7 Remember your leaders. They spoke God's word to you. Think about the results of their way of life. Copy their faith.
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
9 Don't be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good that God's grace makes our hearts strong. Don't depend on foods the Law requires. They have no value for the people who eat them.
10 Some worship at the holy tent. But we have an altar that they have no right to eat from.
11 The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Room. He brings their blood as a sin offering. But the bodies are burned outside the camp.
12 Jesus also suffered outside the city gate. He suffered to make the people holy by spilling his own blood.
13 So let us go to him outside the camp. Let us be willing to suffer the shame he suffered.