and chose to suffer with the people of God rather than to enjoy the short-lived pleasure of sin.

For, yet a little while, how short! how short! The Coming One will be here, and will not tarry;

looking carefully lest there be any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you , and thereby the many be defiled;

Let us be afraid therefore, lest, a promise being left behind to enter into his rest, any of you should seem to have come short.

For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is.

I beg you, brothers, to listen patiently to this message, for I have written you only a short letter.

Our brother Timothy has been let out of prison; and if he comes here in a short time, he and I will come to you together.

You made him lower than the angels
for a short time;
You crowned him with glory and honor

But we do see Jesus—made lower than the angels for a short time so that by God’s grace He might taste death for everyone—crowned with glory and honor because of His suffering in death.

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any of us by imitating their incredulity, should fall short thereof like them.

And what shall I more say? The time would be too short for me to tell of Gideon, of Barach, and of Samson, and of Jephthah. Also of David and Samuel, and of the prophets,

By faith he lived in the land of promise as a stranger, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise.

All these people lived all their lives in faith, and died without receiving what had been promised; they only saw it far ahead and welcomed the sight of it, recognizing that they themselves were only foreigners and strangers here on earth.

Remember your leaders who told you God's message. [Note: This probably refers to former preachers who had since died]. Consider the outcome of the way they lived and imitate their faith.

indeed being exposed both by reproaches and afflictions, and while you became companions of those who lived so.