Such we charge and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that they work quietly and earn their own bread.

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they neither understand what they say, nor what things they assert.

of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

Yet shall she be saved through childbirth, if they continue in faith and love, in holiness and modesty.

(And let these also first be proved, then let them take the office of deacons, if they be found blameless.)

For they, that discharge the office of a deacon well, gain to themselves a good degree of honor, and much freedom in promoting the faith that is in Christ Jesus.

These things give in charge, that they may be blameless.

But the younger widows refuse: for when they grow wanton against Christ, they will needs marry:

and are therefore to be condemned, because they violate their first faith.

And withal being idle they learn to go about from house to house: and are not only idle, but tatlers also and busy-bodies, talking of things unbecoming them.

The sins of some men are notorious, leading as it were to their condemnation; and some more artful they follow after.

So also the good works of some are manifest; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.

and let not those who have believing masters, despise them, because they are brethren; but serve them more readily, because they are faithful and beloved by God, partakers of his grace.

But they, that will be rich, fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into ruin and perdition.

treasuring up to themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may obtain eternal life.

Therefore I submit to every thing for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is by Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

But avoid prophane empty harangues; for they will proceed to more impiety,

but foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they produce quarrels; for the servant of the Lord ought not to wrangle,

and they may awake out of the snare of the devil, who have been captivated by him to his will.

For of these are they who insinuate themselves into families, and captivate weak women, that are laden with sins,

But they shall not proceed far: for their folly shall be evident to all, as theirs also was.

For the time will come, when they will not bear sound doctrine; but having itching ears, will heap up to themselves teachers after their own hearts:

who subvert whole families, teaching what they ought not, for shameful gain:

This testimony is true: for which cause rebuke them sharply, that they may be found in the faith;

They profess to know God, but in works deny Him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every thing that is good void of understanding.

that they may instruct the young women to be temperate, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be prudent,

not answering frowardly, not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

This is a word which ought to believed and observed, and concerning these things I would have thee stedfastly affirm, that they who have believed in God be careful to excel in good works: for these things are good and profitable to men.

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes and contentions about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain:

And let our brethren-also learn to excel in good works for necessary exigencies, that they may not be unfruitful.

Being as much superior to the angels, as He inheriteth a name more excellent than they.

they shall perish, but thou remainest; and they shall all grow old as a garment,

and as a mantle wilt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed; but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail."

Are they not all ministring spirits, sent forth to attend on those who shall be heirs of salvation?

since He that sanctifieth, and they that are sanctified, are all of one. For which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren,

wherefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, They are always erring in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

so I sware in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest."

and to whom did He swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to those that were disobedient?

and so we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

for we are graciously offered it, as they also were. But the word, which they heard, did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

For we who believe shall enter into rest, as He said above, "So I sware in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest:" though the works of creation were finished from the foundation of the world:

And yet in this place, "They shall not enter into my rest."

Seeing therefore it remaineth that some are to enter into it, and they to whom it was at first offered did not enter because of their unbelief,

and the powers of the gospel-age, and yet fall away, should be renewed again to repentance: since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God, and make an open example of Him.

but that which bringeth forth thorns and briars, is rejected and near to a curse, (whose end is burning) so are they.

And those indeed of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment according to the law to take tithes of the people, that is, of their brethren, though they came out of the loins of Abraham:

(for they indeed are become priests without the solemnity of an oath; but He with an oath, by Him who said unto Him, "The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:")

And they were many priests, because they were by death hindered from continuing in their office;

not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their mind, and I will inscribe them on their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.

And they shall not teach every one his neighbour, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the lest even to the greatest of them.

And on this account He is the mediator of a new covenant, that undergoing death for the redemption of transgressions against the first covenant, they that are called might receive the promise of an eternal inheritance.

For the law having but a faint shadow of good things to come, and not the full image of the things, can never, even by the great annual sacrifices which they offer statedly, make the comers thereunto perfect.

For then they would have ceased to be offered, because the sacrificers, being once purified, would no longer retain any consciousness of sins.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but seen them from afar, and been persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

Now they that say such things shew plainly that they are seeking their own country:

and if they had been mindful of that from which they came, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

But they desire a better, that is, an heavenly one; wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He hath prepared for them a city.

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw he was a fine child, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.

By faith they passed through the Red-sea, as by dry land, which the Egyptians attempting to do were drowned.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encompassed seven days.

Women received their dead raised to life again; and others were tortured to death, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain by the sword: they went about in sheep-skins, and goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted,

And these all, though they obtained an honorable testimony by faith, yet received not the promise;

God having provided something better concerning us, that without us they might not be made perfect.

For they indeed corrected us for a while, as seemed good to them; but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words, which they that heard, intreated that the word might not any more be thus delivered to them:

(for they could not bear the strict command, if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or shot through with a dart;

See that ye reject not Him that speaketh; for if they escaped not, who rejected him that gave forth divine oracles on earth, much less shall we, if we turn away from Him that speaketh from heaven:

Be ruled by those that are your guides, and submit to them: for they watch for your souls; (as those that must give an account) that they may do it with joy and not with uneasiness: for this were unprofitable for you.

Salute all that preside over you, yea and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.

Do they not blaspheme the glorious name by which ye are called?

Behold we put bridles into the mouths of horses, that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body as we please.

Behold also the ships which are of so great bulk, and even when they are driven by hard winds, yet are turned about by a very small helm which way soever the pilot pleaseth.

Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence? even of your carnal appetites making war in your bodies?

Behold the hire of the laborers, that reaped your fields, of which they are defrauded by you, crieth out against you: and the complaints of the reapers are come into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

to whom it was revealed, that it was not to themselves, but to us they ministered these things, which are now declared unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you, through the holy Spirit sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence. These stumble at the word through unbelief, unto which also they were appointed.

having a good conversation among the Gentiles; that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may glorify God in the day of their visitation, on account of the good works which they behold in you.

Ye women likewise, be subject to your own husbands, that if any believe not the word, they may yet without the word be gained over by the deportment of the wives,

"For he that would desire life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile;

having a good conscience, that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who calumniate your good conversation in Christ.

in which they think it strange that ye run not with them into the same excess of riot, and therefore speak evil of you:

For to this end was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but might live according to God in the spirit.

For if these be in you and abound, they will not suffer you to be idle, nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

for prophecy was not delivered of old at the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy Spirit.

and by artful speeches they will make sale of you for gain. Whose judgement is long since hastening, and their destruction doth not slumber.

But these men, like brute beasts naturally produced to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil of things which they do not understand, shall perish by their own corruption; receiving the reward of their unrighteousness:

who account it a pleasure to riot even in the day; spots and disgraces; revelling in their frauds, while they partake of your feasts:

For when they speak swelling words of vanity, they ensnare in the lusts of the flesh, through their lasciviousness, those who had indeed withdrawn from such as deal in error;

promising them liberty, while they themselves are the slaves of corruption: for by whom any one is vanquished, by him he is also enslaved.

For if, after they had escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and vanquished by them, their last state is worse than the first;

for it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than when they knew it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.

walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the declaration of his coming? for except that the fathers are fallen asleep, all things remain as they were from the beginning of the creation.

For they are willingly ignorant of this, that by the Word of God the heavens were made of old, and the earth too from the water, and subsisting on the water.

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things: in which are some things hard to be understood, which the illiterate and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

They went out from us, but they were not of us: for if they had been indeed of us, they would have continued with us; but this was done that they might be made manifest, because all, that are with us, are not indeed of us.

Beloved, believe not every Spirit, but try the spirits, whether they be of God: for many false prophets are gone out into the world.

They are of the world; therefore they speak as men of the world, and the world heareth them.