrews 3:6 To wit, Christ’s.
³Hebrews 3:6 He calleth that excellent effect of faith (whereby we cry, Abba, that is, Father) confidence, and to confidence he joineth hope.
¹Hebrews 3:7 So that God was to speak once again after Moses.
¹Hebrews 3:8 In the day that they vexed the Lord, or strove with him.
¹Hebrews 3:10 They are brutish and mad.
²Hebrews 3:10 The doctrine of salvation.
¹Hebrews 3:12 Now weighing the words of David, he showeth first by this word, Today that we must not neglect the occasion while we have it: for that word is not to be restrained to David’s time, but it comprehendeth all the time wherein God calleth us.
¹Hebrews 3:13 While today lasteth, that is to say, so long as the Gospel is offered to us.
¹Hebrews 3:14 Now he considereth these words, If you hear his voice, etc., showing that they are spoken and meant of the hearing of faith, against which he setteth hardening through unbelief.
²Hebrews 3:14 That beginning of trust and confidence: and after the manner of the Hebrews, he calleth that beginning, which is chiefest.
¹Hebrews 3:15 So long as this voice soundeth out.
²Hebrews 3:15 Chiefly and primarily on the day in which the preacher’s message is heard, in the church, on the Sabbath day.
¹Hebrews 3:18 Or believed not, were not persuaded of the truth of the gospel by the effectual arguments of the prophets. The obedience of faith consists in believing the word of God for its own sake, or being persuaded by its truth according to the spiritual nature of the doctrine. 1 Thess. 2:13, Gal. 1:11,12
¹Hebrews 3:19 The proximate and immediate cause of man’s condemnation is his unbelief or self-righteousness. John 3:19 The ultimate cause of his destruction is that he has been ordained unto this end from eternity. 1 Pet. 2:8

Chapter 4

1 ¹Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

2 ¹For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being ²mixed with faith in them that heard it.

3 ¹For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.

5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.

6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

8 For if ¹Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

9 There ¹remaineth therefore a ²rest to the people of God.

10 ¹For he that is entered into his rest, hath also ceased from ²his own works, as God did from his.

11 ¹Let us ²study therefore to enter into that rest, lest ³any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

12 ¹For the ²word of God is ³living, and mighty in operation, and sharper than any two edged sword, and entereth through, even unto the dividing asunder of the ⁴soul and the ⁵spirit, and of the joints, and the marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts, and the intents of the heart.

13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in ¹his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto his eyes with whom we have to do.

14 ¹Seeing then that we have a great high priest, which is entered into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us ²hold fast our profession.

15 ¹For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Chapter 4 Footnotes:

¹Hebrews 4:1 Not that any true believer may fall short of the promise, but is upheld by grace, and through the operation of God’s Spirit in the preaching of the word is made to fear, and persevere in faith.
¹Hebrews 4:2 By these words, His voice, he showeth that David meant the preaching of Christ, who was then also preached, for Moses and the Prophets respected none other.
²Hebrews 4:2 He compareth the preaching of the Gospel to drink, which being drunk, that is to say, heard, profiteth nothing, unless it be tempered with faith.
¹Hebrews 4:3 Lest any man should object, that those words were meant of the Land of Canaan, and of Moses’ doctrine, and therefore cannot well be drawn to Christ, and to eternal life, the Apostle showeth that there are two manner of rests spoken of in the Scriptures: the one, of the seventh day, wherein God is said to have rested from all his works: the other is said to be that same, whereinto Joshua led the people: but this rest is not the last rest whereto we are called and that he proveth by two reasons. For seeing that David so long time after, speaking to the people which were then placed in the land of Canaan, useth these words, Today, and threateneth them still that they shall not enter into the rest of God, which refuseth then the voice of God that sounded in their ears, we must needs say that he meant another time than the time of Moses, and another rest than the rest of the land of Canaan: And that is, that everlasting rest, wherein we begin to live to God, after that the race of this life ceaseth: as God resteth the seventh day from those his works, that is to say, from making the world. Moreover, the Apostle therewithal signifieth that the way to this rest, which Moses and the land of Canaan and all that order of the Law did shadow, is opened in the Gospel only.
¹Hebrews 4:8 He speaketh of Joshua the son of Nun: and as the land of Canaan was a figure of our true rest, so was Joshua a figure of Christ.
¹Hebrews 4:9 By way of the application of the doctrine, there remains the keeping of the fourth commandment for the people of God, as a holy observance of God’s work of salvation on which day they are commanded to assemble together, hear the word preached, and faithfully partake of the sacraments.
²Hebrews 4:9 Sabbath-keeping.
¹Hebrews 4:10 As God rested the seventh day, so must we rest from our works, that is, from such as proceed from our corrupt nature.
²Hebrews 4:10 Justification by faith. All human activity must be abolished from the conscience pertaining to our relationship with God, leaving room for Christ alone who is our rest.
¹Hebrews 4:11 He returneth to an exhortation.
²Hebrews 4:11 Labor or diligently strive. It behooves the Christian to seek out that way of salvation and make sure that he is in the right way. Luke 13:24
³Hebrews 4:11 Lest any man become a like example of infidelity.
¹Hebrews 4:12 An amplification taken from the nature of the word of God, the power whereof is such, that it entereth even to the deepest and most inward and secret parts of the heart, wounding them deadly that are stubborn, and plainly quickening the believers.
²Hebrews 4:12 The doctrine of God which is preached both in the Law and in the Gospel.
³Hebrews 4:12 He calleth the word of God lively by reason of the effects it worketh in them, to whom it is preached.
⁴Hebrews 4:12 He calleth that the soul, which hath the affections resident in it.
⁵Hebrews 4:12 By the spirit he meaneth that nobelest part which is called the mind.
¹Hebrews 4:13 In God’s sight.
¹Hebrews 4:14 Now he entereth into the comparison of Christ’s Priesthood with Aaron’s, and declareth even in the very beginning the marvelous excellency of this Priesthood, calling him the Son of God and placing him in the seat of God in heaven, plainly and evidently setting him against Aaron’s Priests, and the transitory tabernacle: which comparisons he setteth forth afterward more at large.
²Hebrews 4:14 And let it not go out of your hands.
¹Hebrews 4:15 Lest he might seem by this great glory of our high Priest, to stay and stop us from going unto him, he addeth straightways after, that he is notwithstanding our brother indeed, (as he proved it also before) and that he accounteth all our miseries, as his own, to call us boldly to him.

Chapter 5

1 For ¹every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, ²that he may offer both ³gifts and ⁴sacrifices for sins:

2 Who can ¹have compassion on the ignorant, and ²on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is ³compassed with infirmity.

3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

4 ¹And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.

5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.

6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the ¹order of Melchisedec.

7 ¹Who in the ²days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to ³save him from ⁴death, and was heard in that he feared;

8 Though he were a Son, yet ¹learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

9 ¹And being ²made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.

11 ¹Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ²ye are dull of hearing.

