– though mine too are significant. If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, I have more:

Be imitators of me, brothers and sisters, and watch carefully those who are living this way, just as you have us as an example.

since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.

For I can testify that he has worked hard for you and for those in Laodicea and Hierapolis.

It was not because we do not have that right, but to give ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

And he must be well thought of by those outside the faith, so that he may not fall into disgrace and be caught by the devil’s trap.

Similarly good works are also obvious, and the ones that are not cannot remain hidden.

Hold to the standard of sound words that you heard from me and do so with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

and their message will spread its infection like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group.

An elder must be blameless, the husband of one wife, with faithful children who cannot be charged with dissipation or rebellion.

and a sound message that cannot be criticized, so that any opponent will be at a loss, because he has nothing evil to say about us.

Therefore since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.

But in your case, dear friends, even though we speak like this, we are convinced of better things relating to salvation.

Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, sure and steadfast, which reaches inside behind the curtain,

But Melchizedek who does not share their ancestry collected a tithe from Abraham and blessed the one who possessed the promise.

For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin?

For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised.

For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.