Hebrews 10:19-12:29

New English Translation

Drawing Near to God in Enduring Faith

¹⁹Therefore, brothers and sisters,^[a] since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us^[b] through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,^[c] ²¹and since we have a great priest^[d] over the house of God, ²²let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings,^[e] because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience^[f] and our bodies washed in pure water. ²³And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy. ²⁴And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works,^[g] ²⁵not abandoning our own meetings, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and even more so because you see the day^[h] drawing near.^[i]

²⁶For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us,^[j] ²⁷but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury^[k] of fire that will consume God’s enemies.^[l] ²⁸Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death^[m] without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.^[n] ²⁹How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for^[o] the Son of God, and profanes^[p] the blood of the covenant that made him holy,^[q] and insults the Spirit of grace? ³⁰For we know the one who said, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,”^[r] and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”^[s] ³¹It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

³²But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened. ³³At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions, and at other times you came to share with others who were treated in that way. ³⁴For in fact you shared the sufferings of those in prison,^[t] and you accepted the confiscation of your belongings with joy, because you knew that you certainly^[u] had a better and lasting possession. ³⁵So do not throw away your confidence, because it^[v] has great reward. ³⁶For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised.^[w] ³⁷For just a little longer^[x] and he who is coming will arrive and not delay.^[y] ³⁸But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I^[z] take no pleasure in him.^[aa] ³⁹But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls.^[ab]

People Commended for Their Faith

11 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see. ²For by it the people of old^[ac] received God’s commendation.^[ad] ³By faith we understand that the worlds^[ae] were set in order at God’s command,^[af] so that the visible has its origin in the invisible.^[ag] ⁴By faith Abel offered God a greater sacrifice than Cain, and through his faith^[ah] he was commended as righteous, because God commended him for his offerings. And through his faith^[ai] he still speaks, though he is dead. ⁵By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death, and he was not to be found because God took him up. For before his removal he had been commended as having pleased God. ⁶Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. ⁷By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard^[aj] constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

⁸By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going. ⁹By faith he lived as a foreigner^[ak] in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs^[al] of the same promise. ¹⁰For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations,^[am] whose architect and builder is God. ¹¹By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old,^[an] he received the ability to procreate,^[ao] because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy. ¹²So in fact children^[ap] were fathered by one man—and this one as good as dead—like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand^[aq] on the seashore.^[ar] ¹³These all died in faith without receiving the things promised,^[as] but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners^[at] on the earth. ¹⁴For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. ¹⁵In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. ¹⁶But as it is,^[au] they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. ¹⁷By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises,^[av] yet he was ready to offer up^[aw] his only son. ¹⁸God had told him, “Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”^[ax] ¹⁹and he reasoned^[ay] that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense^[az] he received him back from there. ²⁰By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future. ²¹By faith Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped as he leaned on his staff.^[ba] ²²By faith Joseph, at the end of his life,^[bb] mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel^[bc] and gave instructions about his burial.^[bd]

²³By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him^[be] for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. ²⁴By faith, when he grew up, Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, ²⁵choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure. ²⁶He regarded abuse suffered for Christ^[bf] to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for his eyes were fixed on^[bg] the reward. ²⁷By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible. ²⁸By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood,^[bh] so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them. ²⁹By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if on dry ground, but when the Egyptians tried it, they were swallowed up. ³⁰By faith the walls of Jericho fell after the people marched around them^[bi] for seven days. ³¹By faith Rahab the prostitute escaped the destruction of^[bj] the disobedient, because she welcomed the spies in peace.

³²And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets. ³³Through faith they conquered kingdoms, administered justice,^[bk] gained what was promised,^[bl] shut the mouths of lions, ³⁴quenched raging fire,^[bm] escaped the edge of the sword, gained strength in weakness,^[bn] became mighty in battle, put foreign armies to flight, ³⁵and women received back their dead raised to life.^[bo] But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.^[bp] ³⁶And others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. ³⁷They were stoned, sawed apart,^[bq] murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated ³⁸(the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth. ³⁹And these all were commended^[br] for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.^[bs] ⁴⁰For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.^[bt]

The Lord’s Discipline

12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses,^[bu] we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us, ²keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For^[bv] the joy set out for him he endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.^[bw] ³Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up. ⁴You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed^[bx] in your struggle against sin. ⁵And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons?

