see to it, brethren, that there is never in any one of you--as perhaps there may be--a sinful and unbelieving heart, manifesting itself in revolt from the ever-living God.

Therefore let us be on our guard lest perhaps, while He still leaves us a promise of being admitted to His rest, some one of you should be found to have fallen short of it.

But we long for each of you to continue to manifest the same earnestness, with a view to your enjoying fulness of hope to the very End;

Let us hold firmly to an unflinching avowal of our hope, for He is faithful who gave us the promises.

Do you not know that in the foot-race the runners all run, but that only one gets the prize? You must run like him, in order to win with certainty.

So then let him who thinks he is standing securely beware of falling.

And you also we, as God's fellow workers, entreat not to be found to have received His grace to no purpose.

Test yourselves to discover whether you are true believers: put your own selves under examination. Or do you not know that Jesus Christ is within you, unless you are insincere?

For this reason, brethren, be all the more in earnest to make sure that God has called you and chosen you; for it is certain that so long as you practise these things, you will never stumble.

Since all these things are thus pre-destined to dissolution, what sort of men ought you to be found to be in all holy living and godly conduct,

Keep guard over yourselves, so that you may not lose the results of your good deeds, but may receive back a full reward.

But you, my dearly-loved friends, building yourselves up on the basis of your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,

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But *I* have prayed for *you* that your faith may not fail, and you, when at last you have come back to your true self, must strengthen your brethren."

Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be done away with; if there are languages, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be brought to an end.

Christ has become nothing to any of you who are seeking acceptance with God through the Law: you have fallen away from grace.

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Christ has become nothing to any of you who are seeking acceptance with God through the Law: you have fallen away from grace.

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see to it, brethren, that there is never in any one of you--as perhaps there may be--a sinful and unbelieving heart, manifesting itself in revolt from the ever-living God.

By their fruits you will easily recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thorns or figs from brambles?

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But fornication and every kind of impurity, or covetousness, let them not even be mentioned among you, for they ought not to be named among God's people.

Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.

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and that from among your own selves men will rise up who will seek with their perverse talk to draw away the disciples after them.

It is no good thing--this which you make the ground of your boasting. Do you not know that a little yeast corrupts the whole of the dough?

Do not deceive yourselves: "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."

And along with him the other Jews also concealed their real opinions, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their lack of straightforwardness.

But from irreligious and frivolous talk hold aloof, for those who indulge in it will proceed from bad to worse in impiety,

But there were also false prophets among the people, as there will be teachers of falsehood among you also, who will cunningly introduce fatal divisions, disowning even the Sovereign Lord who has redeemed them, and bringing on themselves swift destruction.

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Take care, be on the alert, and pray; for you do not know when it will happen.

This incident struck terror into the whole Church, and into the hearts of all who heard of it.