Hebrews Chapter 13 Verse by Verse Commentary

Grace unto you, and peace,
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ

Hebrews 13:1 Let brotherly love continue.

Obviously continuation is required to endure unto the end, to be saved only by grace only. So brotherly love should continue, and be unto brethren all: Hebrews 2, not some only. Brotherly love does not fault find, nor leave, nor forsake.

Hebrews 13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Forgetful speaks of those who forget they were purged of old sins and get suckered with the second law of Romans 8:2 law vs law, forgetting the second is like the first in Mt 22: 36-40 law law, and law is not only the ministration of condemnation in 2Corinthians 3:9, but also the ministration of death in 2Corinthians 3:7.
Strangers speak of those in Hebrews 11 who all died and received not the plural promises of forsake(Jeremiah 23:39) and not forsake, nor the promise of never being forsaken by grace that is void of law; For they all served law rather than grace, or mixed grace + law.

Hebrews 13:3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; [and] them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

In unity, if any are in bonds(laws), then all are to the degree all are one; Since there is no respect of persons with God. If any suffer, then all suffer; since all are in one body. However in the body of Christ there is no law = no sin and death = no suffering at all, when doing what the head of the body Christ authored: don't even try to mend the law, end it.
Notice two sorts of "them" are mentioned, speaks of two sorts of law: OT Law and NT Law.
Bonds speak of Laws which Bind and Blind "them" observing such lying vanities (laws).
Suffering adversity(torment of fear, injurious oppression, destructive wrath, etc) also speaks of law; And of being in J of C-->J, as noted in 2Timothy 3:12: all who live godly in CJ shall suffer; Rather than being in C of J-->C, is the end of the law, is the end of all bondage, suffering, and sorrows. Adversity speaks of the adversary: the d-evil(law).
Hebrews 13:4 Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Marriage speaks of Christ and the Church being loined as one Head and Body, not as two bodies; with top down reconciliation to all below the head of the body of Christ, the Church. Whore-mongering and Adult-ery speaks of OT Law and NT Law claiming to be espoused to His Grace and being found whoring with law again. Grace marriage is honorable and undefiled. Law marriages and divorces and remarriages always bring forth the ultimate divorce: death.

Hebrews 13:5 [Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Conversation without covetousness is Grace without law. Content speaks of grace is sufficient, no law required. Grace saith: I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. Law said: I will forsake you. So mixing grace + law is as adding forsaken to not forsaken, making an oxy-moron with a bad ending: forsaken. People who go with another law, even love thy neighbor as a law, end up feeling wretched and forsaken as David in Psalms and Jesus on the cross.

Hebrews 13:6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

Boldly speaks of going to the throne of grace in Hebrews 4, where only mercy is obtain-able, and only help is avail-able, notably in time, not when it's too late. The Lord is now that Spirit, my helper (grace), not my hind-rance (law), and thereby is no fear in perfect love, since fear hath torment, and torment is not contentment, but the opposite of contentment.

Hebrews 13:7 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.

Here we have exhortation to remember, not obey; and clarity it's them who have spoken the word of God: Grace, which is sharper than any twoedged sword in Hebrews 4:12; smarter than any law law. Follow such faith, as the law is not of faith: Galatians 3:11,12, and whatsoever is not of faith is sin: Romans 14:23. Consider "the end" of conversation, "their end" being a dead end for adding law worketh wrath to grace is sufficient. The end: Grace with you all. Amen... is not their end, and their end is the end. Consider only the end.

Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

CJ is not JC. Jesus Christ is the only foundation laid to build on: Matthew 1:1...1Corinthians 3:11...Revelation 22:21. Reconciled to God through Jesus-->Christ-->God-ward is always directionally fwd (Eg: You-ward of Ye/You, Us-ward of Them/Us, God-ward of Law/Grace). Through Jesus-->Christ is as if leaving divisional changeable two Sons Jesus to go on to the perfection of Christ: is the end of the law (not the mend of the law). Through Christ-->God-ward then leaves Christ (due to false Christs shall arise to deceive) to be reconciled to God(cannot lie nor die, and never changes). So we should never go bwd, never draw back to either of law vs law, which is as a fearful fall, from grace to law, falling into either left or right hands of awful lawful law law Majesty on high, a fall which notably results in Christ: the end of law(sin and death) being of no effect to you (of ye/you): Galatians 5:4. Selah to those who will live godly in C-->J, who thereby draw back to Jesus = division, not peace: Luke 12:51. For both peace with God and eternal life of eternal salvation are notably "through Jesus-->Christ"-->God-ward. For reconciliation is neither to changeable two Sons Jesus nor to false Christs shall arise to deceive, but notably "to God" in 2Corinthians 5; And when finally "reconciled to God" (reconciled to Grace void of law, Mercy void of sacrifice, Peace void of division) then mediation unto you and intercession for you are no longer necessary. So, be ye reconciled to God. Selah.

Hebrews 13:9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

Carried about speaks of being tossed to and fro by law law, and of being carried away, to baby-lon, the milk-y way thereof such like Barnabas who got carried away by Peter's partiality and hypocrisy at Antioch. E-stablished in grace(only) speaks of being made perfect and being stablished by the God of all grace (no law at all). And to establish grace in the heart, we make law the dead testator of the new testament, as is noted in Hebrews 9.

Hebrews 13:10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.

We -vs- they, is as us -vs- them; which things are an allegory. Serve speaks of servants(slaves). We are exhorted to be no more servants at all, neither of two servants compared as good/better, but rather to be above a servant (more than a slave) as a friend, Son, brother: John 15:15; Galatians 4:7; Philemon 1:16. The altar we have is grace us and mercy full.

Hebrews 13:11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.

There's difference between within and without. The kingdom of God is within you. Without are dogs, sorcerers, whoremongers, murderers, idolaters, and whosoever maketh or loveth a lie (law).

Hebrews 13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.

Funny thing is, shedding of blood does not totally purge all things, only almost all things: Hebrews 9. For blasphemy the Ghost have never forgiveness, and every one has in some way spoken against Ghostly Law, if only as a child to say a parental law was unfair, to which parents respond: I know it's not fair, but it's the law; thereby saying law is unfair, thereby blaspheming the Ghost. So the only way any and all can be truly forgiven is by the abolition of law, which is also the abolition of sacrifice, which is of the law. Selah.

Hebrews 13:13  Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

When we go to what's without the camp, we bear the burden of such reproach of such inexcusable (unpardonable) law.

Hebrews 13:14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

Here on earth there is no continuing city of Jersualem, gets destroyed over and over; Perhaps because it is divided, split in three: Jew - Muslim - Christian, three that are always at war, never dwelling together in peace as brethren in a globe-all world.

Hebrews 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of [our] lips giving thanks to his name.

It's fruit of lips, our words, that we should make either good (grace) or corrupt (law) in Matthew 12:30-37; For it is by our own words that we are either justified (graced) or condemned (lawed). Such verbal justification or condemnation of yourself (all the kingdom of God within you) notably comes from your heart. So it's necessary for your heart to be established in grace only, to be justified only by your mouth, lest a lawed heart condemn itself with it's own mouth. Eg: Thine own mouth condiment thee, and not I: Job 15:6. So, let not your heart be troubled (lawed): John 14... x2.

Hebrews 13:16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Doing good(only): grace (only), not law: "both good and evil": Hebrews 5, is firstly what pleases God; And communicating that(only) is lastly also what pleases God. These are not bloody sacrifices of animals or men, but praise worthy sacrifices of grace us people not willing to have any blood shed at all, of any brethren at all, since we all are one. One what? One proselyte if twofold: more the child of hell, which is worse than, not better than, the hypocrites, fools, serpents, vipers, and blind guides who sat in Moses' Seat: OT Law. And let us not forget when it comes to such Pharisees it's not beware the Pharisees, but their doctrine: Law. Yet when it comes to Dogs, it's not beware their doctrine, but beware of Dogs, who turn again to their vomit: law.

Hebrews 13:17 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.