12 ¹For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

13 ¹For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the ²word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their ¹senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Hebrews 5 Footnotes:

¹Hebrews 5:1 The first part of the first comparison of Christ’s high Priesthood, with Aaron’s: Other high Priests are taken from among men, and are called after the order of men.
²Hebrews 5:1 The first part of the second comparison, Others as weak: are made high Priests, to the end that feeling the same infirmity in themselves which is in all the rest of the people, they should in their own and the people’s name offer gifts and sacrifices, which are witnesses of common faith, and repentance.
³Hebrews 5:1 Offering of things without life.
⁴Hebrews 5:1 Beasts which were killed, but especially in the sacrifices for sins and offenses.
¹Hebrews 5:2 Is fit and meet.
²Hebrews 5:2 On them that are sinful: for in the Hebrew tongue, under ignorance and error is every sin meant, even that sin that is voluntary.
³Hebrews 5:2 For that he himself beareth about with him a nature subject to the same discommodities and vices.
¹Hebrews 5:4 The third comparison which is whole: The others are called of God, and so was Christ, but in another order than Aaron: for Christ is called the Son, begotten of God, and a Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
¹Hebrews 5:6 After the likeness or manner as it is afterward declared, Heb. 7:15.
¹Hebrews 5:7 The other part of the second comparison: Christ being exceedingly afflicted and exceedingly merciful, asked not for his sins, for he had none, but for his fear, and obtained his request, and offered himself for all his.
²Hebrews 5:7 While he lived here with us in our weak and frail nature.
³Hebrews 5:7 To deliver him from death.
⁴Hebrews 5:7 Separation from the comfortable presence of God.
¹Hebrews 5:8 He learned indeed what it is to have a Father, whom a man must obey.
¹Hebrews 5:9 The other part of the first comparison: Christ was consecrate of God the Father as the author of our salvation, and an high Priest forever, and therefore he is so a man that notwithstanding he is far above all men.
²Hebrews 5:9 See Heb. 2:10.
¹Hebrews 5:11 A digression, until he comes to the beginning of the seventh chapter: wherein he partly holdeth the Hebrews in the diligent consideration of those things which he hath said, and partly prepareth them to the understanding of those things whereof he will speak.
²Hebrews 5:11 The Jewish nation as a whole, who according to their time under the law should have seen the veracity and necessity of his doctrine.
¹Hebrews 5:12 An example of an Apostolic chiding.
¹Hebrews 5:13 Paul useth not conceit, being puffed up, but gently admonisheth them to increase in faith using the figure of a babe in need of milk.
²Hebrews 5:13 In the word that teacheth righteousness.
¹Hebrews 5:14 All their power whereby they understand and judge.

Chapter 6

1 Therefore leaving the ¹principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; ²not laying again the ³foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

3 And this will we do, if God permit.

4 ¹For it is ²impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have ³tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made ⁴partakers of the Holy Ghost,

5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they ¹crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and make a mock of him.

7 ¹For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, ²receiveth blessing from God:

8 ¹But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

9 ¹But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

10 ¹For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

11 And we desire that every one of you shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:

12 ¹That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

13 ¹For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,

14 Saying, Surely ¹blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

17 Wherein God, willing more ¹abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

18 That by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

19 ¹Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;

20 ¹Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Chapter 6 Footnotes:
¹Hebrews 6:1 The first principles of Christian religion, which we call the Catechism.
²Hebrews 6:1 Certain principles of a Catechism, which comprehend the sum of the doctrine of the Gospel, were given in few words and briefly to the rude and ignorant, to wit, the profession of repentance and faith in God: the articles of which doctrine, were demanded of them which were not as yet received members of the Church, at the days appointed for Baptism: and of the children of the faithful which were baptized in their infancy: when hands were laid upon them. And of those articles, two are by name recited: the resurrection of the flesh, and the eternal judgment.
³Hebrews 6:1 That which is necessary to be believed for salvation comprehended here in repentance and faith towards God, commonly called the law and the gospel.
¹Hebrews 6:4 He addeth a vehemency to his exhortation, and a most sharp threatening of the certain destruction that shall come to them which fall from God and his doctrine.
²Hebrews 6:4 He speaketh of a general backsliding, and such as do altogether fall away from the faith, and not of sins which are committed through the frailty of man against the first and the second table.
³Hebrews 6:4 We must mark the force of this word, for it is one thing to believe as Lydia did, whose heart God opened, Acts 16:13, and another thing to have some taste.
⁴Hebrews 6:4 Partakers of the Holy Ghost under the word preached, though it was not received with true faith.
¹Hebrews 6:6 As men that hate Christ, and as though they crucified him again make him a mocking stock to all the world, and that to their own destruction, as Julian the Apostate or backslider did.
¹Hebrews 6:7 He setteth forth the former threatening with a similitude.
²Hebrews 6:7 Groweth naturally by God’s active governance.
¹Hebrews 6:8 He setteth forth the antithesis between the elect and reprobate, that is that we receive grace from God’s hands as the herbs receive their growth from His providence, and the wicked being deprived of grace, are the rather prepared for judgment and will receive the end of their works: everlasting burning.
¹Hebrews 6:9 He mitigateth and assuageth all that sharpness, hoping better of them to whom he writeth.
¹Hebrews 6:10 He praiseth them for their charity, thereby encouraging them to go forward, and to hold out to the end.
¹Hebrews 6:12 He showeth what virtues chiefly they have need of to go forward constantly, and also to profit: to wit, of charity, and patience: and lest any man should object and say, that these things are impossible to be done, he willeth them to set before themselves the examples of their ancestors, and to follow them.
¹Hebrews 6:13 Another prick to prick them forward: Because the hope of the inheritance is certain, if we continue to the end, for God hath not only promised it, but also promised it with an oath.
¹Hebrews 6:14 I will heap up benefits most plentifully upon thee.
¹Hebrews 6:17 More than was needful, were it not for the wickedness of men which believe not God, no though he swear.
¹Hebrews 6:19 He likeneth hope to an anchor: because that even as an anchor being cast into the bottom of the sea, stayeth the whole ship, so doth hope also enter even into the very secret places of heaven. And he maketh mention of the Sanctuary, alluding to the old tabernacle, and by this means returneth to the comparisons of the Priesthood of Christ with the Levitical.
¹Hebrews 6:20 He repeateth David’s words, wherein all those comparisons whereof he hath before made mention, are signified, as he declareth in all the next chapter.

Chapter 7

1 For this ¹Melchizedek was king of Salem, the priest of the most high God, who met Abraham as he returned from the slaughter of the kings, and ²blessed him;

2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;

3 ¹Without father, without mother, without descent, ²having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but is likened unto the Son of God; and continueth a priest forever.

4 ¹Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.

5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they ¹come out of the loins of Abraham:

6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

7 And ¹without all contradiction the less is blessed of the greater.

8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.

9 ¹And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.

10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met him.

11 ¹If therefore ²perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

12 ¹For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the ¹law.

13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man ¹gave attendance at the altar.

14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.

15 ¹And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchizedek there ariseth another priest,

16 ¹Who is made, not after the ²law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.

17 For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

18 ¹For there is verily a disannulling of the ²commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

20 ¹And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:

21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek:)

22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

23 ¹And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:

24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an ¹unchangeable priesthood.

25 Wherefore he is ¹able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

26 ¹For such an high priest ²became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: ¹for ²this he did ³once, when he offered up himself.

28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the ¹word of the oath, ²which ³was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.

