Hebrews 13

1-19 Service Well-Pleasing to God

• Advice about personal lifestyle
• Continue to love each other.
• Be hospitable to strangers.
• Remember those in prison. This could be talking about persecuted Christians, in light of 6:9-12.
• Honor your marriages.
• Be free from the love of money, confident in God, not money, for he will never leave nor forsake us.
• Advice about spiritual lifestyle
• Imitate the faith of your leaders.
• Don’t be carried away by strange teachings: “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
• You can’t partake of the type – the Jewish rituals and sacrifices – and the anti-type, who is Christ.
• Serving him shows a willingness to suffer as he suffered.
• Let us continually praise God through Christ.
• Sacrificing to God includes doing good and sharing what you have.
• Submit to your leaders; do not make their work harder than it needs to be.
• Pray for us, that we have a clear conscience.

20-21 Benediction

• May God -who brought Jesus – our great shepherd – back from the dead...
• Make you complete so that you may do his will.

22-25 Final Exhortation and Greeting

• Bear with my exhortation.
• Timothy has been set free, so he is coming with me to see you.
• Greet your leaders; those in Italy greet you.