⁶ And Abraham saith unto him, `Take heed to thyself, lest thou cause my son to turn back thither;

¹ In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

³⁹ and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.

⁹ by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, in tabernacles having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise,

¹³ In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted `them', and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,

¹⁴ for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country;

¹⁵ and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return,

¹⁶ but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.

²⁰ for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,

²¹ for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged `it', to turn back from the holy command delivered to them,

²² and happened to them hath that of the true similitude; `A dog did turn back upon his own vomit,' and, `A sow having bathed herself -- to rolling in mire.'