Study Desk

and that you regard them very highly in love because of their work. Live in peace with one another.

We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is only fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another increases all the more,

and with all the deception of unrighteousness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.

But we should always give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first fruits for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.

For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we did not act in an unruly manner among you,

not because we do not have the authority, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you, so that you would imitate us.

I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because He regarded me faithful, putting me into service,

even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;

For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.

thus incurring condemnation, because they have set aside their previous pledge.

But those who have believers as their masters must not be disrespectful to them because they are brothers, but must serve them all the more, because those who partake of the benefit are believers and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

who must be silenced because they are upsetting whole families, teaching things they should not teach for the sake of dishonest gain.

because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints;

For I have come to have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels—Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.

So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.

Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly had good news proclaimed to them failed to enter because of disobedience,

and because of it, he is obligated, just as for the people, to also offer sacrifices for sins in the same way for himself.

He, in the days of His flesh, offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.

But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern both good and evil.