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And they will turn away their ears from the truth, and they will turn to fables.

They profess to know God, but in works they deny him, and they are abominable, and disobedient, condemning every kind of good work.

That they may teach the young women to be modest, to love their husbands and their children,

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and the theological arguments of the scribes, for they are unprofitable and vain.

See that Ze''nas, the scribe, and A-pol''los are given a good farewell on their journey, that they lack nothing.

And let our people be taught to do good works in times of emergency, that they be not unfruitful.

They shall pass away; but you shall endure; and they all shall wear out like a garment;

And as a cloak you shall fold them up, and they shall be changed: but you are the same, and your years shall never end.

And it was meet and proper for him, in whose hand is everything and for whom are all things, to bring many sons to glory, so that from the very beginning of their salvation, they are made perfect through sufferings.

Your fathers tempted me even though they examined and saw my works forty years.

Therefore I was not pleased with that generation, and said, These are a people whose hearts have been misled and they have not known my ways.

Who are those who have heard and provoked him? Were they not those who came out of Egypt under Moses, although not all of them?

And against whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, except against those who did not listen?

And here again he said, They shall not enter into my rest.

For, for them to sin again, and be renewed again by repentance, they crucify the Son of God a second time, and put him to open shame.

For they were made priests without oaths; but this one was made a priest with an oath, as it was said concerning him by David, The LORD has sworn, and will not lie, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Mel-chis''edec.

And these priests were many, because they were mortal, and they were not permitted to continue because of death:

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand and led them out of the land of Egypt; and because they abode not in my covenant, I rejected them, saith the LORD.

For this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law into their minds, and I will write it on their hearts: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

These all died in faith not having received the promised land, but they saw it from afar off, and rejoiced in it; and they acknowledged that they were strangers and pilgrims on earth.