HEBREWS.
13.
Continue to love your fellow believers. 
Do not forget to be hospitable to needy travelers LIT. You need to know that by being hospitable, some people have entertained angels without knowing it. 
Remember  to help those who are in prison  because they are Christians, as though you were in prison with them. Remember those who are being mistreated {whom people are mistreating}  because they are believers. As you do that, consider that you you could suffer as they do. 
You must ◄respect/keep sacred► the marriage relationship in every way, and you must keep sexual relations EUP pure, because God will surely condemn those who act immorally and those who act adulterously. 
Live without constantly coveting money, and be content with the things you possess, remembering what  Moses wrote  that God has said  about supplying what you need, I will never leave you, I will never stop providing for you DOU. 
So we can say confidently  as the Psalmist said, Since the Lord is the one who helps me, I will not be afraid! People can do nothing to me  that will deprive me of God’s blessings RHQ. 
Your spiritual leaders used to tell you the message from God  before they died. Remember how they conducted their lives. By considering ◄how they died/what resulted from how they lived►, imitate how they believed  in Christ/God. 
Jesus Christ  is the same now as he was previously, and he will be the same forever. 
 So, do not let yourselves be diverted {let anything divert you} so that you believe various teachings  that are contrary to God’s truth. It is good that God acts kindly toward us so that we may be strengthened spiritually.  Obeying rules about various foods, rules that have not benefited those who obeyed them, will not benefit us. 
We have  Jesus MTY. All those who continue to observe the Jewish rituals MTY of sacrifice have no right to obtain the benefits of his sacrifice MET. 
After the high priest brings into the most holy place the blood of animals  that they have sacrificed to atone for sins, the bodies of those animals are burned {they burn the bodies of those animals} outside the camp. 
Similarly, Jesus suffered  and died outside the gate  of Jerusalem in order that he might make  us, his people, holy by  offering his own blood  as a sacrifice to atone for our sins. 
So, we must abandon  performing Jewish sacrifices and rituals MET  in order to be saved, and let us go to Jesus  to be saved. As we do that, we must  be willing to let others reproach us just like people reproached Jesus. 
Here on earth, we believers do not have a city  such as Jerusalem where we must continually  offer sacrifices MET. Instead, we are waiting for a future  heavenly city  that will last forever. 
With  the help of Jesus, we must continually praise God. That will be something we can sacrifice  to him MET  instead of our sacrificing animals only at specific times. Specifically, we must say openly MTY  that we have trusted in Christ MTY. 
Be continually LIT doing good deeds  for others, and be continually sharing  with others the things you have, because doing things like that will  also be  as though you are offering sacrifices that will please God. 
Obey your  spiritual leaders; do what they tell you, since they are the ones who are looking out for your spiritual welfare SYN.  Some day they will have to stand before God so that he can say if he approves of what they have done. Obey them in order that they can do the work of guarding you joyfully, and not have to do it sadly, because if you cause them to do it sadly, that will certainly not help you at all (OR, they will not be able to help you at all). 
Pray for me. I am certain that I have not done anything that displeases God. I have tried to act honorably  toward you in every way. 
I urge you earnestly to pray that  God will quickly remove the things that hinder my coming to you. 
Jesus  provides for us,  protects us, and guides us as a great shepherd does for his sheep MET. And God, who gives us  inner peace, brought our Lord Jesus back to life. By doing that, God ratified his eternal covenant with us by the blood  that flowed from Jesus when he died on the cross. 
So I pray that God will equip you with everything good  that you need in order that you may do the things that he desires. May he accomplish in our lives whatever he considers pleasing as a result of Jesus Christ equipping us. May Jesus Christ be praised forever. ◄Amen!/May it be so!► 
My fellow believers, I appeal to you that you patiently consider  what I have written in this short letter, to exhort you. 
I want you to know that our fellow believer Timothy has been released { the authorities have released our fellow believer Timothy}  from prison. If he comes here soon, he will accompany me when I go to see you. 
Tell all your  spiritual leaders and all the  other fellow believers  in your city that ◄I am thinking fondly about them/I am sending them my greetings►. The believers  in this area who have come from Italy  want you to know they are ◄thinking about you/sending you their greetings►. 
 I pray that you will continue to experience God’s acting kindly toward you all.