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³You shall not have strange gods before me.

⁸For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not of yourselves, for it is a gift of God.

²¹For prophecy was not conveyed by human will at any time. Instead, holy men were speaking about God while inspired by the Holy Spirit.

⁶Let no one seduce you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God was sent upon the sons of unbelief. ⁷Therefore, do not choose to become participants with them. ⁸For you were darkness, in times past, but now you are light, in the Lord. So then, walk as sons of the light.

²⁷And in the same manner as it has been appointed for men to die one time, and after this, to be judged,

³¹Do not turn aside to astrologers, nor consult with soothsayers, so as to be polluted through them. I am the Lord your God.

¹⁶All Scripture, having been divinely inspired, is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in justice,

³But if our Gospel is in some way hidden, it is hidden to those who are perishing. ⁴As for them, the god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, would not shine in them.

¹⁰Do not let there be found among you one who would purify his son or daughter by leading them through fire, nor one who consults seers, nor one who observes dreams or omens. Do not let there be found among you one who practices the occult, ¹¹nor one who uses spells, nor one who consults demonic spirits, nor a diviner, nor one who seeks the truth from the dead. ¹²For the Lord abominates all these things. And, because of these wicked ways, he will destroy them at your arrival.

¹Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not apparent. ²For this reason, the ancients were given testimony. ³By faith, we understand the world to be fashioned by the Word of God, so that the visible might be made by the invisible. ⁴By faith, Abel offered to God a much better sacrifice than that of Cain, through which he obtained testimony that he was just, in that God offered testimony to his gifts. And through that sacrifice, he still speaks to us, though he is dead. ⁵By faith, Enoch was transferred, so that he would not see death, and he was not found because God had transferred him. For before he was transferred, he had testimony that he pleased God. ⁶But without faith, it is impossible to please God. For whoever approaches God must believe that he exists, and that he rewards those who seek him.

²²And nearly everything, according to the law, is to be cleansed with blood. And without the shedding of blood, there is no remission. ²³Therefore, it is necessary for the examples of heavenly things to be cleansed, just as, indeed, these things were. Yet the heavenly things are themselves better sacrifices than these. ²⁴For Jesus did not enter by means of holy things made with hands, mere examples of the true things, but he entered into Heaven itself, so that he may appear now before the face of God for us. ²⁵And he did not enter so as to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters into the Holy of Holies each year, with the blood of another. ²⁶Otherwise, he would need to have suffered repeatedly since the beginning of the world. But now, one time, at the consummation of the ages, he has appeared in order to destroy sin though his own sacrifice. ²⁷And in the same manner as it has been appointed for men to die one time, and after this, to be judged,

²⁷Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. And whoever rolls a stone, it will roll back to him.

¹²Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into this world, and through sin, death; so also death was transferred to all men, to all who have sinned.

⁹And this is not of works, so that no one may glory.

⁷But avoid the silly fables of old women. And exercise yourself so as to advance in piety.