Encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called Today, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

For our presentation (exhortation) is not based on error, or of uncleanness, or in deceit. We always speak, as God wants us to. He has judged us worthy to be entrusted with the Good News. We do not try to please people, but to please God, who tests our motives (examines our hearts).

I urge you, brothers, bear with the word of exhortation. I have written to you in few words.

Not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another, and even more, as you see the day approaching.

Beloved, I diligently wrote you about our common salvation. I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the holy ones. Certain men crept in unnoticed. They were appointed long ago for this condemnation. These ungodly men turned the grace of our God into loose conduct. They deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.