“But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin” (Hebrews 3:13).

The fascinating word rendered “exhort” (Greek parakaleo) in our text verse, elsewhere translated “comfort,” “beseech,” etc., literally means “call alongside.”

“Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares. And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger: that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment” (Numbers 35:11,12).

“Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth” (Psalm 124:8).

“Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain” (Proverbs 25:14).

“And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land” (Isaiah 32:2).