1 Let love for the brothers abide.
2 Do not neglect hospitality to strangers, for in this way some have had angels as guests without realizing it.
3 Remember the prisoners as though bound with them, and those who suffer ill-treatment, as being yourselves also in the body.
4 Marriage is honorable in every respect, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
5 Let your conduct be free from the love of money, being satisfied with what you have; for he himself has said, "I will never let go of you, and I will never abandon you,"
6 so that we can take courage and say, "The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear; what will man do to me?"
7 Call to mind those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; observe the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and to the ages.
9 Do not be carried about by varied and foreign teachings, for it is a good thing for the heart to be established by grace, not by foods, from which those who walked in them gained nothing.
10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no authority to eat.
11 For the bodies of the animals whose blood the high priest brings into the holy place as an offering for sin are burned outside the camp.
12 So Jesus too suffered outside the gate, in order to sanctify the people by his own blood.
13 So let us go out to him outside the camp, carrying his reproach.
14 For we have here no abiding city, but we are seeking the one to come.
15 Through him, then, let us bring up to God a sacrifice of praise continually, that is, the fruit of lips acknowledging his name.
16 And do not neglect doing good and sharing, for in sacrifices like these God takes pleasure.
17 Obey your leaders and defer to them, for they keep watch over your souls as men who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
18 Pray for us; for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, wanting to conduct ourselves rightly in all things.
19 I urge you all the more earnestly to pray, so that I may be given back to you sooner.
20 May the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the eternal covenant,
21 make you complete in every good work so that you may do his will, and may he work in you what is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
22 I urge you, brothers, to put up with this word of exhortation, for I have written to you only briefly.
23 You should know that our brother Timothy has been released. If he comes soon, I will see you together with him.
24 Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you.
25 Grace be with all of you. Amen.