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Hebrews 13

Hebrews 13:19

Sacrifice, Obedience, and Prayer · Hebrews 13:15–19
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Translations

Modern
And I especially urge you to pray that I may be restored to you soon.
Traditional
But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
Literal
And more abundantly I exhort you to do this, so that I may be restored to you more quickly.
Latin
Amplius autem deprecor vos hoc facere, quo celerius restituar vobis.

Original

Greek
English
And I especially urge you to pray that I may be restored to you soon.

Notes

Hebrews 13:18–19

  • Pray for us: The author requests prayers for himself using the "authorial plural" (a literary device where the author uses "we" instead of "I") (see also 5:11; 6:9).

  • we have a clear conscience: Compare with 2 Corinthians 1:11–12; 4:2.

Hebrews 13:7–19

This middle part of chapter 13 is framed by mentions of the community's leaders (13:7, 17–19). Rabbis often used a technique called inclusio, where similar words or phrases mark the start and end of a section, like a subheading in a modern book. This part suggests there were several challenges in the church that the book of Hebrews originally addressed.

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