Hebrews (KJV)
13 chapters · 303 verses. Choose a chapter to read it in the King James Version.
About the Book of Hebrews
Hebrews demonstrates the supremacy and finality of Christ over the angels, Moses, the priesthood, and the old covenant sacrifices. It urges weary believers to hold fast in faith and not drift back from Christ.
- Genre
- Epistle (sermon-letter)
- Author
- Anonymous; traditionally associated with Paul, but authorship is unknown (Apollos, Barnabas, and others have been proposed)
- First audience
- Jewish-Christian believers tempted to fall away
How to read it: Read this sustained argument as a word of exhortation; follow how it compares the old and new covenants to encourage perseverance.
It opens: “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,” (Hebrews 1:1)
Chapters
Key verses in Hebrews
The verses of Hebrews that the rest of Scripture cross-references most often.
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Read Hebrews with a guide
- Hebrews: Jesus Is Better13 days through the letter to the HebrewsAll 13 days in Hebrews
- A Life of Worship7 days on worshipping God with all of life1 of 7 days in Hebrews
- Ascension: He Reigns7 days on the risen Jesus who reigns1 of 7 days in Hebrews
- Debt & Wise Stewardship7 days on debt, honesty and contentment1 of 7 days in Hebrews
- Faith in Suffering7 days of honest faith in hard times1 of 7 days in Hebrews
- Far from Home: Migration & Exile7 days on faith and faithfulness far from home1 of 7 days in Hebrews