Chapter 7 Footnotes:

¹Hebrews 7:1 Declaring those words, According to the order of Melchizedek, whereupon that comparison standeth of the Priesthood of Christ with the Levitical: first Melchizedek himself is considered as the figure of Christ, and these are the hands of that comparison, Melchizedek was a King and a Priest: and such an one indeed is Christ alone. He was a King of peace and righteousness: such an one indeed is Christ alone.
¹Hebrews 7:1 With a solemn and Priestly blessing.
¹Hebrews 7:3 Another figure: Melchizedek set before us to be considered as one without beginning and without ending, for neither his father, nor his mother, nor his ancestors, nor his death are written of: and such an one indeed is the Son of God, to wit, an everlasting Priest: as he is God, without mother wonderfully begotten: as he is man, without father wonderfully conceived.
²Hebrews 7:3 Paul argues from necessary consequence deduced from scripture, for that which is not spoken is used here in a positive inference. Melchizedek’s lineage is not recorded while others were, therefore being called a Priest, he is a figure of Christ who hath an everlasting Priesthood.
¹Hebrews 7:4 Another figure: Melchizedek in consideration of his Priesthood was above Abraham, for he took tenths of him, and blessed him as a Priest: Such an one indeed is Christ, upon whom dependeth even Abraham’s sanctification, and all the believers, and whom all men ought to worship and reverence as the author of all.
¹Hebrews 7:5 Were begotten by Abraham.
¹Hebrews 7:7 He speaketh of the public blessing which the Priests used.
¹Hebrews 7:9 A double amplification: The first, that Melchizedek took the tenths, as one immortal (to wit, in respect, that he is the figure of Christ, for his death is in no place made mention of, and David setteth him forth as an everlasting Priest) but the Levitical Priests, as mortal men, for they succeed one another: the second, that Levi himself was tithed in Abraham by Melchizedek. Therefore the Priesthood of Melchizedek (that is, Christ’s who is pronounced to be an everlasting Priest according to his order) is more excellent than the Levitical.
¹Hebrews 7:11 The third treatise of this Epistle, wherein after he hath proved Christ to be a King, a Prophet, and a Priest, he now handleth distinctly the condition and excellency of all these offices, showing that all these were but shadows in all other, but in Christ they are true and perfect. And he beginneth with the Priesthood, wherewith also the former treatise ended, that by this means all the parts and members of this disputation, may better hang together. And first of all he proveth that the Levitical Priesthood was imperfect because another Priest is promised a long time after according to another order, that is to say, of another manner of rule and fashion.
²Hebrews 7:11 If the priesthood of Levi could have made any man perfect.
¹Hebrews 7:12 He showeth how that by the institution of the new Priesthood, not only the imperfection of the Priesthood of Levi was declared, but also that it was changed for this: for these two cannot stand together, because that first appointment of the tribe of Levi, did shut forth the tribe of Judah, and made it also inferior to Levi: and this latter doth place the Priesthood in the tribe of Judah.
²Hebrews 7:12 Of the institution of Aaron.
¹Hebrews 7:13 Had anything to do about the altar.
¹Hebrews 7:15 Lest any man might object, that the Priesthood indeed was translated from Levi to Judah, but yet notwithstanding the same remaineth still, he both weigheth and expoundeth these words of David, forever, according to the order of Melchizedek, whereby also a divers institution of priesthood is well perceived.
¹Hebrews 7:16 He proveth the diversity and excellency of the institution of Melchizedek’s Priesthood, by this, that the priesthood of the Law did stand upon an outward and bodily anointing: but the sacrifice of Melchizedek is set out to be everlasting and more spiritual.
²Hebrews 7:16 Not after the ordination, which commandeth frail and transitory things, as was done in Aaron’s consecration, and all that whole Priesthood.
¹Hebrews 7:18 Again, that no man might object that the last Priesthood was added to make a perfect one, by the coupling of them both together, he proveth that the first was abrogated by the latter as unprofitable, and that by the nature of them both. For how could those corporal and transitory things sanctify us, either of themselves, or being joined with another?
²Hebrews 7:18 The ceremonial law.
¹Hebrews 7:20 Another argument whereby he proveth that the Priesthood of Christ is better than the Priesthood of Levi, because his was established with an oath, but theirs was not so.
¹Hebrews 7:23 Another argument tending to the same purpose. The Levitical Priests (as mortal men) could not be everlasting, but Christ as he is everlasting, so hath he also an everlasting Priesthood making most effectual intercession for them which by him come unto God.
¹Hebrews 7:24 Which cannot pass away.
¹Hebrews 7:25 He is fit and meet.
¹Hebrews 7:26 Another argument: There are required in an high Priest innocency, and perfect pureness, which may separate him from sinners, for whom he offereth. But the Levitical high Priests shall not be found to be such, for they offer first for their own sins: But Christ only is such a one; and therefore the true and only high Priest.
²Hebrews 7:26 Was suitable for us, for that we being utterly wicked and accursed from God due to Adam’s sin are in need to be covered in a new and spotless righteousness lest we appear before God in our shame, and be consumed in His living wrath. Therefore Christ must be a perfect and faithful High Priest, which is the argument of the apostle.
¹Hebrews 7:27 Another argument which notwithstanding he handleth afterward: The Levitical Priests offered sacrifice after sacrifice, first for themselves, and then for the people. But Christ offered not for himself, but for others, not sacrifices, but himself, not oftentimes, but once. And this ought not to seem strange; saith he, forsomuch as they are weak, but this man is consecrated an everlasting Priest, and that by an oath.
²Hebrews 7:27 That sacrifice which he offered.
³Hebrews 7:27 It was so done, that it needeth not be repeated or offered again anymore.
¹Hebrews 7:28 The commandment of God which was bound with an oath.
²Hebrews 7:28 Another argument taken of the time: former things are taken away by the latter.
³Hebrews 7:28 Exhibited.

Chapter 8

1 Now ¹of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

2 ¹A minister of the ²sanctuary, ³and of the ⁴true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

3 ¹For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.

4 ¹For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, ¹See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

6 ¹But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

7 ¹For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

8 For finding fault with ¹them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the ²house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; ¹because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; ¹I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.

