Enter the Life of Faith

Hebrews 13

Continue loving each other as siblings. Y’all must not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have received angels as guests without knowing it. Y’all should remember those in prison as if you were with them, and those who are mistreated as if it were your body. Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Ensure that your life is free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for ʜᴇ has said, “I will never leave you, neither will I forsake you.”+Deut 31:6 So we say with confidence,

“The Lord [YHWH] is my helper. I will not be afraid. What can humans do to me?”+Psa 118:6-7

Y’all should remember your* leaders, who spoke the word of God to y’all. Consider the result of their conduct, and then y’all imitate that faith.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Y’all must not be carried away by various strange teachings.

It is beautiful for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by ceremonial foods, which do not benefit those who observe them. We have an altar from which those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat. For the high priest brings the blood of animals into the holy place as an offering for sin, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. Therefore Jesus also suffered outside of the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. So, let us go to him outside of the camp, bearing the abuse he bore. For here we don’t have an enduring city, but we seek the city that is to come. Through him, then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips which openly profess his name. But y’all must not forget to do good and share in fellowship, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Y’all should trust your* leaders and submit to them, because they keep watch over y’all’s souls as those who will give account. Let them do this with joy and not with complaints, for that would not be beneficial for y’all.

Pray for us, y’all. For we trust that we have a beautiful conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things. I strongly urge y’all to do this, so that I may be restored to y’all sooner.

Closing Benediction and Greetings

Now may the God of peace, who with the blood of the eternal covenant brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus, may ʜᴇ equip y’all in every good thing to do ʜɪꜱ will, working in us what is pleasing in ʜɪꜱ sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Now siblings, I urge y’all to endure this word of exhortation, for I have written to y’all briefly. Y’all should know that our sibling Timothy has been freed. If he arrives soon, I will see y’all with him.

Greet all y’all’s leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy greet y’all.

Grace be with all y’all.