You, however, must continue in the things you have learned and are confident about. You know who taught you

that the person dedicated to God may be capable and equipped for every good work.

Instead he must be hospitable, devoted to what is good, sensible, upright, devout, and self-controlled.

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

On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,

But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.

Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom.

You also be patient and strengthen your hearts, for the Lord’s return is near.

And God will exalt you in due time, if you humble yourselves under his mighty hand

They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.

because everyone who has been fathered by God conquers the world.This is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith.

and began to shout when they saw the smoke from the fire that burned her up, “Who is like the great city?”

Later Moses sought diligently for the sin offering male goat, but it had actually been burnt. So he became angry at Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s remaining sons, saying,

If he has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert in the jubilee and the original owner may return to his property.

but if he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him according to the years that are left until the next jubilee year, and it will be deducted from the conversion value.

At that time I instructed you as follows: “The Lord your God has given you this land for your possession. You warriors are to cross over before your fellow Israelites equipped for battle.

At that same time the Lord said to me, “Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark.

Thus you must obey the Lord your God, keeping all his commandments that I am giving you today and doing what is right before him.

The Lord’s angelic messenger came and sat down under the oak tree in Ophrah owned by Joash the Abiezrite. He arrived while Joash’s son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress so he could hide it from the Midianites.