For you all are sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness.

For God did not destine us for wrath but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

But if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for the church of God?

For the scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and, “The worker deserves his pay.”

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

For God did not give us a Spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.

for which I suffer hardship to the point of imprisonment as a criminal, but God’s message is not imprisoned!

For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership?

Therefore it remains for some to enter it, yet those to whom it was previously proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience.

And no one assumes this honor on his own initiative, but only when called to it by God, as in fact Aaron was.

a minister in the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up.

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

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.

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?

So when he came into the world, he said, “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

By faith Rahab the prostitute escaped the destruction of the disobedient, because she welcomed the spies in peace.

Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.

So we can say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper, and I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”