And I beseech you brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and they arranged themselves for service to the holy ones,)

And I rejoice at the arrival of Stephanas and Fortunatus and : that they have filled up your necessity.

For they refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore observe ye such.

And what agreement to the temple of God with images? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God said, That I will dwell in them, and will go round about; and will be their God, and they shall be a people to me.

And not as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.

Therefore I thought necessary to beseech the brethren that they go before to you, and prepare beforehand your praise, having been proclaimed beforehand, this same to be prepared, so as praise, and not as covetousness.

For we dare not appear or join ourselves to certain of them recommending themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and joining themselves to themselves, do not understand.

And what I do, and I will do, that I shall not cut off the occasion of those wishing the occasion; that in what they boast, they be found as also we.

Are they Hebrews? I also. Are they Israelites? I also. Are they Abraham's seed? I also.

Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often.

Lest, coming again, my God should humble me with you, and I shall mourn for many of them having sinned before, and not having repented for uncleanness, and fornication, and licentiousness which they committed.

And only they had heard, That he then driving us out, now announces the good news, the faith which he then felt the absence of.

And they glorified God in me.

And through false brethren introduced privately, who came in privately to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might reduce us to slavery:

And from them seeming to be something, (whatever they were, it concerns me nothing: God receives not man's face:) for they seeming entrusted nothing to me:

And having known the grace given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, seeming to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hands of communion; that we for the nations, and they for the circumcision.

For before certain came from James, he ate with the nations: and when they came, he drew down, and separated himself, being afraid of them of the circumcision.

But when I saw that they went not upon the strait road according to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, If thou, being a Jew, livest according to the nations, and not according to the Jews, why forcest thou the nations to live as the Jews?

Know ye therefore that they of faith, these are sons of Abraham.

So that they of faith are praised with faithful Abraham.

They are zealous for you, not well; but they wish to exclude you, that ye might be zealous for them.

I would also they shall be cut off who having risen up against you.

Envyings, slaughters, drunkenness, revelries, and the like: to these which I foretell you, as I have also said before, that they doing such shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

And they of Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and desires.

As many as: wish to have an agreeable demeanor in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only lest they should be driven out for the cross of Christ.

For neither they being circumcised themselves observe the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they might boast in your flesh.

For this a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

For they all seek the things of themselves, and not the things of Christ Jesus.

All the holy greet you, and chiefly they from Caesar's house.

Fathers, irritate not your children, lest they be discouraged.

With Onesimus, the faithful and dearly beloved brother, who is of you. They shall make known to you all the thing here.

And Jesus, called Justus, they being of the circumcision. These only fellow workers in the kingdom of God, which were a consolation to me.

For they themselves proclaim of us what entrance we have to you, and how ye turned to God from images to serve the living and true God;

For ye, brethren, were imitators of the churches of God being in Judea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things by your own race, as they also by the Jews:

They also having slain the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and having driven you out; and not pleasing God, and opposite to all men;

Hindering us from speaking to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: and the wrath of God has come before upon them even to the end.

And I wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of them having been asleep, that ye should not grieve, as also the rest, they hating no hope.

For when they say, Peace and security; then sudden ruin is upon them, as anguish in her with child; and they may not escape.

For they sleeping sleep in the night; and they drunken are drunken in the night.

And in all deceit of iniquity in the lost; because they received not the love of the truth, for them to be saved.

And to such we proclaim and beseech by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, with freedom from care working, they should eat their own bread.

Wishing to be teachers of the law; neither understanding what they say, nor of certain things they are assured.

Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered to Satan, that they should not be taught to blaspheme.

And she shall be saved through the bringing forth children, if they remain in faith and love and consecration with discretion.

For they having served well, acquire to themselves a good step, and much freedom of speech in the faith which in Christ Jesus.

And these things proclaim, that they might be irreprehensible.

And the younger widows reject: for when they conduct themselves arrogantly against Christ, they wish to marry:

Having judgment, for they put away the first faith.

And at the same time also they learn to be idle, going round about the houses; and not only idle, but also indulging in idle talk, and occupied with unnecessary things, speaking things not becoming.