“My son, do not scorn^[by] the Lord’s discipline
or give up when he corrects^[bz] you.
⁶“For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts.”^[ca]

⁷Endure your suffering^[cb] as discipline;^[cc] God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline? ⁸But if you do not experience discipline,^[cd] something all sons^[ce] have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons. ⁹Besides, we have experienced discipline from^[cf] our earthly fathers^[cg] and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?^[ch] ¹⁰For they disciplined us for a little while as seemed good to them, but he does so for our benefit, that we may share his holiness. ¹¹Now all discipline seems painful at the time, not joyful.^[ci] But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness^[cj] for those trained by it. ¹²Therefore, strengthen^[ck] your listless hands and your weak knees,^[cl] ¹³and make straight paths for your feet,^[cm] so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but be healed.

Do Not Reject God’s Warning

¹⁴Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness,^[cn] for without it no one will see the Lord. ¹⁵See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up^[co] and causing trouble, and through it many become defiled. ¹⁶And see to it that no one becomes^[cp] an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.^[cq] ¹⁷For you know that^[cr] later when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance, although he sought the blessing^[cs] with tears. ¹⁸For you have not come to something that can be touched,^[ct] to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind ¹⁹and the blast of a trumpet and a voice uttering words^[cu] such that those who heard begged to hear no more.^[cv] ²⁰For they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”^[cw] ²¹In fact, the scene^[cx] was so terrifying that Moses said, “I shudder with fear.”^[cy] ²²But you have come to Mount Zion, the city^[cz] of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly ²³and congregation of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous, who have been made perfect, ²⁴and to Jesus, the mediator^[da] of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel’s does.^[db]

²⁵Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven? ²⁶Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too.”^[dc] ²⁷Now this phrase “once more” indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain. ²⁸So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe. ²⁹For our God is indeed a devouring fire.^[dd]

