Hebrews 11:1-13:25

Coverdale^{(i) 1} Faith is a sure confidence of thinges which are hoped for, and a certaynte of thinges which are not sene. ² By it ye Elders were well reported of. ³ Thorow faith we vnderstonde, that the worlde and all the thinges which are sene, were made of naughte by the worde of God. ⁴ By faith offered Abell vnto God a more plenteous sacrifice: by the which he optayned wytnesse, that he was righteous: God testifyenge of his giftes, by the which also he beynge deed, yet speaketh. ⁵ By faith was Enoch take awaye, that he shulde not se death: and was not founde, because God had taken him awaye. For afore he was taken awaye, he had recorde that he pleased God. ⁶ But without faith it is vnpossible to please God. For he that commeth vnto God, must beleue that God is, & yt he is a rewarder of them that seke him. ⁷ By faith Noe honoured God, after yt he was warned of thinges which were not sene, & prepared the Arke, to ye sauinge of his housholde: thorow the which Arke he condemned the worlde, and became heyre of the righteousnes, which commeth by faith. ⁸ By faith Abraham (wha he was called) obeyed, to go out in to the place, which he shulde afterwarde receaue to inheritaunce: and he wente out, not knowynge whither he shulde go. ⁹ By faith was he a straunger in the lode of promes as in a straunge countre, & dwelt in tabernacles: and so dyd Isaac & Iacob, heyres with him of the same promes: ¹⁰ for he loked for a cite which hath a foundacion, whose buylder and maker is God. ¹¹ By faith Sara also receaued strength to be with childe, and was delyuered of a childe whan she was past age, because she iudged him to be faithfull which had promysed. ¹² And therfore spronge there of one (yee euen off one which was as good as deed concernynge the body) so many in multitude as the starres off the skye, and as the sonde off the See shore, which is innumerable. ¹³ All these dyed acordinge to faith, and receaued not the promyses, but sawe the afarre off, and beleued them, and saluted them: and cofessed, that they were straungers & pilgrems vpo earth. ¹⁴ For they that saye soch thinges, declare, that they seke a naturall countre. ¹⁵ And doutles yf they had bene myndefull off that countre from whence they came out, they had leysure to haue returned agayne. ¹⁶ But now they desyre a better, that is to saye, a heauely. Wherfore God is not ashamed of the, eue to be called their God: for he hath prepared a cite for them. ¹⁷ By faith Abraha offered vp Isaac, wha he was tempted, and gaue ouer his onely begotten sonne, in whom he had receaued the promyses, ¹⁸ of whom it was sayde: In Isaac shal thy sede be called: ¹⁹ For he considered, yt God was able to rayse vp agayne from the deed. Therfore receaued he him for an ensample. ²⁰ By faith Isaac blessed Iacob and Esau, concernynge thinges to come. ²¹ By faith Iacob, whan he was a dyenge, blessed both the sonnes off Ioseph, & bowed himselfe towarde the toppe of his cepter. ²² By faith Ioseph whan he dyed, remembred ye departynge of the childre of Israel, & gaue comaundemet concernynge his bones. ²³ By faith Moses wha he was borne, was hyd thre monethes of his Elders, because they sawe that he was a proper childe, nether feared they the kynges comaundemet. ²⁴ By faith Moses whan he was greate, refused to be called the sonne of Pharaos doughter: ²⁵ and chose rather to suffre aduersite with the people of God, then to enioye ye pleasures of synne for a season: ²⁶ and estemed the rebuke of Christ greater riches, then the treasure of Egipte: for he had respecte vnto the rewarde. ²⁷ By faith he forsoke Egipte, and feared not the fearcenes of the kynge: for he endured, eue as though he had sene him which is inuisible. ²⁸ By faith he helde Easter, and the effusion of bloude, lest he which slewe the firstborne, shulde touche them. ²⁹ By faith they passed thorow the reed See as by drye londe: which wha the Egipcians assayed to do, they were drowned. ³⁰ By faith the walles of Iericho fell, wha they were compased aboute seuen dayes. ³¹ By faith the harlot Raab perished not with the vnbeleuers, wha she had receaued the spyes