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 \v 1 We know about many people like these who proved that they trusted in God. Let us put off everything that weighs us down and so put away the sin that clings to us. Then let us run our race patiently and do everything God gives us to do until we make it to the finish line.
-\v 2 And let us keep thinking about Jesus and give him all our attention. He is the one who leads us and he makes our faith complete. He is the one who endured the terrible suffering on the cross and he paid no attention to the people who tried to shame him. He did this because he knew how joyful God would make him later. He now sits at the place of highest honor beside the throne where God rules in heaven.
+\v 2 And let us keep thinking about Jesus and give him all our attention. He is the one who leads us, and he makes our faith complete. He is the one who endured the terrible suffering on the cross, and he paid no attention to the people who tried to shame him. He did this because he knew how joyful God would make him later. He now sits at the place of highest honor beside the throne where God rules in heaven.
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 \v 3 Jesus patiently endured it when sinful people hatefully acted against him. Strengthen your hearts and minds with Jesus's example so that you will not give up trusting God or become discouraged.
 
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 \v 7 God may discipline you by requiring you to endure difficult things that happen to you. When God disciplines you, he is treating you as a father treats his children. All fathers discipline their children.
-\v 8 So if you have not experienced God disciplining you like he disciplines all his children, you are not true children of God. You are like illegitimate children who have no father to correct them.
+\v 8 So if you have not experienced God disciplining you as he disciplines all of his children, you are not true children of God. You are like illegitimate children who have no father to correct them.
 
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-\v 9 Furthermore, our natural fathers disciplined us when we were young, and we respected them for doing that. So we should certainly more readily accept God our spiritual Father disciplining us so we will live eternally!
+\v 9 Furthermore, our natural fathers disciplined us when we were young, and we respected them for doing that. So we should certainly more readily accept God our spiritual Father disciplining us so that we will live eternally!
 \v 10 Our natural fathers disciplined us for a short time as they considered right, but God always disciplines us to help us share in his holy nature.
 \v 11 During the time God is disciplining us, it does not seem to be anything about which we can rejoice. Instead, it pains us. But later it causes those who have learned from it to live righteously, which produces peace in us.
 
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 \v 13 Go straight forward, following Christ so that believers who are weak in trusting Christ will gain strength from you and not become crippled. Instead, they will be spiritually restored in the way that an injured and useless limb becomes well again.
 
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-\v 14 Try to live peacefully with all people. Do your best to be holy, since no one will see the Lord if he is not holy.
-\v 15 Beware that none of you stops trusting in God, who has done kind things for us that we did not deserve. Be on guard so that none of you act in an evil way toward others, because that will grow like a root grows into a big plant, leading many believers to sin.
+\v 14 Try to live peacefully with all people. Do your best to be holy since no one will see the Lord if he is not holy.
+\v 15 Beware that none of you stops trusting in God, who has done kind things for us that we did not deserve. Be on guard so that none of you act in an evil way toward others because that will grow like a root grows into a big plant, leading many believers to sin.
 \v 16 Do not let anyone be immoral or disobey God like Esau. He exchanged the rights he had as a firstborn son for only one meal.
 \v 17 Esau later wanted to get back his birth rights and all that his father Isaac's blessing would give him. But Isaac refused to do what Esau requested. So Esau found no way to get back his birth rights and blessing, even though he sought it tearfully.
 
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-\v 18 In coming to God, you have not experienced things like what the people of Israel people experienced at Mount Sinai. They approached a mountain that God commanded them not to touch because he himself had come down to that mountain. They approached a blazing fire, and it was gloomy and dark, with a violent storm.
+\v 18 In coming to God, you have not experienced things like what the people of Israel experienced at Mount Sinai. They approached a mountain that God commanded them not to touch because he himself had come down to that mountain. They approached a blazing fire, and it was gloomy and dark, with a violent storm.
 \v 19 They heard a trumpet sound, and they heard God speak a message. It was so powerful that they pleaded for him not to speak to them like that again.
 \v 20 For God had commanded them, "If a person or even an animal touches this mountain, you must kill him." The people were terrified.
 \v 21 Truly, because Moses was terrified after seeing what happened on the mountain, he said, "I am trembling because I am very afraid!"
 
