He reflects the brightness of God’s glory and is the exact likeness of God’s own being.
(Hebrews 1:3, Good News Bible)
What are the angels, then? They are spirits who serve God and are sent by him to help those who are to receive salvation.
(Hebrews 1:14, Good News Bible)
Angels are merely spirits sent to serve people who are going to be saved.
(Hebrews 1:14, Contemporary English Version)
Everything belongs to God, and all things were created by his power.
(Hebrews 2:10, Contemporary English Version)
It was only right for God - who creates and preserves all things - to make Jesus perfect through suffering, in order to bring many sons to share his glory.
(Hebrews 2:10, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
We are all partners with Christ if we hold firmly to the end the confidence we had at the beginning.
(Hebrews 2:12)
He can help those who are tempted, because he himself was tempted and suffered.
(Hebrews 2:18, Good News Bible)
Think of Jesus, whom God sent to be the High Priest of the faith we profess.
(Hebrews 3:1, Good News Bible)
Jesus is worthy of much greater honor than Moses.
(Hebrews 3:3, Good News Bible)
God is the one who has built all things.
(Hebrews 3:4, Good News Bible)
Christ is faithful as the son in charge of God’s house.
(Hebrews 3:6, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Be careful that no one among you has a heart so bad and unbelieving that he will turn away from the living God.
(Hebrews 3:12, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Don’t let evil thoughts or doubts make any of you turn from the living God.
(Hebrews 3:12, Contemporary English Version)
You must help one another every day.
(Hebrews 3:13, Good News Bible)
We are all partners with Christ.
(Hebrews 3:14, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Only people who have faith will enter the place of rest.
(Hebrews 4:3, Contemporary English Version)
Let us, then, do our best to go in and rest with God.
(Hebrews 4:11, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
The word of God is living and active.
(Hebrews 4:12, Good News Bible)
The word of God is alive and active.)
(Hebrews 4:12, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
There is nothing that can be hid from God; everything in all creation is exposed and lies open before his eyes.
(Hebrews 4:13)
We have a great high priest who has gone into the very presence of God - Jesus, the Son of God. Our high priest is not one who cannot feel sympathy with our weaknesses. On the contrary, we have a high priest who was tempted in every way that we are, but did not sin.
(Hebrews 4:14-15, Good News For
Modern Man New Testament)
No one chooses for himself the honor of being a high priest. It is only by God’s call that a man is made a high priest.
(Hebrews 5:4, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Anyone who has to drink milk is still a child, without any experience in the matter of right and wrong. Solid food, on the other hand, is for adults, who have trained and used their tastes to know the difference between good and evil.
(Hebrews 5:13-14, Good News For
Modern Man New Testament)
We must try to become mature and start thinking about more than just the basic things we were taught about Christ.
(Hebrews 6:1, Contemporary English Version)
God is not unfair.
(Hebrews 6:10, Good News Bible)
God is always fair.
(Hebrews 6:10, Contemporary English Version)
It is impossible for God to tell a lie.
(Hebrews 6:18, Living Bible)
God cannot tell lies!
(Hebrews 6:18, Contemporary English Version)
We have this hope as an anchor for our lives.
(Hebrews 6:19, Good News Bible)
When the priesthood is changed, there als0 has to be a change in the law.
(Hebrews 7:12, Good News Bible)
A different priest has appeared.
(Hebrews 7:15, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
The Law of Moses could not make anything perfect. And now a better hope has been provide through which we come near to God.
(Hebrews 7:19, Good News Bible)
Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
(Hebrews 7:22)
Jesus guarantees us a better agreement with God.
(Hebrews 7:22, Contemporary English Version)
Those other priests were many because they died and could not continue their work. But Jesus lives on for ever, and his work as priest does not pass on to someone else.
(Hebrews 7:23-24, Good News For
Modern Man New Testament)
Jesus, then, is the High Priest that meets our needs.
(Hebrews 7:26, Good News Bible)
He is not like other high priests; he does not need to offer sacrifices every day, for his own sins first, and then for the sins of the people. He offered one sacrifice, once and for all, when he offered himself.
(Hebrews 7:27, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
He serves as high priest in the Most Holy Place, that is, in the real tent which was put up by the Lord, not by man.
(Hebrews 8:2, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Jesus has been given priestly work which is much greater than theirs, just as the covenant which he arranged between God and men is a better one, because it is based on promises of better things.
(Hebrews 8:6, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
If there had been nothing wrong with the first covenant, there would have been no need for a second one.
(Hebrews 8:7, Good News Bible)
This is the new agreement I will make with the people of Israel, says the Lord: I will write my laws in their minds so that they will know what I want them to do without my even telling them, and these laws will be in their hearts so that they will want to obey them.
(Hebrews 8:10, Living Bible)
By speaking of a new covenant, God has made the first one old.
(Hebrews 8:13, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Christ is the one who arranges a new covenant.
(Hebrews 9:15, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
No sins can be forgiven unless blood is offered.
(Hebrews 9:22, Contemporary English Version)
Christ did not go into a Holy Place made by human hands which was a copy of the real one. He went into heaven itself, where he now appears on our behalf in the presence of God.
