Hebrews 13:7
New International Version
Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.

New Living Translation
Remember your leaders who taught you the word of God. Think of all the good that has come from their lives, and follow the example of their faith.

English Standard Version
Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.

Berean Standard Bible
Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.

Berean Literal Bible
Remember those leading you, who spoke the word of God to you, of whom, considering the outcome of their way of life, you are to imitate the faith.

King James Bible
Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

New King James Version
Remember those who rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith follow, considering the outcome of their conduct.

New American Standard Bible
Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their way of life, imitate their faith.

NASB 1995
Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith.

NASB 1977
Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith.

Legacy Standard Bible
Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith.

Amplified Bible
Remember your leaders [for it was they] who brought you the word of God; and consider the result of their conduct [the outcome of their godly lives], and imitate their faith [their conviction that God exists and is the Creator and Ruler of all things, the Provider of eternal salvation through Christ, and imitate their reliance on God with absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness].

Christian Standard Bible
Remember your leaders who have spoken God’s word to you. As you carefully observe the outcome of their lives, imitate their faith.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Remember your leaders who have spoken God’s word to you. As you carefully observe the outcome of their lives, imitate their faith.

American Standard Version
Remember them that had the rule over you, men that spake unto you the word of God; and considering the issue of their life, imitate their faith.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Be mindful toward your Leaders who have spoken with you the word of God. Consider the results of their conduct and imitate their faith:

Contemporary English Version
Don't forget about your leaders who taught you God's message. Remember what kind of lives they lived and try to have faith like theirs.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Remember your prelates who have spoken the word of God to you; whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation,

English Revised Version
Remember them that had the rule over you, which spake unto you the word of God; and considering the issue of their life, imitate their faith.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Remember your leaders who have spoken God's word to you. Think about how their lives turned out, and imitate their faith.

Good News Translation
Remember your former leaders, who spoke God's message to you. Think back on how they lived and died, and imitate their faith.

International Standard Version
Remember your leaders, those who have spoken God's word to you. Think about the impact of their lives, and imitate their faith.

Literal Standard Version
Be mindful of those leading you, who spoke to you the word of God, who, considering the outcome of [their] behavior, imitate [their] faith:

Majority Standard Bible
Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.

New American Bible
Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.

NET Bible
Remember your leaders, who spoke God's message to you; reflect on the outcome of their lives and imitate their faith.

New Revised Standard Version
Remember your leaders, those who spoke the word of God to you; consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.

New Heart English Bible
Remember your leaders, who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

Webster's Bible Translation
Remember them who have the rule over you, who have spoken to you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their manner of life.

Weymouth New Testament
Remember your former leaders--it was they who brought you God's Message. Bear in mind how they ended their lives, and imitate their faith.

World English Bible
Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

Young's Literal Translation
Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith -- considering the issue of the behaviour -- be imitating,

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Context
Christ's Unchanging Nature
6So we say with confidence: “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?” 7Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. 8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.…

Cross References
Luke 5:1
On one occasion, while Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret with the crowd pressing in on Him to hear the word of God,

Hebrews 6:12
Then you will not be sluggish, but will imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch over your souls as those who must give an account. To this end, allow them to lead with joy and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.

Hebrews 13:24
Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy send you greetings.

1 Peter 4:11
If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.


Treasury of Scripture

Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken to you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

which.

Hebrews 13:17,24
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you…

Matthew 24:45
Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

Luke 12:42
And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?

have the rule.

Luke 8:11
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Acts 4:31
And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.

Acts 13:46
Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

whose.

Hebrews 6:12
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Song of Solomon 1:8
If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.

1 Corinthians 4:16
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

considering.

Acts 7:55-60
But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, …

the end.

1 Corinthians 10:13
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

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Hebrews 13
1. Various admonitions as to love;
4. to honest life;
5. to avoid covetousness;
7. to regard God's preachers;
9. to take heed of strange doctrines;
10. to confess Christ;
16. to give alms;
17. to obey governors;
18. to pray for the apostles.
20. The conclusion.














(7) Which have the rule.--Rather, which were your leaders (Hebrews 13:17; Hebrews 13:24; Acts 15:22), who spake unto you the word of God. These spiritual guides had been removed from them by death.