Footnotes

Hebrews 10:19 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11.
Hebrews 10:20 tn Grk “that he inaugurated for us as a fresh and living way,” referring to the entrance mentioned in v. 19.
Hebrews 10:20 sn Through his flesh. In a bold shift the writer changes from a spatial phrase (Christ opened the way through the curtain into the inner sanctuary) to an instrumental phrase (he did this through [by means of] his flesh in his sacrifice of himself), associating the two in an allusion to the splitting of the curtain in the temple from top to bottom (Matt 27:51; Mark 15:38; Luke 23:45). Just as the curtain was split, so Christ’s body was broken for us, to give us access into God’s presence.
Hebrews 10:21 tn Grk “and a great priest,” continuing the construction begun in v. 19.
Hebrews 10:22 tn Grk “in assurance of faith.”
Hebrews 10:22 sn The phrase our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience combines the OT imagery of the sprinkling with blood to give ritual purity with the emphasis on the interior cleansing provided by the new covenant: It is the heart that is cleansed and the conscience made perfect (cf. Heb 8:10; 9:9, 14; 10:2, 16).
Hebrews 10:24 tn Grk “let us consider one another for provoking of love and good deeds.”
Hebrews 10:25 sn The day refers to that well-known time of Christ’s coming and judgment in the future; see a similar use of “day” in 1 Cor 3:13.
Hebrews 10:25 tn This paragraph (vv. 19-25) is actually a single, skillfully composed sentence in Greek, but it must be broken into shorter segments for English idiom. It begins with several subordinate phrases (since we have confidence and a great priest), has three parallel exhortations as its main verbs (let us draw near, hold, and take thought), and concludes with several subordinate phrases related to the final exhortation (not abandoning but encouraging).
Hebrews 10:26 tn Grk “is left,” with “for us” implied by the first half of the verse.
Hebrews 10:27 tn Grk “zeal,” recalling God’s jealous protection of his holiness and honor (cf. Exod 20:5).sn An allusion to Zeph 1:18.
Hebrews 10:27 tn Grk “the enemies.”sn An allusion to Isa 26:11.
Hebrews 10:28 tn Grk “dies.”
Hebrews 10:28 sn An allusion to Deut 17:6.
Hebrews 10:29 tn Grk “tramples under foot.”
Hebrews 10:29 tn Grk “regarded as common.”
Hebrews 10:29 tn Grk “by which he was made holy.”
Hebrews 10:30 sn A quotation from Deut 32:35.
Hebrews 10:30 sn A quotation from Deut 32:36.
Hebrews 10:34 tc Most witnesses, including some significant ones (א D² 1881 M), read δεσμοῖς μου (desmois mou, “my imprisonment”) here, a reading that is probably due to the widespread belief in the early Christian centuries that Paul was the author of Hebrews (cf. Phil 1:7; Col 4:18). It may have been generated by the reading δεσμοῖς without the μου (so P⁴⁶ Ψ 104), the force of which is so ambiguous (lit., “you shared the sufferings with the bonds”) as to be virtually nonsensical. Most likely, δεσμοῖς resulted when a scribe made an error in copying δεσμίοις (desmiois), a reading which makes excellent sense (“[of] those in prison”) and is strongly supported by early and significant witnesses of the Alexandrian and Western text-forms (A D* H 6 33 81 1739 lat sy co). Thus, δεσμίοις best explains the rise of the other readings on both internal and external grounds and is strongly preferred.
Hebrews 10:34 tn Grk “you yourselves.”
Hebrews 10:35 tn Grk “which,” but showing the reason.
Hebrews 10:36 tn Grk “the promise,” referring to the thing God promised, not to the pledge itself.
Hebrews 10:37 sn A quotation from Isa 26:20.
Hebrews 10:37 sn A quotation from Hab 2:3.
Hebrews 10:38 tn Grk “my soul.”
Hebrews 10:38 sn A quotation from Hab 2:4.
Hebrews 10:39 tn Grk “not…of shrinking back to perdition but of faith to the preservation of the soul.”
Hebrews 11:2 tn Or “the elders,” “the ancients.”
Hebrews 11:2 tn Grk “were attested,” “received commendation”; and Heb 11:4-6 shows this to be from God.
Hebrews 11:3 tn Grk “ages.” The temporal (ages) came to be used of the spatial (what exists in those time periods). See Heb 1:2 for same usage.
Hebrews 11:3 tn Grk “by God’s word.”
Hebrews 11:3 sn The Greek phrasing emphasizes this point by negating the opposite: “so that what is seen did not come into being from things that are visible.”
Hebrews 11:4 tn Or “through his sacrifice”; Grk “through which.”
Hebrews 11:4 tn Or “through his sacrifice”; Grk “through it.”
Hebrews 11:7 tn Cf. BDAG 407 s.v. εὐλαβέομαι 2, “out of reverent regard (for God’s command).”
