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All three listeners walk out through their town’s plain stone gate carrying a basket of food toward poor anonymous people waiting along the road; sunlight falls beyond the threshold, no cross in the scene.
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Hebrews 13:7-16

Outside the gate

Let love continue · Hebrews 13

Story guide: Remembering leaders and resisting strange teaching leads to a costly response outside the camp: praise, doing good, and sharing.

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7Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. As you consider the outcome of their way of life, imitate their faith.

8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

9Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, by which those who occupied themselves with them were not benefited.

10We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.

11For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places for sin by the high priest are burned outside the camp.

12Therefore Jesus also suffered outside the gate, so that he might sanctify the people through his own blood.

13Therefore, let us go out to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

14For we do not have a lasting city here, but we seek the one that is to come.

15Therefore, through him let us continually offer up to God a sacrifice of praise—that is, the fruit of lips confessing his name.

16And do not neglect doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

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