Hebrews 13:1-21

1.What is the first exhortation of this chapter?
2.What is true brotherly love? .
3.Of what must we not be forgetful? .
4.Cite instances where hospitable men have entertained angels unawares.
5.How should we remember them that are in bonds? .
6.Why should we be free from covetousness? ; compare .
7.Who are to be held in special reverence? .
8.What comforting assurance have we in depending upon Christ? .
9.What exhortation is given concerning stability? .
10.What contrast is made between Christians and those who hold to the old covenant? .
11.What lesson is to be learned from the fact that the bodies of those beasts whose blood was brought into the sanctuary were burned without the camp? . See note.
12.What sacrifice, then, must we render? ; .
13.Why should we be submissive to those in authority in the church? .
14.Does this mean that God has set officers in the church as lords? .
15.What assistance did the great apostle desire? ; compare ; .
16.With what wonderful prayer does the apostle conclude his instruction? .

Notes

"We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle." The reference is undoubtedly to the feeding upon Christ, which is both the privilege and the duty of every Christian. See . But the text must not be understood as implying that Christ is the altar. The priests in the earthly sanctuary did not eat the altar, but they ate the flesh of victims offered upon it. Christ is not the altar, but the Lamb slain. Of him we eat.

The apostle seems in these verses to still continue the contrast between the two covenants as shown by the differences of the sacrifices connected with them. He shows that it was not an arbitrary thing that the bodies of those beasts whose blood was brought into the sanctuary, were burned outside of the camp. That was a type of Christ's suffering outside of the camp, or outside of the city of Jerusalem. The significance of this would seem to be that salvation was not confined to those within the camp, but that the sacrifice is for all,—that he should die, "not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad." . Our going forth without the gate, bearing his reproach, is the confession that we are here strangers and sojourners, seeking an abiding city yet to come.

Bible texts in this lesson

1 John 3:16-18 · Hebrews 13:2 · Hebrews 13:3 · Hebrews 13:5 · Hebrews 13:6 · Matthew 6:31 · Matthew 6:32 · Hebrews 13:7 · Hebrews 13:8 · Hebrews 13:9 · Hebrews 13:10 · Hebrews 13:11-14 · Hebrews 13:15 · Hebrews 13:16 · Psalms 51:17 · Psalms 116:12-14 · Hebrews 13:17 · 1 Peter 5:3 · 1 Peter 5:5 · Hebrews 13:18 · Hebrews 13:19 · Romans 15:30 · Ephesians 6:18 · Ephesians 6:19 · Hebrews 13:20 · Hebrews 13:21 · John 6:51-57 · John 11:52

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