Therefore encourage one another with these words.

But if we have food and shelter, we will be satisfied with that.

No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!

You also lived your lives in this way at one time, when you used to live among them.

And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond.

Then he said to the council, “Men of Israel, pay close attention to what you are about to do to these men.

Take pains with these things; be absorbed in them, so that everyone will see your progress.

Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even prophesied of them, saying, “Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones,

But now there is nothing more to keep me in these regions, and I have for many years desired to come to you

and those members we consider less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our unpresentable members are clothed with dignity,

envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!

So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.

But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.

Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.’

But we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. Not only this, but it is now the third day since these things happened.

saying, “What should we do with these men? For it is plain to all who live in Jerusalem that a notable miraculous sign has come about through them, and we cannot deny it.

For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.

So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire in a way similar to these angels, are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to the deeds he is doing – the bringing of unjustified charges against us with evil words! And not being content with that, he not only refuses to welcome the brothers himself, but hinders the people who want to do so and throws them out of the church!