Let the elders having presided well be deemed worthy of double honour, chiefly they being wearied in word and doctrine.

Some men's sins are manifest, going before to judgment; and also to some they follow in the train.

And let them having faithful masters not despise, for they are brethren; but rather let them serve, because they are faithful and dearly beloved, they having mutually received of the beneficence. These things teach and beseech.

And they wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many eager desires, unwise and hurtful, which sink men into ruin and perdition.

Treasuring up to themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold upon eternal life.

Thou knowest this, that all they dwelling in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

For this I endure all things for the chosen, that they also might attain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

And avoid profane, empty discourses: for they will proceed to more of profanation.

Who concerning the truth missed their aim, saying the rising up has already been; and they subvert the faith of some.

And silly and ignorant questions refuse, knowing that they produce strifes.

That they may return to a state of sobriety from the snare of the devil, being taken alive by him at his will.

For of these are they going into houses, and taking captive little women heaped up with sins, led away with various eager desires,

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

For the time will be when they will not hear sound doctrine; but according to their own eager desires they will heap up to themselves teachers, feeling itchings for a report;

And truly from the truth will they turn away the hearing, and be turned aside to fictions.

For many also are disorderly, vain talkers and infatuates, especially they of the circumcision:

Who must be restrained, who subvert whole houses, teaching what they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain.

This testimony is true. For this cause reprove them severely, that they may be sound in the faith;

They confess to know God; and in works they deny, being abominable, and disobedient, and to every good work not tried.

That they render the young women discreet, to be lovers of the husband, lovers of the children,

Not purloining, but showing all good faith; that they may adorn the doctrine of the Saviour our God in all things.

Faithful the word, and I wish for thee to be assured of these things, that they having believed God might turn their thoughts to excel in good works. These things are good and profitable to men.

And foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and conflicts pertaining to the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

And let ours also learn to excel in good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

All they with me greet thee. Greet them loving us in the faith. Grace with you all. Amen.

Being so much better than the angels, inasmuch as he has inherited a more distinguished name than they.

These shall be destroyed; but thou remainest; and they all as a garment shall grow old;

And as a cloak shalt thou turn them round, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

Are they not all spirits qualified for service, sent forth for service for them about to inherit salvation?

For be consecrating and they being consecrated all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

Wherefore I was offended with that generation and I said, They always wander in heart; and they knew not my ways.

As I aware in my wrath, If they shall come into my rest.)

For some, having heard, did exasperate: but not all they having come out of Egypt by Moses.

And to whom sware he that they could not come into his rest, if not to them having been disobedient?

And we see they could not come in through unbelief.

For we also were announced of the good news, as well as they: but the word of the report profited them not, not being mixed with faith to them having heard.

For we having believed come into the rest, as he said, As I sware in my wrath, if they shall come into my rest: although the works having been from the foundation of the world.

And in this again, If they shall enter into my rest.

Since therefore it remains for some to come into it, and they before announced of the good news came not in through unbelief:

And they truly of the sons of Levi, receiving the office of priest, have a command to take a tenth part from the people according to the law, that is, from their brethren, although having come out of the loins of Abraham:

(For they truly without sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath became priests; but he with the sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath by him, saying to him, The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou priest forever, according to the order of Melchisedec:)

And they truly are become many priests, by reason of death being hindered from remaining:

Not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in the day of my taking their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they remained not in my covenant, and I heeded them not, says the Lord.

For this the covenant which I will set to the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; giving my laws into their mind, and upon their hearts will I write them: and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people:

And they should not teach each his neighbor, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from their little even to their great ones.

For the law having a shadow of good things about to be, not the same image of the things, with these sacrifices which they bring in yearly in continuance never can render perfect them coming thereto.

For would they not have ceased to be brought in? because they serving have no more consciousness of sins, once purified.

Wherefore also from one were they born, and these of him having been dead, as the stars of heaven for multitude, and as the sand near the lip of the sea innumerable.

According to faith died all these, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and been persuaded, and having embraced, and assented that they are strangers and newly arrived from a foreign country upon earth.

For they saying such things show clearly that they seek a country.

And truly if they remembered that from which they came out, they had time to have returned.