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For consider him that has endured such opposing of sinners against himself, that you do not wax weary, fainting in your souls.

For whom the Lord loves he chastens, And scourges every son whom he receives.

It is for chastening that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom [his] father does not chasten?

For they indeed for a few days chastened [us] as seemed good to them; but he for [our] profit, that [we] may be partakers of his holiness.

And all chastening seems for the present not to be joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields peaceable fruit to those that have been exercised thereby, [even the fruit] of righteousness.

and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame not be turned out of the way, but rather be healed.

lest [there be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.

For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind [in his father,] though he sought it diligently with tears.

For you have not come to [a mount] that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned;

See that you do not refuse him that speaks. For if they did not escape when they refused him that warned [them] on earth, much more [shall] we [not escape] who turn away from him that [warns] from heaven:

for our God is a consuming fire.

Do not forget to show love to strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

[Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Be free from the love of money; content with such things as you have: for he himself has said, I will never fail you, neither will I ever forsake you.

Don't be carried away by diverse and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established by grace; not by meats, in which those who are occupied in them were not profited.

For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest [as an offering] for sin, are burned outside the camp.

For we do not have here an abiding city, but we seek after [the city] which is to come.

But to do good and to communicate do not forget: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Obey those that have the rule over you, and submit [to them]: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as those that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this [would be] unprofitable for you.