Hebrews Chapter 13 verse 22 Holy Bible
But I exhort you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation, for I have written unto you in few words.
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But, brothers, take kindly the words which I have said for your profit; for I have not sent you a long letter.
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But I beseech you, brethren, bear the word of exhortation, for it is but in few words that I have written to you.
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And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
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But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.
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And I entreat you, brethren, suffer the word of the exhortation, for also through few words I have written to you.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 22. - But I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words. This and the following verse are in the manner of a postscript, such as is usual with St. Paul. Some little apprehension is implied (cf. ver. 18) of the admonitions not being taken well by all. Though the Epistle is not short as compared with others, yet it has been compressed with as "few words" as the subject would allow (cf. ver. 11). If, however, this concluding portion of the Epistle was written or dictated by St. Paul himself, as suggested under ver. 19, the "few words" may possibly refer to it only.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(22) And I beseech you.--Rather, Bui I exhort you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation; for indeed it is in few words that I have written unto you. How fitly the whole Epistle may be spoken of as an "exhortation" is obvious. (See Note on Hebrews 5:11.) And if we take into account the subjects with which the writer has been dealing, we shall not wonder that a Letter which might have been read to the assembled church in less than an hour should be described as brief. (Comp. 1Peter 5:12.)