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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Hebrews 13 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/hebrews/13.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/hebrews/13-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Hebrews 13</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../hebrews/12.htm" title="Hebrews 12">◄</a> Hebrews 13 <a href="../james/1.htm" title="James 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">How to Please God</h3><p class="par"><span class="v58_13_1"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.1" class="v58_13_1">1</span>Keep on loving one another as Christians. </span><span class="v58_13_2"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.2" class="v58_13_2">2</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Heb.13.2!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Remember to welcome strangers in your homes. There were some who did that and welcomed angels without knowing it. </span><span class="v58_13_3"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.3" class="v58_13_3">3</span>Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them. Remember those who are suffering, as though you were suffering as they are.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v58_13_4"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.4" class="v58_13_4">4</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Heb.13.4!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Marriage is to be honored by all, and husbands and wives must be faithful to each other. God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v58_13_5"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.5" class="v58_13_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Heb.13.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, “I will never leave you; I will never abandon you.” </span><span class="v58_13_6"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.6" class="v58_13_6">6</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Heb.13.6!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Let us be bold, then, and say,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v58_13_6">“The Lord is my helper,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v58_13_6">I will not be afraid.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v58_13_6">What can anyone do to me?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v58_13_7"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.7" class="v58_13_7">7</span>Remember your former leaders, who spoke God's message to you. Think back on how they lived and died, and imitate their faith. </span><span class="v58_13_8"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.8" class="v58_13_8">8</span>Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. </span><span class="v58_13_9"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.9" class="v58_13_9">9</span>Do not let all kinds of strange teachings lead you from the right way. It is good to receive inner strength from God's grace, and not by obeying rules about foods; those who obey these rules have not been helped by them.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v58_13_10"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.10" class="v58_13_10">10</span>The priests who serve in the Jewish place of worship have no right to eat any of the sacrifice on our altar. </span><span class="v58_13_11"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.11" class="v58_13_11">11</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Heb.13.11!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The Jewish high priest brings the blood of the animals into the Most Holy Place to offer it as a sacrifice for sins; but the bodies of the animals are burned outside the camp. </span><span class="v58_13_12"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.12" class="v58_13_12">12</span>For this reason Jesus also died outside the city, in order to purify the people from sin with his own blood. </span><span class="v58_13_13"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.13" class="v58_13_13">13</span>Let us, then, go to him outside the camp and share his shame. </span><span class="v58_13_14"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.14" class="v58_13_14">14</span>For there is no permanent city for us here on earth; we are looking for the city which is to come. </span><span class="v58_13_15"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.15" class="v58_13_15">15</span>Let us, then, always offer praise to God as our sacrifice through Jesus, which is the offering presented by lips that confess him as Lord. </span><span class="v58_13_16"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.16" class="v58_13_16">16</span>Do not forget to do good and to help one another, because these are the sacrifices that please God.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v58_13_17"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.17" class="v58_13_17">17</span>Obey your leaders and follow their orders. They watch over your souls without resting, since they must give to God an account of their service. If you obey them, they will do their work gladly; if not, they will do it with sadness, and that would be of no help to you.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v58_13_18"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.18" class="v58_13_18">18</span>Keep on praying for us. We are sure we have a clear conscience, because we want to do the right thing at all times. </span><span class="v58_13_19"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.19" class="v58_13_19">19</span>And I beg you even more earnestly to pray that God will send me back to you soon.</span></p><h3 class="s">Closing Prayer</h3><p class="par"><span class="v58_13_20"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.20-Heb.13.21" class="v58_13_20">20-21</span>God has raised from death our Lord Jesus, who is the Great Shepherd of the sheep as the result of his blood,<a href="#fn" id="link_Heb.13.20-Heb.13.21!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> by which the eternal covenant is sealed. May the God of peace provide you with every good thing you need in order to do his will, and may he, through Jesus Christ, do in us what pleases him. And to Christ be the glory forever and ever! Amen.</span></p><h3 class="s">Final Words</h3><p class="par"><span class="v58_13_22"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.22" class="v58_13_22">22</span>I beg you, my friends, to listen patiently to this message of encouragement; for this letter I have written you is not very long. </span><span class="v58_13_23"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.23" class="v58_13_23">23</span>I want you to know that our brother Timothy has been let out of prison. If he comes soon enough, I will have him with me when I see you.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v58_13_24"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.24" class="v58_13_24">24</span>Give our greetings to all your leaders and to all God's people. The believers from Italy send you their greetings.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v58_13_25"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.13.25" class="v58_13_25">25</span>May God's grace be with you all.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.20-21: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">his blood; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">his sacrificial death.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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