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For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp.

For here we have no lasting city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls and will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with sighing—for that would be harmful to you.

Pray for us; we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to act honorably in all things.

I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.

But ask in faith, never doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind;

for the doubter, being double-minded and unstable in every way, must not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the field; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. It is the same way with the rich; in the midst of a busy life, they will wither away.

No one, when tempted, should say, "I am being tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil and he himself tempts no one.

for your anger does not produce God's righteousness.

For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror;

for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like.

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in,

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.

For the one who said, "You shall not commit adultery," also said, "You shall not murder." Now if you do not commit adultery but if you murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.

For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is also dead.

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.