Study Desk

Make an effort to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, and so do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brethren.

holding fast to the faithful Message which he has received, so that he may be well qualified both to encourage others with sound teaching and to reply successfully to opponents.

industrious in their homes, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the Christian teaching may not be exposed to reproach.

and healthy language which no one can censure, so that our opponents may feel ashamed at having nothing evil to say against us.

Help Zenas the lawyer forward on his journey with special care, and Apollos, so that they may have all they require.

And let our people too learn to set a good example in following honest occupations for the supply of their necessities, so that they may not live useless lives.

I am sending him back to you, though in so doing I send part of myself.

Only I wished to do nothing without your consent, so that his kind action of yours might not be done under pressure, but might be a voluntary one.

And for this purpose it was necessary that in all respects He should be made to resemble His brothers, so that He might become a compassionate and faithful High Priest in things relating to God, in order to atone for the sins of the people.

For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, in so far as he who has built a house has higher honour than the house itself.

where your forefathers so sorely tried My patience and saw all that I did during forty years.

On the contrary encourage one another, day after day, so long as To-day lasts, so that not one of you may be hardened through the deceitful character of sin.

And with whom was God so greatly grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies fell in the Desert?

And so we see that it was owing to lack of faith that they could not be admitted.

Let it then be our earnest endeavour to be admitted to that rest, so that no one may perish through following the same example of unbelief.

So Christ also did not claim for Himself the honour of being made High Priest, but was appointed to it by Him who said to Him, "My Son art Thou: I have to-day become Thy Father;"

and so, having been made perfect, He became to all who obey Him the source and giver of eternal salvation.

Concerning Him we have much to say, and much that it would be difficult to make clear to you, since you have become so dull of apprehension.

And advance we will, if God permits us to do so.

For God is not unjust so that He is unmindful of your labour and of the love which you have manifested towards Himself in having rendered services to His people and in still rendering them.