1Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters.
2Do not forget to welcome strangers into your home. By doing this, some people have welcomed angels without knowing it.
3Remember those who are in prison, as if you were in prison with them. Remember those who are badly treated, since you also have a body.
4Marriage should be honoured by everyone, and the marriage bed kept pure. But God will judge those who are sexually immoral and those who commit adultery.
5Do not let your way of life be greedy for money. Be content with what you have. For God has said, "I will never leave you, and I will never abandon you."
6So we can say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper, and I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?"
7Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Think about how their way of life ended, and follow their faith.
8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.
9Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for the heart to be made strong by grace, and not by rules about food, which have not helped those who followed them.
10We have an altar, and those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat from it.
11The high priest carries the blood of animals into the holy place as an offering for sin, but the bodies of those animals are burned outside the camp.
12So Jesus also suffered outside the gate, to make the people holy by his own blood.
13So let us go out to him outside the camp, and bear the shame he bore.
14For here we have no city that lasts, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
15So through him let us always offer to God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name.
16And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for God is pleased with sacrifices like these.
17Obey your leaders and submit to them. They keep watch over your souls, as those who must give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with sorrow, for that would be no help to you.
18Pray for us. We are sure that we have a good conscience, and we want to live honestly in every way.
19I beg you all the more to do this, so that I may be given back to you sooner.
20Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21make you complete in every good work, so that you may do his will. May he work in you what pleases him, through Jesus Christ. To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
22Brothers and sisters, I beg you to bear with this word of encouragement, for I have written to you only a short letter.
23You should know that our brother Timothy has been set free. If he comes soon, I will see you along with him.
24Greet all your leaders, and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you.