Closing exhortations
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📚Let brotherly love continue. 2 📚Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by doing so some have unknowingly entertained angels✭. 3 📚✭Remember those who are in bonds, as though bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.4 📚Marriage is honourable✭ among all, and the marriage bed is undefiled, but God will judge the sexually immoral✭, and adulterers.
A great promise and the proper response
5 📚Your manner of life must be without the love of money✭. So be content✭ with what you have, for he has said,
I will never leave you✭ or forsake you.
6 📚✭So that we may boldly say,
The Lord is my helper,
and I will not fear what man will do to me.
7 📚Remember your leaders✭ who have spoken God’s word to you, and follow✭ their faith, considering the final result of their manner of life.
Jesus is always the same
8 📚✭Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 9 📚Do not be carried away with various strange doctrines✭. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods, which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.
Meeting with Jesus outside the camp
10 📚We have an altar✭, and those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat there. 11 📚✭For the bodies of those animals, the blood of which is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.
12 📚So Jesus also, that he might sanctify✭ the people with his own blood, suffered outside the gate✭. 13 📚Therefore let us go to him outside the camp✭, bearing his reproach✭. 14 📚For here we have no lasting city✭, but we seek one to come.
Three offerings pleasing to God
15 📚✭Therefore let us offer through him the sacrifice of praise✭ to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. 16 📚And do not forget to do good✭ and to share what you have,✭ for God is very pleased with such sacrifices.
17 📚Obey your leaders✭ and be submissive, for they watch over your souls, as those who must give an account✭. See that they are able to do so with joy, and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.
18 📚Pray for us, for we are confident that we have a good conscience✭, and are willing to live honorably in every way. 19 📚✭But especially I urge you to do this so that I may be restored to you more quickly.
God at work for us and in us
20 📚Now the God of peace✭ who brought again✭ from the dead✭ our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant✭, 21 📚✭make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Closing remarks
22 📚And I urge you, brethren, bear with this word of exhortation✭, for I have written a letter to you in few words.
23 📚Know that our brother Timothy✭ is set at liberty. If he arrives shortly, I will come with him and see you.
24 📚Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you.
25 📚Grace✭ be with you all. Amen.