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1Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters.
2Don’t forget to welcome strangers. By doing that, some people have welcomed angels without knowing it.
3Keep on remembering those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and continue to remember those who are being treated badly as if you yourselves were suffering.
4Marriage should be honored by everyone and the marriage bed should be kept pure. God will judge anyone who commits adultery or any other sexual sin.
5Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, because God has said,
“I’ll never leave you;
I’ll never abandon you.”
6So we can confidently say,
“The Lord is my helper; I won’t be afraid.
What can mere human beings do to me?”
7Remember your leaders, who spoke God’s word to you. Think about the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.
8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
9Don’t be led astray by all kinds of strange teachings. It’s good for our hearts to be made strong by God’s grace, not by eating foods that the law requires. Those foods don’t do anything for the people who eat them.
10We have an altar that those who serve in the holy tent have no right to eat from.
11The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but their bodies are burned outside the camp.
12Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to make the people holy by shedding his own blood.
13So let’s go to him outside the camp and be willing to suffer the shame he suffered.
14We don’t have a lasting city here. Instead, we’re looking for the city that’s going to come.
15Let’s keep talking openly about our faith in Jesus. Then our words will be like a sacrifice to God, offered through Jesus.
16Don’t forget to do good and share with others, because God is pleased with offerings like those.
17Have confidence in your leaders and put yourselves under their authority, because they’re keeping watch over you as people who will have to answer to God for everything they do. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden. It wouldn’t help you at all if you made their work more difficult.
18Pray for us. We’re sure that we’ve done what’s right, but we want to keep on living honorably in every way.
19I particularly ask you to pray that I’ll be able to come back to you soon.
20Our Lord Jesus is the great Shepherd of the sheep. The God of peace brought him back from the dead through the blood of the eternal covenant. May that same God
21supply you with everything good so that you can do his will. May he create in us what is pleasing to him through Jesus Christ. And may Jesus receive glory for ever and ever. Amen.
22I ask you, brothers and sisters, to listen carefully to the challenges and encouragement that I’ve offered you briefly.
23I want you to know that our brother Timothy has been set free. If he arrives here soon, I’ll come with him to see you.
24Greet all your leaders and all the Lord’s people.
The believers from Italy send you their greetings.
25May God’s grace be with all of you.