no drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain, but meek, noncontentious, no lover of money,

(but if any man knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of a congregation of God?),

not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall into the condemnation of the devil.

Helpers likewise, be honorable, not double-tongued, not attending to much wine, not greedy of base gain,

The wives likewise, be honorable, not slanderous, without wine, faithful in all things.

Do not neglect the gift in thee, which was given thee by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.

Do not rebuke an elder man, but entreat him as a father, younger men as brothers,

But the real widow, and made alone, has hoped in God, and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day.

But if any man does not provide for his own, and especially those belonging his household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

And also at the same time they learn to be idle, roving the houses, and not only idle, but also babbling and meddlesome, speaking things that they ought not.

I desire therefore the younger women to marry, to bear children, to manage house, to give not one occasion to him who opposes on account of slander.

If any believing man or believing woman has widows, let them relieve them, and let not the congregation be burdened, so that it may relieve the real widows.

For the scripture says thou shall not muzzle an ox that is threshing. And the workman is worthy of his wage.

Let bondmen, as many as are under a yoke, regard their own masters worthy of all respect, so that the name of God and the doctrine may not be blasphemed.

And those who have believing masters, let them not disparage them because they are brothers, instead let them serve more because they are believers and beloved--those who are recipients of the benefit. Teach and exhort these things

If any man teaches something different, and does not associate with wholesome words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to piety,

Command the rich in the present age not to be arrogant, nor hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in the living God, who supplies us all things abundantly for enjoyment,

I have gratitude to God whom I serve from the forefathers in a pure conscience, as I have unceasing remembrance about thee in my supplications, night and day

For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of soberness.

Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord nor of me his prisoner, but suffer together with the good-news according to the power of God.

Who saved us and who called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal.

Because of which reason I also suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to preserve my consignment for that day.

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain.

And also if any man competes, he is not crowned unless he competes lawfully.

within which I suffer evil to the point of bonds as an evildoer, but the word of God is not bound.

Remind them of these things, solemnly testifying in the sight of the Lord, not to brawl verbally, to nothing useful, to the ruin of those who hear.

Now in a great house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also wood and earthen, and some for esteem and some for disesteem.

And a bondman of Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient,

But they will not advance in much more, for their folly will be evident to all men, as also that of those men came to be.

For there will be time when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, but they will accumulate teachers to themselves according to their own desires, who tickle the ear,

Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me in that day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

At my first defense no man came with me, but all forsook me. May it not be reckoned to them.

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having believing children, not with an accusation of debauchery or insubordinate.

For the overseer must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-willed, not prone to angry, not a drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain,

who must be muzzled, men who subvert whole houses, teaching things that they ought not, for sake of ugly profit.

not giving heed to Jewish myths, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

Aged women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderous, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good,

to be serious-minded, pure, homemakers, good, submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

Bondmen are to be obedient to their own masters, to be well-pleasing in all things, not speaking contrary,

not pilfering, but demonstrating all good fidelity, so that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.

he saved us, not of works in righteousness that we did, but according to his mercy through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

And also let our men learn to be in the lead of good works for the essential needs, so that they may not be unfruitful.

But I wanted to do nothing without thy mind, so that thy goodness might not be as from obligation, but from volition.

I Paul write with my hand, I will repay, so that I may not say to thee that thou owe me in return even thyself.

And thou will roll them up as a mantle, and they will be changed. But thou are the same, and thy years will not cease.

Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth for service for the sake of those who are going to inherit salvation?

For he did not subject the coming world to heavenly agents, about which we speak.

Thou subordinated all things under his feet. For in subordinating all things to him, he left nothing not subordinate to him. But now we do not yet see all things subordinated to him.

For both he who sanctifies and those being sanctified are all of one, because of which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

For he certainly did not embrace heavenly agents, but he embraced the seed of Abraham.

do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, according to the day of the trial in the wilderness,

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, They are always led astray in their heart, and they did not know my ways.

So I swore in my wrath, They will not enter into my rest.

while it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.

For some who heard rebelled, but not all those who came out of Egypt by Moses.

But with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

And to whom did he swear were not going to enter into his rest, if not to those who were disobedient?

And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

For we also are having good-news preached, just as also those men, but the word of hearing did not benefit those men, not having been mixed together with faith in those who heard.

For those who believe enter into that rest, just as he said, So I swore in my wrath, They will not enter into my rest, although the works occurred from the foundation of the world.

and in this again, They will not enter into my rest.

Since therefore it remains for some to enter into it, and those who formerly had good-news did not enter because of disobedience,

again he appoints a certain day, Today, saying in David after so long a time (as it is said), Today if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken about another day after these things.

Let us therefore be diligent to enter into that rest, so that not any man may fall by the same example of disobedience.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who was tempted in all things in the same way, without sin.

And not any man takes the honor to himself, but being called by God, just as also Aaron.

So also Christ did not glorify himself to become a high priest, but it was he who said to him, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee.

For also men who ought to be teachers because of the time, ye have need again for some man to teach you the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and have become men who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

Therefore having left the word of the primacy of Christ, let us be brought forward to perfection, not again laying a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labor of love that ye showed toward his name, having served the sanctified, and who are serving.

so that ye may not become lazy, but imitators of those who, through faith and longsuffering, inherit the promises.

But the man who did not descend from them has received tithes from Abraham, and has blessed the man having the promises.

If indeed therefore perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people had received the law), what further need is there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be designated

who has become, not according to a law of a carnal commandment, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

And inasmuch as it is not without an oath. For actually those who become priests are so without an oath,

but he with an oath, because of him who says to him, The Lord swore and will not change his mind, Thou are a priest into the age according to the order of Melchizedek.

Who has no need to offer up sacrifices each day, as those high priests, first for his own sins, then for those of the people, for this he did, once, when he offered up himself.

a minister of the holy things, and of the TRUE tabernacle, which the Lord erected and not man.

For certainly if he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, there being the priests who offer the gifts according to the law,

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by my hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them, says Lord.

And they will, no, not teach each man his fellow citizen, and each man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, because all will know me, from their small as far as their great.

Because I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins and their lawlessness I will no, not further remember.

And above it were cherubim of glory overshadowing the place of forgiveness, about which things it is not now to speak in detail.

But into the second part, the high priest alone, once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people,

this signifying from the Holy Spirit, the way into the holy things is not yet to be made known while the first tabernacle still remains.

Which is a figure for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are offered that are not able to make the man officiating fully perfect in respect to conscience,

But Christ, having arrived a high priest of the good things that are coming, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, he entered in once into the Holy things, having found eternal redemption.

And almost all things, according to the law, are cleansed with blood, and remission does not occur without bloodshed.

For the Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, representative of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.

And not so that he might offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the Holy things each year with blood by another,

For the law having a shadow of the good things that are coming, not the same substance of the events, with the same sacrifices that are offered continually each year, they are never able to fully perfect those who are approaching.

Otherwise would they not have ceased being offered, because of those who worship, once having been cleansed, to have no further conscience of sins?

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering thou did not desire, but thou prepared for me a body.

In whole burnt offerings, and for sin thou were not pleased.

saying above, Sacrifice and offering and whole burnt offerings and for sin thou did not desire, nor were thou pleased with things that are offered according to the law.

and, Their sins and their lawlessness I will, no, not further remember.

Not forsaking the assembling together of ourselves, as is the habit of some, but exhorting, and so much the more as long as ye see the day approaching.

Therefore do not throw off your boldness, which has great recompense of reward.