Hebrews 11:9 tn Or “settled as a resident alien.”
Hebrews 11:9 tn Or “heirs with him.”
Hebrews 11:10 tn Grk “that has foundations.”
Hebrews 11:11 tn Grk “past the time of maturity.”
Hebrews 11:11 tn Grk “power to deposit seed.” Though it is not as likely, some construe this phrase to mean “power to conceive seed,” making the whole verse about Sarah: “by faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and too old, she received ability to conceive, because she regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.”
Hebrews 11:12 tn Grk “these”; in the translation the referent (children) has been specified for clarity.
Hebrews 11:12 tn Grk a collective “the sand.”
Hebrews 11:12 sn An allusion to Gen 22:17 (which itself goes back to Gen 15:5).
Hebrews 11:13 tn Grk “the promises,” referring to the things God promised, not to the pledges themselves.
Hebrews 11:13 tn Or “sojourners.”
Hebrews 11:16 tn Grk “now.”
Hebrews 11:17 tn Here “received the promises” refers to the pledges themselves, not to the things God promised.
Hebrews 11:17 tn Grk “he was offering up.” The tense of this verb indicates the attempt or readiness to sacrifice Isaac without the actual completion of the deed.
Hebrews 11:18 tn Grk “in Isaac seed will be named for you.”sn A quotation from Gen 21:12.
Hebrews 11:19 tn Grk “having reasoned,” continuing the ideas of v. 17.
Hebrews 11:19 tn Grk “in/by a symbol.”
Hebrews 11:21 tn Grk “worshiped on the top of his staff,” a quotation from Gen 47:31 (LXX).
Hebrews 11:22 tn Grk “coming to an end,” “dying.”
Hebrews 11:22 sn Joseph’s prophecy about the exodus of the sons of Israel is found in Gen 50:24.
Hebrews 11:22 tn Grk “about his bones,” which refers by metonymy to the disposition of his bones, i.e., his burial.sn The instructions about his burial are recorded in Gen 50:25.
Hebrews 11:23 tn Grk “Moses, when he was born, was hidden by his parents.”
Hebrews 11:26 tn Grk “the abuse [or ‘reproach’] of Christ.”
Hebrews 11:26 tn Grk “he was looking away to.”
Hebrews 11:28 tn Grk “the pouring out of the blood.”sn The sprinkling of the blood refers here to the application of the blood to the doorways of the Israelite houses (cf. Exod 12:7, 13).
Hebrews 11:30 tn Grk “after they had been encircled.”
Hebrews 11:31 tn Grk “did not perish together with.”
Hebrews 11:33 tn This probably refers to the righteous rule of David and others. But it could be more general and mean “did what was righteous.”
Hebrews 11:33 tn Grk “obtained promises,” referring to the things God promised, not to the pledges themselves. sn Gained what was promised. They saw some of God’s promises fulfilled, even though the central promise remained unfulfilled until Christ came (cf. vv. 39-40).
Hebrews 11:34 tn Grk “quenched the power of fire.”
Hebrews 11:34 tn Or “recovered from sickness.”
Hebrews 11:35 tn Grk “received back their dead from resurrection.”
Hebrews 11:35 tn Grk “to obtain a better resurrection.”
Hebrews 11:37 tc The reading ἐπρίσθησαν (epristhēsan, “they were sawed apart”) is found in some significant witnesses (P⁴⁶ [D* twice reads ἐπίρσθησαν, “they were burned”?] sy^p sa Or^pt Eus). Other mss have ἐπειράσθησαν (epeirasthēsan, “they were tempted”), either before “sawed apart” ([א] L P [048] 33 81 326 1505 sy^h), after “sawed apart” (P^13vid A D¹ Ψ 1739 1881 M lat bo Or^pt), or altogether in place of “sawed apart” (0150 vg^mss Cl). Since the two words ἐπρίσθησαν and ἐπειράσθησαν are so much alike in sight and sound, and since the position of “they were tempted” varies in the mss, it seems best to say that ἐπειράσθησαν is an accidental transcriptional error of ἐπρίσθησαν or an intentional change to a more common word (the root of ἐπρίσθησαν [πρίζω, prizō] occurs only here in the NT, while the root of ἐπειράσθησαν [πειράζω, peirazō] occurs 38 times). The best reading here seems to be “sawed apart” without any addition before or after. (See TCGNT 603-4, for a discussion of emendations that scholars have proposed for this difficult problem.)
Hebrews 11:39 sn The expression these all were commended forms an inclusio with Heb 11:2: The chapter begins and ends with references to commendation for faith.
Hebrews 11:39 tn Grk “the promise,” referring to the thing God promised, not to the pledge itself.
Hebrews 11:40 tn The Greek phrasing emphasizes this point by negating the opposite: “so that they would not be made perfect without us.”
Hebrews 12:1 tn Grk “having such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us.”
