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1 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Forget not hospitality: for by it some having entertained angels were incognizant. 3 Remember those bound, as having been bound along with them; those suffering persecutions, as you yourselves being also in the body. 4 Marriage is honorable among all, and the couch undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers. 5 Let your deportment be free from covetousness; being content with present things: for he said, I will not, I will not, leave you, neither do I ever forsake you; 6 so being confident we say, The Lord is my helper, I will not fear; what shall man do unto me? 7 Remember your leaders, who spoke to you the word of God: the outgoing of whose deportment seeing, imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever. 9 Be not carried away with fantastical and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, in which those going round were not profited. 10 We have an altar, from which those ministering in the tabernacle have no right to eat. 11 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is shed by the high priest in the sanctuary for sin, are utterly burnt up outside of the camp. 12 Therefore indeed Jesus, in order that he might sanctify the people by his own blood, suffered without the gate. 13 Therefore let us go forth to him without the camp, bearing his reproach; 14 for we have here no continuing city, but we are seeking unto one which is to come. 15 Therefore let us offer to God a sacrifice of praise continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, confessing to his name. 16 But do not forget benefaction and fellowship: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. Hebrews 13:1-16, Godbey New Testament. Public domain.
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