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 \v 22 Instead, you have come to the presence of God who truly lives in heaven, to the "New Jerusalem." That is like what your ancestors did when they came to worship God on Mount Zion in Israel, upon which the earthly Jerusalem was built. You have come to where there are countless angels who are rejoicing as they have gathered together.
-\v 23 You have joined the assembly of all the believers who have privileges as firstborn sons, whose names God has written down in heaven. You have come to God who will judge everyone. You have come to where the spirits of God's people are, people who lived righteously before they died, and whom God has now made perfect in heaven.
+\v 23 You have joined the assembly of all the believers who have privileges as firstborn sons, whose names God has written down in heaven. You have come to God who will judge everyone. You have come to where the spirits of God's people are—people who lived righteously before they died and whom God has now made perfect in heaven.
 \v 24 You have come to Jesus, who arranged a new covenant between us and God by the blood that flowed when he died on the cross. Jesus's blood made it possible for God to forgive us, and his blood is better for us than Abel's blood.
 
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-\v 25 Make sure you obey the message that comes from God. God punished the people of Israel when they did not obey him, even though it was God was spoke to them from Mount Sinai. Do you think it is possible for you to escape punishment when you refuse to obey God who speaks to you from heaven?
+\v 25 Make sure you obey the message that comes from God. God punished the people of Israel when they did not obey him, even though it was God who spoke to them from Mount Sinai. Do you think it is possible for you to escape punishment when you refuse to obey God who speaks to you from heaven?
 \v 26 The earth shook when he spoke at Mount Sinai. But now he has promised, "I will shake the earth again, one more time, and I will shake the heavens, too."
 
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-\v 7 Your spiritual leaders have told you the message about Christ. Remember how they have conducted their lives and imitate how they have trusted in Christ.
+\v 7 Your spiritual leaders have told you the message about Christ. Remember how they have conducted their lives, and imitate how they have trusted in Christ.
 \v 8 Jesus Christ is the same now as he always has been, and he will be the same forever.
 
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 \v 11 After the high priest brings into the very holy place the blood of animals that they have sacrificed to atone for sins, other people burn the bodies of those animals outside the camp.
 
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-\v 12 Similarly, Jesus suffered and died outside the gates of Jerusalem in order that he might make us, his people, special for God. He did this by offering his own blood as a sacrifice for our sins.
+\v 12 Similarly, Jesus suffered and died outside of the gates of Jerusalem so that he might make us, his people, special for God. He did this by offering his own blood as a sacrifice for our sins.
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-\v 13 So we must go to Jesus to be saved; we must allow others to insult us just like people insulted him.
+\v 13 So we must go to Jesus to be saved; we must allow others to insult us just as people insulted him.
 \v 14 Here on earth, we believers do not have a city such as Jerusalem. Instead, we are waiting for the heavenly city that will last forever.
 
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 \v 15 Because Jesus has died for us, we must continually praise God no matter what happens. That will be something we can sacrifice to him instead of animals. We must be ready to openly say to others that we trust in Christ.
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-\v 16 Always be doing good deeds for others and sharing the things you have, because doing things like that will be as though you are offering sacrifices that will please God.
+\v 16 Always be doing good deeds for others and sharing the things you have because doing things like that will be as though you are offering sacrifices that will please God.
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-\v 17 Obey your leaders and do what they tell you, since they are the ones who are guarding your welfare. One 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.
+\v 17 Obey your leaders and do what they tell you since they are the ones who are guarding your welfare. One day they will have to stand before God so that he can say if he approves of what they have done. Obey them so 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 then that will certainly not help you at all.
 
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-\v 20 Jesus provides for us, protects us, and guides us as a great shepherd does for his sheep. And God, who gives us inner peace, raised our Lord Jesus from the dead. By doing that God confirmed his eternal covenant with us by the blood that flowed from Christ when he died on the cross.
-\v 21 So I pray that God may equip you with everything good so that you may do what he desires. May he accomplish in us what pleases him as he watches us follow Jesus, who offered up himself for us. May all people praise Jesus Christ forever. Amen!
+\v 20 Jesus provides for us, protects us, and guides us as a great shepherd does for his sheep. And God, who gives us inner peace, raised our Lord Jesus from the dead. By doing that, God confirmed his eternal covenant with us by the blood that flowed from Christ when he died on the cross.
+\v 21 So I pray that God may equip you with everything good so that you may do what he desires. May he accomplish in us what pleases him as he watches us follow Jesus, who offered up himself for us. May all people praise Jesus Christ forever. May it be so!
 
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 \v 22 My fellow believers, since this is a short letter that I have written to you, I ask you that you patiently consider what I have just written to encourage you.
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-\v 23 I want you to know that our fellow believer Timothy has gone free from prison. If he comes here soon, he will accompany me when I go to see you.
+\v 23 I want you to know that our fellow believer Timothy is now free from prison. If he comes here soon, he will accompany me when I go to see you.
 
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