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These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the eretz.

But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

But if you are without discipline, whereof all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not sons.

For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

But you have come to Mount Tziyon, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Yerushalayim, and to innumerable hosts of angels,

whose voice shook the eretz, then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more will I shake not only the eretz, but also the heavens."

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given him.

But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious, while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?