1 Die broederliefde moet bly.

2 Vergeet die gasvryheid nie, want daardeur het sommige, sonder om dit te weet, engele as gaste geherberg.

3 Dink aan die gevangenes asof julle medegevangenes is, en aan die wat mishandel word, as mense wat self ook 'n liggaam het.

4 Laat die huwelik in alle opsigte eerbaar wees en die bed onbesmet; want God sal hoereerders en egbrekers oordeel.

5 Julle gedrag moet vry van geldgierigheid wees. Wees tevrede met wat julle het, want Hy het gesê: Ek sal jou nooit begewe en jou nooit verlaat nie.

6 Daarom kan ons met alle vrymoedigheid sê: Die Here is vir my 'n Helper, en ek sal nie vrees nie; wat sal 'n mens aan my doen?

7 Gedenk julle voorgangers wat die woord van God aan julle verkondig het; aanskou die uiteinde van hulle lewenswandel en volg hulle geloof na.

8 Jesus Christus is gister en vandag dieselfde en tot in ewigheid.

9 Moenie rondgeslinger word deur allerhande en vreemde leringe nie; want dit is goed dat die hart versterk word deur genade, nie deur voedsel nie, waarvan die wat daarin gewandel het, geen voordeel gehad het nie.

10 Ons het 'n altaar waarvan die wat die tabernakel bedien, geen reg het om te eet nie;

11 want die diere waarvan die bloed vir die sonde deur die hoëpriester in die heiligdom ingedra word -- hulle liggame word buitekant die laer verbrand.

12 Daarom het Jesus ook, om die volk deur sy eie bloed te heilig, buitekant die poort gely.

13 Laat ons dan uitgaan na Hom toe buitekant die laer en sy smaad dra.

14 Want ons het hier geen blywende stad nie, maar ons soek die toekomstige.

15 Laat ons dan gedurig deur Hom aan God 'n lofoffer bring, dit is die vrug van die lippe wat sy Naam bely.

16 Vergeet die weldadigheid en mededeelsaamheid nie, want God het 'n welbehae aan sulke offers.

17 Wees gehoorsaam aan julle voorgangers en onderdanig, want hulle waak vir julle siele as diegene wat rekenskap moet gee, sodat hulle dit met blydskap kan doen en nie al sugtende nie; want dit is vir julle nie nuttig nie.

18 Bid vir ons, want ons is oortuig dat ons 'n goeie gewete het, omdat ons in alles goed wil wandel.

19 Des te meer vermaan ek julle om dit te doen, sodat ek gouer aan julle teruggegee kan word.

20 Mag die God van die vrede, wat die groot Herder van die skape, naamlik onse Here Jesus Christus, deur die bloed van die ewige testament uit die dode teruggebring het,

21 julle volmaak in elke goeie werk, om sy wil te doen, deur in julle te werk wat welbehaaglik is voor Hom deur Jesus Christus aan wie die heerlikheid toekom tot in alle ewigheid! Amen.

22 En ek vermaan julle, broeders, verdra die woord van vermaning, want ek het ook maar kort aan julle geskrywe.

23 Julle moet weet dat die broeder Timothes vrygelaat is, saam met wie ek julle sal sien as hy spoedig kom.

24 Groet al julle voorgangers en al die heiliges. Die wat van Italië is, groet julle.

25 Die genade sy met julle almal! Amen.

1 Go on loving your brothers in the faith.

2 Take care to keep open house: because in this way some have had angels as their guests, without being conscious of it.

3 Keep in mind those who are in chains, as if you were chained with them, and those who are in trouble, as being yourselves in the body.

4 Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

5 Be free from the love of money and pleased with the things which you have; for he himself has said, I will be with you at all times.

6 So that we say with a good heart, The Lord is my helper; I will have no fear: what is man able to do to me?

7 Keep in mind those who were over you, and who gave you the word of God; seeing the outcome of their way of life, let your faith be like theirs.

8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever.

9 Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.

10 We have an altar from which those priests who are servants in the Tent may not take food.

11 For the bodies of the beasts whose blood is taken into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin are burned outside the circle of the tents.

12 For this reason Jesus was put to death outside the walls, so that he might make the people holy by his blood.

13 Let us then go out to him outside the circle of the tents, taking his shame on ourselves.

14 For here we have no fixed resting-place, but our search is for the one which is to come.

15 Let us then make offerings of praise to God at all times through him, that is to say, the fruit of lips giving witness to his name.

16 But go on doing good and giving to others, because God is well-pleased with such offerings.

17 Give ear to those who are rulers over you, and do as they say: for they keep watch over your souls, ready to give an account of them; let them be able to do this with joy and not with grief, because that would be of no profit to you.

18 Make prayers for us, for we are certain that our hearts are free from the sense of sin, desiring the right way of life in all things.

19 I make this request more strongly, in the hope of coming back to you more quickly.

20 Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement,

21 Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.

22 But, brothers, take kindly the words which I have said for your profit; for I have not sent you a long letter.

23 Our brother Timothy has been let out of prison; and if he comes here in a short time, he and I will come to you together.

24 Give words of love from me to those who are rulers over you, and to all the saints. Those who are in Italy send you their love.

25 May grace be with you all.