Verse 18. _PRAY FOR US_] Even the success of apostles depended, in a certain way, on the prayers of the Church. Few Christian congregations feel, as they ought, that it is their bounden duty to pray f...
PRAY FOR US - This is a request which the apostle often makes in his own behalf, and in behalf of his fellow laborers in the gospel; see 1 Thessalonians 5:25. notes, Ephesians 6:18. For we trust we ha...
CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The practical walk (Hebrews 13:1)_ 2. The call to separation (Hebrews 13:7) 3. Conclusions (Hebrews 13:17)...
Admonitions concerning Church discipline. The brethren are to cherish the memory of their former leaders, who instructed them in the truth of God and exemplified it in their life and death. Jesus Chri...
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they sleeplessly watch over your souls, conscious that they will have to give account of their trust. This do that they may carry out this task with joy and n...
THE MARKS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Hebrews 13:1-6)...
PRAY. Greek. _proseuchomai._ App-134. TRUST. Greek. _peitho_. App-150.:2. CONSCIENCE. See Acts 23:1. WILLING. Greek. _thelo_. App-102. LIVE. Greek. _anastrepho._ See Hebrews 10:33. The noun in...
_Pray for us_ A frequent and natural request in Christian correspondence (1 Thessalonians 5:25; 2 Thessalonians 3:1; Romans 15:30;...
ΠΡΟΣΕΎΧΕΣΘΕ ΠΕΡῚ ἩΜΩ͂Ν. A frequent and natural request in Christian correspondence (1 Thessalonians 5:25; 2 Thessalonians 3:1; Romans 15:30;...
CH. 13. Concluding Exhortations to Love (1); Hospitality (2); Kindness to Prisoners and the Suffering (3); Purity of Life (4); Contentment (5); Trustfulness (6); Submission to Pastoral Authority (7, 8...
CONCLUDING NOTICES AND BENEDICTIONS...
_RESPOND TO THE EXHORTATIONS -- HEBREWS 13:18-25:_ The writer asked and exhorted the brethren to pray for him that he could have a good conscience. (Hebrews 13:18) A good conscience is a conscience en...
ΠΡΟΣΕΎΧΕΣΘΕ _praes. imper. med. (dep.) от_ ΠΡΟΣΕΎΧΟΜΑΙ (G4336) молиться, ΠΕΙΘΌΜΕΘΑ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΠΕΊΘΩ (G3982) быть убежденным, доверять, быть уверенным, ΣΥΝΕΊΔΗΣΙΣ (G4893) совесть (_...
FOR WE TRUST WE HAVE A GOOD CONSCIENCE,— _For we are confident that we have a good conscience, determined in all things to behave honourably._ It is reasonable to think that the apostle particularly m...
D. _Request for prayers. Hebrews 13:18-19_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 13:18-19 Hebrews 13:18 Pray for us: for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably
A GOOD CONSCIENCE (Hebrews 13:18, Hebrews 13:19) Hebrews 13:18; Hebrews 13:19 is closely connected with the verse which immedi
Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. PRAY FOR US. Paul usually requests the church's intercessions in closing his letters, as he begins with...
13 This is the climax of the epistle. The choice is between faith and apostasy. The reference is to the ritual of the golden calf (Ex.33). It would have been apostasy to go outside the camp had there...
ADVICE, MEMORIES, PRAYERS, GREETINGS The Epistle concludes with various exhortations in regard to the social life (Hebrews 13:1), private life (Hebrews 13:4), the religious life (Hebrews 13:7), in whi...
PRAY FOR US] The plural denotes that the writer identifies himself with the rulers of the Church, on whom some suspicion has fallen, and he therefore in their name protests their integrity....
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 13 THE WAY OF LOVE AND DOING WHAT GOD WANTS 13:1-25 CHRISTIAN LOVE 13:1-6 V1 Go on loving each other as brothers. V2 Do not forget to re...
The following verses — containing personal notices relating to the writer himself and his readers (Hebrews 13:18; Hebrews 13:22), a prayer on their behalf (Hebrews 13:20), a doxology ...
CHAPTER XVI. SUNDRY EXHORTATIONS. Hebrews 13:1 Let love of the brethren continue. Forget not to shew love unto strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember them that are in...
προσεύχεσθε περὶ ἡμῶν.… Both the next clause and the next verse seem to indicate that by ἡμῶν the writer chiefly, if not exclusively, meant himself; the next clause, for he could not vouch for the con...
PRAISE, PRAYER, AND PEACE Hebrews 13:14 Notice that though the ancient sacrifices have been abolished, there is one which can never grow old-the _sacrifice of praise_. This incense must ever ascend...
The last chapter contains a series of general exhortations. It is evident that the letter was sent to those whose faith was being challenged and weakened, and whose love, therefore, was cooling. These...
PERSONAL MATTERS AND CONCLUDING COMMENTS The writer asked the brethren to pray in his behalf, as well as in behalf of the apostles and other proclaimers of the gospel. He preached the one true gospel,...
(11) Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. (11) The last part of this epistle, in which he commends his ministry to the Hebrews, and wishes them...
Obey your prelates, &c. Join the sacrifice of obedience to your bishops and pastors, whom God has placed over you, who must render an account even of your souls, i.e. whether they have discharged thei...
(17) Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofit...
