¹³ but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

²⁴ Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

²⁵ not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

¹¹ Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

² preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

²² that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

²⁶ One who trusts in himself is a fool; But one who walks in wisdom, he is kept safe.

¹⁸ Therefore comfort one another with these words.

¹⁴ But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

¹¹ for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

²³ who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

³ The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?'

²⁰ He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

¹¹ As you know how we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,