12 ¹For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

13 ¹In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

Chapter 8 Footnotes:
¹Hebrews 8:1 He briefly repeateth that, whereunto all these things are to be referred, to wit, we have a far other high Priest than those Levitical high Priests are, even such an one as sitteth at the right hand of the most high God in heaven.
¹Hebrews 8:2 They of Levi were high Priests in an earthly sanctuary, but Christ is in the heavenly.
²Hebrews 8:2 Of heaven.
³Hebrews 8:2 They of Levi exercised their Priesthood in a frail tabernacle, but Christ beareth about with him a far other tabernacle, to wit, his body which God himself made to be everlasting, as it shall afterward be declared, Heb. 9:11.
⁴Hebrews 8:2 Of his body.
¹Hebrews 8:3 He bringeth a reason why it must needs be that Christ should have a body (which he calleth a tabernacle which the Lord pight and not man) to wit, that he might have what to offer: for otherwise he could not be an high Priest. And the selfsame body is both the tabernacle and the sacrifice.
¹Hebrews 8:4 He giveth a reason why he said that our high Priest is in the heavenly sanctuary and not in the earthly: because, saith he, if he were now on the earth, he could not minister in the earthly sanctuary, seeing there are yet Levitical Priests, which are appointed for him, that is to say, to be patterns of that perfect example. And to what purpose should the patterns serve when the true and original example is present.
¹Hebrews 8:5 If Moses was instructed with such severity concerning the law of ordinances, how much more are we instructed to keep pure and entire that doctrine of the gospel, which if the least principle fall the whole is corrupted entirely thereby?
¹Hebrews 8:6 He entereth into the comparison of the old and transitory Testament or covenant being but for a time, whereof the Levitical Priests were mediators with the new the everlasting Mediator whereof is Christ, to show that this is not only better than that in all respects, but also that that was abrogated by this.
¹Hebrews 8:7 He proveth by the testimony of Jeremiah, that there is a second Testament or covenant, and therefore that the first was not perfect.
¹Hebrews 8:8 He saith not that he found fault with the covenant itself, but the fault lieth in the people who fell short of it. Therefore the purpose of the first covenant was to discover to them their sin and misery, and thereby to shut them up in hopelessness and despair, so that they should look for their righteousness outside of the covenant of works.
²Hebrews 8:8 He calleth it an house, as it were one family of the whole kingdom: for whereas the kingdom of David was divided into two factions, the Prophet giveth us to understand that through the new Testament they shall be joined together again in one.
¹Hebrews 8:9 We cannot under any circumstances be regarded or accepted by God under the terms of the first covenant which pertains to man’s performance.
¹Hebrews 8:10 The doctrine of regeneration is here set forth.
¹Hebrews 8:12 The imputation of righteousness and the forgiveness of sins being applied to us through the faith which the Holy Spirit works in us according to God’s eternal election and the effectual purchase of the Son.
¹Hebrews 8:13 The conclusion: Therefore by the latter and the new, the first and old is taken away, for it could not be called new if it differed not from the old. And again that same is at length taken away: which is subject to corruption, and therefore imperfect.

Chapter 9

1 Then verily ¹the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a ²worldly sanctuary.

2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.

3 And after the ¹second veil, was the tabernacle which is called the ²Holiest of all;

4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the ¹mercyseat; of which things we will not now speak particularly.

6 ¹Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, and accomplished the service.

7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the ¹errors of the people:

8 ¹The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:

9 ¹Which was a figure ²for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, ³that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

10 ¹Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, ²which were enjoined until the time of reformation.

11 ¹But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, ²by a ³greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

12 ¹Neither by the blood of ²goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, and ³obtained eternal redemption ⁴for us.

13 ¹For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the ²purifying of the flesh:

14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from ¹dead works to ²serve the living God?

15 ¹And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, ²they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

16 ¹For where a Testament is, there must be the death of him that made the Testament.

17 For the Testament is confirmed when men are dead: otherwise it is of no force at all while he that made it liveth.

18 ¹Wherefore neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people ¹according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and ²sprinkled both the book, and all the people,

20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.

21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.

22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and ¹without shedding of blood is no remission.

23 It was therefore necessary that the ¹patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves are purified with better sacrifices than these.

24 ¹For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

25 ¹Not that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;

26 ¹For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now in the ²end of the ages hath he been made manifest, once to put away ³sin by the sacrifice of himself.

27 And as it is appointed unto men that they shall ¹once die, and after that cometh the judgement,

28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of ¹many; ²and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

Chapter 9 Footnotes:

¹Hebrews 9:1 A division of the first Tabernacle which he calleth worldly, that is to say, transitory and earthly into two parts, to wit, into the holy places and the Holiest of all.
²Hebrews 9:1 An earthy and a flitting.
¹Hebrews 9:3 He calleth it the second veil, not because there were two veils, but because it was behind the Sanctuary or the first Tabernacle.
²Hebrews 9:3 The holiest Sanctuary.
¹Hebrews 9:5 The Hebrews call the cover of the Ark of the covenant, the mercy seat, whom both the Greeks and we follow.
¹Hebrews 9:6 Now he cometh to the sacrifices which he divideth into those daily sacrifices, and that yearly and solemn sacrifice, with the which the high Priest only, but once every year entering into the Holiest of all with blood, offered for himself and the people.
¹Hebrews 9:7 For the sins. See Heb. 5:2.
¹Hebrews 9:8 Of that yearly rite and ceremony he gathereth that the way was not by such sacrifices opened into heaven, which was shadowed by the Holiest of all. For why did the high Priest alone enter in thither, shutting out all other, and that to offer sacrifices there both for himself and for others, and after did shut the Holiest of all again?
¹Hebrews 9:9 An objection: If the way were not opened into heaven by those sacrifices (that is to say, If the worshippers were not purged by them) why then were those ceremonies used? to wit, that men might be called back to that spiritual example, that is to say, to Christ, who should correct all those things at his coming.
²Hebrews 9:9 For that time that that figure had to last.
³Hebrews 9:9 No degree of human effort can grant peace to the conscience, but only the blood of Christ.