At the time, Romans had the rule over Jews, who kept getting carried away due to their adherence to unjust law.So Paul suggests, especially to James, Peter (Cephas), and John, that they stop stirring up the Jews against the Romans, who must give account to Caesar, and that they may give account with joy (about things being peaceful) instead of grief (about things being unsatable). For stirring up Jews against Romans is unprofitable to Jews (which became obvious in the fall of Jerusalem in 70AD, when another million Jews got killed, several million got carried away as captives again).

Hebrews 13:18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

A good conscience is purged of all sins, which shedding of blood (sacrifice) does not do..

Hebrews 13:19 But I beseech [you] the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. 

On second thought, don't pray for us like you usually pray, since you always seem to pray amiss. Pray rather that I may be restored to you the sooner, instead of later.

Hebrews 13:20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

God is not [the author] of confusion, but of peace. God did not see both good and evil, but good x6 and very good the seventh time in Genesis 1. So a God of peace isn't about Law vs Law nor even Law vs Grace, but Grace void of law. For contrary things cannot co-exist in peace. Christ is our peace who hath abolished the law (the enmity) from his flesh; Which is allegory say he flushed law as dung. Blood of the everlasting covenant is not vengeful, but merciful blood of a pure heart that is established in grace, which is harmless. Jesus is brought again from the dead by grace, not by law.

Hebrews 13:21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Perfect = Merciful when connecting Matthew 5:48 and Luke 6:36. Made is the second part of created/made. The will of God is I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, which means God will have grace, not law, not then, not now, not ever. That which is wellpleasing is having mercy; For having sacrifice gave God no pleasure at all. As for the sight of God, Galatians 3 notes that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God. As for through Jesus Christ, such denotes going through what Jesus went through to become Christ: the end of the law; through meaning in one side and out the other, as if going from law to grace, or from child to man, or from servant to Son, or from unstable to stable..

Hebrews 13:22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.

The word of exhortation, to go up higher, higher than plural divided heavens, is grace, pure grace void of law.

Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that [our] brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.

This is tricky, since Timothy pens the epistle, as noted in the end note which is attached to all Pauline epistles excepting Revelation. What is not obvious from Hebrews is that Timothy got sorely depressed when the churches of Galatia he was sent to bishop from Ephesus got subverted and bewitched, by the Hebrews. So Paul wrote to Timothy twice, to encourage him, and to exhort him to study to shew himself approved(only) to God; For Grace only approves, whereas Law both approves and disapproves. So, it's like a slap in the face to tell Hebrews that Timothy is set at liberty. 

Hebrews 13:24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.

Saluting brethren involves welcoming, embracing, and well wishing.

Hebrews 13:25 Grace [be] with you all. Amen.

Such is notably the Pauline token (allegorically the ticket to heaven, the heaven that is above plural divided heavens); the token of Paul in every Pauline Epistle, including Hebrews and Revelation, and notably always written by his own hand.

Of two Amens in Hebrews, both in Hebrews 13, the last Amen notably goes to no mention of law (sin and death) at all.

<Pauline Epistle End Note> [Written to the Hebrews from Italy, by Timothy.]

Clarity seems necessary concerning this notation about Timothy. First of all Paul The Apostle is the author of To The Hebrews, as noted in the title; But such is penned by Timothy, except for the conclusion, as thrice noted in other Pauline Epistles. So Timothy acts as the secretary or scribe of Paul the orator. Yet the notation of Timothy as writer carries a further revealing, as noted in Hebrews 13:23. For after James, Peter, and John bewitched the churches (Galatians), it sorely depressed (oppressed) Timothy, who finally got over such oppression of law via two Pauline epistles to Timothy encouraged him to study to shew himself approved(only) unto God. So mentioning Timothy being set a liberty from their oppressing law, and having Timothy write the Epistle is kinda in your face To Hebrews James, Peter, and John.

Comparing the Conclusion of Hebrews with the Conclusion of the Holy Bible:
Conclusion of To The Hebrews (a mini bible itself): "Grace with you all. Amen."
Conclusion of Holy Bible: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen."