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7 Remember those who1 rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith follow, considering the outcome of their conduct.  
8 Jesus Christ is athe same yesterday, today, and forever.  
9 Do not be carried1 about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.  
10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.
11 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.
12 Therefore Jesus also, that He might1 sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.  
13 Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing aHis reproach.  
14 For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come.
15 aTherefore by Him let us continually offer bthe sacrifice of praise to God, that is, cthe fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.  
16 aBut do not forget to do good and to share, for bwith such sacrifices God is well pleased.  
17 aObey those who1 rule over you, and be submissive, for bthey watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let them do so with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.  

Prayer Requested

18 aPray for us; for we are confident that we have ba good conscience, in all things desiring to live honorably.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Hebrews 13:9

about—rather, as oldest manuscripts read, "carried aside"; namely, compare Ephesians 4:14.

divers—differing from the one faith in the one and the same Jesus Christ, as taught by them who had the rule over you (Hebrews 13:7).

strange—foreign to the truth.

doctrines—"teachings."

established with grace; not with meats—not with observances of Jewish distinctions between clean and unclean meats, to which ascetic Judaizers added in Christian times the rejection of some meats, and the use of others: noticed also by Paul in I Corinthians 8:8, I Corinthians 8:13; I Corinthians 6:13; Romans 14:17, an exact parallel to this verse: these are some of the "divers and strange doctrines" of the previous sentence. Christ's body offered once for all for us, is our true spiritual "meat" to "eat" (Hebrews 13:10), "the stay and the staff of bread" (Isaiah 3:1), the mean of all "grace."

which have not profited—Greek, "in which they who walked were not profited"; namely, in respect to justification, perfect cleansing of the conscience, and sanctification. Compare on "walked," Acts 21:21; namely, with superstitious scrupulosity, as though the worship of God in itself consisted in such legal observances.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Hebrews 13:9:

Romans 15:33
Ephesians 4:14
Colossians 2:23
Hebrews 5:14
Hebrews 13:8
Hebrews 13:10

 

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