1. Let brotherly love remain;
2. of the hospitality be not forgetful, for through this unawares certain did entertain messengers;
3. be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being in the body;
4. honourable [is] the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.
5. Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'
6. so that we do boldly say, `The Lord [is] to me a helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.'
7. Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith--considering the issue of the behaviour--be imitating,
8. Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;
9. with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for [it is] good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;