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Lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau who for one mess sold his first birthright.

For know ye that afterwards, when he desired to inherit the benediction, he was rejected. For he found no place of repentance, although with tears he had sought it.

For you are not come to a mountain that might be touched and a burning fire and a whirlwind and darkness and storm,

For they did not endure that which was said: and if so much as a beast shall touch the mount, it shall be stoned.

See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon earth, much more shall not we that turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.

For our God is a consuming fire.

And hospitality do not forget: for by this some, being not aware of it, have entertained angels.

Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither will I forsake thee.

Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today: and the same for ever.

Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats: which have not profited those that walk in them.

For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holies by the high priest for sin are burned without the camp.

For, we have not here a lasting city: but we seek one that is to come.

And do not forget to do good and to impart: for by such sacrifices God’s favour is obtained.

Obey your prelates and be subject to them. For they watch as being to render an account of your souls: that they may do this with joy and not with grief. For this is not expedient for you.

Pray for us. For we trust we have a good conscience, being willing to behave ourselves well in all things.

Fit you in all goodness, that you may do his will; doing in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is glory for ever and ever. Amen.

And I beseech you, brethren, that you suffer this word of consolation. For I have written to you in a few words.

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, which is moved and carried about by the wind.

For the sun rose with a burning heat and parched the grass: and the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof perished. So also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.