to lodginge peaceably. ³² And what shal I more saye? ye tyme wolde be to shorte for me to tell of Gedeon, of Barac, and of Samson, & of Iepthae, and of Dauid, and Samuel, and of the prophetes, ³³ which thorow faith subdued kyngdomes, wroughte righteousnes, optayned ye promyses, stopped ye mouthes of lyos ³⁴ quenched the violece of fyre, escaped ye edge of the swerde, of weake were made stronge, became valeaunt in batayll, turned to flighte the armyes of the aleauntes, ³⁵ the wemen receaued their deed agayne from resurreccion. But other were racked, and accepted no delyueraunce, that they mighte optayne the resurreccion that better is. ³⁶ Other taisted of mockinges and scourginges, of bondes also and presonment: ³⁷ were stoned, were hewen a sunder, were tempted, were slayne with the swerde, wente aboute in shepe skynnes and goates skynnes, in nede, in tribulacion, in vexacion, ³⁸ which (men) the worlde was not worthy of: they wandred aboute in wyldernesses, vpon mountaynes, in dennes and caues of the earth. ³⁹ And these all thorow faith optayned good reporte, and receaued not ye promes: ⁴⁰ because God had prouyded a better thinge for vs, that they without vs shulde not be made perfecte. ^{12 1} Wherfore seynge we haue so greate a multitude of witnesses aboute vs let vs also laye awaye all yt presseth downe, and the synne that hangeth on, and let vs runne with pacience vnto the batayl that is set before vs, ² lokynge vnto Iesus ye auctor and fynissher of faith: which whan the ioye was layed before him, abode the crosse, and despysed the shame, and is set downe on ye righte hade of ye trone of God. ³ Cosidre him therfore that endured soch speakinge agaynst hi of synners, lest ye be weery and faynte in youre myndes: ⁴ for ye haue not yet resisted vnto bloude, stryuynge agaynst synne, ⁵ and haue forgotten the consolacion, which speaketh vnto you as vnto children: My sonne, despyse not the chastenynge off the LORDE, nether faynte whan thou art rebuked of him: ⁶ for who the LORDE loueth, him he chasteneth, yee and he scourgeth euery sonne that he receaueth. ⁷ Yf ye endure chastenynge, God offereth himselfe vnto you as vnto sonnes. What sonne is that, whom the father chasteneth not? ⁸ Yf ye be not vnder correccion (wherof all are partakers) then are ye bastardes and not sonnes. ⁹ Morouer seyenge we haue had fathers off oure flesh which corrected vs, & we gaue them reuerence, shulde we not then moch rather be in subieccion vnto ye father of spirituall giftes, yt we mighte lyue? ¹⁰ And they verely for a few dayes nurtred vs after their awne pleasure: but he lerneth vs vnto yt which is profitable, that we mighte receaue of his holynes. ¹¹ No maner chastisynge for the present tyme semeth to be ioyous, but greuous: neuertheles afterwarde it bringeth the quyete frute of righteousnes, vnto them which are exercysed therby. ¹² Life vp therfore the handes which were let downe, and the weake knees, ¹³ and se that ye haue straight steppes vnto youre fete, lest eny haltinge turne you out of the waye, yee let it rather be healed. ¹⁴ Folowe after peace with all men, and holynes, without the which no man shal se the LORDE, ¹⁵ ad loke well, that no ma be destitute of the grace of God, lest there sprynge vp eny bytter rote, and cause disquyetnes, and therby many be defyled: ¹⁶ that there be no whoremonger, or vncleane person, as Esau, which for one meate sake solde his byrth righte. ¹⁷ For ye knowe, how that afterwarde whan he wolde haue inhereted the blessynge, he was put by: for he foude no place of repetaunce, though he desyred (ye blessynge) with teares. ¹⁸ For ye are not come to ye mout that can be touched and burneth with fyre, nether yet to myst and darcknes, and tempest of wedder, ¹⁹ nether to the sounde of the trompe, and ye voyce of wordes: which they that herde, wysshed awaye, that the worde shulde not be spoken to them, ²⁰ for they were not able to abyde that which was spoken. And yf a beest had touched the mountayne, it must haue bene stoed, or thrust thorow with a darte. ²¹ And so terrible was the sighte which appeared, that Moses sayde: I feare and quake. ²² But