13. Keep walking on straight paths, so that the lame foot may not be disabled, but instead be healed.
14. Try to be at peace with everyone, and try to live a holy life, because no one will see the Lord without it.
15. Guard against turning back from the grace of God. Let no one become like a bitter plant that grows up and causes many troubles with its poison.
16. Let no one become immoral or unspiritual like Esau, who for a single meal sold his rights as the elder son.
17. Afterwards, you know, he wanted to receive his father's blessing; but he was turned away, because he could not find any way to change what he had done, even though in tears he looked for it.
18. You have not come, as the people of Israel came, to what you can feel, to Mount Sinai with its blazing fire, the darkness and the gloom, the storm,
19. the blast of a trumpet, and the sound of a voice. When the people heard the voice, they begged not to hear another word,