- Let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
- Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
- Let brotherly love continue. Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
- Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.
- Therefore remove sorrow from your heart,
and put away evil from your flesh;
for youth and the dawn of life are vanity. - He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.
- If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
- For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.
- But I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
- Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.
- For Yahweh loves justice,
and doesn’t forsake his saints.
They are preserved forever,
but the children of the wicked shall be cut off. - He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
- By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.
- When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.
- For you will light my lamp, Yahweh.
My God will light up my darkness. - These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
- As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.
- Make the path of your feet level.
Let all of your ways be established. - Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous.
- He who gets wisdom loves his own soul.
He who keeps understanding shall find good. - Not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.
- You have also given me the shield of your salvation.
Your right hand sustains me.
Your gentleness has made me great.
You have enlarged my steps under me,
My feet have not slipped. - Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
- But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.
- He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.
With all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love.