¹Hebrews 9:10 Another reason why they could not make clean the conscience of the worshipper, to wit, because they were outward and carnal or corporal things.
²Hebrews 9:10 For they were as you would say a burden, from which Christ delivered us.
¹Hebrews 9:11 Now he entereth into the declaration of the figures, and first of all comparing the Levitical high Priest with Christ, (that is to say, the figure with the thing itself) he attributeth to Christ the administration of good things to come, that is, everlasting, which those carnal things had respect unto.
²Hebrews 9:11 Another comparison of the first corruptible Tabernacle with the latter (that is to say, with the human nature of Christ) which is the true incorruptible Temple of God, whereinto which the Son of GOD entered, as the Levitical high Priests into the other which was frail and transitory.
²Hebrews 9:11 By a more excellent and better.
¹Hebrews 9:12 Another comparison of the blood of sacrifices with Christ. The Levitical high Priests entering by their holy places into the Sanctuary, offered corruptible blood for one year only: but Christ entering into that holy body of his, entered by it into heaven itself, offering his own most pure blood for an everlasting redemption: For one selfsame Christ answereth both to the high Priest, and the Tabernacle, and the sacrifices, and offering themselves, as the truth to the figures, so that Christ is both the high Priest, and Tabernacle, and Sacrifice, yea, all these both truly, and forever.
²Hebrews 9:12 For in this yearly sacrifice of reconciliation, there were two kinds of sacrifices, the one a goat, the other a heifer, or calf.
³Hebrews 9:12 The doctrine of Limited Atonement set forth.
⁴Hebrews 9:12 The elect who are given to Christ by the Father, sealed by His blood and effectually called into the fellowship of the church by His Spirit.
¹Hebrews 9:13 If the outward sprinkling of blood and ashes of beasts, was a true and effectual sign of purifying and cleansing, how much more shall the thing itself and the truth being present, which in times past was shadowed by those external Sacraments, that is to say, his blood which is in such sort man’s blood, that is also the blood of the Son of God, and therefore hath an everlasting virtue of purifying and cleansing, does it?
²Hebrews 9:13 He considereth the signs apart, being separate from the thing itself.
¹Hebrews 9:14 All of man’s actions in his natural estate of sin and misery bring forth death.
²Hebrews 9:14 Not for self-aggrandizement or self-justification, as if by works (even believing) we purchase for ourselves the gift of the Spirit and everlasting life, but being saved freely by the grace of God through the eternal redemption in His Son, we serve God in the true keeping of His law, for His own glory, on the basis of His own authority.
¹Hebrews 9:15 The conclusion of the former argument: therefore seeing the blood of beasts did not purge sins, the new Testament which was before time promised, whereunto those outward things had respect, is now indeed established, by the virtue whereof all transgressions might be taken away, and heaven indeed opened unto us: whereof it followeth that Christ shed his blood also for the Fathers: For he was shadowed by those old ceremonies, otherwise, unless they had served to represent him, they had been nothing at all profitable. Therefore this Testament is called the latter, not concerning the virtue of it, (that is to say, remission of sins) but in respect of that time, wherein the thing itself was finished, that is to say, wherein Christ was indeed exhibited to the world, and fulfilled all things which were necessary to our salvation.
²Hebrews 9:15 All those who are purchased by the effectual sacrifice of Christ will in time be called and sanctified by the Spirit, and will grow in grace until they are perfected in heavenly glory.
¹Hebrews 9:16 A reason why the Testament must be established by the death of the Mediator, because this Testament hath the condition of a Testament or gift, which is made effectual by death, and therefore that it might be effectual, it must needs be that he that made the Testament, should die.
¹Hebrews 9:18 There must be a proportion between those things which purify, and those which are purified: Under the Law all those figures were earthly, the Tabernacle, the book, the vessels, the sacrifices, although they were the figures of heavenly things. Therefore it was requisite that all those should be purified with some matter and ceremony of the same nature, to wit, with the blood of beasts, with water, wool, hyssop. But under Christ all things are heavenly, an heavenly tabernacle, an heavenly sacrifice, an heavenly people, an heavenly doctrine, and heaven itself is set open before us for an eternal habitation. Therefore all these things are sanctified in like sort, to wit, with the everlasting offering of the quickening blood of Christ.
¹Hebrews 9:19 As the Lord had commanded.
²Hebrews 9:19 He useth to sprinkle.
¹Hebrews 9:22 Wherein the immutable justice of God is shown forth on the one hand against sin, in that His righteous nature will not endure the least transgression to abide unpunished to the full extent that the law requires, and on the other hand, He is bound by just judgment to grant forgiveness of sins and eternal redemption to all those who are redeemed by the Son, whose faithfulness to the law, and propitiation have purchased for us eternal glory.
¹Hebrews 9:23 The similitudes of heavenly things were earthly, and therefore they were to be set forth with earthly things, as with the blood of beasts, and wool, and hyssop. But under Christ all things are heavenly, and therefore they could not but be sanctified with the offering of his lively blood.
¹Hebrews 9:24 Another double comparison: the Levitical high Priest entered into the Sanctuary, which was made indeed by the commandment of God, but yet with men’s hands, that it might be a pattern of another more excellent, to wit, of the heavenly place. But Christ entered even into heaven itself. Again, he appeared before the Ark, but Christ before God the Father himself.
¹Hebrews 9:25 Another double comparison: the Levitical high Priest offered other blood, but Christ offered his own: he every year once iterated his offering: Christ offering himself but once, abolished sin altogether, both of the former ages and of the ages to come.
¹Hebrews 9:26 An argument to prove that Christ’s offering ought not to be repeated: Seeing that sins were to be purged from the beginning of the world, and it is proved that sins cannot be purged, but by the only blood of Christ: he must needs have died oftentimes since the beginning of the world. But a man can die but once: therefore Christ’s oblation which was once done in the latter days, neither could nor can be repeated. Seeing then it is so, surely the virtue of it extendeth both to sins that were before, and to sins that are after his coming.
²Hebrews 9:26 In the latter days.
³Hebrews 9:26 That whole root of sin.
¹Hebrews 9:27 He speaketh of the natural state and condition of man: For as for Lazarus and certain others that died twice, that was no usual thing but extraordinary, and for them that shall be changed, their changing is a kind of death, 1 Cor. 15:51.
¹Hebrews 9:28 Thus the general promise is restrained to the elect only: and we have to seek the testimony of our election: not in the secret counsel of God, but in the effects that our faith worketh, and so we must climb up from the lowest step to the highest, there to find such comfort as is most certain, and shall never be moved.
²Hebrews 9:28 Shortly by the way he setteth out Christ as Judge, partly to terrify them, which do not rest themselves in the only oblation of Christ once made, and partly to keep the faithful in their duty, that they will go not back.

