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Hebrews 13

Exhortations

¹Let brotherly love remain. ²Don't forget hospitality, because by it some have unknowingly entertained angels. ³Remember those who are bound as though you were bound with them, and those who suffer wrong as though you were with them in body. ⁴Marriage is honorable, along with the undefiled marriage bed, because God will judge fornicators and adulterers. ⁵The proper way of life is not to be fond of money. Be satisfied with what you have. For he himself has said, "I will not leave you nor will I forsake you." [Deuteronomy 31:6] ⁶Be confident for this reason, that he says to us:

"The Lord is my helper.
I will not be fearful of what people can do to me."
[Psalm 118:6]

Leaders

⁷Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. When you see the outcome of their way of life, imitate their faith. ⁸Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.

Avoiding Strange Doctrines

⁹Don't be carried away by strange and differing doctrines, for it is good for your heart to be made firm through grace, not through food regulations, which do not benefit those who follow them. ¹⁰We have an altar, from which those who minister in the tabernacle don't have the authority to eat. ¹¹For those beasts whose blood was brought into the holy place by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin were burned outside the camp. ¹²Therefore Jesus also suffered outside the gate so that he might make the people holy by means of his own blood. ¹³And now we can come to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach. ¹⁴For we don't have an enduring city here, but we seek one to come. ¹⁵Through him we offer up always a sacrifice of praise to God, which is the fruit of lips confessing his name. ¹⁶And don't forget the doing of good, and fellowship because such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

Subject to Leaders

¹⁷Obey your leaders and be subject to them, for they remain alert on behalf of your souls, as persons who have to give an account, so that they can do it with joy and not with sighing-for the latter would be unprofitable to you.

¹⁸Pray for us, because we believe that we have a good conscience, because we want to behave honorably in all things. ¹⁹Even more I exhort you to do this so that I might be restored to you quickly.

Benediction

²⁰Now may the God of peace who raised the great shepherd of the sheep, even our Lord Jesus, from the dead through the blood of an eternal covenant, ²¹equip you with everything good to do his will, working in you what is pleasing before him by means of Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever, Amen.

²²I exhort you, brethren, to listen willingly to the word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly. ²³You know what our brother Timothy has been set free, with whom I will see you if he comes quickly. ²⁴Greet all your leaders and all the saints. All those from Italy greet you. ²⁵May grace be with you.

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