I appeal to you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.

弟兄们，我略略写信给你们，望你们听我劝勉的话。

弟兄们，我简略地写信给你们，希望你们听我劝勉的话。

弟兄们，我简略地写信给你们，希望你们听我劝勉的话。

弟兄姊妹，我简短地写信给你们，希望你们听我劝勉的话。

弟兄们，我劝你们耐心接受我这劝勉的话，因为我只是简略地写给你们。

弟兄们，我恳求你们容忍我这劝勉的话，因为我只是简略地写信给你们。

弟兄們，我略略寫信給你們，望你們聽我勸勉的話。

弟兄們，我簡略地寫信給你們，希望你們聽我勸勉的話。

弟兄們，我簡略地寫信給你們，希望你們聽我勸勉的話。

弟兄姊妹，我簡短地寫信給你們，希望你們聽我勸勉的話。

弟兄們，我勸你們耐心接受我這勸勉的話，因為我只是簡略地寫給你們。

弟兄們，我求你們要容納這勸勉的話；因為我給你們寫信、也只是簡略罷了。

弟兄們，我懇求你們容忍我這勸勉的話，因為我只是簡略地寫信給你們。

兄弟乎、我今畧書達爾、請容我勸勉之言、

吾以尺素遺兄弟、請聽我勸勉、

兄弟乎、我畧書此達爾、求爾聽我勸勉、

兄弟乎、予匆匆作書、書不盡意；勸勉之言、幸勿見罪。

Brothers and sisters, I urge you to bear with my word of exhortation, for in fact I have written to you quite briefly.

Brothers and sisters, I beg you to accept my word. It tells you to be faithful. Accept my word because I have written to you only a short letter.

I urge you, dear brothers and sisters, to pay attention to what I have written in this brief exhortation.

Brothers and sisters, I urge you to receive this message of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.

But I urge you, brothers and sisters, listen patiently to this word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.

And I appeal to you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.

But I exhort you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation: for I have written unto you in few words.

Brothers, I urge you to receive this message of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.

And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, bear with my message of exhortation, for in fact I have written to you briefly.

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

By Silvanus, a faithful brother as I regard him, I have written briefly to you, exhorting and declaring that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it.

Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,

Let brotherly love continue.Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.

Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called“ today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no“ root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.

Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.

And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end,so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.

Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you— I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ— I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away!—

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,and since we have a great priest over the house of God,let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?For we know him who said,“ Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again,“ The Lord will judge his people.”It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.For,“ Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay;but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.

See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised,“ Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”This phrase,“ Yet once more,” indicates the removal of things that are shaken— that is, things that have been made— in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain.Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe,

Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.