22. I encourage you,

                brothers

                                hold on to the word of the encouragement,
                                for indeed through brief things I have written by letter to you.

                23. Know that our brother Timothy has been released,

with him, if he comes soon, I will see you.

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17. As giving back a word, that with joy they may do this and not be groaning, for this would be unprofitable for you.

                18. Pray for us, for we are confident that we have a beneficent conscience,

                among all wanting to be beneficently treated.

19. All the more I encourage to do this, that soon I may be restored to you.

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17. Be confident in your leaders and submit to them,
for they are keeping watch on behalf of your souls,

1. Let brotherly love continue.
2. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers:
for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
3. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them;
and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
4. Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled:
but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
5. Let your conversation be without covetousness;

1. Let brotherly love continue.
2. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers:
for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

26. whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying,

                "Once more I will stir up

                                not only the earth

                                but also the heaven".

                27. The "once more" indicates

the change of the things being shaken as things that have been made,
so that the things not being shaken may remain.

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22. But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God,
the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23. To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven,
and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

22. Rather you have aproached Mount Zion, and the city of the living God,

                the heavenly Jerusalem,

                                and myriads of angels in full festal gathering,

                                23. and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled

                in heaven,

and God, the judge of all, and the spirits of just ones having been made perfect.

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12. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13. And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way;
but let it rather be healed.
14. Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15. Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God;
lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

5. And you have forgotten the encouragement,
which is addressed to you as sons, "My son,

                do not disdain the discipline of the Lord

                                and do not grow weary, being reproved by him,

                6. for whom the Lord loves he disciplines,

and scourges every son whom he accepts".

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