Hebrews 1:5

The Son Is Superior to Angels

1:5 For to which of the angels did God¹ ever say, “You are my son! Today I have fathered you”?² And in another place³ he says,⁴ “I will be his father and he will be my son.”⁵

Hebrews 4:3

4:3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’”⁶ And yet God’s works⁷ were accomplished from the foundation of the world.

Hebrews 4:15

4:15 For we do not have a high priest incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet without sin.

Hebrews 5:5

5:5 So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming high priest, but the one who glorified him was God,⁸ who said to him, “You are my Son! Today I have fathered you,”⁹

Hebrews 5:12

5:12 For though you should in fact be teachers by this time,¹⁰ you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God’s utterances.¹¹ You have gone back to needing¹² milk, not¹³ solid food.

Hebrews 6:6

6:6 and then have committed apostasy,¹⁴ to renew them again to repentance, since¹⁵ they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again¹⁶ and holding him up to contempt.

Hebrews 6:10

6:10 For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name, in having served and continuing to serve the saints.

Hebrews 6:18

6:18 so that we who have found refuge in him¹⁷ may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.

Hebrews 7:5

7:5 And those of the sons of Levi who receive the priestly office¹⁸ have authorization according to the law to collect a tithe from the people, that is, from their fellow countrymen,¹⁹ although they too are descendants of Abraham.²⁰

Hebrews 8:1

The High Priest of a Better Covenant

8:1 Now the main point of what we are saying is this:²¹ We have such a high priest, one who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,²²

Hebrews 9:26

9:26 for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice.

Hebrews 10:22

10:22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings,²³ because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience²⁴ and our bodies washed in pure water.

Hebrews 12:9

12:9 Besides, we have experienced discipline from²⁵ our earthly fathers²⁶ and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?²⁷

Hebrews 12:23

12:23 and congregation of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous, who have been made perfect,

Hebrews 13:5

13:5 Your conduct must be free from the love of money and you must be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you and I will never abandon you.”²⁸

Hebrews 13:9

13:9 Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings.²⁹ For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals,³⁰ which have never benefited those who participated in them.

¹tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²tn Grk “I have begotten you.”

sn A quotation from Ps 2:7.

³tn Grk “And again,” quoting another OT passage.

⁴tn The words “he says” are not in the Greek text but are supplied to make a complete English sentence. In the Greek text this is a continuation of the previous sentence, but English does not normally employ such long and complex sentences.

⁵tn Grk “I will be a father to him and he will be a son to me.”

sn A quotation from 2 Sam 7:14 (cf. 1 Chr 17:13).

⁶sn A quotation from Ps 95:11.

⁷tn Grk “although the works,” continuing the previous reference to God. The referent (God) is specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸tn Grk “the one”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹tn Grk “I have begotten you”; see Heb 1:5.

sn A quotation from Ps 2:7.

¹⁰tn Grk “because of the time.”

¹¹tn Grk “the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God.”

¹²tn Grk “you have come to have a need for.”

¹³tc ‡ Most texts, including some early and important ones (א² A B* D Ψ 0122 0278 1881 Ï sy Cl), have καί (kai, “and”) immediately preceding οὐ (ou, “not”), but other equally significant witnesses (Ì⁴⁶ א* B² C 33 81 1739 lat Or Did) lack the conjunction. As it was a natural tendency for scribes to add a coordinating conjunction, the καί appears to be a motivated reading. On balance, it is probably best to regard the shorter reading as authentic. NA²⁷ has καί in brackets, indicating doubts as to its authenticity.

¹⁴tn Or “have fallen away.”

¹⁵tn Or “while”; Grk “crucifying…and holding.” The Greek participles here (“crucifying…and holding”) can be understood as either causal (“since”) or temporal (“while”).

¹⁶tn Grk “recrucifying the son of God for themselves.”

¹⁷tn Grk “have taken refuge”; the basis of that refuge is implied in the preceding verse.

¹⁸tn Or “the priesthood.”

¹⁹tn Grk “from their brothers.” See BDAG 18-19 s.v. ἀδελφός 2.b.

²⁰tn Grk “have come from the loins of Abraham.”

²¹tn Grk “the main point of the things being said.”

²²sn An allusion to Ps 110:1; see Heb 1:3, 13.

²³tn Grk “in assurance of faith.”

²⁴sn The phrase our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience combines the OT imagery of the sprinkling with blood to give ritual purity with the emphasis on the interior cleansing provided by the new covenant: It is the heart that is cleansed and the conscience made perfect (cf. Heb 8:10; 9:9, 14; 10:2, 16).

²⁵tn Grk “we had our earthly fathers as discipliners.”

²⁶tn Grk “the fathers of our flesh.” In Hebrews, “flesh” is a characteristic way of speaking about outward, physical, earthly life (cf. Heb 5:7; 9:10, 13), as opposed to the inward or spiritual dimensions of life.

²⁷tn Grk “and live.”

sn Submit ourselves…to the Father of spirits and receive life. This idea is drawn from Proverbs, where the Lord’s discipline brings life, while resistance to it leads to death (cf. Prov 4:13; 6:23; 10:17; 16:17).

²⁸sn A quotation from Deut 31:6, 8.

²⁹tn Grk “by diverse and strange teachings.”

³⁰tn Grk “foods,” referring to the meals associated with the OT sacrifices (see the contrast with the next verse; also 9:9-10; 10:1, 4, 11).