Hebrews 12:2 tn Or “Because of”; or “Instead of.” The Greek prepostion can be understood either way. For discussion and sources see Wallace, ExSyn 367-68; cf. also BDAG 88 s.v. 1, “instead of, in place of” and s.v. 3 “(in exchange) for.”
Hebrews 12:2 sn An allusion to Ps 110:1.
Hebrews 12:4 tn Grk “until blood.”
Hebrews 12:5 tn Or “disregard,” “think little of.”
Hebrews 12:5 tn Or “reproves,” “rebukes.” The Greek verb ἐλέγχω (elenchō) implies exposing someone’s sin in order to bring correction.
Hebrews 12:6 sn A quotation from Prov 3:11-12.
Hebrews 12:7 tn Grk “endure,” with the object (“your suffering”) understood from the context.
Hebrews 12:7 tn Or “in order to become disciplined.”
Hebrews 12:8 tn Grk “you are without discipline.”
Hebrews 12:8 tn Grk “all”; “sons” is implied by the context.
Hebrews 12:9 tn Grk “we had our earthly fathers as discipliners.”
Hebrews 12:9 tn Grk “the fathers of our flesh.” In Hebrews, “flesh” is a characteristic way of speaking about outward, physical, earthly life (cf. Heb 5:7; 9:10, 13), as opposed to the inward or spiritual dimensions of life.
Hebrews 12:9 tn Grk “and live.” sn Submit ourselves…to the Father of spirits and receive life. This idea is drawn from Proverbs, where the Lord’s discipline brings life, while resistance to it leads to death (cf. Prov 4:13; 6:23; 10:17; 16:17).
Hebrews 12:11 tn Grk “all discipline at the time does not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow.”
Hebrews 12:11 tn Grk “the peaceful fruit of righteousness.”
Hebrews 12:12 tn Or “straighten.”
Hebrews 12:12 sn A quotation from Isa 35:3. Strengthen your listless hands and your weak knees refers to the readers’ need for renewed resolve and fresh strength in their struggles (cf. Heb 10:36-39; 12:1-3).
Hebrews 12:13 sn A quotation from Prov 4:26. The phrase make straight paths for your feet is figurative for “stay on God’s paths.”
Hebrews 12:14 sn The references to peace and holiness show the close connection between this paragraph and the previous one. The pathway toward “holiness” and the need for it is cited in Heb 12:10 and 14. More importantly Prov 4:26-27 sets up the transition from one paragraph to the next: It urges people to stay on godly paths (Prov 4:26, quoted here in v. 13) and promises that God will lead them in peace if they do so (Prov 4:27 [LXX], quoted in v. 14).
Hebrews 12:15 tn Grk “that there not be any root of bitterness,” but referring figuratively to a person who causes trouble (as in Deut 29:17 [LXX] from which this is quoted).sn An allusion to Deut 29:18.
Hebrews 12:16 tn Grk “that there not be any,” continuing from v. 15.
Hebrews 12:16 sn An allusion to Gen 27:34-41.
Hebrews 12:17 tn Or a command: “for understand that.”
Hebrews 12:17 tn Grk “it,” referring either to the repentance or the blessing. But the account in Gen 27:34-41 (which the author appeals to here) makes it clear that the blessing is what Esau sought. Thus in the translation the referent (the blessing) is specified for clarity.
Hebrews 12:18 tn This describes the nation of Israel approaching God on Mt. Sinai (Exod 19). There is a clear contrast with the reference to Mount Zion in v. 22, so this could be translated “a mountain that can be touched.” But the word “mountain” does not occur here and the more vague description seems to be deliberate.
Hebrews 12:19 tn Grk “a voice of words.”
Hebrews 12:19 tn Grk “a voice…from which those who heard begged that a word not be added to them.”
Hebrews 12:20 sn A quotation from Exod 19:12-13.
Hebrews 12:21 tn Grk “that which appeared.”
Hebrews 12:21 tn Grk “I am terrified and trembling.”sn A quotation from Deut 9:19.
Hebrews 12:22 tn Grk “and the city”; the conjunction is omitted in translation since it seems to be functioning epexegetically—that is, explaining further what is meant by “Mount Zion.”
Hebrews 12:24 tn The Greek word μεσίτης (mesitēs, “mediator”) in this context does not imply that Jesus was a mediator in the contemporary sense of the word, i.e., he worked for compromise between opposing parties. Here the term describes his function as the one who was used by God to enact a new covenant which established a new relationship between God and his people, but entirely on God’s terms.
Hebrews 12:24 sn Abel’s shed blood cried out to the Lord for justice and judgment, but Jesus’ blood speaks of redemption and forgiveness, something better than Abel’s does (Gen 4:10; Heb 9:11-14; 11:4).
Hebrews 12:26 sn A quotation from Hag 2:6.
Hebrews 12:29 sn A quotation from Deut 4:24; 9:3.