see to it that no one misses the grace of God, that no root of bitterness grows up to be a trouble by contaminating all the rest of you;
Brothers, take care in case there is a wicked, unbelieving heart in any of you, moving you to apostatize from the living God.
You are for justification by the Law? Then you are done with Christ, you have deserted grace,
I appeal to you too, as a worker with God, do not receive the grace of God in vain.
Watch yourselves; you must not lose what you have been working for, but gain a full reward.
Make no mistake about this: 'bad company is the ruin of good character.'
Then, beloved, as you are expecting this, be eager to be found by him unspotted and unblemished in serene assurance.
Well then, as the promise of entrance into his Rest is still left to us, let us be afraid of anyone being judged to have missed it.
Your boasting is no credit to you. Do you not know that a morsel of dough will leaven the whole lump?
Let us be eager then to enter that Rest, in case anyone falls into the same sort of disobedience.
Put yourselves to the proof, not me; test yourselves, to see if you are in the faith. Do you not understand that Christ Jesus is within you? Otherwise you must be failures.
So let anyone who thinks he stands secure, take care in case he falls.
It is my heart's desire that each of you would prove equally keen upon realizing your full hope to the very end,
By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct —
So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),
Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you — that is the proper course for saints to take;
The rest of the Jewish Christians also played false along with him, so much so that even Barnabas was carried away by their false play.
Love never disappears. As for prophesying, it will be superseded; as for 'tongues,' they will cease; as for knowledge, it will be superseded.
Now as all things are thus to be dissolved, what holy and pious men ought you to be in your behaviour,
So be the more eager, brothers, to ratify your calling and election, for as you practise these qualities you will never make a slip;
but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail. And you in turn must be a strength to your brothers."
For the pure all things are pure, but nothing is pure for the polluted and unbelieving; their very mind and conscience are polluted.