Saints Translation

By Vincent Melli

Hebrews — Greek text and reception

MinisterFaithful hospitality

Hebrews 13 — Greek text and reception

Saints Translation: Hebrews 1–13 [V2]

Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.

Chapter 13

Love, hospitality, and faithful conduct

Verse 13:1

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Let brotherly love remain.

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Verse 13:2

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Do not forget hospitality, for through it some unknowingly entertained angels.

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Verse 13:3

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Remember the prisoners as fellow prisoners, and those being mistreated, as you yourselves also are in a body.

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Verse 13:4

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Let marriage be honored among all, and the marriage bed undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Textual & Reception Notes

Let … be supplies an imperative sense to the verbless clauses; an indicative statement is also possible. Among all may also be in every respect.

Verse 13:5

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Let your manner of life be free from the love of money, being content with what is present; for He Himself has said, “I will certainly not leave you, nor will I ever forsake you.”

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Verse 13:6

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

So we may say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What will a human being do to me?”

Textual & Reception Notes

Text [G]: NA28 reads βοηθός, [καὶ] οὐ φοβηθήσομαι in brackets (SBLGNT omits); the rendering above follows SBLGNT, and NA28 would read "my helper, and I will not fear".

Leaders, grace, and the offering of praise

Verse 13:7

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. As you consider the outcome of their way of life, imitate their faith.

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Verse 13:8

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for the ages.

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Verse 13:9

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those occupied with them.

Textual & Reception Notes

Those occupied with them renders the literal those walking in them in reference to food practices. The text does not identify a particular later group.

Verse 13:10

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

We have an altar from which those serving the tent have no authority to eat.

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Verse 13:11

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

For the bodies of those animals whose blood the high priest brings into the holy places for sin are burned outside the camp.

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Verse 13:12

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Therefore Jesus also suffered outside the gate, so that He might sanctify the people through His own blood.

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Verse 13:13

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

So let us go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.

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Verse 13:14

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the one to come.

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Verse 13:15

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Therefore through Him let us continually offer God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips confessing His name.

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Verse 13:16

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

And do not forget doing good and sharing, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.

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Prayer and accountability

Verse 13:17

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Obey your leaders and yield to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they may do this with joy and not groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Textual & Reception Notes

Obey renders peithesthe in its relation to leaders, with yield for hypeikete. The verse itself connects leadership to vigilance and giving account; no specific later office title is inserted.

Verse 13:18

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, wishing to conduct ourselves well in everything.

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Verse 13:19

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

And I urge you all the more to do this, so that I may be restored to you sooner.

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Blessing and final greetings

Verse 13:20

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus, in the blood of an eternal covenant,

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Verse 13:21

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

equip you with every good thing to do His will, working in us what is pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for the ages. Amen.

Textual & Reception Notes

Text [G, A]: Every good thing has no explicit work after good; the pronoun is in us, and the doxology reads for the ages without the added of the ages. The Amen here is present in the source.

Text [G]: NA28 reads τοὺς αἰῶνας [τῶν αἰώνων] in brackets (SBLGNT omits); the rendering above follows SBLGNT, and NA28 would read "for the ages of the ages".

Verse 13:22

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

And I urge you, brothers, bear with the word of encouragement, for I have written to you briefly.

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Verse 13:23

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Know that our brother Timothy has been released; if he comes soon, I will see you with him.

Textual & Reception Notes

Released translates apolelymenon; release from imprisonment or being sent away are possible circumstances. The text itself does not specify the confinement or occasion.

Verse 13:24

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you.

Textual & Reception Notes

Those from Italy preserves the origin expression without deciding whether the senders are currently inside or outside Italy.

Verse 13:25

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Grace be with you all.

Textual & Reception Notes

Text [G, A]: The accessed running text ends here without a final Amen; no closing addition is supplied.