Verse Lens · Context pointer
Hebrews 13:19 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 19. 19But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
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Role in This Section
This verse urges prayer more earnestly so the writer may be restored to the hearers sooner.
Read It With
- Hebrews 13:17–25
Read Hebrews 13:19 with 13:17–25. This verse urges prayer more earnestly so the writer may be restored to the hearers sooner. The complete unit establishes this movement: The community should cooperate with leaders who keep watch and must give account, while leaders' care is evaluated before God; the preacher requests prayer for honest conduct and restoration. The God of peace who raised the great shepherd equips the people for God's will, and a brief word-of-exhortation note, Timothy news, Italian greeting, and grace close the sermon-letter.
Why It Needs Context
The complete sermon movement in Hebrews 13:17–25 supplies the comparison, cited Scripture, warning or promise, and pastoral outcome that give this line its force; isolated teaching would detach it from those controls.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Hebrews 13:17–25 — Accountable Care, Prayer, Benediction, and the Word of Exhortation Close the SermonSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Hebrews 13:17–25, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording, clause relationships, discourse features, quotations, and original-language discussion.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text file Heb.txt, 13:17–25
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