1 L et love for your fellow believers continue and be a fixed practice with you.

Let love of the brethren continue.

2 D o not forget or neglect or refuse to extend hospitality to strangers, for through it some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Forget not to show love unto strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

3 R emember those who are in prison as if you were their fellow prisoner, and those who are ill-treated, since you also are liable to bodily sufferings.

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are illtreated, as being yourselves also in the body.

4 L et marriage be held in honor (esteemed worthy, precious, of great price, and especially dear) in all things. And thus let the marriage bed be undefiled (kept undishonored); for God will judge and punish the unchaste and adulterous.

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

5 L et your character or moral disposition be free from love of money and be satisfied with your present; for He Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. not, not, not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let down ( relax My hold on you)! '> Assuredly not!]

Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.

6 S o we take comfort and are encouraged and confidently and boldly say, The Lord is my Helper; I will not be seized with alarm. What can man do to me?

So that with good courage we say, The Lord is my helper; I will not fear: What shall man do unto me?

7 R emember your leaders and superiors in authority who brought to you the Word of God. Observe attentively and consider their manner of living (the outcome of their well-spent lives) and imitate their faith ( their conviction that God exists and is the Creator and Ruler of all things, the Provider and Bestower of eternal salvation through Christ, and their leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness).

Remember them that had the rule over you, men that spake unto you the word of God; and considering the issue of their life, imitate their faith.

8 J esus Christ (the Messiah) is the same, yesterday, today, and forever (to the ages).

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to-day, yea and for ever.

9 D o not be carried about by different and varied and alien teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established and ennobled and strengthened by means of grace (God’s favor and spiritual blessing) and not foods, which bring no benefit or profit to those who observe them.

Be not carried away by divers and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established by grace; not by meats, wherein they that occupied themselves were not profited.

10 W e have an altar from which those who serve and worship in the tabernacle have no right to eat.

We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat that serve the tabernacle.

11 F or when the blood of animals is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin, the victims’ bodies are burned outside the limits of the camp.

For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned without the camp.

12 T herefore Jesus also suffered and died outside the gate in order that He might purify and consecrate the people through His own blood and set them apart as holy.

Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered without the gate.

13 L et us then go forth to Him outside the camp, bearing the contempt and abuse and shame with Him.

Let us therefore go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

14 F or here we have no permanent city, but we are looking for the one which is to come.

For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after the city which is to come.

15 T hrough Him, therefore, let us constantly and at all times offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of lips that thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify His name.

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

16 D o not forget or neglect to do kindness and good, to be generous and distribute and contribute to the needy '> as embodiment and proof of fellowship], for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

17 O bey your spiritual leaders and submit to them, for they are constantly keeping watch over your souls and guarding your spiritual welfare, as men who will have to render an account. let them do this with gladness and not with sighing and groaning, for that would not be profitable to you.

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.

18 K eep praying for us, for we are convinced that we have a good (clear) conscience, that we want to walk uprightly and live a noble life, acting honorably and in complete honesty in all things.

Pray for us: for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

19 A nd I beg of you the more earnestly, in order that I may be restored to you the sooner.

And I exhort you the more exceedingly to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

20 N ow may the God of peace, Who brought again from among the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood the everlasting agreement (covenant, testament),

Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus,

21 S trengthen (complete, perfect) and make you what you ought to be and equip you with everything good that you may carry out His will; works in you and accomplishes that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ (the Messiah); to Whom be the glory forever and ever (to the ages of the ages). Amen (so be it).

make you perfect in every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

22 I call on you, brethren, to listen patiently and bear with this message of exhortation and admonition and encouragement, for I have written to you briefly.

But I exhort you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation, for I have written unto you in few words.

23 N otice that our brother Timothy has been released. If he comes here soon, I will see you along with him.

Know ye that our brother Timothy hath been set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.

24 G ive our greetings to all of your spiritual leaders and to all of the saints (God’s consecrated believers). The Italian Christians send you their greetings.

Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.

25 G race (God’s favor and spiritual blessing) be with you all. Amen (so be it).

Grace be with you all. Amen.