LET US CONTINUALLY OFFER THE SACRIFICE OF PRAISE

 

9 Do not be Carried Away

By All Kinds of Strange Teachings.

It is Good for our Hearts

To be Strengthened by Grace,

Not by eating Ceremonial Foods,

Which is of no Benefit to those who do so.

10 We have an Altar

From which those

Who minister at the Tabernacle

Have No Right to Eat.

11 The High Priest carries the blood of animals

Into the Most Holy Place

As a Sin Offering,

But the Bodies are Burned outside the Camp.

12 And so Jesus also Suffered

Outside the City Gate

To make the People Holy

Through His Own Blood.

13 Let us then,

Go to Him Outside the Camp,

Bearing the Disgrace He Bore.

14 For Here we Do Not have an Enduring City,

But we are Looking for the City that is To Come.

15 Through Jesus, therefore,

Let us Continually Offer to God

A Sacrifice of Praise--the Fruit of Lips

That Openly Profess His Name.

16 And Do Not Forget to Do Good

And to Share with Others,

For with Such Sacrifices God is Pleased.

(Hebrews 13:9-16, NIV)