looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

A wise man fears, and shuns evil, but the fool is hotheaded and reckless.

Blessed is the man who is always reverent; but the one who hardens his heart will fall into evil.

and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear;

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he does not fall.

A promise

There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.'

"Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, says, 'I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.' But now the LORD says, 'Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

If we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself."

His

For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

as I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"

Any

Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delayed,'

"Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunk,

When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, open to us.' then he will answer and tell you, 'I do not know you or where you come from.'

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,

General references

But many will be last who are first; and first who are last.

Great fear came on the whole church, and on all who heard these things.