So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.

But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.

So then, as we have opportunity, let's do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.

Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter.

neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God's stewardship, which is in faith --

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.

But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.

having become so much better than the angels, as he has inherited a more excellent name than they have.

You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor.

But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who built the house has more honor than the house.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.

and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace;

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

who doesn't need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.'"

then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,

"This is the covenant that I will make with them: 'After those days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;'" then he says,

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;

accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."

Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ --

For it is better, if it is God's will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

Forasmuch then as Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.

"I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne.

Then out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to his servants, the prophets.

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.