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H EBREW S 1 3
Concluding Words
Keep on loving each other as brothers
and sisters.* 2 Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done
this have entertained angels without realizing
it! 3 Remember those in prison, as if you were
there yourself. Remember also those being
mistreated, as if you felt their pain in your own
bodies.
4 Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely
judge people who are immoral and those who
commit adultery.
5 Don’t love money; be satisfied with what
you have. For God has said,
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“I will never fail you.
I will never abandon you.”*
6 So
we can say with confidence,
“The Lord is my helper,
so I will have no fear.
What can mere people do to me?”*
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outside the camp. 12 So also Jesus suffered and
died outside the city gates to make his people
holy by means of his own blood. 13 So let us go
out to him, outside the camp, and bear the disgrace he bore. 14 For this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home
yet to come.
15 Therefore, let us offer through Jesus a continual sacrifice of praise to God, proclaiming
our allegiance to his name. 16 And don’t forget to
do good and to share with those in need. These
are the sacrifices that please God.
17 Obey your spiritual leaders, and do what
they say. Their work is to watch over your souls,
and they are accountable to God. Give them reason to do this with joy and not with sorrow. That
would certainly not be for your benefit.
18 Pray for us, for our conscience is clear and
we want to live honorably in everything we do.
19 And especially pray that I will be able to come
back to you soon.
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— promises —
from God
“I will never fail you.
I will never abandon you.”
H E B R EWS 1 3:5
7 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.
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today,
and forever. 9 So do not be attracted by strange,
new ideas. Your strength comes from God’s
grace, not from rules about food, which don’t
help those who follow them.
10 We have an altar from which the priests in
the Tabernacle* have no right to eat. 11 Under the
old system, the high priest brought the blood
of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for
sin, and the bodies of the animals were burned
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Now may the God of peace—
who brought up from the dead our Lord
Jesus,
the great Shepherd of the sheep,
and ratified an eternal covenant with his
blood—
may he equip you with all you need
for doing his will.
May he produce in you,*
through the power of Jesus Christ,
every good thing that is pleasing to him.
All glory to him forever and ever! Amen.
22 I urge you, dear brothers and sisters,* to
pay attention to what I have written in this brief
exhortation.
23 I want you to know that our brother Timothy has been released from jail. If he comes here
soon, I will bring him with me to see you.
24 Greet all your leaders and all the believers
there.* The believers from Italy send you their
greetings.
25 May God’s grace be with you all.
13:1 Greek Continue in brotherly love. 13:5 Deut 31:6, 8.
13:6 Ps 118:6. 13:10 Or tent. 13:21 Some manuscripts read
in us. 13:22 Greek brothers. 13:24 Greek all of God’s holy
people.