Warning And Encouragement

[14] Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: [15] Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; [16] Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. [17] For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.