And nearly all things are cleansed, according to the law, with blood; and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

so also Christ, having once for all been offered to bear the sins of many, will, to those who are eagerly waiting for Him; appear a second time apart from sin, unto salvation.

Saving above, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt-offerings and offerings for sin," Thou didst not wish; neither hadst pleasure therein, which, indeed, are offered according to the law;

For by one offering He hath perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

But we are not of those who draw back to destruction; but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

For those who say such things make it manifest that they are seeking their paternal home.

But, if ye are without chastisement, of which all have become partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

to the general festal throng, and assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in Heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous ones made perfect;

But the expression, "Yet once more," signifies the removal of the things shaken, as of things that have been made, that the things that are not shaken may remain.

Remember those who are your leaders, who spake to you the word of God; and, considering the issue of whose manner of life, imitate their faith.

For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the holy place through the priest as an offering for sin, are burned without the camp.

For we have not here an abiding city, but we are seeking for the one about to come.

Obey those who are your leaders, and submit to them; for they watch in behalf of your souls, as those who are to give an account; that they may do this with joy, and not with sighing; for this would be unprofitable for you.

Pray for us; for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to deport ourselves honestly in all things.

Salute all those who are your leaders, and all the saints. Those from Italy salute you.

James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are in the Dispersion, greeting.

So speak, and so do, as those who are about to be judged by a law of liberty.

But are you willing to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is worthless?

Behold also the ships, large as they are, and driven along by fierce winds, are turned about by a very small rudder, wheresoever the impulse of the steersman wills.

For where there are jealousy and contention, there is confusion and every vile deed.

Whence are wars, and whence are battles among you? Are they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaks against a brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law; but, if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

One is Law-giver and Judge??e Who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you, that judge your neighbor?

(ye who, indeed, know nothing of to-morrow! what is your life? for ye are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away);

But now ye are glorying in your boastings! all such glorying is evil.

Come now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you!

Your gold and silver are covered with rust, and their rust will be for a witness against you, and will eat your flesh, as fire. Ye laid up treasures in the last days!

who are being guarded by God's power, through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time;

ye yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

But ye are "an elect race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation," a people for a possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

who once were not a people, but are now God's people; who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

because the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears are toward their supplication; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."

But, if ye should even suffer for righteousness sake, happy are ye. But fear not their fear, neither be troubled;

having a good conscience; that, in whatever ye are spoken against, those who revile your good conduct may be put to shame.

at which they are surprised, since ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you;

If ye are reproached in Christ's name, happy are ye, because the Spirit of glory and that of God rests upon you.

whom resist, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same kinds of sufferings are being accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.

Salute ye one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all who are in Christ.

for he to whom these things are lacking is blind, seeing dimly, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

But these, as irrational creatures, born naturally for capture and destruction, railing in matters of which they are ignorant, shall in their destruction be also destroyed,

These are fountains without water, and mists driven by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what one is overcome by this he has become enslaved.

For if, after having escaped the defilements of the world in a full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but, having again become entangled with these, they are overcome, the last state has become worse with them than the first.

Seeing, therefore, that all these things are thus to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conduct and godliness,

Wherefore, beloved, since ye are looking for these things, give diligence that ye be found in peace, without spot and blameless in His sight.

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and are walking in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth;

but whosoever keeps His word, truly in him the love of God has been perfected: in this we know that we are in Him.

I wrote to you, fathers, because ye have known Him Who is from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have conquered the evil one.

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

Behold what manner of love the Father hath given to us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knows us not, because it knew Him not.

Beloved, now are we children of God, and never yet was it manifested what we shall be. We know that, if He shall be manifested, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.

In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the Devil: every one that does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that does not love his brother;

Hereby we shall know that we are of the truth, and we shall assure our heart before Him;

and whatsoever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments, and do the things that are pleasing before Him.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He Who is in you, than he that is in the world.

They are of the world; for this cause they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

We are of God; he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God hears us not: from this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

In this has love been made perfect with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, even so are we in this world.

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome;

because there are Three Who bear witness; the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the Three agree in one.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is lying in the evil one.

And we know that the Son of God hath come, and hath given us understanding, that we may know the True One: and we are in the True One??n His Son Jesus Christ. This is the True God, and eternal life.

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication, and going away after other flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

But these rail at such things as they know not; and what they understand naturally, as the irrational animals, in these things they are corrupted.

These are the hidden rocks in your love-feasts, feasting sumptuously together, feeding themselves without fear; clouds without water, borne along by winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

These are murmurers, complainers, walking according to their own desires; and their mouth speaks great swelling words; admiring men's persons, for the sake of profit.

These are those who make separations; sensual, having not the Spirit.

John to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you, and peace, from Him Who is, and Who was, and Who is coming; and from the seven Spirits Who are before His throne;

Write, therefore, the things which you saw, and the things which are, and the things which are about to take place after these;

the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of seven assemblies; and the seven candlesticks are seven assemblies."

"I know your works and your toil, and your patience, and that you cannot bear evil men; and you tried those who call themselves apostles, and are not, and found them false;

"I know your tribulation, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

Fear not the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the Devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as have not this teaching, who knew not the deep things of Satan, as they say, I cast on you no other burden;

and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of earthenware are broken in pieces, as I also have received from My Father;

"And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write these things," saith He Who hath the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: "I know your works, that you have a name that you are living, and you are dead.

But you have a few names in Sardis, who did not defile their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white, because they are worthy.

Behold, I give those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie??ehold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I loved you.

"I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I would you were cold or hot.

So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to spew you out of My mouth.

Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing'; and do not know that you are the wretched one, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked!

And out of the throne proceed lightnings and voices and thunderings; and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God;

And the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and they have no rest, day and night, saying, "Holy! Holy! Holy! the Lord God, the Almighty, Who was, and Who is, and Who is coming!"

And I saw, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as if slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth.

And, when He took the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, having, each, a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

And every created thing which is in Heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying, "To Him Who sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb, be the blessing, and the honor, and the glory, and the might, forever and ever!"

And one of the elders answered, saying to me, "These who are clothed in white robes, who are they, and whence did they come?"

And I have said to him, "My lord, you know." And he said to me, "These are those who come out of the great tribulation; and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

For this reason are they before the throne of God, and they serve Him day and night in His Temple; and He Who sitteth on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them.

And I saw, and heard an eagle flying in mid-heaven, saying with a great voice, "Woe, woe, woe, to those who dwell on the earth, by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!"

The first woe departed; behold, there are coming yet two woes hereafter!

saying to the sixth angel, who had the trumpet; "Loose the four angels that are bound in the great river Euphrates."

And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates as of fire, and hyacinth, and brimstone. And the heads of the horses are as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths proceed fire, and smoke, and brim-stone.

For the power of the horses is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads, and with them they hurt.

These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks, that stand before the Lord of the earth.

These are those who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. These were redeemed from among men, a first fruit to God and to the Lamb.

And in their mouth was found no falsehood. They are without blemish.

And I heard a voice from Heaven, saying, "Write: Happy are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth! Yea," saith the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them."