Exhortations

      Words to live by

     "Keep on loving each other as brothers. Entertain strangers, for some have entertained angels without knowing it. Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.  

     "Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure. Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have. So, I say with confidence, 'The Lord is with me. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?' (Psalm 118:6.) 

     "Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace, not by ceremonial foods...

     "The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. 

     "For we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come. Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise - the fruit of lips that confess his name.

     "May the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with every thing good for doing his will. And may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen."

 The word of God is infinitely better than the word of a blogger.