Do not neglect the spiritual gift you have, given to you and confirmed by prophetic words when the elders laid hands on you.

But if someone does not provide for his own, especially his own family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, I solemnly charge you to carry out these commands without prejudice or favoritism of any kind.

For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.

Because of this I remind you to rekindle God’s gift that you possess through the laying on of my hands.

But keep away from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace, in company with others who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

I have had great joy and encouragement because of your love, for the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

After God spoke long ago in various portions and in various ways to our ancestors through the prophets,

how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

You made him lower than the angels for a little while. You crowned him with glory and honor.

For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”

But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

For a tent was prepared, the outer one, which contained the lampstand, the table, and the presentation of the loaves; this is called the holy place.

But only the high priest enters once a year into the inner tent, and not without blood that he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

The Holy Spirit is making clear that the way into the holy place had not yet appeared as long as the old tabernacle was standing.

But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands – the representation of the true sanctuary – but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.

for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice.