However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

This saying is trustworthy: “If someone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a good work.”

Do not accept an accusation against an elder unless it can be confirmed by two or three witnesses.

If we are unfaithful, he remains faithful, since he cannot deny himself.

Therefore if you regard me as a partner, accept him as you would me.

Now if he has defrauded you of anything or owes you anything, charge what he owes to me.

“As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’”

but to repeat the text cited earlier: “They will never enter my rest!”

For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken afterward about another day.

saying, “Surely I will bless you greatly and multiply your descendants abundantly.”

And this is even clearer if another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,

For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.

In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.

This brings you great joy, although you may have to suffer for a short time in various trials.

For this finds God’s favor, if because of conscience toward God someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly.

For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil.

And if the righteous are barely saved, what will become of the ungodly and sinners?