ye are come to the mount Sion, and to the cite of the lyuynge God, to the celestiall Ierusalem, and to the multitude of many thousande angels, ²³ and vnto the congregacion of the first borne, which are wrytten in heauen, and to God the iudge of all, and to the spretes of iust and perfecte men, ²⁴ and to Iesus the mediatoure of the new Testament, and to the sprenklynge off bloude, that speaketh better then the bloude of Abel. ²⁵ Se that ye despyse not him that speaketh vnto you: for yf they escaped not which refused him that spake on earth, moch more shal we not escape, yf we turne awaye from him that speaketh from heaue: ²⁶ whose voyce shoke the earth at that tyme. But now promyseth he, & sayeth: Yet once more wyl I shake, not the earth onely, but also heauen. ²⁷ No doute that same that he sayeth yet once more, signifieth the remouynge awaye of those thinges which are shaken, as off thinges which are made: that ye thinges which are not shake, maye remayne. ²⁸ Wherfore, seynge we receaue the vnmoueable kyngdome, we haue grace, wherby we maye serue God, & please him, with reuerence and godly feare. ²⁹ For oure God is a consumynge fyre. ^{13 1} Let brotherly loue cotynue. ² Be not forgetfull to lodge straungers: for therby haue dyuerse receaued angels in to their houses vnawares. ³ Remembre them that are in bondes, eue as though ye were bounde with them: and be myndefull off them which are in aduersite, as ye which are also in the bodye. ⁴ Let wedlocke be had in pryce in all poyntes, & let ye chamber be vndefyled. For whorekepers and aduouterers God wil iudge. ⁵ Let youre conuersacion be without couetousnes, and be content with that ye haue allready, for he hath sayde: I wyl not fayle the nether forsake the, ⁶ so that we maye boldely saye: The LORDE is my helper, and I wyl not feare what man maye do vnto me. ⁷ Remembre the which haue the ouersighte of you, which haue declared vnto you the worde of God. The ende of whose couersacion se that ye loke vpon, and folowe their faith. ⁸ Iesus Christ yesterdaye and Todaye, & the same cotinueth for euer. ⁹ Be not caried aboute wt dyuerse and straunge lernynges: for it is a good thinge that the herte be stablysshed with grace, and not with meates, which haue not profited them, that haue had their pastyme in them. ¹⁰ We haue an altare, wherof they haue no power to eate, which serue in the Tabernacle. ¹¹ For the bodies of those beestes whose bloude is broughte in to the holy place by ye hye prest to pourge synne, are brent without the tetes. ¹² Therfore Iesus also, to sanctifye ye people by his awne bloude, suffred without ye gate. ¹³ Let vs go forth therfore out of the tentes, and suffre rebuke with him: ¹⁴ for here haue we no contynuynge cite, but we seke one to come. ¹⁵ Let vs therfore by him offre allwayes vnto God the sacrifice of prayse: that is to saye, the frute of those lippes which confesse his name. ¹⁶ To do good and to destribute forget not, for wt soch sacrifices God is pleased. ¹⁷ Obey them that haue the ouersighte off you, and submytte youre selues vnto them: for they watch for youre soules, euen as they that must geue accoptes therfore, that they maye do it with ioye, and not with grefe: for that is an vnprofitable thinge for you. ¹⁸ Praye for vs. We haue confidence, because we haue a good coscience in all thinges, and desyre to lyue honestly. ¹⁹ But I desyre you ye more abundauntly, that ye so do, yt I maye be restored vnto you the more quyckly. ²⁰ The God of peace (that broughte agayue fro the deed oure LORDE Iesus the greate shepherde of the shepe thorow the bloude of the euerlastinge Testament) ²¹ make you perfecte in all good workes, to do his wyll, workynge in you that which is pleasaunt in his sighte thorow Iesus Christ, to whom be prayse for euer and euer Amen. ²² I beseke you brethren, suffre the worde of exhortacion, for I haue wrytten vnto you in few wordes. ²³ Knowe or brother Timotheus, whom we haue sent from vs, with whom (yf he come shortly) I wil se you. ²⁴ Salute the that haue the ouersighte of you and all ye sayntes. The brethren of Italy salute you. ²⁵ Grace be with you all, Amen.