But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.

But we passionately want each of you to demonstrate the same eagerness for the fulfillment of your hope until the end,

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

So he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

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.

They served only for matters of food and drink and various washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.

then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second.

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

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

If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.

And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

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.

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

But rejoice in the degree that you have shared in the sufferings of Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may also rejoice and be glad.

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.

But the one who hates his fellow Christian is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for, but receive a full reward.

And I saw a powerful angel proclaiming in a loud voice: “Who is worthy to open the scroll and to break its seals?”