13. Keep on the right path so the weak will not stumble but rather be strengthened.
14. Try to live in peace with all people. And try to live lives free from sin. If anyone’s life is not holy, he will never see the Lord.
15. Be careful that no one fails to get God’s grace. Be careful that no one becomes like a bitter weed growing among you. A person like that can ruin all of you.
16. Be careful that no one takes part in sexual sin. And be careful that no person is unholy like Esau. He sold all his rights as the oldest son for a single meal.
17. You remember that after Esau did this, he wanted to get his father’s blessing. He wanted this blessing so much that he cried. But his father refused to give him the blessing, because Esau could find no way to change what he had done.
18. You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire. You have not come to darkness, sadness and storms.
19. You have not come to the noise of a trumpet or to the sound of a voice. When the people of Israel heard the voice, they begged not to have to hear another word.
20. They did not want to hear the command: “If anything, even an animal, touches the mountain, it must be put to death with stones.”