Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Imitate The Faith of Your Leaders. Do Not Be Carried Away By Strange Teachings

⁷ Remember the ones leading you, who spoke the word of God to you, whose faith^[a] be imitating while looking-carefully-at the result^[b] of their way-of-life^[c]. ⁸ Jesus^[d] Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. ⁹ Do not be carried-away^[e] by various^[f] and strange^[g] teachings. For it is good for the heart to be established^[h] by grace, not by foods in-connection-with^[i] which the ones walking were not profited.

We Have a Spiritual Altar. Let Us Go Out And Offer Sacrifices of Praise

¹⁰ We have an altar^[j] from which the ones serving^[k] in the tabernacle have no right^[l] to eat. ¹¹ For of animals from which the blood is brought into the Holies by the high priest for sin— the bodies of these are burned-up^[m] outside of the camp. ¹² Therefore^[n] Jesus also, in order that He might make the people holy with His own blood, suffered outside^[o] of the gate. ¹³ So-indeed^[p], let us go-out^[q] to Him outside of the camp, bearing His reproach. ¹⁴ For here we do not have an abiding city, but we are seeking-for the one coming. ¹⁵ Therefore through Him let us be continually offering a sacrifice of ^[r] praise to God— that is, the fruit of lips praising^[s] His name. ¹⁶ And do not be forgetting good-doing and sharing. For with such sacrifices God is pleased.

Yield To Your Leaders

¹⁷ Be obeying^[t] the ones leading you and be yielding^[u], for they are keeping-watch for your souls as ones who will render an account— in order that they may be doing this with joy, and not while groaning, for this would be unprofitable for you.