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Concluding Moral Directions

1 Let abrotherly love continue.  
2 aDo not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing bsome have unwittingly entertained angels.  
3 aRemember the prisoners as if chained with them—those who are mistreated—since you yourselves are in the body also.  
4 aMarriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; bbut fornicators and adulterers God will judge.  
5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, a“I will never leave you nor forsake you.”  
6 So we may boldly say:
a“The Lord is my helper;
I will not fear.
What can man do to me?”  

Concluding Religious Directions

7 Remember those who1 rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith follow, considering the outcome of their conduct.  
8 Jesus Christ is athe same yesterday, today, and forever.  
9 Do not be carried1 about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.  
10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.
11 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.
12 Therefore Jesus also, that He might1 sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.  
13 Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing aHis reproach.  
14 For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come.
15 aTherefore by Him let us continually offer bthe sacrifice of praise to God, that is, cthe fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.  
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Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
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Hebrews 13:1

Brotherly love (filadelfia). Late word from filadelfov (I Peter 3:8). See I Thessalonians 4:9. It is always in order in a church.

To show love unto strangers (thv filoceniav). Old word for hospitality, from filocenov (I Timothy 3:2), in N.T. only here and Romans 12:3. In genitive case with epilanqanesqe (present middle imperative, cf. Hebrews 6:10).

Have entertained angels unawares (elaqon cenisantev aggelouv). Second aorist active indicative of lanqanw, old verb to escape notice and first aorist active participle of cenizw, old verb to entertain a guest (cenov, stranger), according to a classic idiom seen with lanqanw, tugxanw, fqanw, by which the chief idea is expressed by the participle (supplementary participle), here meaning, "some escaped notice when entertaining angels." The reference is to Gen. 18, 19 (Abraham and Sarah did this very thing).




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