Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out plainly, and said, "God's message had to be told to you first, but since you thrust it off and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the heathen.

But as they contradicted and abused him, he shook his clothes in protest, and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am not to blame for it! After this I will go to the heathen."

See to it, my brothers, that no one of you has a wicked, unbelieving heart, that turns away from the ever-living God,

Since then it is still true that somebody will be admitted to it, and those who had a gospel preached to them before were not admitted because of their disobedience,

And

So as we have been made upright by faith, let us live in peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Be on the watch. Stand firm in your faith. Act like men. Show yourselves strong.

Not that we are the masters of you and your faith; we are working with you to make you happy, for in your faith you stand firm enough.

You must be rooted and built up in him and made strong in faith, just as you were taught to be, overflowing with it in your gratitude.

Resist him and be strong in the faith, for you know that your brotherhood all over the world is having the same experience of suffering.

Be

you must not look down upon the branches. If you do, remember that you do not support the root; the root supports you.

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be too ambitious, but accept humble tasks. Do not be conceited.

I tell you, it was he who went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the man who humbles himself will be exalted."

I destroy arguments and every obstacle that is raised against the knowledge of God, and I take captive every thought and make it obey Christ,

the adversary of every being that is called a god or an object of worship, and so overbearing toward them as to enter God's sanctuary and take his seat there, proclaiming himself to be God??5 do you not remember that when I was with you, I used to tell you this?

unfeeling, irreconcilable, slanderous, with no self-control, brutal, with no love for what is good,

But he gives all the greater blessing. As the Scripture says, "God opposes haughty persons, but he blesses humble-minded ones."

You younger men must show deference to the elders. And you must all clothe yourselves in humility toward one another, for God opposes the proud, but shows mercy to the humble.

Because you say, "I am rich, I have become wealthy, I need nothing," and you do not know that it is you that are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked,

The more she has given herself to pride and luxury the more you must give her torture and grief. Because she says to herself, 'I sit on a throne; I am not a widow, I shall never have any sorrow,'

But

So the man who thinks he can stand must be on his guard against a fall.

So, my dear friends, as you have always been obedient, with reverence and awe make every effort to insure your salvation, not simply as though I were with you, but all the more because I am away.

We ought therefore to fear that when the promise of admission to his Rest is still open, some one of you may be found to have failed to reach it.

And if you address him as Father who judges everyone impartially by what he does, you must live reverently all the time you stay here,

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And he did not do many wonders there, because of their want of faith.

But he denied it before them all, and said, "I do not know what you mean."

So the man who thinks he can stand must be on his guard against a fall.