Wisdom & Truth Verses

Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and {in} mountains, and {in} dens and caves of the earth.

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. {provided: or, foreseen}

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset {us}, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which {voice} they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than {that of} Abel. {covenant: or, testament}

Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

And this {word}, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. {are shaken: or, may be shaken}

For our God {is} a consuming fire.