Hebrews 13:7-14

Contemporary English Version

⁷ Don't forget about your leaders who taught you God's message. Remember what kind of lives they lived and try to have faith like theirs.

⁸ Jesus Christ never changes! He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. ⁹ Don't be fooled by any kind of strange teachings. It is better to receive strength from God's gift of undeserved grace than to depend on certain foods. After all, these foods don't really help the people who eat them. ¹⁰ But we have an altar where even the priests who serve in the place of worship have no right to eat.

^11 (A) After the high priest offers the blood of animals as a sin offering, the bodies of those animals are burned outside the camp. ¹² Jesus himself suffered outside the city gate, so his blood would make people holy. ¹³ This is why we should go outside the camp to Jesus and share in his disgrace. ¹⁴ On this earth we don't have a city that lasts forever, but we are waiting for such a city.