Hebrews 1:13

1:13 But to which of the angels ¹  has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”? ² 

Hebrews 4:11

4:11 Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

Hebrews 4:13

4:13 And no creature is hidden from God, ³  but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.

Hebrews 4:16

4:16 Therefore let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace whenever we need help. ⁴ 

Hebrews 6:12

6:12 so that you may not be sluggish, ⁵  but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.

Hebrews 8:13

8:13 When he speaks of a new covenant, ⁶  he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear. ⁷ 

Hebrews 10:9

10:9 then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” ⁸  He does away with ⁹  the first to establish the second.

Hebrews 10:39

10:39 But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls. ¹⁰ 

Hebrews 11:11

11:11 By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, ¹¹  he received the ability to procreate, ¹²  because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.

Hebrews 11:35

11:35 and women received back their dead raised to life. ¹³  But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life. ¹⁴ 

Hebrews 12:24

12:24 and to Jesus, the mediator ¹⁵  of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel’s does. ¹⁶ 

¹ sn The parallel phrases to which of the angels in vv. 5 and 13 show the unity of this series of quotations (vv. 5-14) in revealing the superiority of the Son over angels (v. 4).

² sn A quotation from Ps 110:1.

³ tn Grk “him”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Grk “for timely help.”

⁷ tn Or “dull.”

⁹ tn Grk “when he says, ‘new,’” (referring to the covenant).

¹⁰ tn Grk “near to disappearing.”

¹¹ tc The majority of mss, especially the later ones (א² 0278^vid 1739 Ï lat), have ὁ θεός (Jo qeo", “God”) at this point, while most of the earliest and best witnesses lack such an explicit addressee (so Ì⁴⁶ א* A C D K P Ψ 33 1175 1881 2464 al). The longer reading is a palpable corruption, apparently motivated in part by the wording of Ps 40:8 (39:9 LXX) and by the word order of this same verse as quoted in Heb 10:7.

¹² tn Or “abolishes.”

¹³ tn Grk “not…of shrinking back to perdition but of faith to the preservation of the soul.”

¹⁵ tn Grk “past the time of maturity.”

¹⁶ 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.”

¹⁷ tn Grk “received back their dead from resurrection.”

¹⁸ tn Grk “to obtain a better resurrection.”

¹⁹ tn The Greek word μεσίτης (mesith", “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.

²⁰ 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).