“Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’

For we had good news proclaimed to us just as they did. But the message they heard did them no good, since they did not join in with those who heard it in faith.

And no creature is hidden from God, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.

When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” (which are offered according to the law),

But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I take no pleasure in him.

But as it is, they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.

(the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.

Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.

All generous giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the slightest hint of change.

Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?

You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!

You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,

For if these things are really yours and are continually increasing, they will keep you from becoming ineffective and unproductive in your pursuit of knowing our Lord Jesus Christ more intimately.

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment,

If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.

The one who says “I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,