Today’s passage, in spite of how it begins, is complicated. This passage is a calling away from the human desire to make our “religion” look pretty, look dignified, and tells us to look at Jesus and the ugliness of sin. It is not what we move away from which is important, but who we move toward.

Hebrews 13:13 13 Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore.