Let us be on our guard, then, though there is a promise still standing of being admitted to his rest, lest any one of you should be found to have come short of it.

but I am longing that each of you continue to show the same diligence to realize the fulness of your hope, even to the end.

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope, unwavering (for He is faithful who promised);

Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run that you may win.

So then let him who imagines that he is standing so securely beware lest he fall.

As a worker with him I beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Examine yourselves to see if you are in the faith; put your own selves to the proof. Or do you not know, your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed you fail to abide the proof?

So, brothers, take diligent care to make your calling and election sure; for if you do this, you will never stumble.

Now since all things are in the process of dissolution, what kind of men ought you to be, in all holy living and piety;

Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have wrought, but that you receive a full reward.

But you, beloved, continually building yourselves up on your most holy faith, and ever praying in the Holy Spirit,

Any man

"But I made supplication for you that your own faith may not fail. And you, when you have turned again, must strengthen your brothers."

Love never fails; but though there are prophecies, they will fail; though there are tongues, they will cease; though there is knowledge, it will be superseded.

If you are being justified by law, you are cut off from Christ; you are fallen away from grace.

Fail of

If you are being justified by law, you are cut off from Christ; you are fallen away from grace.

Any root

See to it, brothers, that there shall never be in any one of you an evil and unbelieving heart, manifesting itself in apostasy from the living God.

"By their fruits you will know them. Are grapes gathered of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Trouble

As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them;

So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.

And thereby

and that from among your own number, men will arise, perverting the truth, to draw away the disciples after them.

Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that even a little leaven leavens all the lump?

Do not deceive yourselves. Evil companions ruin good morals.

And the rest of the Jewish Christians also dissimulated with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.

but avoid profane babble; for people will go farther and farther in impiety,

But there were false prophets, too, among the people, just as among you also there will be false teachers. These will secretly bring in destructive sects, denying even the Master who bought them, and bringing swift ruin upon themselves.

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nor the Son, but only the Father.

And great fear fell on all the church and upon all who had heard it.