Hebrews 13:18
Pray for us. For we trust we have a good conscience, being willing to behave ourselves well in all things.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Orate pro nobis : confidimus enim quia bonam conscientiam habemus in omnibus bene volentes conversari.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- Προσεύχεσθε περὶ ἡμῶν, πειθόμεθα γὰρ ὅτι καλὴν συνείδησιν ἔχομεν, ἐν πᾶσιν καλῶς θέλοντες ἀναστρέφεσθαι.
Haydock's commentary
On verses 17 to 18
Obey your prelates, &c. Join the sacrifice of obedience to your bishops and pastors, whom God has placed over you, who must render an account even of your souls, i.e. whether they have discharged their duty towards you, and whether it be not by their neglect that you have remained in your sins. Follow their commands and instructions, with such a ready willingness, that you do not contristate them, but that you may be a subject of comfort and joy to them, in their heavy and dangerous employments.
Fail not to pray for me, who am such a minister of God. (Witham)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews, Hebrews 13.17
[4.] Ver. 18 . “Pray for us” (he says); “for we trust we have a good conscience among all, willing to live honestly.”