A Letter to the HEBREWS Chapter2

The Letter to the HEBREWS  Chapter Two

Warning Against Neglecting Salvation

1 Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. 

2 For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution,

3 how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard, 

4 while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

The Founder of Salvation

5 Now it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking. 6 It has been testified somewhere,

“What is man, that you are mindful of him,

    or the son of man, that you care for him?
7 You made him for a little while lower than the angels;

    you have crowned him with glory and honour,

8 putting everything in subjection under his feet.”

Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him. 9 But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honour because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

10 For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. 11 For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, 12 saying,

“I will tell of your name to my brothers;

    in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.”

13 And again,

“I will put my trust in him.”  And again,

“Behold, I and the children God has given me.”

14 Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. 16 For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham. 17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18 For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.

Psalm 60

Psalm 60

He Will Tread Down Our Foes

To the choirmaster: according to Shushan Eduth. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return struck down twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.

1

O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses;

    you have been angry; oh, restore us.

2 

You have made the land to quake; you have torn it open;

    repair its breaches, for it totters.

3 

You have made your people see hard things;

    you have given us wine to drink that made us stagger.

4 

You have set up a banner for those who fear you,

    that they may flee to it from the bow. Selah

5 

That your beloved ones may be delivered,

    give salvation by your right hand and answer us!

6 

God has spoken in his holiness:

    “With exultation I will divide up Shechem

    and portion out the Vale of Succoth.

7 

Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;

    Ephraim is my helmet;

    Judah is my scepter.

8 

Moab is my washbasin;

    upon Edom I cast my shoe;

    over Philistia I shout in triumph.”

9 

Who will bring me to the fortified city?

    Who will lead me to Edom?

10 

Have you not rejected us, O God?

    You do not go forth, O God, with our armies.

11 

Oh, grant us help against the foe,

    for vain is the salvation of man!

12 

With God we shall do valiantly;

    it is he who will tread down our foes.

PSALMS 58 and 59

Psalm 58

God Who Judges the Earth

To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. 

A Miktam of David.

1 

Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?

    Do you judge the children of man uprightly?

2 

No, in your hearts you devise wrongs;

    your hands deal out violence on earth.

3 

The wicked are estranged from the womb;

    they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

4 

They have venom like the venom of a serpent,

    like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

5 

so that it does not hear the voice of charmers

    or of the cunning enchanter.

6 

O God, break the teeth in their mouths;

    tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!

7 

Let them vanish like water that runs away;

    when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.

8 

Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime,

    like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.

9 

Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns,

    whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!

10 

The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;

    he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.

11 

Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous;

    surely there is a God who judges on earth.”

Psalm 59

Deliver Me from My Enemies

To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. 

A Miktam of David, when Saul sent men to watch his house in order to kill him.

1

Deliver me from my enemies, O my God;

    protect me from those who rise up against me;

2 

deliver me from those who work evil,

    and save me from bloodthirsty men.

3 

For behold, they lie in wait for my life;

    fierce men stir up strife against me.

For no transgression or sin of mine, O Lord,

4 

    for no fault of mine, they run and make ready.

Awake, come to meet me, and see!

5 

    You, Lord God of hosts, are God of Israel.

Rouse yourself to punish all the nations;

    spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. Selah

6 

Each evening they come back,

    howling like dogs

    and prowling about the city.

7 

There they are, bellowing with their mouths

    with swords in their lips—

    for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”

8 

But you, O Lord, laugh at them;

    you hold all the nations in derision.

9 

O my Strength, I will watch for you,

    for you, O God, are my fortress.

10 

My God in his steadfast love[c will meet me;

    God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.

11 

Kill them not, lest my people forget;

    make them totter[d] by your power and bring them down,

    O Lord, our shield!

12 

For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips,

    let them be trapped in their pride.

For the cursing and lies that they utter,

13 

    consume them in wrath;

    consume them till they are no more,

that they may know that God rules over Jacob

    to the ends of the earth. Selah

14 

Each evening they come back,

    howling like dogs

    and prowling about the city.

15 

They wander about for food

    and growl if they do not get their fill.

16 

But I will sing of your strength;

    I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning.

For you have been to me a fortress

    and a refuge in the day of my distress.

17 

O my Strength, I will sing praises to you,

    for you, O God, are my fortress,

    the God who shows me steadfast love.

A Letter to the HEBREWS Chapter1

The Letter to the HEBREWS - Chapter one

The Supremacy of GOD

1 

Long ago, at many times and in many ways, 

God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 

2 

but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, 

whom he appointed the heir of all things, 
through whom also he created the world. 

3 

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, 

and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. 

After making purification for sins, 

he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 

4 

having become as much superior to angels as the name 

he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

5 

For to which of the angels did God ever say,

“You are my Son,

    today I have begotten you”?

Or again,

“I will be to him a father,

    and he shall be to me a son”?

6 

And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says,

“Let all God's angels worship him.”

7 

Of the angels he says,

“He makes his angels winds,

    and his ministers a flame of fire.”

8 

But of the Son he says,

“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,

    the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your  kingdom.

9 

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;

therefore God, your God, has anointed you

    with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.”

10 

And,“You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning,

    and the heavens are the work of your hands;

11 

they will perish, but you remain;

    they will all wear out like a garment,

12 

like a robe you will roll them up,

    like a garment they will be changed.[a]

But you are the same,

    and your years will have no end.”

13 

And to which of the angels has he ever said,

“Sit at my right hand

    until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?

14 

Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve 

for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?

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The Gospel According to MARK Chapter16

The Gospel According to MARK 

Chapter 16

The Resurrection

1 When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 2 And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. 3 And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?” 4 And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back—it was very large. 5 And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. 6 And he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him. 7 But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.” 8 And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had seized them, and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

[Some of the earliest manuscripts do not include 16:9–20.]

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

9 [[Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. 10 She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. 11 But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.

Jesus Appears to Two Disciples

12 After these things he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. 13 And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.

The Great Commission

14 Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen. 15 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. 16 Whoever believes and is baptised will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18 they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

19 So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. 20 And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.]]