Hebrews Chapter Thirteen Verses 1-6

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HEBREWS CHAPTER THIRTEEN VS 1-6 (USING KJ TEXT, STUDY BOOK WILL REFERENCE A DIFFERENT VERSION FOR READING)
Heb 13:1  Let brotherly love continue. 
Heb 13:2  Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 
Heb 13:3  Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. 
Heb 13:4  Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 
Heb 13:5  Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. 
Heb 13:6  So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. 

Main Point: These are some of the final admonishments. This includes encouraging hospitality and refraining from some specific sins and pitfalls. Verse six indicates that there must have been some form of persecution during that time.

1.   What must we do because we have recieved a kingdom that cannot be shaken? Verses 1-3 deal directly with attitudes towards others. Church, strangers, and those imprisoned. In this case I assume it is imprisoned Christians. The exhortations if practiced will keep the church body unified, extend a welcome to anyone who belongs to God and keep up the spirits of those suffering.

2.   How can we hold marriage in honor? What will God judge? The latter answers the first. Those who defile a marriage sexually will be facing God for answers.
3.   What promise does God give in verse five? What does being free from the love of money have to do with believing the promise? “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”  Being fond of silver….obviously, we need money to get along in the world. More to the point, we are to be content: G714 -Apparently a primary verb (but probably akin to G142 through the idea of raising a barrier); properly to ward off.
The love of money is called covetousness in the KJ version. Before we get to crazy when it comes to gaining money and/or desiring it to our detriment we are to RAISE A BARRIER to its affects.


4.   What promise is given to us in verse 6? “If god is for us, who can be against us?” Note that this does not happen until we can shake the practice of sin in our lives (as he alludes to previously).


Additional:
4) sexually immoral: G4205 por'-nos From πέρνημι pernēmi (to sell; akin to the base of G4097); a (male) prostitute (as venal)
   adulterous: G3432 moy-khos' Perhaps a primary word; a (male) paramour;

Note that the warning is against men. What does this say?

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