7. Remember your former leaders, who spoke God's message to you. Think back on how they lived and died, and imitate their faith.
8. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and for ever.
9. Do not let all kinds of strange teachings lead you from the right way. It is good to receive inner strength from God's grace, and not by obeying rules about foods; those who obey these rules have not been helped by them.
10. The priests who serve in the Jewish place of worship have no right to eat any of the sacrifice on our altar.
11. The Jewish High Priest brings the blood of the animals into the Most Holy Place to offer it as a sacrifice for sins; but the bodies of the animals are burnt outside the camp.
12. For this reason Jesus also died outside the city, in order to purify the people from sin with his own blood.
13. Let us, then, go to him outside the camp and share his shame.
14. For there is no permanent city for us here on earth; we are looking for the city which is to come.
15. Let us, then, always offer praise to God as our sacrifice through Jesus, which is the offering presented by lips that confess him as Lord.
16. Do not forget to do good and to help one another, because these are the sacrifices that please God.
17. Obey your leaders and follow their orders. They watch over your souls without resting, since they must give God an account of their service. If you obey them, they will do their work gladly; if not, they will do it with sadness, and that would be of no help to you.
18. Keep on praying for us. We are sure we have a clear conscience, because we want to do the right thing at all times.
19. And I beg you even more earnestly to pray that God will send me back to you soon.