Whose faith follow.--Better, and, contemplating: the end (or, issue) of their life, imitate their faith. Their Christian life and course (James 3:13; 1Peter 1:15, et al.), had been known by the Church; they, too, have obtained a good report "by faith" (Hebrews 11:2), and all who contemplate the blessed issue of such a life will be strengthened to imitate their faith. We may well suppose that some had died a martyr's death, but the writer seems carefully to avoid any direct expression of this thought; his words apply to all who have ended their course in the triumph of faith. This verse recalls a striking passage in the Book of Wisdom, Hebrews 2:17-18; especially Hebrews 13:17, where the ungodly say of the righteous man, "Let us see if his words be true, and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him." . . .

Verses 7, 8. - Remember your leaders (τῶν ἡγουμένων ὑμῶν, wrongly rendered in the A.V., "them that have the rule over you;" for the reference is to departed chiefs. The word is similarly used by St. Luke (see Luke 22:26; Acts 15:22; also below, ver. 17 and ver. 24). St. Paul, with a like meaning, calls the rulers of the Church οἱ προιστάμενοι: see Romans 12:8; 1 Thessalonians 5:12; 1 Timothy 5:17), who spake to you the Word of God; of whose conversation (i.e. course of life, ἀναστροφῆς), considering the end (or issue, ἔκβασιν), imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is yesterday and today the same, and forever. This allusion to departed leaders shows the comparatively late date of the Epistle. Those who had died as martyrs, and hence, having a peculiar halo round them in the issue of their lives, may be supposed to be especially referred to; such as Stephen the proto-martyr at Jerusalem, James the son of Zebedee, and possibly James the Just, the acknowledged leader of the Jewish Christians. It may be that Peter, the apostle of the circumcision, had also suffered before the writing of the Epistle. This supposition, however, which would involve a date for the Epistle after St. Paul's death also, is by no means necessary. Others, too, may be alluded to of whom we have no record, but whose memory would be fresh in the minds of the readers. But it does not follow that martyrs only are intended. Others also who had died in peace, and whose end had been blessed, might be pointed to as models for the imitation of survivors. Ver. 8 must be taken as a distinct appended sentence, the watchword on which the preceding exhortation is based. Its drift is that, though successive generations pass away, Jesus Christ remains the same - the Savior of the living as well as of the departed, and the Savior of all to the end of time. It may be here observed that, though his eternal Deity is not distinctly expressed - for "yesterday" does not of necessity reach back to past eternity - yet the sentence can hardly be taken as not implying it. For his unchangeableness is contrasted with the changing generations of men, as is that of Jehovah in the Old Testament (e.g. in Psalm 90:2-4), and surely such language would not have been used of any but a Divine Being.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Remember
Μνημονεύετε (Mnēmoneuete)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 3421: From a derivative of mneme; to exercise memory, i.e. Recollect; by implication, to punish; also to rehearse.

your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

leaders
ἡγουμένων (hēgoumenōn)
Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 2233: (a) To lead, (b) To think, be of opinion, suppose, consider.

who
οἵτινες (hoitines)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3748: Whosoever, whichsoever, whatsoever.

spoke
ἐλάλησαν (elalēsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 2980: A prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb; to talk, i.e. Utter words.

the
τὸν (ton)
Article - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

word
λόγον (logon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3056: From lego; something said; by implication, a topic, also reasoning or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, the Divine Expression.

of God
Θεοῦ (Theou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

to you.
ὑμῖν (hymin)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

Consider
ἀναθεωροῦντες (anatheōrountes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 333: To look at attentively, gaze at, consider. From ana and theoreo; to look again at.

the
τὴν (tēn)
Article - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

outcome
ἔκβασιν (ekbasin)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1545: (a) a way out, escape, (b) result, issue. From a compound of ek and the base of basis; an exit.

of [their]
ὧν (hōn)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that.

way of life
ἀναστροφῆς (anastrophēs)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 391: Dealing with other men, conduct, life, behavior, manner of life. From anastrepho; behavior.

[and] imitate
μιμεῖσθε (mimeisthe)
Verb - Present Imperative Middle or Passive - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 3401: To imitate, follow. Middle voice from mimos; to imitate.

[their]
τὴν (tēn)
Article - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

faith.
πίστιν (pistin)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4102: Faith, belief, trust, confidence; fidelity, faithfulness.


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