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For we have great thankfulness and encouragement through thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up both supplications and entreaties to him who was able to save him out of death, with strong crying and tears; (and having been heard because of his piety;)

but he, because of his continuing for ever, has the priesthood unchangeable.

not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in [the] day of my taking their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because *they* did not continue in my covenant, and *I* did not regard them, saith [the] Lord.

Because this [is] the covenant that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and *they* shall be to me for people.

And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know me in themselves, from [the] little one [among them] unto [the] great among them.

Because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more.

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him; for before [his] translation he has the testimony that he had pleased God.

By faith Moses, being born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child beautiful; and they did not fear the injunction of the king.

and the rich in his humiliation, because as [the] grass's flower he will pass away.

Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.

Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in your pleasures.

because it is written, Be ye holy, for *I* am holy.

Because all flesh [is] as grass, and all its glory as [the] flower of grass. The grass has withered and [its] flower has fallen;

Because it is contained in the scripture: Behold, I lay in Zion a corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believes on him shall not be put to shame.

Because so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye put to silence the ignorance of senseless men;

not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but on the contrary, blessing [others], because ye have been called to this, that ye should inherit blessing.

because [the] eyes of [the] Lord [are] on [the] righteous, and his ears towards their supplications; but [the] face of [the] Lord [is] against them that do evil.

but before all things having fervent love among yourselves, because love covers a multitude of sins;

Again, I write a new commandment to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true light already shines.