Let us therefore be diligent to enter into that rest, that no one fall according to the same example of disobedience.

Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make sure of your calling and election, for if you do these things you will not ever stumble;

Moreover I will be careful to ensure that you always have a reminder of these things after my departure.

Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and without blemish;

Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man approved by God to you by works of power, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know;

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

Greet Apelles, approved in Christ. Greet those of Aristobulus.

Therefore we strive, whether at home or away, to be well pleasing to Him.

For not he who commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.

But as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

Then He said to them, Therefore every scribe instructed concerning the kingdom of Heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure new and old things.

who also made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

Giving no cause of stumbling in anything, that our ministry may not be blamed.

But in all things commending ourselves as ministers of God; in much endurance, in afflictions, in needs, in distresses,

If you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

Let no one despise your youth, but become an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.

Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will deliver both yourself and those who hear you.

Then He said to them, Therefore every scribe instructed concerning the kingdom of Heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure new and old things.

And with many such parables He spoke the Word to them as they were able to hear it.

And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his master will set over his servants, to give them their portion of food at the right time?

So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these? He said to Him, Yes, Lord; You know that I am deeply fond of You. He said to him, Feed My lambs.

He said to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonah, are you deeply fond of Me? Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, Are you deeply fond of Me? And he said to Him, Lord, You discern all things; You know that I am deeply fond of You. Jesus said to him, Feed My sheep.

For I have not shrunk back from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature; but not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ.

I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able, and even now you are still not able;

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the Word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience before God.

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the faint-hearted, uphold the weak, be longsuffering towards all.

of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain with words, since you have become dull of hearing.

For everyone who partakes only of milk is without experience in the Word of Righteousness, for he is an infant.