Chapter 10

1 For ¹the law having a shadow of good things to ²come, and ³not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.

4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

5 ¹Wherefore when he ²cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a ³body hast thou prepared me:

6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin ¹thou hast had no pleasure.

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

8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and sin offerings thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the ¹first, that he may establish the second.

10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once made.

11 ¹And every priest ²standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

13 ¹From henceforth ²expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

15 ¹Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, ¹I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember ¹no more.

18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for ¹sin.

19 ¹Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his ¹flesh;

21 And having an high priest over the house of God;

22 ¹Let us draw near with a ²true heart in full assurance of faith, having our ³hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with ⁴pure water.

23 Let us hold fast the ¹profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

25 Not forsaking the fellowship that we have among ourselves, as the maner of some is: but let us exhort one another, ¹and that so much the more, because ye see that the day draweth near.

26 For if we sin ¹wilfully after that we have received and acknowledged the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the ¹adversaries.

28 ¹He that despiseth Moses’ law dieth without mercy under two or three witnesses:

29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, ¹wherewith he was sanctified, ¹an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

30 ¹For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall ¹judge his people.

31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

32 ¹But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

33 ¹Partly, whilst ye were made a ¹gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became ¹companions of them that were so used.

34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring ¹substance.

35 Cast not away therefore your ¹confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

37 For yet a very ¹little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

38 ¹Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

Chapter 10 Footnotes:
¹Hebrews 10:1 He preventeth a privy objection. Why then were those sacrifices offered? The Apostle answereth first touching that yearly sacrifice which was the solemnest of all, wherein (saith he) there was made every year a remembrance again of all former sins. Therefore that sacrifice had no power to sanctify: for to what purpose should those sins which are purged be repeated again, and wherefore should new sins come to be repeated every year, if those sacrifices did abolish sin?
²Hebrews 10:1 Of things which are everlasting, which were promised to the Fathers, and exhibited in Christ.
³Hebrews 10:1 In that they were merely types and figures which pointed to something greater and spiritual.
¹Hebrews 10:5 A conclusion following of those things that went before, and comprehending also the other sacrifices. Seeing that the sacrifices of the Law could not do it, therefore Christ speaking of himself as of our high Priest manifested in the flesh, witnesseseth evidently that God resteth not in the sacrifices, but in the obedience of his Son our high Priest, in which obedience he offered up himself once to his Father for us.
²Hebrews 10:5 The Son of God is said to come into the world, when he was made man.
³Hebrews 10:5 It is word for word in the Hebrew text, Thou hast pierced mine ears through, that is, thou hast made me obedient, and willing to hear.
¹Hebrews 10:6 For He saith, I will have mercy and not sacrifice.
¹Hebrews 10:9 That is the sacrifices, to establish the second, that is, the will of God.
¹Hebrews 10:11 A conclusion, with the other part of the comparison. The Levitical high Priest repeateth the same sacrifices daily in his sanctuary: whereupon which it followeth that neither those sacrifices, neither those offerings, neither those high Priests could take away sins. But Christ, having offered one sacrifice once for the sins of all men, and having sanctified his own forever, sitteth at the right hand of the Father, having all power in his hands.
²Hebrews 10:11 At the altar.
¹Hebrews 10:13 He preventeth a privy objection, to wit, that yet notwithstanding we are subject to sin and death, whereunto the Apostle answereth, that the full efficacy of Christ’s virtue hath not yet showed itself, but shall at length appear when he will at once put to flight all his enemies, with whom as yet we strive.
²Hebrews 10:13  Seeing that by His resurrection Christ effectually procured salvation for those only whom the Father gave to be in covenant with Him, He now expects and anticipates the judgment and wrath of God to be executed on the rest, as it is written, “His eyes were as a flame of fire.” Therefore it is the height of absurdity to imagine a conditional covenant of grace made with the reprobate, or any intention on God’s part to to show mercy on them and save them, seeing that the Father hath not elected them, nor given them into the Son’s hand to redeem them. This therefore is a powerful argument against such sophists who would make the death of Christ of none effect by extending its efficacy to those on whom it has no benefit.
¹Hebrews 10:15 Although there do yet remain in us relics of sin, yet the work of our sanctification which is to be perfected, hangeth upon the selfsame sacrifice which never shall be repeated: and that the Apostle proveth by alledging again the testimonies of Jeremiah, thus, Sin is taken away by the new Testament, seeing the Lord saith that it shall come to pass, that according to the form of it, he will no more remember our sins: Therefore we need now no purging sacrifice to take away that which is already taken away, but we must rather take pains, that we may now through faith be partakers of that sacrifice.
¹Hebrews 10:16 Twice repeated in this same discourse that we may not soon forget it.
¹Hebrews 10:17 Why then, where is the fire of Purgatory, and that Popish distinction of the fault and the punishment?
¹Hebrews 10:18 He said well, for sin: for there remaineth another offering, to wit, of thanksgiving. see Mal. 3:3, Heb. 13:15
¹Hebrews 10:19 The sum of the former treatise: We are not shut out now of the holy place, as the Fathers were, but we have an entrance into the true holy place (that is, into heaven) seeing that we are purged with the blood not of beasts, but of Jesus. Neither as in times past, doth the high Priest shut us out by setting the veil against us, but through the veil, which is his flesh, he hath brought us into heaven itself, being present with us, so that we have now truly an high Priest, which is over the house of God.
¹Hebrews 10:20 So Christ’s flesh showeth us the Godhead as it were under a veil, for otherwise we were not able to abide the brightness of it.
¹Hebrews 10:22 A most grave exhortation, wherein which he showeth how that sacrifice of Christ may be applied to us: to wit, by faith, which also he describeth, by the consequence, to wit, by sanctification of the Spirit, which causeth us surely to hope in God, and to procure by all means possible one another’s salvation, through the love that is in us one toward another.
²Hebrews 10:22 With no double and counterfeit heart, but with such an heart as is truly and indeed given to God.
³Hebrews 10:22 This is it which the Lord saith, Be ye holy, for I am holy.
⁴Hebrews 10:22 With the grace of the holy Ghost.
¹Hebrews 10:23 That of the true gospel and not a counterfeit.
¹Hebrews 10:25 Having mentioned the last coming of Christ, he stirreth up the godly to the meditation of an holy life, and cites the faithless fallers from God, to the fearful judgment seat of the judge, because they wickedly rejected him in whom only salvation consisteth.
¹Hebrews 10:26 Without any cause or occasion, or show of occasion.
¹Hebrews 10:27 For it is another matter to sin through the frailty of man’s nature, and another thing to proclaim war as it were to God as to an enemy.
¹Hebrews 10:28 If the breach of the Law of Moses was punished by death, how much more worthy death is it to fall away from Christ?
¹Hebrews 10:29 As sinners are oft times brought into the visible church, and set apart covenantally from the rest of the world for a time. see 2 Pet. 2:1.
¹Hebrews 10:29 As the Arminians and Calvinists make the blood of Christ unholy by attributing no power and efficacy to it until it be received by faith (making it common to all), and the antinomians who claiming interest in Christ’s peculiar merits abide still in their dissolute and sinful practices.
¹Hebrews 10:30 The reason of all these things is, because God is a revenger of such as despise him: otherwise he should not rightly govern his Church. Now there is nothing more horrible then the wrath of the living God.
²Hebrews 10:30 Rule or govern.
¹Hebrews 10:32 As he terrified the fallers away from God so doth he now comfort them that are constant and stand strongly setting before them the success of their former fights, so stirring them up to a sure hope of a full and ready victory.
¹Hebrews 10:33 An exhortation to the support and open acknowledgment of gospel ministers.
²Hebrews 10:33 You were brought forth to be ashamed.
²Hebrews 10:33 In taking their miseries, to be your miseries.
¹Hebrews 10:34 Goods and riches.
¹Hebrews 10:35 Despite the fire and sword of persecution.
¹Hebrews 10:37 He will come within this very little while.
¹Hebrews 10:38 He commendeth the excellency of a sure faith by the effect, because it is the only way to life, which sentence he setteth forth and amplifieth by setting the contrary against it.

Chapter 11

1 Now ¹faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

2 ¹For by it the ²elders obtained a good report.

3 ¹Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are ²seen were not made of things which do appear.

4 ¹By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

5 ¹By faith Enoch was translated that he should not ²see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

6 But ¹without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that ²he is, and that he is a ³rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

7 ¹By faith Noah, being warned of God of the things which were not seen as yet, moved with reverence, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which ark he ²condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

8 ¹By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed, to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

10 For he looked for a city which hath ¹foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

11 ¹Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him ¹as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

13 All these died in ¹faith, not having received the ²promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and ³embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

16 But now ¹they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

17 By faith Abraham, when he was ¹tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the ²promises offered up his only begotten son,

18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:

19 For he considered that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from ¹whence also he received him in ²a figure.

20 ¹By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

21 ¹By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.

22 ¹By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.

23 ¹By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were ²not afraid of the king’s commandment.

24 By faith Moses, when he was come to age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;

25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the ¹pleasures of sin for a season;

26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as ¹seeing him who is invisible.

28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.

29 ¹By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.

30 ¹By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.

31 ¹By faith the ²harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies ³with peace.

32 ¹And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:

33 Who ¹through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained ²promises, stopped the mouths of lions.

34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

35 ¹Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were ²tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in ¹sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

38 (whom the world was not worthy of:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

39 ¹And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received ²not the promise:

40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they ¹without us should not be made perfect.

