Hebrews 13

¹ LLet the charity of the brotherhood abide in you.

² And hospitality do not forget: for by this some, being not aware of it, have entertained angels.

³ Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them: and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body. CCC

⁴ Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

⁵ Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither will I forsake thee.

⁶ So that we may confidently say: The Lord is my helper: I will not fear what man shall do to me.

⁷ Remember your prelates who have spoken the word of God to you: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation,

⁸ Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today: and the same for ever. 1

⁹ Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats: which have not profited those that walk in them.

¹⁰ We have an altar whereof they have no power to eat who serve the tabernacle. CCC

¹¹ For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holies by the high priest for sin are burned without the camp.

¹² Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people by his own blood, suffered without the gate.

¹³ Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

¹⁴ For, we have not here a lasting city: but we seek one that is to come. CCC

¹⁵ By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise always to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips confessing to his name. CCC

¹⁶ And do not forget to do good and to impart: for by such sacrifices God’s favour is obtained.

¹⁷ Obey your prelates and be subject to them. For they watch as being to render an account of your souls: that they may do this with joy and not with grief. For this is not expedient for you. CCC

¹⁸ Pray for us. For we trust we have a good conscience, being willing to behave ourselves well in all things.

¹⁹ And I beseech you the more to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

²⁰ And may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great pastor of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ, in the blood of the everlasting testament, CCC

²¹ Fit you in all goodness, that you may do his will; doing in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is glory for ever and ever. Amen.

²² And I beseech you, brethren, that you suffer this word of consolation. For I have written to you in a few words.

²³ Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty: with whom (if he come shortly) I will see you.

²⁴ Salute all your prelates and all the saints. The brethren from Italy salute you.

²⁵ Grace be with you all. Amen.