Bible Gateway passage: Hebrews 13 - New International Version (2025)

Concluding Exhortations

13Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters.^{(A) 2}Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers,^(B) for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.^{(C) 3}Continue to remember those in prison^(D) as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.

⁴Marriage should be honored by all,^(E) and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.^{(F) 5}Keep your lives free from the love of money^(G) and be content with what you have,^(H) because God has said,

“Never will I leave you;
never will I forsake you.”^[a](I)

⁶So we say with confidence,

“The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.
What can mere mortals do to me?”^[b](J)

⁷Remember your leaders,^(K) who spoke the word of God^(L) to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate^(M) their faith. ⁸Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.^(N)

⁹Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings.^(O) It is good for our hearts to be strengthened^(P) by grace, not by eating ceremonial foods,^(Q) which is of no benefit to those who do so.^{(R) 10}We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle^(S) have no right to eat.^(T)

¹¹The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering,^(U) but the bodies are burned outside the camp.^{(V) 12}And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate^(W) to make the people holy^(X) through his own blood.^{(Y) 13}Let us, then, go to him^(Z) outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore.^{(AA) 14}For here we do not have an enduring city,^(AB) but we are looking for the city that is to come.^(AC)

¹⁵Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice^(AD) of praise—the fruit of lips^(AE) that openly profess his name. ¹⁶And do not forget to do good and to share with others,^(AF) for with such sacrifices^(AG) God is pleased.

¹⁷Have confidence in your leaders^(AH) and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you^(AI) as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you.

¹⁸Pray for us.^(AJ) We are sure that we have a clear conscience^(AK) and desire to live honorably in every way. ¹⁹I particularly urge you to pray so that I may be restored to you soon.^(AL)

Benediction and Final Greetings

²⁰Now may the God of peace,^(AM) who through the blood of the eternal covenant^(AN) brought back from the dead^(AO) our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,^{(AP) 21}equip you with everything good for doing his will,^(AQ) and may he work in us^(AR) what is pleasing to him,^(AS) through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.^(AT)

²²Brothers and sisters, I urge you to bear with my word of exhortation, for in fact I have written to you quite briefly.^(AU)

²³I want you to know that our brother Timothy^(AV) has been released. If he arrives soon, I will come with him to see you.

²⁴Greet all your leaders^(AW) and all the Lord’s people. Those from Italy^(AX) send you their greetings.

²⁵Grace be with you all.^(AY)

Footnotes

1. Hebrews 13:5 Deut. 31:6
2. Hebrews 13:6 Psalm 118:6,7

Cross references

1. Hebrews 13:1 : S Ro 12:10
2. Hebrews 13:2 : Job 31:32; Mt 25:35; S Ro 12:13
3. Hebrews 13:2 : Ge 18:1-33; 19:1-3
4. Hebrews 13:3 : Mt 25:36; Col 4:18; Heb 10:34
5. Hebrews 13:4 : Mal 2:15; 1Co 7:38; 1Ti 4:3
6. Hebrews 13:4 : Dt 22:22; 1Co 6:9; Rev 22:15
7. Hebrews 13:5 : S 1Ti 3:3
8. Hebrews 13:5 : Php 4:11; 1Ti 6:6, 8
9. Hebrews 13:5 : Dt 31:6, 8; Jos 1:5
10. Hebrews 13:6 : Ps 118:6, 7
11. Hebrews 13:7 : ver 17, 24; 1Co 16:16
12. Hebrews 13:7 : S Heb 4:12
13. Hebrews 13:7 : Heb 6:12
14. Hebrews 13:8 : Ps 102:27; Heb 1:12
15. Hebrews 13:9 : Eph 4:14
16. Hebrews 13:9 : Col 2:7
17. Hebrews 13:9 : Col 2:16
18. Hebrews 13:9 : Heb 9:10
19. Hebrews 13:10 : Heb 8:5
20. Hebrews 13:10 : 1Co 9:13; 10:18
21. Hebrews 13:11 : Lev 16:15
22. Hebrews 13:11 : Ex 29:14; Lev 4:12, 21; 9:11; 16:27
23. Hebrews 13:12 : Jn 19:17
24. Hebrews 13:12 : S Eph 5:26
25. Hebrews 13:12 : S Ro 3:25
26. Hebrews 13:13 : Lk 9:23
27. Hebrews 13:13 : Heb 11:26
28. Hebrews 13:14 : Heb 12:27
29. Hebrews 13:14 : Php 3:20; Heb 11:10, 27; 12:22
30. Hebrews 13:15 : 1Pe 2:5
31. Hebrews 13:15 : Isa 57:19; Hos 14:2
32. Hebrews 13:16 : Ro 12:13
33. Hebrews 13:16 : Php 4:18
34. Hebrews 13:17 : ver 7, 24
35. Hebrews 13:17 : Isa 62:6; Ac 20:28
36. Hebrews 13:18 : S 1Th 5:25
37. Hebrews 13:18 : S Ac 23:1
38. Hebrews 13:19 : Phm 22
39. Hebrews 13:20 : S Ro 15:33
40. Hebrews 13:20 : Ge 9:16; 17:7, 13, 19; Isa 55:3; 61:8; Eze 37:26; S Mt 26:28
41. Hebrews 13:20 : S Ac 2:24
42. Hebrews 13:20 : S Jn 10:11
43. Hebrews 13:21 : 2Co 9:8
44. Hebrews 13:21 : S Php 2:13
45. Hebrews 13:21 : 1Jn 3:22
46. Hebrews 13:21 : S Ro 11:36
47. Hebrews 13:22 : 1Pe 5:12
48. Hebrews 13:23 : S Ac 16:1
49. Hebrews 13:24 : ver 7, 17
50. Hebrews 13:24 : Ac 18:2
51. Hebrews 13:25 : S Col 4:18