Chapter 11 Footnotes:

¹Hebrews 11:1 An excellent description of faith by the effects, because it representeth things which are but yet in hope, and setteth as it were before our eyes things that are invisible.
¹Hebrews 11:2 He showeth that the Fathers ought to be accounted of, by this virtue.
²Hebrews 11:2 That is, those Fathers of whom we came: and whose authority and example ought to move us very much.
¹Hebrews 11:3 He showeth the propriety of faith, by setting unto us most piked examples of such as from the beginning of the world excelled in the Church.
²Hebrews 11:3 So that the world which we see, was not made of any matter that appeared or was before, but of nothing.
¹Hebrews 11:4 Abel.
¹Hebrews 11:5 Enoch.
²Hebrews 11:5 That he should not die.
¹Hebrews 11:6 Because men are utterly depraved by nature and incapable of communion with God, faith is required, because that through the gift of the Spirit we are united to Christ by a lively faith that taketh hold of sound doctrine, acknowledging our fall, and receiving of His merits gratuitously apart from works.
²Hebrews 11:6 True faith is belief in the LORD, who saith, “I AM THAT I AM.” wherein all self-sufficiency, boast of merits and free will is utterly abolished.
³Hebrews 11:6 This reward is not referred to our merits, but to the free promise, as Paul teacheth in Abraham the father of all the faithful, Rom. 4:4.
¹Hebrews 11:7 Noah.
²Hebrews 11:7 In the which Ark was not enough room for the perishing world – an apt type of Christ who came only to save those whom the Father gave Him. An encouragement also to faith, in that through the proclamation of condemnation upon all sinners (here called the world) we are delivered by the only Mediator capable and suited to it, even the Lord Jesus Christ.
¹Hebrews 11:8 Abraham and Sarah.
¹Hebrews 11:10 This foundation is set against their tabernacle.
¹Hebrews 11:11 1 Timothy 2:15
¹Hebrews 11:12 As unlikely to bear children, as if they had been stark dead.
¹Hebrews 11:13 In faith, which they had while they lived, and followed them even to their grave.
²Hebrews 11:13 This is the figure Metonymy, for the things promised.
³Hebrews 11:13 For the Patriarchs were wont when they received the promises, to profess their religion, by building of altars, and calling on the name of the Lord.
¹Hebrews 11:16 It is the universal affection of the saints to desire things above (heavenly doctrine) and not the things on the earth.
¹Hebrews 11:17 Tried of the Lord.
²Hebrews 11:17 Although the promises of life were made in that only begotten Son Isaac, yet he appointed him to die, and so against hope he believed in hope.
¹Hebrews 11:19 From which death.
²Hebrews 11:19 For there was not the true and very death of Isaac, but as it were the death, by means whereof he seemed also as it were to have risen again.
¹Hebrews 11:20 Isaac.
¹Hebrews 11:21 Jacob.
¹Hebrews 11:22 Joseph.
¹Hebrews 11:23 Moses.
²Hebrews 11:23 They were not afraid to bring him up.
¹Hebrews 11:25 Such pleasures as he could not enjoy, but he must needs provoke God’s wrath against him.
¹Hebrews 11:27 The eyes of faith behold the promises contained in the word, which is the revelation of the will of God.
¹Hebrews 11:29 The red sea.
¹Hebrews 11:30 Jericho.
¹Hebrews 11:31 Rahab.
²Hebrews 11:31 A notable example of God’s goodness.
³Hebrews 11:31 Courteously and friendly, so that she did not only not hurt them, but also kept them safe.
¹Hebrews 11:32 Gideon, Barak and other Judges and Prophets.
¹Hebrews 11:33 Through faith in God’s power who alone doeth wondrously.
²Hebrews 11:33 The fruit of the promises.
¹Hebrews 11:35 He seemeth to mean the story of that woman of Zarephath, whose son Elijah raised again from death, and the Shunammite, whose son Elisha restored to his mother.
²Hebrews 11:35 He meaneth that persecution which Antiochus wrought.
¹Hebrews 11:37 In vile and rough clothing, so were the saints brought to extreme poverty, and constrained to live like beasts in wildernesses.
¹Hebrews 11:39 An amplification taken of the circumstance of the time: their faith is so much the more to be marveled at, by how much the promises of things to come were more dark, yet at length were indeed exhibited to us, so that their faith and ours is as one, as is also their consecration and ours.
²Hebrews 11:39 But saw Christ afar off.
¹Hebrews 11:40 For their salvation did hang upon Christ, who was exhibited in our days.

Chapter 12

1 Wherefore ¹seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily ²beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

2 ^1,2Looking unto Jesus the ³author and finisher of our faith; who for the ⁴joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

3 ¹For consider him that endured such ²contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

4 ¹Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

5 ¹And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

6 For ¹whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

9 ¹Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

10 ¹For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

12 ¹Wherefore lift up the hands which ²hang down, and the feeble knees;

13 And make ¹straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

14 ¹Follow peace with all men, and ²holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

15 ¹Looking diligently lest any man ²fall away from the grace of God; lest any ³root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

16 ¹Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no ¹place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

18 ¹For ye are not come unto the mount that might be ²touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

20 (For they could not abide that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

21 And so terrible was the ¹sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)

22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made ¹perfect,

24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

25 ¹See that ye despise not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

26 ¹Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet ²once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

28 ¹Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have ²grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with ³reverence and ⁴godly fear:

29 For our God is a ¹consuming fire.

Chapter 12 Footnotes:

