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# Connecting Statement:
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This is the first of five urgent warnings the author gives.
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# we must
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Here "we" refers to the author and includes his audience. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-exclusive]])
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# so that we do not drift away from it
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Possible meanings for this metaphor are 1) people who stop believing in God's word are spoken of as if they were drifting away, like a boat drifts from its position in the water. Alternate translation: "so that we do not stop believing it" or 2) people who stop obeying God's words are spoken of as if they were drifting away, like a boat drifts from its position in the water. Alternate translation: "so that we do not stop obeying it" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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