(Hebrews 9:24, Good News Bible)
Everyone must die once, and after that be judged by god.
(Hebrews 9:27, Good News Bible)
Everyone must die once, and after that be judged by God.
(Hebrews 9:28, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
The Jewish Law is not a full and faithful model of the real things. It is only a faint outline of the good things to come.
(Hebrews 10:1, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
The Law of Moses is like a shadow of the good things to come.
(Hebrews 10:1, Contemporary English Version)
The blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins. It only reminds people of their sins from one year to the next.
(Hebrews 10:3-4, Contemporary English Version)
It is not possible for the blood of bulls and of goats to take sins away.
(Hebrews 10:4, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures)
The blood of bulls and goats can never take away sins.
(Hebrews 10:4, Good News Bible)
God does away with all the old sacrifices and puts the sacrifice of Christ in their place.
(Hebrews 10:9, Good News Bible)
Let’s cone near God with pure hearts and a confidence that comes from having faith.
(Hebrews 10:22, Contemporary English Version)
Let us be concerned for one another, to help one another to show love and to do good.
(Hebrews 10:22)
Let us come near to God, then, with a sincere heart and a sure faith with hearts that have been made clean from a guilty conscience, and bodies washed with pure water.
(Hebrews 10:22, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
We can trust God to keep his promise.
(Hebrews 10:23, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
There is no longer any sacrifice that will take away sins if we purposely go on sinning after the truth has been made known to us.
(Hebrews 10:26, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
(Hebrews 10:31, Good News Bible)
It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
(Hebrews 10:31, Contemporary English Version)
You need to be patient, in order to do the will of God and receive what he promises.
(Hebrews 10:36, Good News Bible))
The just shall live by faith.
(Hebrews 10:38)
We are not people who turn back and are lost. Instead, we have faith and are saved.
(Hebrews 10:39, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
We will keep on having faith until we are saved.
(Hebrews 10:39, Contemporary English Version)
Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
(Hebrews 11:1)
Faith makes us sure of what we hope for and gives us proof of what we cannot see.
(Hebrews 11:1, Contemporary English Version)
To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see.
(Hebrews, 11:1, Good News Bible)
It is by faith that we understand that the universe was created by God’s word, so that what can be seen was made out of what cannot be seen.
(Hebrews 11:3, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
By means of his faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead.
(Hebrews 11:4, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
No man can please God without faith. For he who comes to God must have faith that God exists and rewards those who seek him.
(Hebrews 11:6, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
(Hebrews 11:6)
Without faith no one can please God. We must believe that God is real and that he rewards everyone who searches for him.
(Hebrews 11:6, Contemporary English Version)
Moses had seen the invisible God and wasn’t afraid of the king’s anger.
(Hebrews 11:27, Contemporary English Version)
Let us rid ourselves of everything that gets in the way, and of the sin which holds on to us so tightly.
(Hebrews 12:1, Good News Bible)
We must get rid of everything that slows us down, especially the sin that just won’t let go.
(Hebrews 12:1, Contemporary English Version)
Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from beginning to end.
(Hebrews 12:2, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Do not let yourselves become discouraged and give up.
(Hebrews 12:3, Good News Bible)
Endure what you suffer as being a father’s punishment; because your suffering shows that God is treating you as his sons.
(Hebrews 12:7, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Pursue peace with all people.
(Hebrews 12:14, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures)
Try to be at peace with everyone, and try to life a holy life, because no one will see the Lord without it.
(Hebrews 12:14, Good News Bible)
Try to live at peace with everyone! Live a clean life.
(Hebrews 12:14, Contemporary English Version)
Let us be grateful and worship God in a way that will please him, with reverence and awe.
(Hebrews 12:28, Good News Bible)
Our God is a consuming fire.
(Hebrews 12:29, Living Bible)
Our God is like a destructive fire!
(Hebrews 12:29, Contemporary English Version)
Remember to welcome strangers in your homes. There were some who did it and welcomed angels without knowing it.
(Hebrews 13:2, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Marriage should be honored by all, and husbands and wives must be faithful to each other.
(Hebrews 13:4, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Let [your] manner of life be free of the love of money, while you are content with the present things.
(Hebrews 13:5, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures)
Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be satisfied with what you have.
(Hebrews 13:5, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
(Hebrews 13:8, Good News Bible)
Jesus Christ never changes! He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
(Hebrews 13:8, Contemporary English Version)
This world is not our home.
(Hebrews 13:14, Living Bible)
There is no permanent city for us here on earth; we are looking for the city which is to come.
(Hebrews 13:14, Good News Bible)
On this earth we don’t have a city that lasts forever, but we are waiting for such a city,
(Hebrews 13:14, Contemporary English Version)
Our sacrifice is to keep offering praise to God in the name of Jesus.
(Hebrews 13:15, Contemporary English Version)
Do not forget to do good and to help one another, because these are the sacrifices that please God.
(Hebrews 13:16, Good News Bible)
May the God of peace provide you with every good thing you need in order to do his will.
(Hebrews 13:21, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)