The apostle now resumes his great theme, Christ called a Priest of God for ever after the order of Melchisedec. He alludes, in the beginning of our chapter, to the historical facts of Genesis. We must...
18._For we trust, etc. _After having commended himself to their prayers, in order to excite them to pray, he declares that he had a _good conscience. _Though indeed our prayers ought to embrace the wh...
In this next Chapter there is more than one truth important to notice. The exhortations are as simple as they are weighty, and require but few remarks. They rest in the sphere in which the whole of th...
PRAY FOR US,.... Who are in the ministry; your guides and governors; since the work is of so much moment, and so arduous and awful, and you have such a concern in it; 2 Thessalonians 3:1. FOR WE TRUS...
Of the close of the epistle, which now only remains, there are three parts: 1. The apostle's request of the prayers of the Hebrews for himself, Hebrews 13:18-19; 2. His solemn benedictive prayer f...
Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. Ver. 18. _Willing to live honestly_] _Tantum velis, et Deus tibi praeoccurret._ David could wish well to t...
HEB. 13:18-19. PRAY FOR US: FOR WE TRUST WE HAVE A GOOD CONSCIENCE, IN ALL THINGS WILLING TO LIVE HONESTLY. BUT I BESEECH (YOU) THE RATHER TO DO THIS, THAT I MAY BE RESTORED TO YOU THE SOONER. Heb. 1...
_Pray for us_ For our freedom and success in preaching the gospel, (see the margin,) and our deliverance from the enemies of the faith; _for_ Though our enemies may meanly insinuate the contrary, and...
HONESTLY; uprightly, in a manner suitable to a minister of the gospel and an inspired apostle. Enlightened ministers of Christ often express a desire for the prayers of Christians on earth, but never...
An admonition to prayer and good works:...
PRAY FOR US; FOR WE TRUST WE HAVE A GOOD CONSCIENCE, IN ALL THINGS WILLING TO LIVE HONESTLY....
The first six verses of this chapter have a striking moral relationship to what has gone before. We have seen that though God's dispensational ways have undergone a mighty change in the advent of His...
16-21 We must, according to our power, give to the necessities of the souls and bodies of men: God will accept these offerings with pleasure, and will accept and bless the offerers through Christ. Th...
PRAY FOR US: the closing duty becoming the subjects of the kingdom of Christ, is prayer, upon some special accounts, HEBREWS 13:18,19, that they would with their renewed souls, influenced and assisted...
Hebrews 13:18 Pray G4336 (G5737) for G4012 us G2257 for G1063 G3754 confident G3982 (G5754) have...
‘Pray for us: for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honourably in all things. And I exhort you the more exceedingly to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner...
FINAL EXHORTATION AND A PRAYER FOR HIS READERS (HEBREWS 13:17). So having finally made the great divide between Jerusalem and all that it had come to stand for, and Christianity with its whole concern...
Hebrews 13:18. The writer now speaks of himself and of his colleagues, all watchers over them, and asks the prayers of his readers, as Paul does in all his Epistles. PRAY FOR US, FOR WE ARE PERSUADED...
HONESTLY (καλως). Nobly, honourably. Apparently the writer is conscious that unworthy motives have been attributed to him. Cf. Paul in 1 Thessalonians 2:18; 2 Corinthians 1:11; 2 Corinthians...
Hebrews 13:17 I. The Author of peace. From all eternity God purposed in Himself the counsel of peace; and when, by reason of sin, discord and misery came into the world, the Lord always comforted His...
Hebrews 13:1. _Let brotherly love continue._ It is supposed to be there already; let it continue, not only love of a common kind, such as we are to have to all men, but that special «brotherly love»...
This is a practical chapter at the close of this most instructive Epistle. Hebrews 13:1. _Let brotherly love continue._ The word «continue» implies that the «brotherly love» exists, there are many t...
CONTENTS: Exhortations to the Christian. Separation and worship. Apostolic benediction. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Timothy. CONCLUSION: Our Lord Jesus purchased us with His blood that He might set us a...
Hebrews 13:1. _Let brotherly love continue._ The love as when you first believed, and when many of you sold your possessions to raise a fund for the widows, who were cut off from the alms of the synag...
KEEP ON PRAYING FOR US. Paul (if he is the author) always asks for the prayers of the Christians! A CLEAR CONSCIENCE. "Even though you may not like my teaching in this letter, yet it is the truth whic...
_Pray for us_ PRAYER FOR MINISTERS I. SOME CONSIDERATIONS TO ILLUSTRATE AND CONFIRM THE NECESSITY OF SUCH PRAYER. 1. The awful responsibility of the ministerial office. 2. We are men of like passi...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 13:20. GOD OF PEACE.— Romans 15:33; Romans 16:20; Philippians 4:9;...
CONCLUDING EXHORTATIONS EXPOSITION As in St. Paul's Epistles, practical directions as to conduct conclude the treatise, such as the readers may be supposed to have especially needed. They are urged t...
Chapter 13, closing out the book. Let brotherly love continue. Don't forget to entertain strangers: for some have entertained angels without knowing it (Hebrews 13:1-2). Interesting. I believe it. I...
1 Peter 2:12; 1 Peter 3:16; 1 Peter 3:21; 1 Thessalonians 4:12;...
In these words observe, 1. request made by the apostle to these Hebrews for prayer, PRAY FOR US. The prayers of the meanest saints may be useful to the greatest apostles, both with respect to their pe...