Older women likewise are to exhibit behavior fitting for those who are holy, not slandering, not slaves to excessive drinking, but teaching what is good.

to be self-controlled, pure, fulfilling their duties at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message of God may not be discredited.

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.

When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

and like a robe you will fold them up and like a garment they will be changed, but you are the same and your years will never run out.”

For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself!

Therefore we must be wary that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.

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.

For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit,

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

And above the ark were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Now is not the time to speak of these things in detail.

Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.

and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel’s does.

Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too.”

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

Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

Is anyone among you ill? He should summon the elders of the church, and they should pray for him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.

You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.