Continue to look after one another, that no one fails to gain God's spiritual blessing; or some evil like a bitter root may spring up and trouble you, and many of you be contaminated by it --

You must not forget your former leaders, for it was they who brought you the message of God. Consider how they closed their lives; imitate their faith.

Very well, but it was for lack of faith that they were broken off, and it is through your faith that you now stand where you are. Stop your haughty thinking, rather continue to be reverent,

So the man who thinks he stands securely must be on the lookout not to fall.

A promise

So a sabbath of rest is still awaiting God's people.

What then, if some of them have proved unfaithful? Can their unfaithfulness make null and void God's faithfulness?

If we are unfaithful, He remains faithful, for He cannot prove false to Himself."

His

For we who have believed are being admitted to that rest, just as He has said: "As in my anger I took oath, they shall not be admitted to my rest," although God's works had been completed at the creation of the world.

So in my anger I took oath, 'They shall not be admitted to my rest!'"

Any

Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will get into the kingdom of heaven, but only those who practice doing the will of my Father in heaven.

But if the slave is bad and says to himself, 'My master is going to be gone a long time,'

"Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten bridesmaids who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

But if that slave says to himself, my Master is not coming back for a long time, and begins to beat the men and women slaves, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

when once the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand on the outside and to knock on the door again and again and say, 'Lord, open it for us'; but He will answer, 'I do not know where you come from.'

For everybody has sinned and everybody continues to come short of God's glory,

So that is the way I run, with no uncertainty as to winning. That is the way I box, not like one that punches the air.

General references

But many who are first now will be last then, and many who are last now will be first then."

So a strange awe seized the whole church and everybody who heard it.