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and that they may awake up out of the snare of the devil, [who are] taken by him, for *his* will.

For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts,

and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables.

They profess to know God, but in works deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work.

The word [is] faithful, and I desire that thou insist strenuously on these things, that they who have believed God may take care to pay diligent attention to good works. These things are good and profitable to men.

But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and contentions about the law, shun; for they are unprofitable and vain.

and let ours also learn to apply themselves to good works for necessary wants, that they may not be unfruitful.

They shall perish, but *thou* continuest still; and they all shall grow old as a garment,

and as a covering shalt thou roll them up, and they shall be changed; but *thou* art the Same, and thy years shall not fail.

Wherefore I was wroth with this generation, and said, They always err in heart; and *they* have not known my ways;

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who had not hearkened to the word?

And we see that they could not enter in on account of unbelief;)

and in this again, If they shall enter into my rest.

and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves [as they do] the Son of God, and making a show of [him].

And they indeed from among the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is from their brethren, though these are come out of the loins of Abraham:

(for they are become priests without the swearing of an oath, but he with the swearing of an oath, by him who said, as to him, The Lord has sworn, and will not repent [of it], *Thou* [art] priest for ever [according to the order of Melchisedec];)

And they have been many priests, on account of being hindered from continuing by death;

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.