Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech: Hebrews | Page 8

encouraging one another, and doing this all the more since you can see
the day of Christ approaching. 010:026 For if we wilfully persist in sin
after having received the full knowledge of the truth, there no longer
remains in reserve any other sacrifice for sins. 010:027 There remains

nothing but a certain awful expectation of judgement, and the fury of a
fire which before long will devour the enemies of the truth. 010:028
Any one who bids defiance to the Law of Moses is put to death without
mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 010:029 How much
severer punishment, think you, will he be held to deserve who has
trampled under foot the Son of God, has not regarded as holy that
Covenant-blood with which he was set free from sin, and has insulted
the Spirit from whom comes grace? 010:030 For we know who it is
that has said, "Vengeance belongs to Me: I will pay back;" and again,
"The Lord will be His people's judge." 010:031 It is an awful thing to
fall into the hands of the ever-living God. 010:032 But continually
recall to mind the days now past, when on being first enlightened you
went through a great conflict and many sufferings. 010:033 This was
partly through allowing yourselves to be made a public spectacle amid
reproaches and persecutions, and partly through coming forward to
share the sufferings of those who were thus treated. 010:034 For you
not only showed sympathy with those who were imprisoned, but you
even submitted with joy when your property was taken from you, being
well aware that you have in your own selves a more valuable
possession and one which will remain. 010:035 Therefore do not cast
from you your confident hope, for it will receive a vast reward. 010:036
For you stand in need of patient endurance, so that, as the result of
having done the will of God, you may receive the promised blessing.
010:037 For there is still but a short time and then "The coming One
will come and will not delay. 010:038 But it is by faith that My
righteous servant shall live; and if he shrinks back, My soul takes no
pleasure in him." 010:039 But we are not people who shrink back and
perish, but are among those who believe and gain possession of their
souls. 011:001 Now faith is a well-grounded assurance of that for
which we hope, and a conviction of the reality of things which we do
not see. 011:002 For by it the saints of old won God's approval.
011:003 Through faith we understand that the worlds came into being,
and still exist, at the command of God, so that what is seen does not
owe its existence to that which is visible. 011:004 Through faith Abel
offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain did, and through
this faith he obtained testimony that he was righteous, God giving the
testimony by accepting his gifts; and through it, though he is dead, he

still speaks. 011:005 Through faith Enoch was taken from the earth so
that he did not see death, and he could not be found, because God had
taken him; for before he was taken we have evidence that he truly
pleased God. 011:006 But where there is no faith it is impossible truly
to please Him; for the man who draws near to God must believe that
there is a God and that He proves Himself a rewarder of those who
earnestly try to find Him. 011:007 Through faith Noah, being divinely
taught about things as yet unseen, reverently gave heed and built an ark
for the safety of his family, and by this act he condemned the world,
and became an heir of the righteousness which depends on faith.
011:008 Through faith Abraham, upon being called to leave home and
go into a land which he was soon to receive for an inheritance, obeyed;
and he went out, not knowing where he was going to. 011:009 Through
faith he came and made his home for a time in a land which had been
promised to him, as if in a foreign country, living in tents together with
Isaac and Jacob, sharers with him in the same promise; 011:010 for he
continually looked forward to the city which has the foundations,
whose architect and builder is God. 011:011 Through faith even Sarah
herself received strength to become a mother--although she was past
the time of life for this-- because she judged Him faithful who had
given the promise. 011:012 And thus there sprang from one man, and
him practically dead, a nation like the stars of the sky in number, and
like the sands on the sea shore which cannot be counted. 011:013