Here is another way that our people can learn to engage in good works to meet pressing needs and so not be unfruitful.

“Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.

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

“For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer.”

By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order at God’s command, so that the visible has its origin in the invisible.

By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but be healed.

And see to it that no one becomes an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

Now this phrase “once more” indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.

And do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.

My brothers and sisters, do not show prejudice if you possess faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.

Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, or a vine produce figs? Neither can a salt water spring produce fresh water.

Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God’s slaves.

But in fact, if you happen to suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. But do not be terrified of them or be shaken.

So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.

Dear friends, do not be astonished that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as though something strange were happening to you.

But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear such a name.

The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

They will never go hungry or be thirsty again, and the sun will not beat down on them, nor any burning heat,