¹Hebrews 12:1 An applying of the former examples, whereby we ought to be stirred up to run the whole race, casting away all stops and impediments.
²Hebrews 12:1 For sin besiegeth us on all sides, so that we cannot escape out.
¹Hebrews 12:2 He setteth before us, as the mark of this race, Jesus himself our captain, who willingly overcame all the roughness of the same way.
²Hebrews 12:2 As it were upon the mark of our faith.
³Hebrews 12:2 Here Christ our Mediator is called the author and finisher of faith, for that He by His grace hath purchased it for us at the cross, worked it in us mightily by His Spirit, and will preserve us in it until we are perfected in heaven.
⁴Hebrews 12:2 Whereas he had all kind of blessedness in his hand and power, yet suffered willingly the ignominy of the cross.
¹Hebrews 12:3 An amplification taken of the circumstance of the person, and the things themselves, which he compareth betwixt themselves: for how great is Jesus in comparison of us, and how far more grievous things did he suffer than we?
²Hebrews 12:3 For sinners are always wont to contradict the holy doctrine of the sanctified. Christ who was perfect in all grace and perfection suffered such contradiction, and shall we expect less who are subject to fault?
¹Hebrews 12:4 He taketh an argument of the profit which cometh to us by God’s chastisements, unless we be in fault. First of all because sin, or that rebellious wickedness of our flesh, is by this means turned.
¹Hebrews 12:5 Secondly, because they are testimony of his fatherly good will toward us, insomuch that they show themselves to be bastards, which cannot abide to be chastened of God.
¹Hebrews 12:6 And whom the Lord loveth not, He chasteneth not, but provideth them with foretastes of wrath and judgment.
¹Hebrews 12:9 Thirdly, if all men yield this right to fathers, to whom next after God we owe this life, that they may rightfully correct their children, shall we not be much more subject to that our Father, who is the Author of the spiritual and everlasting life?
¹Hebrews 12:10 An amplification of the same argument: Those fathers have corrected us after their fancy, for some frail and transitory profit: but God chasteneth and instructeth us for our singular profit, to make us partakers of his holiness: which thing although these our senses do not presently perceive, yet the end of the matter proveth it.
Hebrews 12:11 Manton: Theophylact observeth, that in this passage two words are emphatical, πρὸς τὸ παρὸν and δοκεῖ, ” for the present” and ” seemeth :” [for the present] noteth the feeling, and experience of sense ; and [seemeth] the apprehension and dictate of it. Sense can feel no joy in it, and sense will suggest nothing but bitterness and sorrow ; but we are not to go by that ” count” and reckoning. A Christian liveth above the world, because he doth not judge according to the world.
¹Hebrews 12:12 The conclusion, we must go forward courageously and keep always a right course, and (as far forth as we may) without any staggering or stumbling.
²Hebrews 12:12 The description of a man that is out of heart and clean discouraged.
¹Hebrews 12:13 Keep a right course, and so, that you show example of good life for others to follow.
¹Hebrews 12:14 We must live in peace, and holiness with all men.
²Hebrews 12:14 Here a personal holiness which is the result of sanctification and chastening is set forth as necessary to our peace with God. For who can look steadily at the face of Him who is displeased? So that as our conscience knows that we have offended, and being thus chastened by the Lord, we are behooved to renew our faith in contrition and repentance, and prove our election, making it sure, so that being thus pricked by the law and stirred up in hope by the gospel, we might finish our course with joy. Gal. 6:1
¹Hebrews 12:15 We must study to edify one another, both in doctrine and example of life.
²Hebrews 12:15 That is from a profession of the gospel and from the visible church where grace is administered.
³Hebrews 12:15 That no heresy, or backsliding be an offense.
¹Hebrews 12:16 We must eschew fornication, and a profane mind, that is, such a mind, as giveth not to God his due honor, which wickedness how severely God will at length punish, the horrible example of Esau teacheth us.
¹Hebrews 12:17 There was no place left for his repentance: and it appeareth by the effects, what his repentance was, for when he was gone out of his father’s sight, he threatened his brother to kill him.
¹Hebrews 12:18 Now he applieth the same exhortation, to the Prophetical and kingly office of Christ compared with Moses, after this sort, If the majesty of the Law was so great, how great think you that the glory of Christ and the Gospel is? And this comparison he declareth also particularly.
²Hebrews 12:18 Which might be touched with hands, which was of a gross and earthly matter.
¹Hebrews 12:21 The shape and form which he saw, which was no counterfeit and forged shape, but a true one.
¹Hebrews 12:23 So he calleth them that are taken up into heaven, although one part of them sleep in the earth.
¹Hebrews 12:25 The applying of the former comparison, If it were not lawful to contemn his word which spake on the earth, how much less his voice which is from heaven?
¹Hebrews 12:26 He compareth the steadfast majesty of the Gospel, wherewith the whole world was shaken, and even the very frame of heaven was as it were astonished, with the small and vanishing sound of the governance by the Law.
²Hebrews 12:26 It appeareth evidently in this that the Prophet speaketh of the calling of the Gentiles, that these words must be referred to the kingdom of Christ.
¹Hebrews 12:28 A general exhortation to live reverently and religiously under the most happy subjection of so mighty a king, who as he blesseth his most mightily, so doth he most severely revenge the rebellious. And this is the sum of a Christian life, respecting the first table.
²Hebrews 12:28 He exhorteth to a constant and diligent study and application of the doctrine of grace which encompasseth the whole Christian life. Eph. 2:8-10
³Hebrews 12:28 By reverence is meant that honest shamefastness which keepeth them in their duties.
⁴Hebrews 12:28 Religious and godly fear.
¹Hebrews 12:29 Of which the mount that caused such terror was merely a type. If the people could not stand before the shadow of the thing, how shall a miserable sinner devoid of righteousness stand before a just and holy God?

Chapter 13

1 Let ¹brotherly love continue.

2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

4 ¹Marriage is honourable in ²all, and the ³bed undefiled: but ⁴whoremongers and ⁵adulterers God will judge.

5 ¹Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for ²he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what ¹man shall do unto me.

7 ¹Remember them which have the oversight of you, who have declared unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

8 ¹Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. ¹For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with ²meats, which have not profited them that have been ³occupied therein.

10 ¹We have an ²altar, whereof they have no right to eat which ³serve the tabernacle.

11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.

12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.

13 ¹Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

15 ¹By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips ²giving thanks to his name.

16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

17 ¹Obey them that have the oversight of you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

18 ¹Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

21 Make you ¹perfect in every good work to do his will, ²working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.

23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.

24 Salute all them that have the oversight of you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.

25 Grace be with you all. Amen.

Chapter 13 Footnotes:

¹Hebrews 13:1 He cometh to the second table, the sum whereof is charity, especially toward strangers and such as are afflicted.
¹Hebrews 13:3 Be so much touched, as if their misery were yours.
¹Hebrews 13:4 He commendeth chaste matrimony in all sorts of men, and threateneth utter destruction from God, against whoremongers and adulterers.
²Hebrews 13:4 Against that pestilent Papist fiction that those of the office of the ministry are prohibited from taking a wife.
³Hebrews 13:4 Here the apostle by way of Hebrew parallelism equates marriage to the marriage bed, by means of which the covenant seed is produced and the church increased. Mal. 2:15, 1 Cor. 7:14
⁴Hebrews 13:4 Those who prostitute their bodies for pleasure.
⁵Hebrews 13:4 Those who break the marriage covenant by infidelity.
¹Hebrews 13:5 Covetousness is condemned, against which is set a contented mind with that which the Lord hath given.
²Hebrews 13:5 Even the Lord himself.
¹Hebrews 13:6 He setteth man against God.
¹Hebrews 13:7 We have to set before us the examples of valiant Captains, whom we ought diligently to follow.
¹Hebrews 13:8 He repeateth the sum of the doctrine, to wit, the only ground of all precepts of manners, and that is this: That we ought to quiet and content ourselves in Christ only: for there was yet never any man saved without the knowledge of him, neither is at this day saved, neither shall be saved hereafter.
¹Hebrews 13:9 He toucheth them which mixed an external worship, and especially the difference of meats, with the Gospel, which doctrine he plainly condemneth as clean repugnant to the benefit of Christ.
²Hebrews 13:9 By this one kind which concerneth the difference of clean and unclean meats, we have to understand all the ceremonial worship.
³Hebrews 13:9 Which observed the difference of them superstitiously.
¹Hebrews 13:10 He refuteth their error by an apt and fit comparison. They which in times past served the Tabernacle, did not eat of the sacrifices whose blood was brought for sin into the holy place by the high Priest. Moreover these sacrifices did represent Christ our offering. Therefore they cannot be partakers of him which serve the Tabernacle, that is, such as stand in the service of the Law: but let not us be ashamed to follow him out of Jerusalem, from whence he was cast out and suffered: for in this also Christ, who is the truth, answereth that figure, in that he suffered without the gate.
²Hebrews 13:10 By the Altar, he meaneth the offering.
³Hebrews 13:10 Whereof they cannot be partakers which stubbornly retain the rites of the Law.
¹Hebrews 13:13 He goeth on further in this comparison, and showeth that this also signified unto us, that the godly followers of Christ must as it were go out of the world, bearing his cross.
¹Hebrews 13:15 Now that those corporal sacrifices are taken away, he teacheth us that the true sacrifices of confession remain, which consist partly in giving of thanks, and partly in liberality, with which sacrifices indeed God is now delighted.
²Hebrews 13:15 Giving glory to God in all things, which is the fruit of true faith.
¹Hebrews 13:17 We must obey the warnings and admonitions of our Ministers and Elders, which watch for the salvation of the souls which are committed unto them.
¹Hebrews 13:18 The last part of this Epistle, wherein he commendeth his ministry to the Hebrews, and wisheth them continuance and increase of graces from the Lord: and excuseth himself in that he hath used but few words to comfort them, having spent the Epistle in disputing: and saluteth certain brethren familiarly and friendly.
¹Hebrews 13:21 Make you fit or meet.
²Hebrews 13:21 Hence cometh that saying of the Fathers, that God crowneth his works in us.